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125%;">"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_by_Roberta_Flack_US_vinyl.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_by_Roberta_Flack_US_vinyl.png/220px-The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_by_Roberta_Flack_US_vinyl.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_by_Roberta_Flack_US_vinyl.png/330px-The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_by_Roberta_Flack_US_vinyl.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_by_Roberta_Flack_US_vinyl.png/440px-The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_by_Roberta_Flack_US_vinyl.png 2x" data-file-width="795" data-file-height="794" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Side A of the US single</div></td></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Single</a> by <a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a></th></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki;">from the album <i> <a href="/wiki/First_Take_(album)" title="First Take (album)">First Take</a> </i></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side">B-side</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"Trade Winds"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">March 7, 1972<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1972-03-07</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">February 1969</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">Soul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vocal_jazz" title="Vocal jazz">vocal jazz</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"> <ul><li><span class="duration"><span class="min">5</span>:<span class="s">22</span></span></li> <li><span class="duration"><span class="min">4</span>:<span class="s">20</span></span> (1972 <a href="/wiki/Radio_edit" title="Radio edit">radio edit</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic</a> 2864</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Songwriter" title="Songwriter">Songwriter(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Ewan_MacColl" title="Ewan MacColl">Ewan MacColl</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Joel_Dorn" title="Joel Dorn">Joel Dorn</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a> singles chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background: transparent; color: inherit; width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr style="line-height: 1.4em;"> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0;">"<a href="/wiki/Will_You_Love_Me_Tomorrow" title="Will You Love Me Tomorrow">Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow</a>" <br />(1972) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding:.2em .1em;">"<b>The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face</b>" <br />(1972) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em;">"<a href="/wiki/Where_Is_the_Love_(Roberta_Flack_and_Donny_Hathaway_song)" title="Where Is the Love (Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song)">Where Is the Love</a>" <br />(1972) </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:khaki;color:inherit;">Audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external 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class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_(Flack)_sample.ogg" title="File:The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Flack) sample.ogg">"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="30" data-mwtitle="The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_(Flack)_sample.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_%28Flack%29_sample.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/1/11/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_%28Flack%29_sample.ogg/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face_%28Flack%29_sample.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description"><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a>'s "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" from <i><a href="/wiki/First_Take_(album)" title="First Take (album)">First Take</a></i></div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr /><i class="selfreference">Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>"<b>The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face</b>" is a 1957 <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk song</a> written by British political singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Ewan_MacColl" title="Ewan MacColl">Ewan MacColl</a> for <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Seeger" title="Peggy Seeger">Peggy Seeger</a>, who later became his third wife. At the time, the couple were lovers, although MacColl was still married to his second wife, Jean Newlove. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for <a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a> in 1972, winning <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Awards</a> for <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Record_of_the_Year" title="Grammy Award for Record of the Year">Record of the Year</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Song_of_the_Year" title="Grammy Award for Song of the Year">Song of the Year</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> ranked it as the number-one <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Hot 100</a> single of the year for <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1972" title="Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972">1972</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Musicoutfitters.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Musicoutfitters.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are two accounts of the origin of the song. Ewan MacColl said that he wrote the song for Peggy Seeger after she asked him to pen a song for a play she was in. He wrote the song and taught it to Seeger over the telephone.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seeger has told a similar story. She had started an affair with MacColl in London in 1956. When Seeger went back to the U.S., she was working on a radio show in Los Angeles in 1957. She informed MacColl that the show had asked for a "hopeful love song" because all the folk songs she sang were sad, In response, MacColl sang the song he wrote to her in one of his phone calls from England.<sup id="cite_ref-seeger_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seeger-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seeger noted that MacColl used to send her tapes to listen to while they were apart and that this song was on one of them.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seeger performed the song in Los Angeles and then in Chicago, but MacColl himself never recorded the song.<sup id="cite_ref-seeger_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seeger-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the earliest recordings of the song was in 1960 by <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Dobson" title="Bonnie Dobson">Bonnie Dobson</a>, released in 1961 on her debut album <i>She's Like a Swallow and Other Folk Songs</i>. The song entered the pop mainstream the following year when it was released by <a href="/wiki/The_Kingston_Trio" title="The Kingston Trio">the Kingston Trio</a> on their 1962 hit album <i><a href="/wiki/New_Frontier_(album)" title="New Frontier (album)">New Frontier</a></i> and in subsequent years by other pop folk groups such as <a href="/wiki/Peter,_Paul_and_Mary" title="Peter, Paul and Mary">Peter, Paul and Mary</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Brothers_Four" title="The Brothers Four">the Brothers Four</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_and_Eddie" title="Joe and Eddie">Joe and Eddie</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chad_Mitchell_Trio" class="mw-redirect" title="Chad Mitchell Trio">Chad Mitchell Trio</a>, and by <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot" title="Gordon Lightfoot">Gordon Lightfoot</a> on his debut album <i><a href="/wiki/Lightfoot!" title="Lightfoot!">Lightfoot!</a></i> (1966). </p><p>MacColl made no secret of the fact that he disliked all of the cover versions of the song. His daughter-in-law wrote: "He hated all of them. He had a special section in his record collection for them, entitled 'The Chamber of Horrors'. He said that the <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis</a> version was like Romeo at the bottom of the <a href="/wiki/BT_Tower" title="BT Tower">Post Office Tower</a> singing up to Juliet. The other versions, he thought, were travesties: bludgeoning, histrionic, and lacking in grace."