Love Like This (Faith Evans song)

"Love Like This" is a song by American singer Faith Evans. It was written by Evans, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Clarence Emery, and Schon Crawford, for her second studio album Keep the Faith (1998), with production helmed by Lawrence and Combs. Built around a looped sample from "Chic Cheer", performed by American disco group Chic and penned by band members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers,[1] the song initially impacted US radios on September 15, 1998 as the album's lead single.

"Love Like This"
Single by Faith Evans
from the album Keep the Faith
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1998 (1998-09-15)
Format
Recorded1997–1998
Length4:01
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Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Faith Evans singles chronology
"How's It Goin' Down"
(1998)		 "Love Like This"
(1998)		 "Heartbreak Hotel"
(1998)

Commercially, "Love Like This" became one of Evans's biggest successes: it charted within the top forty in New Zealand and the United Kingdom and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking her highest-charting solo single to date. On the component Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart, the song reached number 2; it was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

The song was nominated for Best Female R&B Performance at the 1999 Grammy Awards ceremony, "Love Like This", in turn, was later heavily sampled on American rapper Fatman Scoop's "Be Faithful".[2]

Music video

The song's music video, directed by Hype Williams, depicts people at a colorful skating rink with Evans' singing on a platform in the center. The music video shows actress Countess Vaughn and former child actor Marcus T. Paulk, both from the UPN sitcom Moesha, in cameos.

Charts

References
  1. "Faith Evans - Keep The Faith (CD, Album)". Discogs. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
  2. "Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful (CD)". discogs. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
  3. "Lescharts.com – Faith Evans – Love Like This" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  4. "Nederlandse Top 40 – Faith Evans" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  5. "Charts.nz – Faith Evans – Love Like This". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  6. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  7. "Faith Evans Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  8. "Faith Evans Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  9. "1999 Year End Chart: R&B/Hip-Hop Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
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