I Won't Hold You Back

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"I Won't Hold You Back"
Single by Toto
from the album Toto IV
B-side
  • "Afraid of Love"
  • "Waiting for Your Love" (Holland and Japan)
Released
  • March 1983 (US)
  • June 1983 (UK) [1]
Recorded1981–1982
GenreSoft rock
Length4:53
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Steve Lukather
Producer(s)Toto
Toto singles chronology
"Africa"
(1982) 		"I Won't Hold You Back"
(1983) 		"Waiting for Your Love"
(1983)

"I Won't Hold You Back" is a song by American rock band Toto, written and sung by Steve Lukather for their fourth album, Toto IV, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). The song features the Eagles' bass player Timothy B. Schmit on backing vocals during the choruses.

Chart Performance[]

The power ballad[2] peaked at number 10 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 7, 1983, and spent three weeks at number one on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart.[3] The single only managed to scrape into the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart. In Canada it peaked at number 17 on RPM Magazine Top Singles chart, as well as reaching #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[4] It also peaked at number 11 in Ireland.

Personnel[]

Toto

Additional musicians

Charts[]

Weekly charts[]

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 80
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[6] 17
Ireland (IRMA)[7] 11
UK Singles (OCC)[8] 37
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 10
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[10] 1

Year-end charts[]

Year-end chart (1983) Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)[11] 69

Music Samples[]

See also[]

  • List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 1983

References[]

  1. ^ "Toto singles".
  2. ^ "The 40 Greatest Power Ballads".
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  4. ^ RPM Adult Contemporary, May 21, 1983
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 36. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was authorized by ARIA from 1970 to 1988.
  6. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 6281." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  7. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – I Won't Hold You Back". Irish Singles Chart.
  8. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  9. ^ "Toto Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  10. ^ "Toto Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  11. ^ "Talent Almanac 1984: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 95 no. 52. December 24, 1983. p. TA-18.
  12. ^ "All the No. 1's – Another Chance". The Official UK Charts Company. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved September 30, 2007.


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