Love Me Like You Do By Ellie Goulding

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"Love Me Like You Do" is a piece of music recorded by English singer Ellie Goulding for the soundtrack to the movie Fifty Shades of Gray (2015). The music was written by Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Tove Lo, Max Martin, and Ali Payami; the latter two additionally produced it. Goulding was chosen to supply vocals to the monitor. It was launched on 7 January 2015 as the second single from the soundtrack. The music was additionally included on Goulding's third studio album, Delirium (2015).

"Love Me like You Do" is a mid-tempo electropop energy ballad, with instrumentation consisting of huge synths and crashing drums. Lyrically, just like the movie's theme, the music talks concerning the uncontrollable feeling of falling in love and being seduced by somebody whose contact leaves her begging for extra, even when it hurts. It obtained acclaim from music critics, who praised Goulding's mushy vocals and the music for being sultry and grandiose. The music earned Goulding her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance, whereas the songwriters had been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Song.

"Love Me like You Do" was a world success, changing into Goulding's most profitable single in addition to changing into her first number-one in varied nations, topping the charts of over 25 territories, together with Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. In the UK, it spent 4 weeks at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, whereas holding the report for the most-streamed monitor in a single week in the UK on the time. In the USA, it peaked at quantity three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was her first number-one on the Adult Top 40 and second on the Mainstream Top 40. Its accompanying music video, which options scenes of the movie and Goulding dancing together with her companion in a ballroom, turned the 21st video to obtain one billion views on YouTube and obtained a nomination on the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video.

Whereas looking for materials for the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, Republic Records contacted varied artists, managers, and music publishers to create a compilation that may appropriately signify the movie's tone. "Love Me like You Do" was the result of Republic executive Tom Mackay contacting Max Martin's manager about writing music for the movie. Ilya began writing the refrain, whereas Ali Payami and Martin got here subsequent, with Martin "tweaking" the music and Savan Kotecha and Tove Lo additionally contributing with lyrics. In keeping with Kotecha, "Love Me like You Do" was already being developed by each him and Martin earlier than Fifty Shades of Gray, and he had thought of giving the music to American singer Demi Lovato. Nonetheless, after being proven a scene from the movie throughout a gathering for the movie's soundtrack, Martin thought "Love Me like You Do" may work, and commenced transforming the music for inclusion. After that, the movie director Sam Taylor-Johnson requested Ellie Goulding to sing the music. Goulding, who beforehand contributed songs to the soundtracks to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Divergent, initially considered declining the invitation to report one other music for a soundtrack to deal with her then-upcoming third studio album. Nonetheless, after meeting the movie crew and listening to the ballad she accepted. She commented:"I wasn't going to get involved in that soundtrack because I've done a lot of soundtracks and we kind of thought we've done a bit too much film stuff. So we should probably just chill and write that third album, which is what I should be focusing on. And then I met the director [Sam Taylor-Johnson] and everyone involved and I was like, 'This is a pretty cool thing to be involved in.' Then I heard the song and I was like, 'Woah, this is a pretty awesome song.' I didn't know that it was going to be this big, genuinely. I thought it would do well."

A barely reworked track of the music was included on the soundtrack to the 2018 movie Fifty Shades Freed, the third and last installment within the sequence.
"Love Me like You Do" was written by Max
Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ali Payami, and Tove Lo, with production by Martin and Payami; they had been additionally accountable for programming, drums, percussion, keys, and bass. Strings had been organized by Mattias Bylund, the violin was performed by Mattias Johansson and cello by David Bukovinsky. Peter Carlsson was accountable for vocal modifying, in addition to background vocals, together with Martin, Payami, Ilya, Kotecha, Oscar Holter, Robin Fredriksson, Mattias Larsson, Oscar Görres and Ludvig Söderberg. It was recorded in Los Angeles and Stockholm. In keeping with the sheet music printed at MusicNotes.com by Kobalt Music Group, the music is written in the important thing of A♭ main, with a reasonable tempo of 95 beats per minute. Goulding's vocal vary spans from the low notice of Ab3 to the excessive notice of Eb5.

"Love Me like You Do" is a young electropop energy ballad, with a "synth-filled, '80s-sounding" production. Its instrumentation consists of huge synthesizers and crashing drums, whereas Goulding delivers a "mushy, understated vocals". Within the opening seconds, she sings, "You are the treatment/ you are the ache/ you are the one factor I wish to contact/ By no means knew that it/ may imply a lot/ You are the concern/ I do not care/ 'Trigger I've by no means been so excessive." Lyrically, "Love Me like You Do" contrasts "harmless romantic longing" and "brooding, addictive, pain-laced sensuality", which in line with Plugged In's Adam R. Holz, "mirrors the story arc of Anastasia Steele and Christian Gray" in each the ebook and the movie. He went on to clarify its lyrical content material: "It tells the story of a lady entranced and seduced by somebody whose contact leaves her begging for extra, even when—or maybe particularly when—it hurts."

"Love Me like You Do" was first nominated for a 2015 Teen Choice Award within the class "Song from a Movie or TV Show", however ultimately misplaced to Furious 7's "See You Once more", carried out by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. It was additionally nominated for a 2015 MTV Europe Music Award for "Best Song", however, lost to Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood". On the 2015 BBC Music Awards, the music was nominated for "Song of the Year", losing to Hozier's "Take Me to Church". It gained the award for "Best International Song" at the 2015 Los Premios 40 Principales. The music was additionally nominated for "Favourite Song of the Year" on the 42nd People's Choice Awards, losing to Justin Bieber's "What Do You Mean?. It additionally obtained two nominations on the 58th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Pop Solo Performance (lost to Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud") and Best Song Written for Visual Media (lost to Selma's "Glory", performed by Common and John Legend), changing into the first time Goulding was nominated. The music additionally obtained a Golden Globe nomination in its 73rd edition on the Best Original Song class however lost to Spectre's "Writing's on the Wall", performed by Sam Smith.

"Love Me like You Do" debuted atop the UK Singles Chart with first-week gross sales of 172,368 items, changing into Goulding's second number-one hit in the UK after "Burn" (2013). The only remained at primary for a second week with chart gross sales of 118,225 copies and a pair of.25 million streams, after which a 3rd consecutive week promoting an extra 118,000 copies. In its third week at primary, "Love Me like You Do" broke the streaming report in the UK on the time, with 2.58 million streams over seven days, surpassing Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" earlier report. On the similar time, the music was streamed nearly 15.5 million occasions globally. It spent a complete of 4 weeks on the high, changing into her longest number-one single within the UK. Elsewhere in Europe, "Love Me like You Do" topped the charts in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Eire, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

In the USA, "Love Me like You Do" debuted at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated 24 January 2015, with first-week gross sales of 79,000 copies. The next week, the music climbed to number 36, after which to number 20 in its third week. On the issue dated 14 February 2015, it rose to number 14. "Love Me like You Do" reached number 9 the next week, changing into Goulding's second top-10 hit on the chart. In its seventh week, the music peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, changing into her highest charting-single since "Lights" (2011). On the Pop Songs chart, it was her second single to top the charts, and on the Adult Top 40, it was her first number-one.

"Love Me like You Do" debuted at number 38 on the Canadian Hot 100 for the week ending 24 January 2015, later peaking at number three. The song entered at number eight on the Australian Singles Chart and number three on the New Zealand Singles Chart. In its fourth week, "Love Me like You Do" reached number one on each chart, changing into Goulding's first number-one hit in each nation. In France, the music was not solely her highest-charting single, reaching number 5, but also her second top-10 single. Within the Netherlands, the music was her first solo single to succeed in the highest 10, peaking at number two.

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