2012Released
3:54

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Interesting facts and trivia about I Need Your Love (feat. Ellie Goulding). By Songfacts®.

This song features guest vocals by Ellie Goulding. Discussing her collaboration with Harris, Goulding told Pop Justice: "I think it's one of the first songs he's written with someone. He's written a lot of songs by himself. I mean, he's really, really clever. I've always been a fan of him and we used to have the same management, ages ago. He's done well for himself.
We wrote that song in his flat about a year ago now and then we sort of scrapped it and came back to it and re-recorded it and there was a bit of confusion around that song for a bit."

Lyrically, this is a fairly straightforward song, with Goulding singing about being enamored with her mate. Musically, it takes some interesting turns that distinguish the song. It starts with the chorus, which is repeated three more times in the track. After each chorus, however, comes an instrumental break which resolves into either a verse or a bridge. The verses are short, running just 15 seconds each - the synth interludes are the star of this show, not the storyline.

Calvin Harris made UK chart history when this track climbed to #7 on the singles chart by becoming the first artist to have eight Top-10 hits from one studio album. The Scottish DJ and producer overtook Michael Jackson, who previously held the record with seven top 10 hits from both his 1987 album Bad and his 1991 record Dangerous.
The other seven top ten hits from Harris' 18 Months album are:
"Bounce" featuring Kelis.
"Feel So Close."
"We Found Love" featuring Rihanna.
"Let's Go" featuring Ne-Yo.
"We'll Be Coming Back" featuring Example.
"Sweet Nothing" featuring Florence Welch.
"Drinking From the Bottle" featuring Tinie Tempah.

Harris broke his own chart record a few months later when "Thinking About You" became his ninth track from 18 Months to enter the UK singles Top 10.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of I Need Your Love (feat. Ellie Goulding).
G♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
125BPM

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Columbia
(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited

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