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“Soldier Of Love” by Sade
From the album Soldier of Love (2010)
“Soldier Of Love” by Sade appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2009 and 2019. It was first released in 2010 on the album Soldier of Love. Its best result is #14 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #118 indie & aaa song of 2010 and #1,946 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Soldier of Love" was the first new music Sade had released in almost ten years when it premiered on 8 December 2009, the title track and lead single of the English band's sixth album, out in February 2010. Sade Adu wrote the words and built the music with Paul S. Denman, Andrew Hale and Stuart Matthewman, and Mike Pela mixed it.
It went to number one on Billboard's Adult R&B chart and entered the Hot 100 at 58, the band's highest debut there, before climbing to 52, their best showing on that chart since "No Ordinary Love" in 1992. It also brought the band a Grammy in the R&B vocal category for duos and groups, and it plays over the end credits of The Lady, Luc Besson's 2010 film about Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 83 | 103.1 The River Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2009 | 103 |
| 2010 | 33 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2010 | 97 |
| 2010 | 14 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 763 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2019 | 289 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 289 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
Also listed as: Soldier of Love.
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