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"Heartless"
"Heartless"
Single by Heart
from the album Magazine
B-side	"Just the Wine"
Released	March 1978 (US)
Recorded	1976
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:54 (Promo Version) ; 5:00 (Album/Single Version)
Label	Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s)	Ann Wilson; Nancy Wilson
Producer(s)	Mike Flicker
Heart singles chronology

"Heartless" is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart in 1976 for their album Magazine. Issues with the band's previous record label Mushroom caused a delay in the album's release and "Heartless" was released as a single two years later, after the re-issue of their first single "Crazy on You".^[3]

Background

The song is an aggressive hard rock number that opens with a slower synthesizer based interlude before opening up into a full hard rock tune. The lyrics involve a scorned lover who apparently can't get away from the grasp of her heartless partner. "The doctor said come back again next week / I think that you need me / All she did was cry / She wanted to die doctor when can you see me / There's a guy out there / Seems like he's everywhere / It just ain't fair."^[4]

"Heartless" and "Without You" were the only singles released from Magazine, with "Heartless" peaking at number twenty-four on the US Billboard Hot 100. Cash Box particularly praised the vocals and bass guitar playing.^[5] Record World called it "straight-ahead, rather funky rock, with Ann Wilson's vocal the centerpiece."^[6] Only five months passed before Heart released their next album, Dog and Butterfly.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the 1978 revised version of Magazine.^[7]

Ann Wilson – lead vocals
Nancy Wilson – lead guitar, backing vocals
Roger Fisher – guitar solo
Howard Leese – guitar solo, keyboards, backing vocals
Steve Fossen – bass
Michael DeRosier – drums

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1978)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Top Singles^[8]	18
US Billboard Hot 100^[9]	24
US Cash Box Top 100^[10]	18

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)	Rank
Canada^[11]	146
US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)^[12]	157

References

^ "Heart singles". dutchcharts.nl.
^ "Heart - Magazine review". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
^ Sorscher, Zach. "Sound Advice: Heart's 'unauthorized' album is the real deal". Goldmine Magazine.
^ "Heartless". lyrictalk.net.
^ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. April 8, 1978. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
^ "Record World Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. April 8, 1978. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
^ Magazine (liner notes). Heart. Mushroom Records. 1978. R 143366.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
^ "Heart Album & Song Chart History". Billboard.com. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, June 24, 1978". Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
^ "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.