Sweet Surrender (David Gates song)

"Sweet Surrender"
Single by Bread
from the album Guitar Man
B-side "Make It By Yourself"
Released November 1972
Format 7" 45 RPM
Genre Rock, soft rock[1]
Label Elektra
Writer(s) David Gates
Producer(s) David Gates
Bread singles chronology
"The Guitar Man"
(1972)		 "Sweet Surrender (David Gates song)"
(1972)		 "Aubrey"
(1973)

"Sweet Surrender" is a song written by David Gates and performed by Bread. The single was the second release from their fifth album, Guitar Man, and was the last of four number ones for Bread on the US Easy Listening chart. "Sweet Surrender" spent two weeks at number one on the chart, while on the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at number 15.[2]

"Sweet Surrender" also did well internationally. It was a Top 10 hit in Canada (#4) and New Zealand (#7).

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1972-73) Peak
position
Australia KMR 67
Canada RPM Top Singles 4
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary 24
New Zealand[3] 7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 15
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 1
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 11

Year-end charts

Chart (1972) Rank
Canada[5] 88
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[6] 133
Chart (1973) Rank
Canada[7] 122

See also

References

  1. ↑ Soft Rock Music - What is Soft Rock? - Oldies Music Songs and Artists
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 39.
  3. ↑ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  4. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 380. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  7. ↑ "Item: 9481 - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-07.


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