Blessed Are the Believers

"Blessed Are the Believers"
Single by Anne Murray
from the album Where Do You Go When You Dream
B-side	"Only Love"
Released	March 10, 1981 (US)
Genre	Country
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Charlie Black Rory Bourke Sandy Pinkard
Producer(s)	Jim Ed Norman
Anne Murray singles chronology
"Could I Have This Dance" (1980) "Blessed Are the Believers" (1981) "We Don't Have to Hold Out" (1981)

"Blessed Are the Believers" is a song written by Charlie Black, Rory Bourke and Sandy Pinkard (of Pinkard & Bowden), and recorded by Canadian country music artist Anne Murray. It was released in March 1981 as the first single from Murray's Gold-certified Where Do You Go When You Dream album.

The single was Murray's sixth number one on the Country chart, where it spent one week at number one and a total of twelve weeks on the country chart.^[1] On the pop singles chart, it was her final Top 40 single to date, peaking at number thirty-four.^[2]

Charts

Chart (1981)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Top Singles	13
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3]	1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[4]	10
US Billboard Hot 100[5]	34

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 243.
2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 443.
3. "Anne Murray Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
4. "Anne Murray Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
5. "Anne Murray Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.