Open My Heart Explained

Open My Heart
Cover:YolandaOpen1.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Yolanda Adams
Album:Mountain High... Valley Low
Released:1999
Recorded:1998
Label:Elektra
Chronology:Yolanda Adams
Prev Title:The Battle Is the Lord's
Prev Year:1996
Next Title:Yeah
Next Year:1999

"Open My Heart" is a song by Yolanda Adams released in 2000. The song gained Adams great popularity in the secular audiences. Being the most groundbreaking single of her career, she won several awards for this song. "Open My Heart" helped her 1999 album Mountain High...Valley Low gain multi-platinum status and reach charts heights not often attained by artists of the gospel genre.

The song peaked at #10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Remixes by Steve "Silk" Hurley and Junior Vasquez helped the song peak at #29 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

The song was sampled by Nick Cannon on his single "Can I Live."[1]

Song Credits

Track listings

US Promo CD Release (PRCD 1484-2)[2]
  1. Open Your Heart (Radio Edit) – 5:37
  2. Open Your Heart (Album Version) – 5:38
  3. Open Your Heart (Audio Bio – Song) – 1:05
  4. Open Your Heart (Call-Out Hook) – 0:13
US Promo Remix CD Release (PRCD 1556-2)[3]
  1. Open My Heart (Pound Boys Radio Edit)
  2. Open My Heart (Pound Boys Vocal)
  3. Open My Heart (Pound Boys Dub)
US Promo 12" Remixes (ED 6238)[4]
  1. Open My Heart (Silk's Spiritual Workout)
  2. Open My Heart (Silk's Open My Filter Disco Dub Instrumental)
  3. Open My Heart (Open My Filter Disco Dub)
  4. Open My Heart (Silk's Spiritual Workout Instrumental)
US Double Vinyl Junior Vasquez Remixes (ED 6261)[5]
  1. Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Club Mix)
  2. Open My Heart (Junior's Uplifting Mix)
  3. Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Instrumental)
  4. Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Beat)
  5. Open My Heart (Junior's Acapella)

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (2000)Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[6] 31
Chart (2001)Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[7] 100

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nick Cannon feat. Anthony Hamilton's Can I Live? sample of Yolanda Adams's Open My Heart. WhoSampled.com. 2012-11-24.
  2. Web site: Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (PRCD 1484-2). Discogs.com. 2012-11-24.
  3. Web site: Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (PRCD 1556-2). Discogs.com. 2012-11-24.
  4. Web site: Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (ED 6238). Discogs.com. 2012-11-24.
  5. Web site: Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (ED 6261). Discogs.com. 2012-11-24.
  6. Web site: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 2000. Billboard. 2020-03-22.
  7. Web site: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 2001. Billboard. 2020-03-22.