"The Sweetest Love" is a song by

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R&B singer

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. The R&B

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is the follow-up single to the moderately successful "

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" and is the second official single from '' Something Else''. The song was released to radio on September 9, 2008.

Charts

The single charted on various amounts of ''Billboard'' charts in late November/early December 2008 and peaked at #20 on ''Billboard'''s

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. While successful on many other ''Billboard'' R&B charts, "The Sweetest Love" has not been successful on many mainstream or pop charts. For example, the single has only peaked at #5 on ''Billboard'''s Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart, (which would actually be equivalent to #105 if the Hot 100 singles went beyond 100 positions).

Chart positions

Year-end charts

Music video

The music video premiered on

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on November 13 and later was released on MTV's ''

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''. It shows Thicke playing the piano, and at bed with model

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. It was directed by fashion photographer Marc Baptiste.

References

External links

Robin Thicke - "The Sweetest Love"
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