"Hold On" | ||||||||
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Single by Wilson Phillips | ||||||||
from the album Wilson Phillips | ||||||||
B-side | "Over and Over" | |||||||
Released | February 27, 1990 | |||||||
Format | 7" single, Cassette, CD | |||||||
Recorded | 1989 | |||||||
Genre | Pop rock, soft rock | |||||||
Length | 4:27 (album version) 3:42 (single version) |
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Label | SBK | |||||||
Writer(s) | Chynna Phillips, Glen Ballard, additional lyrics by Carnie Wilson | |||||||
Producer(s) | Glen Ballard | |||||||
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"Hold On" is a song recorded by American vocal group Wilson Phillips. It was released on February 27, 1990 as the lead single from their debut studio album, Wilson Phillips (1990).
The song won the Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year for 1990. At the Grammy Awards of 1991, the song received a nomination for Song of the Year, losing to "From a Distance" by Julie Gold and performed by Bette Midler.Kids Incorporated covered "Hold On" in 1991 in the Season 7 episode "That's What Friends Are For".
US single
UK CD
Germany Maxi-CD
"Hold On" became Wilson Phillips' first number one single, reaching the top spot of the Billboard Hot 100 on June 9, 1990, and, despite spending only one week at #1, was ranked the top song of the year by Billboard. (This was the second and final concurrence of this to date, and the first since "Stranger on the Shore" by "Mr." Acker Bilk in 1961.) The song also spent a week atop the adult contemporary chart that same year. In addition, "Hold On" peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.