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"I Don't Want to Live Without You" is a song written by Mick Jones that was first released by the pop rock band Foreigner on their 1987 album Inside Information.

"I Don't Want to Live Without You"
Single by Foreigner
from the album Inside Information
B-side	"Face To Face"
Released	March 1988
Recorded	1987
Genre	Soft rock[1]
Length	3:57 (single) 4:52 (album)
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Mick Jones
Producer(s)	Frank Filipetti Mick Jones
Foreigner singles chronology
"Say You Will" (1987) "I Don't Want to Live Without You" (1988) "Heart Turns to Stone" (1988)
Music video
"I Don't Want to Live Without You" on YouTube

Jones has rated it as one his favorite Foreigner songs.[2]

Charts

Released as the follow-up single to the song "Say You Will," "I Don't Want to Live Without You" peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1988.[3][4] It was the band's ninth and top ten hit, and the band's sixteenth and last entry on the Billboard pop Top 40.On the Billboard adult contemporary chart, the song became Foreigner's only #1 hit, spending one week atop the tally the week of May 14, 1988.[5][6] The band had previously reached the Top 5 on the AC chart twice, with the songs "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (#5 in 1981) and "I Want to Know What Love Is" (#3 in 1985).[5]

Weekly charts

Chart (1987–88)[7]	Peak position
UK Singles Chart[8]	91
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[9]	8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[3]	5
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[5]	1
U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks[10]	18

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)	Position
U.S. (Cash Box)[11]	40
United States (Billboard)[12][13]	86

See also

• List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1988

References

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