I Love to Love explained

I Love to Love
Cover:I_love_to_love.jpg
Type:single
Artist:La Bouche
Album:Sweet Dreams
B-Side:Forget Me Nots
Released:November 27, 1995
Recorded:1994–1995
Genre:Eurodance
Length:3:58
Producer:
  • Uli Brenner
  • Gerd Amir Saraf
Prev Title:Fallin' in Love
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Bolingo (Love is in the Air)
Next Year:1996

"I Love to Love" is a song recorded by German Eurodance group La Bouche, released in November 1995 as the fourth and last single of their debut album, Sweet Dreams (1995). The song achieved a minor success in comparison with "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams", but made it to number five in Hungary and number six in Australia. On the Eurochart Hot 100, it reached number 37 in February 1996. In Canada, "I Love to Love" peaked at number two on the RPM Dance/Urban chart. The CD maxi's cover features also the title of the fourth track, a cover of "Forget Me Nots", another song taken from the same album. "I Love to Love" earned a gold record in Australia, with a sale of 35,000 singles.

Critical reception

Lynn Dean Ford from Indianapolis Star described "I Love to Love" as a "pounding dance tune" in the vein of Snap! and Real McCoy, noting that their "relentless energy [are] steeped in tension and computerization."[1]

Track listings

  1. "I Love to Love" (radio mix) — 3:58
  2. "I Love to Love" (radio mix II) — 3:59
  1. "I Love to Love" (radio mix) — 3:58
  2. "I Love to Love" (club mix) — 5:58
  3. "I Love to Love" (Doug Laurent mix) — 5:41
  4. "Forget Me Nots" (club mix) — 5:20

A1. "I Love to Love" (club mix) — 5:54

A2. "I Love to Love" (Doug Laurent mix) — 5:41

B1. "Forget Me Nots" — 6:05

B2. "I Love to Love" — 6:08

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1995-1996)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[2] 6
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)19
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)21
Canada Dance/Urban (RPM)[3] 2
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[4] 37
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)18
France (SNEP)27
Germany (Official German Charts)21
Hungary (Mahasz)[5] 5
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)26
Netherlands (Single Top 100)30
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)42

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Dean Ford, Lynn (1 February 1996). "There's both Sting and balm in Sumner". Indianapolis Star.
  2. "I Love to Love", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved February 12, 2008)
  3. Web site: Canada peak position . 2011-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171221081157/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php . 2017-12-21 . dead .
  4. Eurochart Hot 100 Singles. Music & Media. 1996-02-24. 2018-06-24.
  5. Top National Sellers. Music & Media. 1996-03-09. 2018-03-05.
  6. Web site: The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles 1996. The Australian Record Industry Association Ltd.. https://web.archive.org/web/20151102010347/http://i.imgur.com/t1PYbhG.jpg. 2 November 2015. 8 November 2015.