Without You – Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey took this track to the top of the UK singles chart for four weeks in 1994.

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Without you by Mariah Carey entered the UK singles chart at number 1 this week in 1994, replacing Things can only get better by D:Ream. The song spent four weeks at the top of the chart and then yielded the position to Doop by Doop.

After falling from the top spot, the song spent four more weeks in the top 10, two of them in the top 5. It then dropped into the lower top 40 for the final three weeks of its chart life.

Without you was released on the Columbia record label and was the first of two UK number 1 hits for Mariah Carey. It was taken from the quintuple-platinum-selling Music box, which spent six weeks at the top of the UK album chart and was also a US number 1. The single was certified gold.

The original version of the song was recorded by Badfinger in 1970 for their album No dice but it was not released as a single. The first single version to enter the chart was recorded by Nilsson in 1971 and was a number 1 hit the following year in the UK, where it spent five weeks at the top of the chart, and the USA.

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More number ones from 1994

 

UK singles chart for the week ending 19 February 1994

1. Without you – Mariah Carey

2. Things can only get better – D:Ream

3. Breathe again – Toni Braxton

4. Return to innocence – Enigma

5. The power of love – Celine Dion

6. A deeper love – Aretha Franklin

7. Move on baby – Cappella

8. All for love – Bryan Adams / Rod Stewart / Sting

9. Let the beat control your body – 2 Unlimited

10. I like to move it – Reel 2 Real featuring the Mad Stuntman

 

12. Locked out – Crowded House

 

28. Pale movie – Saint Etienne