"Haven't You Heard"
Single by Patrice Rushen
from the album Pizzazz
B-side"Keepin' Faith in Love"
ReleasedOctober 2, 1979[1]
Recorded1979
GenrePop, disco
LabelElektra Records
Songwriter(s)Patrice Rushen, Charles Mims Jr.
Producer(s)Patrice Rushen, Charles Mims Jr., and Reggie Andrews
Patrice Rushen singles chronology
"Changes (In Your Life)"
(1979)
"Haven't You Heard"
(1979)
"Let the Music Take Me"
(1980)

"Haven't You Heard" is a song by Patrice Rushen. It became her first international hit in 1980. The song reached #42 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #7 R&B. It also reached #62 in the UK.

Reception

In 2018, Pitchfork ranked "Haven't You Heard" #199 on its list of The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s, calling it "a formally perfect expression of disco. This kind of intimacy, personified by the whispery translucence of Rushen's voice, is just as easily exported to the dance floor."[2]

Chart history

Chart (1980) Peak
position
UK (The Official Charts Company)[3] 62
US Billboard Hot 100[4] 42
US Billboard Hot Soul Singles[5] 7
US Billboard Disco Top 100[6] 5
US Cash Box Top 100[7] 52

References

  1. "Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard".
  2. Brad Nelson. "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  3. "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  4. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  5. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 506.
  6. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 224.
  7. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 8, 1980


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