Song · David Gray
“The One I Love” by David Gray
From the album Life in Slow Motion (2005)
“The One I Love” by David Gray appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2009 and 2022. It was first released in 2005 on the album Life in Slow Motion. Its best result is #340 on the WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,375 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"The One I Love" went out on 29 August 2005 as the opening shot from Life in Slow Motion, David Gray's seventh studio album, and it's a song he wrote with Clune. Marius de Vries steered the production, sharing the credit with Gray, Clune and Iestyn Polson, who also engineered it, while Andy Bradfield did the mix with Jason Boshoff assisting.
It stopped at number eight in the UK, his second-best showing on the singles chart there, went to number six in Ireland and reached number 31 in New Zealand, and in America it sat on top of Billboard's Triple-A chart for six weeks. It came out as two CDs and a 7-inch, with "Everybody's Leaving Town" as the B-side of the first CD and the vinyl, a track Japanese fans also found tacked onto their edition of the album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 340 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2013 | 507 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2022 | 823 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2022 | 1187 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
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