Love Like This (Faith Evans song)

"Love Like This" is a song by American recording artist Faith Evans. It was written by Evans, Ron 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 on US radios on September 15, 1998 as the album's lead single.

Commercially, "Love Like This" became one of Evans's biggest successes: It charted within the top thirty 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 Faith singing on a platform in the center. The music video also shows actress Countess Vaughn and former child actor Marcus T. Paulk, both from the UPN sitcom Moesha, in cameos.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
France (SNEP)^[3]	29
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[4]	79
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)^[5]	33
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)^[6]	24
US Billboard Hot 100^[7]	7
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)^[8]	2

References

↑ "Faith Evans - Keep The Faith (CD, Album)". Discogs. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
↑ "Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
↑ "Lescharts.com – Faith Evans – Love Like This" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Faith Evans search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
↑ "Charts.org.nz – Faith Evans – Love Like This". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
↑ "Chart Stats - Faith Evans". Chart Stats. Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
↑ "Faith Evans – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Faith Evans. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
↑ "Faith Evans – Chart history" Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for Faith Evans. Retrieved 2013-05-30.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Faith Evans songs

Faith	"You Used to Love Me" "Soon as I Get Home" "Ain't Nobody" "Kissing You" "Come Over"

Keep the Faith	"Love Like This" "All Night Long" "Never Gonna Let You Go" "Lately I"

Faithfully	"Can't Believe" "You Gets No Love" "I Love You" "Burnin' Up" "Alone in This World"

The First Lady	"Again" "Mesmerized" "Tru Love"

Something About Faith	"Gone Already"

R&B Divas	"Tears of Joy" "Dumb"

Incomparable	"I Deserve It" "Fragile" "Make Love" "Good Time"

Collaborations	"One More Chance" "How Can We Stop" "Stressed Out" "You Could Be My Boo" "I'll Be Missing You" "How's It Goin' Down" "Heartbreak Hotel" "Georgy Porgy" "Love Is Blind" "Roll with Me" "Ma, I Don't Love Her" "Brown Sugar (Extra Sweet)" "Relax Your Mind" "I Miss You" "Someday" "Hope" "Everything is Alright" "Got 2 Be Down" "Letter to B.I.G." "Can't Last a Day" "Hood Pride" "Lay with You" "Believe It" "Crazy (Baby)" "Stay (Remix)"

Other songs	"What's Going On" "Wake Up Everybody"

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