“How Deep Is Your Love,” one of many many iconic singles from the Bee Gees‘ seminal Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, has reached a major Spotify benchmark. As of today, the track crossed one billion streams on the platform, becoming the band’s second observe to take action after “Stayin’ Alive,” one other observe carefully related to Saturday Evening Fever.
Launched as the primary single from the Saturday Evening Fever soundtrack in September 1977, and rapidly hit primary on the Billboard Sizzling 100, in addition to topping charts in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, and France. Past the chart success, “How Deep Is Your Love” was instantly embraced by the Bee Gees’ friends within the trade. On the 1978 Grammy Awards, the Bee Gees gained “Best Pop Performance By A Group” for the tune, and had been nominated for a Golden Globe in the identical yr.
Barry Gibb, one of many main members of the Bee Gees, named “How Deep Is Your Love” as his favourite Bee Gees tune throughout a Billboard function on the group in 2001. His brother and bandmate Maurice Gibb recalled in the identical function an occasion the place the group was driving a bus with Quincy Jones, who joined Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Patti Austin, and James Ingram in serenading the group with an acapella model of their tune. “Afterward, Quincy turned to me and said, ‘That’s for you, man—great song.’”
“How Deep Is Your Love” can also be remembered for kicking off a prolific run of singles from the Bee Gees, which was adopted by 5 consecutive number-one singles in the USA: “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” “Too Much Heaven,” “Tragedy,” and “Love You Inside Out.” With the singles, the Bee Gees tied John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s document for many consecutive quantity ones. Their run additionally prolonged far past the success of Saturday Evening Fever; with the latter three quantity ones coming from their followup album Spirits Having Flown. Almost 50 years later, “How Deep Is Your Love” nonetheless stays one of many group’s most-loved songs, and it has the streams to show it.
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