"Love on the Line" is a song by ten piece hip-hop group

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, released as the second single from their debut studio album, '' In the Beginning''.

Background

"Love on the Line" was one of the first songs recorded for the group's debut album. It was written by Christian Ballard, Andrew Murray, and

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, and produced by Danish production duo

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& Joe. The main version of the song features samples from the hit single "

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" by Another Level. The song was released as the album's second single on 11 November 2002. It was not as successful as the group's debut single "Crossroads", however, still managed to peak at #6 on the

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Music video

The music video for "Love on the Line" premiered in September 2002. The video lasts for a total length of three minutes and fifty-two seconds. The video follows a very similar format to the video for the preceding single "Crossroads". The video depicts the band performing the song in and around a London council estate, and on an abandoned industrial estate. It also depicts scenes of a girl who members of the band are attempting to chat up.

Track listing

* Digital single # "Love on the Line" – 3:45 # "Bounce" – 4:55 * UK CD #1 # "Love on the Line" – 3:45 # "Bounce" – 4:55 # "Love on the Line" (CD-Rom Video) – 3:45 *UK CD #2 # "Love on the Line" – 3:45 # "Price to Pay" – 4:03 # "In Your Eyes" – 3:43 *Cassette # "Love on the Line" – 3:45 # "Bounce" – 4:55

Personnel

Songwriting A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

– Christian Ballard, Andrew Murray,

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& Joe * Mixing – Mads Nilsson, Cutfather & Joe *

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and programming – Joe Belmaati * Additional backing vocals – Kristian Lund *

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– Joe Belmaati, Andrew Murray *

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

– Mich Hedin Hansen *Additional percussion – Christian Ballard Source:

Charts

References

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