The Sweetest Love

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"The Sweetest Love"
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Single by Robin Thicke
from the album Something Else
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2008 (U.S.)
Recorded2008
Genre
Length3:55
Label
Songwriter(s) Robin Thicke
Producer(s) Robin Thicke
Robin Thicke singles chronology
"Magic"
(2008)
"The Sweetest Love"
(2008)
"Sex Therapy"
(2009)

"The Sweetest Love" is a song by American R&B singer Robin Thicke. The R&B ballad is the follow-up single to the moderately successful "Magic" and is the second official single from Something Else . The song was released to radio on September 9, 2008.

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Charts

The single charted on various amounts of Billboard charts in late November/early December 2008 and peaked at #20 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. While successful on many other Billboard R&B charts, "The Sweetest Love" has not been successful on many mainstream or pop charts. For example, the single has only peaked at #5 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart, (which would actually be equivalent to #105 if the Hot 100 singles went beyond 100 positions).

Chart positions

Chart (2008–09)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles 5
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 20
U.S. Billboard Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop35
U.S. Billboard Adult R&B Songs [1] 2
U.S. Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay [2] 20
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay [3] 75

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) [4] 72

Music video

The music video premiered on Yahoo! Music on November 13 and later was released on MTV's TRL . [5] It shows Thicke playing the piano, and at bed with model Jessica White. It was directed by fashion photographer Marc Baptiste.

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