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Roberta_Flack_version">Roberta Flack version</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Roberta Flack version"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatleft" style="text-align: center; width: 240px"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background: #F0E68C; font-size: 65%">Roberta Flack on <span style="font-size:85%">"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 75%">It's a perfect song. Second only to "<a href="/wiki/Amazing_Grace" title="Amazing Grace">Amazing Grace</a>, I think<span style="font-size=60%">...</span><sup id="cite_ref-The_Telegraph_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Telegraph-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "It's the kind of song that has two unique & distinct qualities: it tells a story, & it has lyrics that mean something.<span style="font-size=60%">...</span>Because of [its meaningful lyrics] the [song] can be interpreted by a lot of people in a lot of different ways: the love of a mother for a child, for example, or [that of] two lovers."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Courier_Journal_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Courier_Journal-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>"I wish more songs I had chosen had moved me the way that one did. I've loved [most] every song I've recorded, but that one was pretty special."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Telegraph_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Telegraph-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The song was popularised by <a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a> in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer in 1971/1972, albeit as a <a href="/wiki/Sleeper_hit" title="Sleeper hit">sleeper hit</a> more than three years after its original 1969 release on her album <i><a href="/wiki/First_Take_(album)" title="First Take (album)">First Take</a></i>, in part because the tune was included in Clint Eastwood's 1971 directorial film debut <i><a href="/wiki/Play_Misty_for_Me" title="Play Misty for Me">Play Misty for Me</a></i>. Flack's recording ultimately topped the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1972" title="Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972"><i>Billboard</i> Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972</a> more than three years after it was recorded. </p><p>Flack knew the song from the <a href="/wiki/Joe_and_Eddie" title="Joe and Eddie">Joe & Eddie</a> version which had appeared on that folk duo's 1963 album <i>Coast to Coast</i> (as "The First Time"). Flack's friend, singer Donal Leace, had brought the track to Flack's attention.<sup id="cite_ref-super70s_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-super70s-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After teaching the song to the young girls in the <a href="/wiki/Glee_club" title="Glee club">glee club</a> at <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker_Academic_High_School" title="Benjamin Banneker Academic High School">Banneker High School (Washington D.C.)</a>, Flack regularly performed "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in her set-list at the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Avenue" title="Pennsylvania Avenue">Pennsylvania Avenue</a> club ("Mr Henry's") where Flack was hired as resident singer in 1968. In February 1969, Flack recorded the song for her debut album <i>First Take</i>. That rendition was much slower-paced than Seeger's original, with Flack's take running more than twice the two-and-a-half minute length of Seeger's.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Flack recalled that when she made her studio recording of "The First Time<span style="font-size=50%">...</span>", she felt the loss of her pet cat, which had been run over by a car.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Courier_Journal_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Courier_Journal-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Flack's slow and sensual version as used by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 directorial film debut <i>Play Misty for Me</i> underscored a love scene featuring Eastwood and actress <a href="/wiki/Donna_Mills" title="Donna Mills">Donna Mills</a>. Flack later recalled how Eastwood, who had heard her version of "The First Time<span style="font-size=50%">...</span>" on his car radio while driving down the LA Freeway,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> phoned her in her <a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria (Virginia)</a> home: <small>(Roberta Flack quote:)</small>"[Eastwood said:] 'I'd like to use your song in this movie<span style="font-size=50%">...</span>about a disc jockey [with] a lot of music in it. I'd use it in the only part of the movie where there's absolute love.' I said okay. We discussed the money. [Eastwood would pay $2000 to use Flack's "The First Time<span style="font-size=50%">...</span>"] He said: 'Anything else?' And I said: 'I want to do it over again. It's too slow.' He said: "No, it's not.'"<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Flack also recalled that during the <i>First Take</i> sessions, her producer <a href="/wiki/Joel_Dorn" title="Joel Dorn">Joel Dorn</a> had suggested re-recording "The First Time<span style="font-size=50%">...</span>" with a slightly faster tempo and lyric edit to trim its running time, but Flack did not agree: <small>(Roberta Flack quote:)</small>"Joel said: 'Okay you don't care if it's a hit or not?' I said: 'No sir.' Of course he was right for three years, until [after] Clint got it." Flack's version of "The First Time<span style="font-size=50%">...</span>" exploded in popularity following the November 1971 release of <i>Play Misty For Me.</i> This persuaded <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic Records</a> to issue the track as a single—trimmed by a minute—in February 1972: the track became a smash hit single in the United States, reaching No. 1 for six weeks on both the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" title="Adult Contemporary (chart)">easy listening</a> charts in the spring of 1972, with a No. 4 <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">R&B chart</a> peak.<sup id="cite_ref-Whitburn_2002_p93_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitburn_2002_p93-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reaching No. 14 on the <a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK Singles Chart</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Official_Charts_Company_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Official_Charts_Company-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Flack's "The First Time<span style="font-size=50%">...</span>" was No. 1 for three weeks on the singles chart in Canada's <i><a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-bac-lac.gc.ca_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bac-lac.gc.ca-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" was played as the wake-up music on flight day 9 to the astronauts aboard <a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a> on their last day in lunar orbit (Friday, December 15, 1972) before returning to Earth, thus ending the last human explorations of the Moon. The use of the song was possibly inspired by the "face" of the Moon below the spacecraft.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chart_history">Chart history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Chart history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output 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title="Go-Set">Go-Set</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada <i><a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a></i> Top Singles<sup id="cite_ref-bac-lac.gc.ca_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bac-lac.gc.ca-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada <i>RPM</i> Adult Contemporary<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Netherlands (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_Top_40" title="Dutch Top 40">Dutch Top 40</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Dutch40_Roberta_Flack_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Dutch40_Roberta_Flack-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">9 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Netherlands (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_Single_Top_100" title="Dutch Single Top 100">Single Top 100</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Dutch100_Roberta_Flack_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Dutch100_Roberta_Flack-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>New Zealand (<i><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Listener" title="New Zealand