"I Lay My Love on You" is a song by Irish boy band

Westlife Westlife is an Irish pop vocal group formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1998. The group currently consists of members Shane Filan, Mark Feehily, Kian Egan, and Nicky Byrne. Brian McFadden was a member, until he left in 2004. The group temporarily di ...

. It was released as the fourth single from their second studio album, '' Coast to Coast'' (2000), in 2001 outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. A Spanish version of the song, "En Ti Deje Mi Amor", was also recorded and can be found on their South African-only release, ''Released''. It is the band's nineteenth most streamed song in the United Kingdom as of January 2019.

Background

"I Lay My Love on You", along with "When You're Looking Like That", were not released in the UK. In an interview with

Mark Feehily Markus "Mark" Michael Patrick Feehily (born 28 May 1980) is an Irish singer and one of the two lead vocalists of the pop vocal group Westlife. Westlife has released twelve albums, embarked on thirteen world tours and won several awards, becomin ...

said that the main reason behind it was because they had not had as much exposure in Asia and Australia.

Music video

The music video features Westlife's activities in Asia, notably South Korea, Japan and Singapore. A part of the video was also shot in Singapore. It also features the band promoting their latest studio album at the time, ''Coast to Coast''. The video also interspersed with the band singing.

Track listing

CD1 # "I Lay My Love on You" (Single Remix) – 3:29 # "Dreams Come True" – 3:07 * CD1 is cased within a digipak and comes with four limited edition photocards. CD2 # "I Lay My Love on You" (Single Remix) – 3:29 # "Dreams Come True" – 3:07 # "My Love" – 3:52 # "Nothing Is Impossible" – 3:15

Credits and personnel

Recording * Recorded at

Cheiron Studios Cheiron Studios () was a recording studio located in the Kungsholmen district of Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1992 by Denniz PoP and Tom Talomaa, it was famous for being the place where popular music acts of the late 1990s/early 2000s such a ...

, Stockholm, Sweden * Strings recorded at Roam Studios, Stockholm, Sweden Personnel *

Per Magnusson Per Magnusson (born 30 May 1969) is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. His musical career took off in 1994 as one of the original team members of the now-legendary Cheiron Productions, meeting great international success working with Boyzo ...

– songwriter, producer, arranger, keyboards, programming *

David Kreuger David Kreuger is a Swedish songwriter and music producer. Career David Kreuger began at Cheiron Studios in the spring of 1993. During the period 1993-1997, he worked with Per Magnusson on several projects. Together, they produced and wrote so ...

– songwriter, producer, arranger, programming *

Jörgen Elofsson Kjell Åke Jörgen Elofsson (born 14 January 1962) is a Swedish songwriter. He was one of the writers of the songwriter-team at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm (along with Denniz PoP, Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson, Rami Yacoub, ...

– songwriter * Björn Norén – strings recording * Bernard Löhr – mixing * Esbjörn Öhrwall – acoustic, electric and slide guitars * Tomas Lindberg – bass * Gustave Lund – percussion * Anders von Hofsten – additional backing vocals * Björn Engelmann – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

Official Website
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