"It Must Be Love" is a song written by

Bob McDill Robert Lee McDill (born April 4, 1944) is a retired American songwriter, active from the 1960s until 2000. During his career he wrote or co-wrote 31 number one country hits. His songs were also recorded by popular artists of the 1970s, 1980s an ...

, and recorded by American

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artist

Don Williams Donald Ray Williams (May 27, 1939 – September 8, 2017) was an American country singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing seventeen number ...

. It was released in July 1979 as the third single from the album ''Expressions''. The song was Williams' ninth Number One single on the U.S. ''

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charts.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Alan Jackson version

In 2000, country music artist

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recorded a

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of the song and released it as the third single from his album '' Under the Influence''. Like Williams' version before it, Jackson's cover also reached Number One on the ''Billboard'' country charts, 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.

Year-end charts

References

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