Listener">Listener</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td>South Africa (<a href="/wiki/Springbok_Radio" title="Springbok Radio">Springbok</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">2 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK Singles Chart</a><sup id="cite_ref-Official_Charts_Company_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Official_Charts_Company-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <i>Billboard</i> <a href="/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" title="Adult Contemporary (chart)">Adult Contemporary</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <i>Billboard</i> <a href="/wiki/R%26B" class="mw-redirect" title="R&B">R&B</a><sup id="cite_ref-Whitburn_2002_p93_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitburn_2002_p93-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Cash_Box_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cash Box (magazine)"><i>Cash Box</i></a> Top 100<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">1 </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Year-end_charts">Year-end charts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Year-end charts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Chart (1972) </th> <th style="text-align:center;">Rank </th></tr> <tr> <td>Australia<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">96 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Netherlands (Single Top 100)<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">75 </td></tr> <tr> <td>South Africa<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100<sup id="cite_ref-Musicoutfitters.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Musicoutfitters.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <i>Cash Box</i><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">19 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="All-time_charts">All-time charts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: All-time charts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <tbody><tr> <th>Chart (1958-2018) </th> <th>Position </th></tr> <tr> <td>US <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">140 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Certifications">Certifications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Certifications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Region </th> <th scope="col">Certification</th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><a href="/wiki/List_of_music_recording_certifications" title="List of music recording certifications">Certified units</a>/sales </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">United States (<a href="/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America" title="Recording Industry Association of America">RIAA</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-United_StatesRoberta_FlackThe_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_FacesingleCertRef_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-United_StatesRoberta_FlackThe_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_FacesingleCertRef-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td>Gold </td> <td>1,000,000<sup>^</sup> </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align: center;"> <td colspan="3"> <p><small><sup>^</sup> Shipments figures based on certification alone.</small> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>Celine Dion</dt></dl> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Chart (2000) </th> <th>Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Singles Chart">Scotland</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">19 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK</a><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">19 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <dl><dt>Leona Lewis</dt></dl> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Chart (2007) </th> <th>Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">73 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <dl><dt>Matt Cardle</dt></dl> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Chart (2012) </th> <th>Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">92 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Love_at_first_sight" title="Love at first sight">Love at first sight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_1972" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1972">List of <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100 number-one singles of 1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_number-one_adult_contemporary_singles_of_1972_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1972 (U.S.)">List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1972 (U.S.)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_in_Australia_during_the_1970s#1972" title="List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s">List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_of_1972_(Canada)" title="List of number-one singles of 1972 (Canada)">List of number-one singles of 1972 (Canada)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/First_Take_(album)" title="First Take (album)">First Take</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chapter_Two_(Roberta_Flack_album)" title="Chapter Two (Roberta Flack album)">Chapter Two</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quiet_Fire_(Roberta_Flack_album)" title="Quiet Fire (Roberta Flack album)">Quiet Fire</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack_%26_Donny_Hathaway" title="Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway">Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_(Roberta_Flack_album)" title="Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album)">Killing Me Softly</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Feel_Like_Makin%27_Love_(album)" title="Feel Like Makin' Love (album)">Feel Like Makin' Love</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Lights_in_the_Basement" title="Blue Lights in the Basement">Blue Lights in the Basement</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack_(album)" title="Roberta Flack (album)">Roberta Flack</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack_Featuring_Donny_Hathaway" title="Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway">Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I%27m_the_One_(Roberta_Flack_album)" title="I'm the One (Roberta Flack album)">I'm the One</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Born_to_Love_(Peabo_Bryson_and_Roberta_Flack_album)" title="Born to Love (Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack album)">Born to Love</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oasis_(Roberta_Flack_album)" title="Oasis (Roberta Flack album)">Oasis</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Set_the_Night_to_Music_(album)" title="Set the Night to Music (album)">Set the Night to Music</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roberta_(album)" title="Roberta (album)">Roberta</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Christmas_Album_(Roberta_Flack_album)" title="The Christmas Album (Roberta Flack album)">The Christmas Album</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let_It_Be_Roberta" title="Let It Be Roberta">Let It Be Roberta</a></i> (2012)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_%26_More_(Roberta_Flack_and_Peabo_Bryson_album)" title="Live & More (Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson album)">Live & More</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/At_Her_Best_%E2%80%93_Live" class="mw-redirect" title="At Her Best – Live">At Her Best – Live</a></i> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Soundtrack albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Soul_to_Soul_(soundtrack)" title="Soul to Soul (soundtrack)">Soul to Soul</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bustin%27_Loose_(Roberta_Flack_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bustin' Loose (Roberta Flack album)">Bustin' Loose</a></i> (1981)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Roberta_Flack" title="The Best of Roberta Flack">The Best of Roberta Flack</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Roberta_Flack_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest Hits (Roberta Flack album)">Greatest Hits</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Softly_with_These_Songs:_The_Best_of_Roberta_Flack" title="Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack">Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Very_Best_of_Roberta_Flack" title="The Very Best of Roberta Flack">The Very Best of Roberta Flack</a></i> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/You%27ve_Got_a_Friend" title="You've Got a