It Must Be Love (Don Williams song)

"It Must Be Love"
Single by Alan Jackson
from the album Under the Influence
Released	April 24, 2000
Format	Promo-only CD single
Genre	Country
Length	2:54
Label	Arista Nashville
Writer(s)	Bob McDill
Producer(s)	Keith Stegall
Alan Jackson singles chronology

"It Must Be Love"
Single by Don Williams
from the album Expressions
B-side	"Not a Chance"
Released	July 1979
Format	7" single
Genre	Country
Label	MCA
Writer(s)	Bob McDill
Producer(s)	Don Williams
Don Williams singles chronology

"It Must Be Love" is a single by American country music artist Don Williams. Released in 1979, the single was Williams' ninth Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles charts.^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2

Alan Jackson version

In 2000, country music artist Alan Jackson recorded a cover of the song. Like Williams' version before it, Alan's cover also reached Number One on the Billboard country charts,^[2] a position that it held for one week. It also managed to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #37.

Chart performance

"It Must Be Love" debuted at number 68 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 29, 2000.

Chart (2000)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[3]	4
US Billboard Hot 100^[4]	37
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[5]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2000)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	11

References

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External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "Just Good Ol' Boys" by Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single (Don Williams version) September 29, 1979	Succeeded by "Last Cheater's Waltz" by T.G. Sheppard
Preceded by "What About Now" by Lonestar	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single (Alan Jackson version) September 9, 2000	Succeeded by "That's the Way" by Jo Dee Messina

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↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 7168." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 28, 2000. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
↑ "Alan Jackson – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Alan Jackson.
↑ "Alan Jackson – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Alan Jackson.
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[sc_Canadacountry_-3] "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 7168." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 28, 2000. Retrieved July 8, 2013.

[sc_Billboardhot100_Alan_Jackson-4] "Alan Jackson – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Alan Jackson.

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v t e Don Williams
Studio albums	Don Williams Vol. 3 Harmony Especially for You Cafe Carolina And So It Goes
Singles	"I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me" "The Ties That Bind" "You're My Best Friend" "(Turn Out the Light And) Love Me Tonight" "'Til the Rivers All Run Dry" "Say It Again" "I Recall a Gypsy Woman" "She Never Knew Me" "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" "I'm Just a Country Boy" "I've Got a Winner in You" "Rake and Ramblin' Man" "Tulsa Time" "Lay Down Beside Me" "It Must Be Love" "Love Me Over Again" "Good Ole Boys Like Me" "I Believe In You" "Falling Again" "Miracles" "If I Needed You" (with Emmylou Harris) "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good" "Listen to the Radio" "Mistakes" "If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)" "Love Is on a Roll" "Nobody but You" "Stay Young" "That's the Thing About Love" "Maggie's Dream" "Walkin' a Broken Heart" "It's Time for Love" "We've Got a Good Fire Goin''" "Heartbeat in the Darkness" "Then It's Love" "Señorita" "I'll Never Be in Love Again" "I Wouldn't Be a Man" "Another Place, Another Time" "Desperately" "Old Coyote Town" "One Good Well" "I've Been Loved by the Best" "Just as Long as I Have You" "Maybe That's All It Takes" "Back in My Younger Days" "True Love" "Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy"
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v t e Alan Jackson singles
Here in the Real World	"Here in the Real World" "Wanted" "Chasin' That Neon Rainbow" "I'd Love You All Over Again"
Don't Rock the Jukebox	"Don't Rock the Jukebox" "Someday" "Dallas" "Midnight in Montgomery" "Love's Got a Hold on You"
A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love)	"She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)" "Tonight I Climbed the Wall" "Chattahoochee" "Mercury Blues" "(Who Says) You Can't Have It All"
Who I Am	"Summertime Blues" "Livin' on Love" "Gone Country" "Song for the Life" "I Don't Even Know Your Name"
The Greatest Hits Collection	"Tall, Tall Trees" "I'll Try" "Home"
Everything I Love	"Little Bitty" "Everything I Love" "Who's Cheatin' Who" "There Goes" "Between the Devil and Me" "A House with No Curtains"
High Mileage	"I'll Go On Loving You" "Right on the Money" "Gone Crazy" "Little Man"
Under the Influence	"Pop a Top" "It Must Be Love"
When Somebody Loves You	"www.memory" "When Somebody Loves You" "Where I Come From" "It's Alright to Be a Redneck"
Drive	"Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" "Drive (For Daddy Gene)" "Work in Progress" "That'd Be Alright"
Greatest Hits Volume II	"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (w/ Jimmy Buffett) "Remember When"
What I Do	"Too Much of a Good Thing" "Monday Morning Church" "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues" "USA Today"
Like Red on a Rose	"Like Red on a Rose" "A Woman's Love"
Good Time	"Small Town Southern Man" "Good Time" "Country Boy" "Sissy's Song" "I Still Like Bologna"
Freight Train	"It's Just That Way" "Hard Hat and a Hammer"
34 Number Ones	"Ring of Fire"
Thirty Miles West	"Long Way to Go" "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" "You Go Your Way"
Other songs	"Tequila Sunrise" "A Good Year for the Roses" (w/ George Jones) "Redneck Games" (w/ Jeff Foxworthy) "Margaritaville" (w/ Jimmy Buffett) "Murder on Music Row" (w/ George Strait) "Hey, Good Lookin'" (w/ Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith and George Strait) "You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie" (w/ The Bellamy Brothers) "As She's Walking Away" (w/ Zac Brown Band)
See also	Singles discography

It Must Be Love (Don Williams song)

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