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About This Track
“Change the World” is a song recorded by country superstar Wynonna Judd, which was covered by Eric Clapton with backing by Babyface for the soundtrack of the 1996 film Phenomenon. The song won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year (for the songwriters Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick), as well as Best Male Pop Vocal performance. The song was chosen by the RIAA as one of the Songs of the Century, ranked at #270.
The single peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the summer of 1996. It also spent 13 weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart and remained on that chart for over a year and a half (80 weeks), a feat which was extraordinarily rare at the time. Since then, however, certain songs have remained on the AC chart for extended periods of time, prompting the eventual creation of an Adult Contemporary recurrent chart for songs that have stayed on the chart for many weeks and fallen below a certain threshold.
Although “Change the World” is better known as an unplugged acoustic track, a rare electric performance of the song was featured on Babyface’s 1997 live album Babyface MTV Unplugged NYC, with Clapton on co-lead vocals, playing his namesake signature Fender Stratocaster guitar. There was also another electric cover of this track, released the following year, with Nathan East on electric bass.
The single peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the summer of 1996. It also spent 13 weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart and remained on that chart for over a year and a half (80 weeks), a feat which was extraordinarily rare at the time. Since then, however, certain songs have remained on the AC chart for extended periods of time, prompting the eventual creation of an Adult Contemporary recurrent chart for songs that have stayed on the chart for many weeks and fallen below a certain threshold.
Although “Change the World” is better known as an unplugged acoustic track, a rare electric performance of the song was featured on Babyface’s 1997 live album Babyface MTV Unplugged NYC, with Clapton on co-lead vocals, playing his namesake signature Fender Stratocaster guitar. There was also another electric cover of this track, released the following year, with Nathan East on electric bass.
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Shouts
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katie1791 wrote:
Great song
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ericshep wrote:
baby what who?
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ericshep wrote:
Mr kello0gg considered wrong!
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ericshep wrote:
smooth as silk!
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DRKellogg22 wrote:
I really consider this one a duet with Eric and Babyface.
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kenet87 wrote:
oh, my mom used to love this song. oh, clapton. *grins*
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r-iman wrote:
slow hand !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mrsongbird wrote:
This track highlights Eric"s great vocals !
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multicolouredb wrote:
LOVE THIS SONG.
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conni-pe wrote:
***einfach genial; ohne Worte ***
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Cojage wrote:
Great song
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Led-Zep-Fan1 wrote:
Ladiesand Gentlemen THE ONE THE ONLY- ERIC SLOWHAND CLAPTON.
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kenet87 wrote:
freaking phenomenal artist.
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dannygrl wrote:
awesome
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sirthorty wrote:
I'm not his fan - but man - I love this song! Yeah.....
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Gorseinonboy wrote:
What a smooth & soulful voice he has. Here he is very gentle in his approach......changing the world......
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T0Rtur3 wrote:
Just got done listening to Ten Years After – I'd love to change the world, now Clapton answers.. nice play selection Last.fm
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skyvalley6969 wrote:
aaaaaar yeeeeea ....nows thats what i wanna hear right now *x*
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HorstKrannich wrote:
+++ klasse +++
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AlphaMale85 wrote:
I love this song!
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