Friend">You've Got a Friend</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Where_Is_the_Love_(Roberta_Flack_and_Donny_Hathaway_song)" title="Where Is the Love (Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song)">Where Is the Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_with_His_Song" title="Killing Me Softly with His Song">Killing Me Softly with His Song</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Jesse_(Janis_Ian_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesse (Janis Ian song)">Jesse</a>" (1973)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Feel_Like_Makin%27_Love_(Roberta_Flack_song)" title="Feel Like Makin' Love (Roberta Flack song)">Feel Like Makin' Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Closer_I_Get_to_You" title="The Closer I Get to You">The Closer I Get to You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/If_Ever_I_See_You_Again" title="If Ever I See You Again">If Ever I See You Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Making_Love_(song)" title="Making Love (song)">Making Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tonight,_I_Celebrate_My_Love" title="Tonight, I Celebrate My Love">Tonight, I Celebrate My Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Oasis_(Roberta_Flack_song)" title="Oasis (Roberta Flack song)">Oasis</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Uh-Uh_Ooh-Ooh_Look_Out_(Here_It_Comes)" title="Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)">Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Filmography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Soul_to_Soul_(film)" title="Soul to Soul (film)">Soul to Soul</a></i> (1971)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack_discography" title="Roberta Flack discography">Discography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donny_Hathaway" title="Donny Hathaway">Donny Hathaway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Awards_for_&quot;The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&quot;136" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" 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style="background:#cedff2;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Grammy_Award_for_Record_of_the_Year" title="Template:Grammy Award for Record of the Year"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Grammy_Award_for_Record_of_the_Year" title="Template talk:Grammy Award for Record of the Year"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Grammy_Award_for_Record_of_the_Year" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Grammy Award for Record of the Year"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Grammy_Award_for_Record_of_the_Year79" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Record_of_the_Year" title="Grammy Award for Record of the Year">Grammy Award for Record of the Year</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Nel_blu,_dipinto_di_blu_(song)" title="Nel blu, dipinto di blu (song)">Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Domenico_Modugno" title="Domenico Modugno">Domenico Modugno</a> (1958)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mack_the_Knife" title="Mack the Knife">Mack the Knife</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Darin" title="Bobby Darin">Bobby Darin</a> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Theme_from_A_Summer_Place" title="Theme from A Summer Place">Theme from <i>A Summer Place</i></a>" – <a href="/wiki/Percy_Faith" title="Percy Faith">Percy Faith</a> (1960)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Moon_River" title="Moon River">Moon River</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Henry_Mancini" title="Henry Mancini">Henry Mancini</a> (1961)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Left_My_Heart_in_San_Francisco" title="I Left My Heart in San Francisco">I Left My Heart in San Francisco</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Bennett" title="Tony Bennett">Tony Bennett</a> (1962)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(song)" title="Days of Wine and Roses (song)">Days of Wine and Roses</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Henry_Mancini" title="Henry Mancini">Henry Mancini</a> (1963)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Girl_from_Ipanema" title="The Girl from Ipanema">The Girl from Ipanema</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Astrud_Gilberto" title="Astrud Gilberto">Astrud Gilberto</a> & <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a> (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Taste_of_Honey_(song)" title="A Taste of Honey (song)">A Taste of Honey</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Herb_Alpert" title="Herb Alpert">Herb Alpert</a> & the Tijuana Brass (1965)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Strangers_in_the_Night" title="Strangers in the Night">Strangers in the Night</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> (1966)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Up,_Up_and_Away_(song)" title="Up, Up and Away (song)">Up, Up and Away</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_5th_Dimension" title="The 5th Dimension">The 5th Dimension</a> (1967)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mrs._Robinson" title="Mrs. Robinson">Mrs. Robinson</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel" title="Simon & Garfunkel">Simon & Garfunkel</a> (1968)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Aquarius/Let_the_Sunshine_In" title="Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In">Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_5th_Dimension" title="The 5th Dimension">The 5th Dimension</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Bridge_over_Troubled_Water_(song)" title="Bridge over Troubled Water (song)">Bridge over Troubled Water</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel" title="Simon & Garfunkel">Simon & Garfunkel</a> (1970)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/It%27s_Too_Late_(Carole_King_song)" title="It's Too Late (Carole King song)">It's Too Late</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Carole_King" title="Carole King">Carole King</a> (1971)</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a> (1972)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_with_His_Song" title="Killing Me Softly with His Song">Killing Me Softly with His Song</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a> (1973)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Honestly_Love_You" title="I Honestly Love You">I Honestly Love You</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John" title="Olivia Newton-John">Olivia Newton-John</a> (1974)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Love_Will_Keep_Us_Together" title="Love Will Keep Us Together">Love Will Keep Us Together</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Captain_%26_Tennille" title="Captain & Tennille">Captain & Tennille</a> (1975)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/This_Masquerade" title="This Masquerade">This Masquerade</a>" – <a href="/wiki/George_Benson" title="George Benson">George Benson</a> (1976)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hotel_California" title="Hotel California">Hotel California</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Eagles_(band)" title="Eagles (band)">Eagles</a> (1977)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Just_the_Way_You_Are_(Billy_Joel_song)" title="Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel song)">Just the Way You Are</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Billy_Joel" title="Billy Joel">Billy Joel</a> (1978)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What_a_Fool_Believes" title="What a Fool Believes">What a Fool Believes</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Doobie_Brothers" title="The Doobie Brothers">The Doobie Brothers</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Sailing_(Christopher_Cross_song)" title="Sailing (Christopher Cross song)">Sailing</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Cross" title="Christopher Cross">Christopher Cross</a> (1980)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bette_Davis_Eyes" title="Bette Davis Eyes">Bette Davis Eyes</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Kim_Carnes" title="Kim Carnes">Kim Carnes</a> (1981)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rosanna_(song)" title="Rosanna (song)">Rosanna</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Toto_(band)" title="Toto (band)">Toto</a> (1982)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Beat_It" title="Beat It">Beat It</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> (1983)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What%27s_Love_Got_to_Do_with_It_(song)" title="What's