Sacred Trust / After You're Gone
| "Sacred Trust / After You're Gone (I'll Still Be Loving You)" | ||||||||||||||||
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| Single by One True Voice | ||||||||||||||||
| Released | 16 December 2002 | |||||||||||||||
| Format | CD, cassette, vinyl, airplay | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||||||||
| Length |
4:45 (Sacred Trust) 4:08 (After You're Gone) | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Jive/EBUL | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb | |||||||||||||||
| One True Voice singles chronology | ||||||||||||||||
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"Sacred Trust / After You're Gone (I'll Still Be Loving You)" is the debut double-A side single by One True Voice. It was released on 16 December 2002, the same day that female winners Girls Aloud released their single Sound of the Underground. The two songs were competing for the coveted Christmas Number One spot in the UK Singles Chart. "Sacred Trust / After You're Gone" reached a position of #2 in that chart.
"Sacred Trust" is a cover version of a song originally written and produced by the Bee Gees from the 2001 album This Is Where I Came In.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writers | Length |
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| 1. | "Sacred Trust" | Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb | 4:45 |
| 2. | "After You're Gone (I'll Still Be Loving You)" | Mick Parker, Pete Waterman, Steve Pearce | 4:08 |
Release and reception
One True Voice were formed in November 2002 on the ITV1 programme Popstars: The Rivals. The concept of the programme was to produce a boyband and a girlband who would be 'rivals' and compete for the Christmas number one single in 2002. The five boys who made it into the group which was to be managed by Pete Waterman were Daniel Pearce, Matt Johnson, Keith Semple, Jamie Shaw, and Anton Gordon. The boy band were managed by Pete Waterman. The two groups competed for the number one position in the Christmas week issue of the UK Singles Chart, and Girls Aloud came out on top with their song "Sound of the Underground". Girls Aloud later released their own version of "Sacred Trust" on the rarities disc of their 2006 greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud.
Chart performance
"Sacred Trust / After You're Gone" debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart on December 22, 2002, the same day that their rivals reached number one. The single sold 147,000 copies compared to first week sales of 213,000 for Sound of the Underground.[1] In Ireland it only managed to chart at number nine while Girls Aloud entered the chart at #2.[2][3] It remained in both charts for 6 weeks.
| Chart (2002/2003) | Peak position[4] |
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| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 9 |
| Europe Top 100 | 26 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2002) | Position |
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| UK Singles Chart | 38 |
References
- ↑ "Girls Aloud top festive chart". BBC News. 2002-12-23. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ↑ "Eminem holds on for Christmas number one". 2002-12-23. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ↑ "Eminem still at top of Irish chart". 2002-12-30. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ↑ One True Voice - Sacred Trust @ Top40-Charts.com - Songs & Videos from 49 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 30 Countries