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"Open My Heart" is a song by Yolanda Adams released in 2000. The song gained Adams great popularity in the secular audiences. Being the most groundbreaking single of her career, she won several awards for this song. "Open My Heart" helped her 1999 album Mountain High...Valley Low gain multi-platinum status and reach charts heights not often attained by artists of the gospel genre.

"Open My Heart"

Single by Yolanda Adams

from the album Mountain High... Valley Low

Released

May 9, 2000

Recorded

1998

Genre

Gospel
R&B

Length

5:40

Label

Elektra

Songwriter(s)

James Harris
James Q. Wright
Terry Lewis
Yolanda Adams

Producer(s)

Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
James "Big Jim" Wright

Yolanda Adams singles chronology

"The Battle Is the Lord's"
(1996)

"Open My Heart"
(2000)

"Yeah"
(1999)

The song peaked at #10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Remixes by Steve "Silk" Hurley and Junior Vasquez helped the song peak at #29 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

The song was sampled by Nick Cannon on his single "Can I Live."[1]

Song Credits

Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis & James "Big Jim" Wright
Percussion & Live Drums: Stokley Williams
Guitar: Mike Scott
Strings arranged by Lee Blaske & Big Jim Wright
Violins: Brenda Mickens, Carolyn Daws, Elizabeth Sobieski, Michael Sobieski, Elsa Nilsson, Leslie Shank & Thomas Kornacker
Violas: Alice Preves & Tamas Strasser
All Other Instruments played by Big Jim Wright
Background Vocals: Marva King & Yolanda Adams

Track listings

US Promo CD Release (PRCD 1484-2)[2]

Open Your Heart (Radio Edit) – 5:37
Open Your Heart (Album Version) – 5:38
Open Your Heart (Audio Bio – Song) – 1:05
Open Your Heart (Call-Out Hook) – 0:13

US Promo Remix CD Release (PRCD 1556-2)[3]

Open My Heart (Pound Boys Radio Edit)
Open My Heart (Pound Boys Vocal)
Open My Heart (Pound Boys Dub)

US Promo 12" Remixes (ED 6238)[4]

Open My Heart (Silk's Spiritual Workout)
Open My Heart (Silk's Open My Filter Disco Dub Instrumental)
Open My Heart (Open My Filter Disco Dub)
Open My Heart (Silk's Spiritual Workout Instrumental)

US Double Vinyl Junior Vasquez Remixes (ED 6261)[5]

Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Club Mix)
Open My Heart (Junior's Uplifting Mix)
Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Instrumental)
Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Beat)
Open My Heart (Junior's Acapella)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2000–01)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100[6]	57
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[7]	29
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[8]	10

Year-end charts

Chart (2000)	Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[9]	31
Chart (2001)	Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[10]	100

References

"Nick Cannon feat. Anthony Hamilton's Can I Live? sample of Yolanda Adams's Open My Heart". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
"Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (PRCD 1484-2)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
"Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (PRCD 1556-2)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
"Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (ED 6238)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
"Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (ED 6261)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
"Yolanda Adams Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
"Yolanda Adams Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
"Yolanda Adams Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
"Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 2000". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
"Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 2001". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.

v t e Yolanda Adams
Studio albums	Just As I Am Through the Storm Save the World More Than a Melody Songs from the Heart The Best of Yolanda Adams Mountain High... Valley Low Christmas with Yolanda Adams Believe Day by Day What a Wonderful Time Becoming
Live albums	Yolanda... Live in Washington The Experience
Singles	"The Battle Is the Lord's" "Open My Heart" "I'm Gonna Be Ready" "Hold On" "Someone Watching Over You" "This Too Shall Pass" "Be Blessed" "Be Still"
Related articles	Discography Awards

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Song

"Theme from Shaft" (1972)
"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (1996)
"I Believe I Can Fly" (1997)
"A Song for Mama" (1998)
"Lean on Me" (1999)
"Spend My Life with You" (2000)
"Open My Heart" (2001)
"A Woman's Worth" (2002)
"Brighter Day" (2003)
"Dance with My Father" (2004)
"If I Ain't Got You" (2005)
"Unbreakable" (2006)
"I Am Not My Hair" (2007)
"Like You'll Never See Me Again" (2008)
"Yes We Can" (2009)
"God in Me" (2010)
"Bittersweet" (2011)
"I Smile" (2012)
"I Look to You" (2013)
"All of Me" (2014)
"We Are Here" (2015)
"Back Together" (2016)
"I See Victory" / "Freedom" (2017)
"That's What I Like" / "HUMBLE." (2018)
"Boo'd Up" / "Long as I Live" (2019)
"Spirit" / "Before I Let Go" (2020)
"Do It" / "Savage (Remix)" / "Lockdown" (2021)

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