Love Got to Do with It (song)">What's Love Got to Do with It</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Tina_Turner" title="Tina Turner">Tina Turner</a> (1984)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_Are_the_World" title="We Are the World">We Are the World</a>" – <a href="/wiki/USA_for_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="USA for Africa">USA for Africa</a> (1985)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Higher_Love" title="Higher Love">Higher Love</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Winwood" title="Steve Winwood">Steve Winwood</a> (1986)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Graceland_(song)" title="Graceland (song)">Graceland</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Simon" title="Paul Simon">Paul Simon</a> (1987)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_Be_Happy" title="Don't Worry, Be Happy">Don't Worry, Be Happy</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin" title="Bobby McFerrin">Bobby McFerrin</a> (1988)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Wind_Beneath_My_Wings" title="Wind Beneath My Wings">Wind Beneath My Wings</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bette_Midler" title="Bette Midler">Bette Midler</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Another_Day_in_Paradise" title="Another Day in Paradise">Another Day in Paradise</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Phil_Collins" title="Phil Collins">Phil Collins</a> (1990)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Unforgettable_(Nat_King_Cole_song)" title="Unforgettable (Nat King Cole song)">Unforgettable</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Cole" title="Natalie Cole">Natalie Cole</a> with <a href="/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a> (1991)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tears_in_Heaven" title="Tears in Heaven">Tears in Heaven</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> (1992)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Will_Always_Love_You" title="I Will Always Love You">I Will Always Love You</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Whitney_Houston" title="Whitney Houston">Whitney Houston</a> (1993)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/All_I_Wanna_Do_(Sheryl_Crow_song)" title="All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow song)">All I Wanna Do</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Crow" title="Sheryl Crow">Sheryl Crow</a> (1994)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Kiss_from_a_Rose" title="Kiss from a Rose">Kiss from a Rose</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Seal_(musician)" title="Seal (musician)">Seal</a> (1995)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Change_the_World" title="Change the World">Change the World</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> (1996)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sunny_Came_Home" title="Sunny Came Home">Sunny Came Home</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Shawn_Colvin" title="Shawn Colvin">Shawn Colvin</a> (1997)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/My_Heart_Will_Go_On" title="My Heart Will Go On">My Heart Will Go On</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Celine_Dion" title="Celine Dion">Celine Dion</a> (1998)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Smooth_(Santana_song)" title="Smooth (Santana song)">Smooth</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Santana_(band)" title="Santana (band)">Santana</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Rob_Thomas_(musician)" title="Rob Thomas (musician)">Rob Thomas</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Day" title="Beautiful Day">Beautiful Day</a>" – <a href="/wiki/U2" title="U2">U2</a> (2000)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Walk_On_(U2_song)" title="Walk On (U2 song)">Walk On</a>" – <a href="/wiki/U2" title="U2">U2</a> (2001)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Know_Why" title="Don't Know Why">Don't Know Why</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Norah_Jones" title="Norah Jones">Norah Jones</a> (2002)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Clocks_(song)" title="Clocks (song)">Clocks</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Coldplay" title="Coldplay">Coldplay</a> (2003)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Here_We_Go_Again_(Ray_Charles_song)" title="Here We Go Again (Ray Charles song)">Here We Go Again</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a> & <a href="/wiki/Norah_Jones" title="Norah Jones">Norah Jones</a> (2004)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Boulevard_of_Broken_Dreams_(Green_Day_song)" title="Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)">Boulevard of Broken Dreams</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Green_Day" title="Green Day">Green Day</a> (2005)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Not_Ready_to_Make_Nice" title="Not Ready to Make Nice">Not Ready to Make Nice</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Chicks" title="The Chicks">Dixie Chicks</a> (2006)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rehab_(Amy_Winehouse_song)" title="Rehab (Amy Winehouse song)">Rehab</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Amy_Winehouse" title="Amy Winehouse">Amy Winehouse</a> (2007)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Please_Read_the_Letter" title="Please Read the Letter">Please Read the Letter</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Alison_Krauss" title="Alison Krauss">Alison Krauss</a> & <a href="/wiki/Robert_Plant" title="Robert Plant">Robert Plant</a> (2008)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Use_Somebody" title="Use Somebody">Use Somebody</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Leon" title="Kings of Leon">Kings of Leon</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Need_You_Now_(Lady_Antebellum_song)" title="Need You Now (Lady Antebellum song)">Need You Now</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Lady_A" title="Lady A">Lady Antebellum</a> (2010)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rolling_in_the_Deep" title="Rolling in the Deep">Rolling in the Deep</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Adele" title="Adele">Adele</a> (2011)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Somebody_That_I_Used_to_Know" title="Somebody That I Used to Know">Somebody That I Used to Know</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Gotye" title="Gotye">Gotye</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Kimbra" title="Kimbra">Kimbra</a> (2012)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Get_Lucky_(Daft_Punk_song)" title="Get Lucky (Daft Punk song)">Get Lucky</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Daft_Punk" title="Daft Punk">Daft Punk</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Pharrell_Williams" title="Pharrell Williams">Pharrell Williams</a> & <a href="/wiki/Nile_Rodgers" title="Nile Rodgers">Nile Rodgers</a> (2013)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Stay_with_Me_(Sam_Smith_song)" title="Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)">Stay with Me</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Rodney_Jerkins" title="Rodney Jerkins">Darkchild</a> version) – <a href="/wiki/Sam_Smith" title="Sam Smith">Sam Smith</a> (2014)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Uptown_Funk" title="Uptown Funk">Uptown Funk</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Ronson" title="Mark Ronson">Mark Ronson</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Bruno_Mars" title="Bruno Mars">Bruno Mars</a> (2015)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hello_(Adele_song)" title="Hello (Adele song)">Hello</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Adele" title="Adele">Adele</a> (2016)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/24K_Magic_(song)" title="24K Magic (song)">24K Magic</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bruno_Mars" title="Bruno Mars">Bruno Mars</a> (2017)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/This_Is_America_(song)" title="This Is America (song)">This Is America</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Donald_Glover" title="Donald Glover">Childish Gambino</a> (2018)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bad_Guy_(Billie_Eilish_song)" title="Bad Guy (Billie Eilish song)">Bad Guy</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Billie_Eilish" title="Billie Eilish">Billie Eilish</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Everything_I_Wanted" title="Everything I Wanted">Everything I