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{{Infobox song
| name       = Spread Your Love
| cover      = Earth, Wind & Fire - Spread Your Love.jpg
| alt        =
| B-side     = (US) Freedom Of Choice
(EU) Hearts to Heart
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Earth, Wind & Fire]]
| album      = [[Powerlight]]
| released   = June 1983
| recorded   = 1982
| studio     =
| genre      = *[[Pop music|Pop]]
*[[Contemporary R&B|R&B]]
| length     = 3:51
| label      = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| writer     = *[[Azar Lawrence]]
*Beloyd Taylor
*[[Maurice White]]
| producer   = [[Maurice White]]
| prev_title = [[Side by Side (Earth, Wind & Fire song)|Side by Side]]
| prev_year  = 1983
| next_title = [[Magnetic (Earth, Wind & Fire song)|Magnetic]]
| next_year  = 1983
}}
"'''Spread Your Love'''" is a song recorded by [[R&B]]/[[funk music|funk]] band [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] and released as a single in June 1983 by [[Columbia Records]].<ref name=Song>{{cite work|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: Spread Your Love|date=June 1983|publisher=[[Columbia Records]]}}</ref> The single reached No. 48 on the [[Dutch Charts|Dutch Pop Singles]] chart and No. 57 on the US [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Hot R&B Singles]] chart.<ref name=Dutch>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Earth%2C+Wind+%26+Fire&titel=Spread+Your+Love&cat=s|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: Spread Your Love|publisher=[[Dutch Charts]]|website=dutchcharts.com}}</ref><ref name=BBD>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/earth-wind-fire/chart-history/bsi/|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: Spread Your Love (Hot R&B Singles)|publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|website=billboard.com}}</ref>
==Overview==
"Spread Your Love" was produced by EWF bandleader [[Maurice White]] and composed by White, [[Azar Lawrence]] and Beloyd Taylor. The single's [[b-side]] was a tune called Hearts to Heart. Both songs came from Earth, Wind & Fire's 1983 studio album [[Powerlight]].<ref name=Song />
==Critical reception==
Chip Stern of [[Musician (magazine)|Musician]] noted that "[[Robert Greenidge]]'s slithery steel drums featured on the Eastern-tinged Spread Your Love".<ref name="Musician">{{cite web|author=Stern, Chip |date=April 1, 1983 |title=Earth, Wind & Fire - Powerlight
|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Musician/1980/1983/Musician-1983-04.pdf|publisher=[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]|page=93 |issue=54|website=worldradiohistory.com}}</ref> Craig Lytle of [[Allmusic]] proclaimed "the (song's) sonically aggressive special effects are contrasted with a soothing chanting chorus."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/powerlight-mw0000189887|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: Powerlight|author=Lytle, Craig|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|website=Allmusic.com}}</ref>
==Charts==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Chart (1983)
! Peak<br>position
|-
| [[Dutch Charts|Dutch Pop Singles]]<ref name=Dutch />
| align=center|48
|-
| US ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Hot R&B Singles]]<ref name=BBD />
| align=center|57
|}
==References==
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{{Earth, Wind & Fire}}
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[[Category:1983 singles]]
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[[Category:Columbia Records singles]]
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