Michele Greppi from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution named 'The Power of Love' the 'best cut' of the album, complimenting Rush's voice, noting that her 'operatic training shows in her incredible range (with no apparent loss of power or flexibility at either top or bottom)'. The song was performed by Rush on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in March 1986 and American Bandstand in April 1986. It finally saw release in the United States and Canada in January 1986 but despite rising to number one in Canada, 'The Power of Love' failed to become a significant US hit, stalling at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending of April 5, 1986, and spending 13 weeks within the Hot 100. Eventually 'The Power of Love' reached number one in Australia, Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Spain (where Rush topped the chart with a version in Spanish called 'Si tú eres mi hombre y yo tu mujer', translated as 'If you are my man and I'm your woman'), number three in Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium, and number seven in the Netherlands.ĬBS held off on releasing 'The Power of Love' in North America feeling the disc was too European. The massive success of 'The Power of Love' in the UK followed with widespread international success for the single in the last months of 1985 and the first of 1986, including a German re-release with a resultant number-nine charting. The success of the song saw Rush perform it ‘‘live’’ on the BBC’s Top of the Pops in late 1985. As of March 2017, it had sold 1.45 million copies in the UK. In June 1985, 'The Power of Love' was issued as a single in the United Kingdom, where it topped the chart for five weeks in October 1985 and became the best-selling single of the year. It was released as a single in West Germany in December 1984. This was a year after the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood conceived a song with the same title. 'The Power of Love' was first recorded in Frankfurt, West Germany by Jennifer Rush for her 1984 eponymous album. The song has been translated into several languages, becoming a pop standard. It also topped the charts in several other European countries, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.ĭion's version peaked at number one in the United States, Canada, and Australia, and hit the top ten in several more countries in 1994.

Recorded in Frankfurt, Germany (where Rush is based) and released in West Germany without much success in late 1984, Rush's original version reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in October 1985 and subsequently became the biggest-selling single of the year in the UK, and the ninth best-selling single of the decade. It was released as the fifth single from her debut album, Jennifer Rush (1984), and has since been covered by Air Supply, Laura Branigan, and Celine Dion.

' The Power of Love' is a song co-written and originally recorded by American singer-songwriter Jennifer Rush in 1984. Cover art for the original UK 7-inch single

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