Wanted</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Billie_Eilish" title="Billie Eilish">Billie Eilish</a> (2020)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Leave_the_Door_Open" title="Leave the Door Open">Leave the Door Open</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Silk_Sonic" title="Silk Sonic">Silk Sonic</a> (2021)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/About_Damn_Time" title="About Damn Time">About Damn Time</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Lizzo" title="Lizzo">Lizzo</a> (2022)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Flowers_(Miley_Cyrus_song)" title="Flowers (Miley Cyrus song)">Flowers</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Miley_Cyrus" title="Miley Cyrus">Miley Cyrus</a> (2023)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Not_Like_Us" title="Not Like Us">Not Like Us</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Kendrick_Lamar" title="Kendrick Lamar">Kendrick Lamar</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" 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(songwriter) (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Theme_of_Exodus" title="Theme of Exodus">Theme of <i>Exodus</i></a>" – <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Gold" title="Ernest Gold">Ernest Gold</a> (songwriter) (1960)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Moon_River" title="Moon River">Moon River</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" title="Johnny Mercer">Johnny Mercer</a> & <a href="/wiki/Henry_Mancini" title="Henry Mancini">Henry Mancini</a> (songwriters) (1961)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What_Kind_of_Fool_Am_I%3F" title="What Kind of Fool Am I?">What Kind of Fool Am I?</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Bricusse" title="Leslie Bricusse">Leslie Bricusse</a> & <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Newley" title="Anthony Newley">Anthony Newley</a> (songwriters) (1962)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(song)" title="Days of Wine and Roses (song)">Days of Wine and Roses</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" title="Johnny Mercer">Johnny Mercer</a> & <a href="/wiki/Henry_Mancini" title="Henry Mancini">Henry Mancini</a> (songwriters) (1963)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(song)" title="Hello, Dolly! (song)">Hello, Dolly!</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Herman" title="Jerry Herman">Jerry Herman</a> (songwriter) (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Shadow_of_Your_Smile" title="The Shadow of Your Smile">The Shadow of Your Smile</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Francis_Webster" title="Paul Francis Webster">Paul Francis Webster</a> & <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mandel" title="Johnny Mandel">Johnny Mandel</a> (songwriters) (1965)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Michelle_(song)" title="Michelle (song)">Michelle</a>" – <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a> (songwriters) (1966)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Up,_Up_and_Away_(song)" title="Up, Up and Away (song)">Up, Up, and Away</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Webb" title="Jimmy Webb">Jimmy Webb</a> (songwriter) (1967)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Little_Green_Apples" title="Little Green Apples">Little Green Apples</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Russell" title="Bobby Russell">Bobby Russell</a> (songwriter) (1968)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Games_People_Play_(Joe_South_song)" title="Games People Play (Joe South song)">Games People Play</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Joe_South" title="Joe South">Joe South</a> (songwriter) (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Bridge_over_Troubled_Water_(song)" title="Bridge over Troubled Water (song)">Bridge over Troubled Water</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Simon" title="Paul Simon">Paul Simon</a> (songwriter) (1970)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/You%27ve_Got_a_Friend" title="You've Got a Friend">You've Got a Friend</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Carole_King" title="Carole King">Carole King</a> (songwriter) (1971)</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Ewan_MacColl" title="Ewan MacColl">Ewan MacColl</a> (songwriter) (1972)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_with_His_Song" title="Killing Me Softly with His Song">Killing Me Softly with His Song</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Norman_Gimbel" title="Norman Gimbel">Norman Gimbel</a> & <a href="/wiki/Charles_Fox_(composer)" title="Charles Fox (composer)">Charles Fox</a> (songwriters) (1973)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Way_We_Were_(song)" title="The Way We Were (song)">The Way We Were</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Alan_and_Marilyn_Bergman" title="Alan and Marilyn Bergman">Alan and Marilyn Bergman</a> & <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Hamlisch" title="Marvin Hamlisch">Marvin Hamlisch</a> (songwriters) (1974)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Send_In_the_Clowns" title="Send In the Clowns">Send In the Clowns</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" title="Stephen Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a> (songwriter) (1975)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Write_the_Songs" title="I Write the Songs">I Write the Songs</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Johnston" title="Bruce Johnston">Bruce Johnston</a> (songwriter) (1976)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Evergreen_(Love_Theme_from_A_Star_Is_Born)" title="Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)">Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter)" title="Paul Williams (songwriter)">Paul Williams</a> (songwriters) / "<a href="/wiki/You_Light_Up_My_Life_(song)" title="You Light Up My Life (song)">You Light Up My Life</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brooks_(songwriter)" title="Joseph Brooks (songwriter)">Joe Brooks</a> (songwriter) (1977)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Just_the_Way_You_Are_(Billy_Joel_song)" title="Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel song)">Just the Way You Are</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Billy_Joel" title="Billy Joel">Billy Joel</a> (songwriter) (1978)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What_a_Fool_Believes" title="What a Fool Believes">What a Fool Believes</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Loggins" title="Kenny Loggins">Kenny Loggins</a> & <a href="/wiki/Michael_McDonald_(musician)" title="Michael McDonald (musician)">Michael McDonald</a> (songwriters) (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Sailing_(Christopher_Cross_song)" title="Sailing (Christopher Cross song)">Sailing</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Cross" title="Christopher Cross">Christopher Cross</a> (songwriter) (1980)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bette_Davis_Eyes" title="Bette Davis Eyes">Bette Davis Eyes</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Donna_Weiss" title="Donna Weiss">Donna Weiss</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jackie_DeShannon" title="Jackie DeShannon">Jackie DeShannon</a> (songwriters) (1981)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Always_on_My_Mind" title="Always on My Mind">Always on My Mind</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Christopher" title="Johnny Christopher">Johnny Christopher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_James_(songwriter)" title="Mark James (songwriter)">Mark James</a> & <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Carson" title="Wayne Carson">Wayne Carson</a> (songwriters) (1982)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take" title="Every Breath You Take">Every Breath You Take</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Sting_(musician)" title="Sting (musician)">Sting</a> (songwriter) (1983)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What%27s_Love_Got_to_Do_with_It_(song)" title="What's Love Got to Do with It (song)">What's Love Got to Do with It</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Graham_Lyle" title="Graham Lyle">Graham Lyle</a> & <a href="/wiki/Terry_Britten" title="Terry Britten">Terry Britten</a> (songwriters) (1984)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_Are_the_World" title="We Are the World">We Are the World</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> & <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Richie" title="Lionel Richie">Lionel