Real Love (Jody Watley song)

Single infobox
Name = Real Love


Artist = Jody Watley
from Album = Larger than Life
Released = February 25, 1989
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:23
Label = MCA
Writer = André Cymone, Jody Watley
Producer = André Cymone
Chart position =

#2 (U.S. Pop)

#1 (U.S. R&B)

#1 (U.S. Dance)

#31 (UK Singles Chart)

Last single = Most of All
(1988)
This single = Real Love
(1989)
Next single = Friends
(1989)

"Real Love" was the first single from Jody Watley's second album, "Larger than Life". "Real Love" became one of the biggest pop and R&B singles of 1989. The single reached number-one on the US Billboard Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart and US dance chart.

On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "Real Love" rocketed into the Top 40 from #51 to #37, the week of April 1, 1989. The single lingered in the Top 10 for six weeks, peaking at #2 for two weeks, beginning May 20, 1989, held out of the top position by Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl".

During the summer of 1989, Watley's "Real Love" video, directed by David Fincher, was nominated for seven MTV Video Music Awards including Breakthrough Video, Best Art Direction, Best Dance Video, and Best Female Video at the 1989 award show. That record was held until Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson's video "Scream" received eleven VMA nominations in 1995. The song was also nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for Best Female Single. The music video premiered in March of 1989 on Cable television networks.

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