Richie</a> (songwriters) (1985)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/That%27s_What_Friends_Are_For" title="That's What Friends Are For">That's What Friends Are For</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Burt_Bacharach" title="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a> & <a href="/wiki/Carole_Bayer_Sager" title="Carole Bayer Sager">Carole Bayer Sager</a> (songwriters) (1986)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Somewhere_Out_There_(An_American_Tail_song)" title="Somewhere Out There (An American Tail song)">Somewhere Out There</a>" – <a href="/wiki/James_Horner" title="James Horner">James Horner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barry_Mann" title="Barry Mann">Barry Mann</a> & <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Weil" title="Cynthia Weil">Cynthia Weil</a> (songwriters) (1987)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_Be_Happy" title="Don't Worry, Be Happy">Don't Worry, Be Happy</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin" title="Bobby McFerrin">Bobby McFerrin</a> (songwriter) (1988)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Wind_Beneath_My_Wings" title="Wind Beneath My Wings">Wind Beneath My Wings</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Larry_Henley" title="Larry Henley">Larry Henley</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Silbar" title="Jeff Silbar">Jeff Silbar</a> (songwriters) (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/From_a_Distance" title="From a Distance">From a Distance</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Julie_Gold" title="Julie Gold">Julie Gold</a> (songwriter) (1990)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Unforgettable_(Nat_King_Cole_song)" title="Unforgettable (Nat King Cole song)">Unforgettable</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Irving_Gordon" title="Irving Gordon">Irving Gordon</a> (songwriter) (1991)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tears_in_Heaven" title="Tears in Heaven">Tears in Heaven</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> & <a href="/wiki/Will_Jennings" title="Will Jennings">Will Jennings</a> (songwriters) (1992)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Whole_New_World" title="A Whole New World">A Whole New World</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Alan_Menken" title="Alan Menken">Alan Menken</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tim_Rice" title="Tim Rice">Tim Rice</a> (songwriters) (1993)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Philadelphia" title="Streets of Philadelphia">Streets of Philadelphia</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen" title="Bruce Springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> (songwriter) (1994)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Kiss_from_a_Rose" title="Kiss from a Rose">Kiss from a Rose</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Seal_(musician)" title="Seal (musician)">Seal</a> (songwriter) (1995)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Change_the_World" title="Change the World">Change the World</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Kennedy_(musician)" title="Gordon Kennedy (musician)">Gordon Kennedy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Kirkpatrick" title="Wayne Kirkpatrick">Wayne Kirkpatrick</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Sims" title="Tommy Sims">Tommy Sims</a> (songwriters) (1996)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sunny_Came_Home" title="Sunny Came Home">Sunny Came Home</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Shawn_Colvin" title="Shawn Colvin">Shawn Colvin</a> & <a href="/wiki/John_Leventhal" title="John Leventhal">John Leventhal</a> (songwriters) (1997)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/My_Heart_Will_Go_On" title="My Heart Will Go On">My Heart Will Go On</a>" – <a href="/wiki/James_Horner" title="James Horner">James Horner</a> & <a href="/wiki/Will_Jennings" title="Will Jennings">Will Jennings</a> (songwriters) (1998)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Smooth_(Santana_song)" title="Smooth (Santana song)">Smooth</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Itaal_Shur" title="Itaal Shur">Itaal Shur</a> & <a href="/wiki/Rob_Thomas_(musician)" title="Rob Thomas (musician)">Rob Thomas</a> (songwriters) (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Day" title="Beautiful Day">Beautiful Day</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Adam_Clayton" title="Adam Clayton">Adam Clayton</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Edge" title="The Edge">David Evans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Mullen_Jr." title="Larry Mullen Jr.">Laurence Mullen</a> & <a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Paul Hewson</a> (songwriters) (2000)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fallin%27_(Alicia_Keys_song)" title="Fallin' (Alicia Keys song)">Fallin'</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Alicia_Keys" title="Alicia Keys">Alicia Keys</a> (songwriter) (2001)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Know_Why" title="Don't Know Why">Don't Know Why</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Harris" title="Jesse Harris">Jesse Harris</a> (songwriter) (2002)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dance_with_My_Father_(song)" title="Dance with My Father (song)">Dance with My Father</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Marx" title="Richard Marx">Richard Marx</a> & <a href="/wiki/Luther_Vandross" title="Luther Vandross">Luther Vandross</a> (songwriters) (2003)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Daughters_(John_Mayer_song)" title="Daughters (John Mayer song)">Daughters</a>" – <a href="/wiki/John_Mayer" title="John Mayer">John Mayer</a> (songwriter) (2004)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sometimes_You_Can%27t_Make_It_on_Your_Own" title="Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own">Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Adam_Clayton" title="Adam Clayton">Adam Clayton</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Edge" title="The Edge">David Evans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Mullen_Jr." title="Larry Mullen Jr.">Laurence Mullen</a> & <a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Paul Hewson</a> (songwriters) (2005)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Not_Ready_to_Make_Nice" title="Not Ready to Make Nice">Not Ready to Make Nice</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Emily_Robison" class="mw-redirect" title="Emily Robison">Emily Burns Erwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martie_Maguire" title="Martie Maguire">Martha Maguire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Maines" title="Natalie Maines">Natalie Maines Pasdar</a> & <a href="/wiki/Dan_Wilson_(musician)" title="Dan Wilson (musician)">Dan Wilson</a> (songwriters) (2006)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rehab_(Amy_Winehouse_song)" title="Rehab (Amy Winehouse song)">Rehab</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Amy_Winehouse" title="Amy Winehouse">Amy Winehouse</a> (songwriter) (2007)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Viva_la_Vida" title="Viva la Vida">Viva la Vida</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Guy_Berryman" title="Guy Berryman">Guy Berryman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonny_Buckland" title="Jonny Buckland">Jonathan Buckland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Will_Champion" title="Will Champion">William Champion</a> & <a href="/wiki/Chris_Martin" title="Chris Martin">Christopher Martin</a> (songwriters) (2008)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Single_Ladies_(Put_a_Ring_on_It)" title="Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)">Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Kuk_Harrell" title="Kuk Harrell">Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9" title="Beyoncé">Beyoncé Knowles</a>, <a href="/wiki/The-Dream" title="The-Dream">Terius Nash</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tricky_Stewart" title="Tricky Stewart">Christopher Stewart</a> (songwriters) (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Need_You_Now_(Lady_Antebellum_song)" title="Need You Now (Lady Antebellum song)">Need You Now</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Haywood" title="Dave Haywood">Dave Haywood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Josh_Kear" title="Josh Kear">Josh Kear</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kelley" title="Charles Kelley">Charles Kelley</a> & <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Scott" title="Hillary Scott">Hillary Scott</a> (songwriters) (2010)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rolling_in_the_Deep" title="Rolling in the Deep">Rolling in the Deep</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Adele" title="Adele">Adele Adkins</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paul_Epworth" title="Paul Epworth">Paul Epworth</a> (songwriters) (2011)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_Are_Young" title="We Are Young">We Are Young</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Antonoff" title="Jack Antonoff">Jack Antonoff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bhasker" title="Jeff Bhasker">Jeff Bhasker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Dost" title="Andrew Dost">Andrew Dost</a> & <a href="/wiki/Nate_Ruess" title="Nate Ruess">Nate Ruess</a> (songwriters) (2012)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Royals_(song)" title="Royals (song)">Royals</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Joel_Little" title="Joel Little">Joel Little</a> & <a href="/wiki/Lorde" title="Lorde">Ella Yelich O'Connor</a> (songwriters) (2013)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Stay_with_Me_(Sam_Smith_song)" title="Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)">Stay with Me</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Rodney_Jerkins" title="Rodney Jerkins">Darkchild</a> version) – <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Napes" title="Jimmy Napes">James Napier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tourist_(musician)" title="Tourist (musician)">William Phillips</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sam_Smith" title="Sam Smith">Sam Smith</a> (songwriters) (2014)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Thinking_Out_Loud" title="Thinking Out Loud">Thinking Out Loud</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Sheeran" title="Ed Sheeran">Ed Sheeran</a> & <a href="/wiki/Amy_Wadge" title="Amy Wadge">Amy Wadge</a> (songwriters) (2015)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hello_(Adele_song)" title="Hello (Adele song)">Hello</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Adele" title="Adele">Adele Adkins</a> & <a href="/wiki/Greg_Kurstin" title="Greg Kurstin">Greg Kurstin</a> (songwriters) (2016)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/That%27s_What_I_Like_(Bruno_Mars_song)" title="That's What I Like (Bruno Mars song)">That's What I Like</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Brody_Brown" title="Brody Brown">Christopher Brody Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Fauntleroy" title="James Fauntleroy">James Fauntleroy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Lawrence_(songwriter)" title="Philip Lawrence (songwriter)">Philip Lawrence</a>, <a 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Can%27t_Breathe_(H.E.R._song)" title="I Can't Breathe (H.E.R. song)">I Can't Breathe</a>" – <a href="/wiki/D%27Mile" title="D'Mile">Dernst Emile II</a>, <a href="/wiki/H.E.R." title="H.E.R.">H.E.R.</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tiara_Thomas" title="Tiara Thomas">Tiara Thomas</a> (songwriters) (2020)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Leave_the_Door_Open" title="Leave the Door Open">Leave the Door Open</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Anderson_.Paak" title="Anderson .Paak">Brandon Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brody_Brown" title="Brody Brown">Christopher Brody Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/D%27Mile" title="D'Mile">Dernst Emile II</a> & <a href="/wiki/Bruno_Mars" title="Bruno Mars">Bruno Mars</a> (songwriters) (2021)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Just_Like_That_(Bonnie_Raitt_song)" title="Just Like That (Bonnie Raitt song)">Just Like That</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt" title="Bonnie Raitt">Bonnie Raitt</a> (songwriter) (2022)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What_Was_I_Made_For%3F" title="What Was I Made For?">What Was I Made For?</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Billie_Eilish" title="Billie Eilish">Billie Eilish O'Connell</a> & <a href="/wiki/Finneas_O%27Connell" title="Finneas O'Connell">Finneas O'Connell</a> (songwriters) (2023)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Not_Like_Us" title="Not Like Us">Not Like Us</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Kendrick_Lamar" title="Kendrick Lamar">Kendrick Lamar</a> (songwriter) (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Billboard_Year-End_number_one_singles_(1960–1979)617" 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on the Shore</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Acker_Bilk" title="Acker Bilk">Mr. Acker Bilk</a></li> <li>1963: "<a href="/wiki/Sugar_Shack" title="Sugar Shack">Sugar Shack</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Fireballs" title="The Fireballs">Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs</a> / "<a href="/wiki/Surfin%27_U.S.A." title="Surfin' U.S.A.">Surfin' U.S.A.</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Beach_Boys" title="The Beach Boys">The Beach Boys</a></li> <li>1964: "<a href="/wiki/I_Want_to_Hold_Your_Hand" title="I Want to Hold Your Hand">I Want to Hold Your Hand</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a></li> <li>1965: "<a href="/wiki/Wooly_Bully" title="Wooly Bully">Wooly Bully</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Sam_the_Sham" title="Sam the Sham">Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs</a></li> <li>1966: "<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_Green_Berets" title="The Ballad of the Green Berets">The Ballad of the Green Berets</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Barry_Sadler" title="Barry Sadler">SSgt Barry Sadler</a> / "<a href="/wiki/California_Dreamin%27" title="California Dreamin'">California Dreamin'</a><span style="padding-left:.15em;">"</span> – <a href="/wiki/The_Mamas_%26_the_Papas" title="The Mamas & the Papas">The Mamas & the Papas</a></li> <li>1967: "<a href="/wiki/To_Sir_with_Love_(song)" title="To Sir with Love (song)">To Sir with Love</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Lulu_(singer)" title="Lulu (singer)">Lulu</a></li> <li>1968: "<a href="/wiki/Hey_Jude" title="Hey Jude">Hey Jude</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a></li> <li>1969: "<a href="/wiki/Sugar,_Sugar" title="Sugar, Sugar">Sugar, Sugar</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Archies" title="The Archies">The Archies</a></li> <li>1970: "<a href="/wiki/Bridge_over_Troubled_Water_(song)" title="Bridge over Troubled Water (song)">Bridge over Troubled Water</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel" title="Simon & Garfunkel">Simon & Garfunkel</a></li> <li>1971: "<a href="/wiki/Joy_to_the_World_(Three_Dog_Night_song)" title="Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)">Joy to the World</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Three_Dog_Night" title="Three Dog Night">Three Dog Night</a></li> <li>1972: "<a class="mw-selflink selflink">The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Roberta_Flack" title="Roberta Flack">Roberta Flack</a></li> <li>1973: "<a href="/wiki/Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree" title="Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree">Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Orlando_and_Dawn" title="Tony Orlando and Dawn">Tony Orlando and Dawn</a></li> <li>1974: "<a href="/wiki/The_Way_We_Were_(song)" title="The Way We Were (song)">The Way We Were</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a></li> <li>1975: "<a href="/wiki/Love_Will_Keep_Us_Together" title="Love Will Keep Us Together">Love Will Keep Us Together</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Captain_%26_Tennille" title="Captain & Tennille">Captain & Tennille</a></li> <li>1976: "<a href="/wiki/Silly_Love_Songs" title="Silly Love Songs">Silly Love Songs</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney_and_Wings" title="Paul McCartney and Wings">Wings</a></li> <li>1977: "<a href="/wiki/Tonight%27s_the_Night_(Gonna_Be_Alright)" title="Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)">Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Rod_Stewart" title="Rod Stewart">Rod Stewart</a></li> <li>1978: "<a href="/wiki/Shadow_Dancing_(song)" title="Shadow Dancing (song)">Shadow Dancing</a>" – <a href="/wiki/Andy_Gibb" title="Andy Gibb">Andy Gibb</a></li> <li>1979: "<a href="/wiki/My_Sharona" title="My Sharona">My Sharona</a>" – <a href="/wiki/The_Knack" title="The Knack">The Knack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Billboard_Year-End_number_one_singles" title="Template:Billboard Year-End number one singles">Complete list</a></li> <li>(<a 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