With their 1980 breakthrough album Lost In Love, Australia's Air Supply established themselves as the most successful purveyors of romantic, soft rock of the decade. That album managed to place three songs - "All Out Of Love, "Every Woman In The World," and the title song - into the US Top Ten. When the followup was issued in 1981, the group continued to build on the momentum.

For the initial single, "The One That You Love" was released in May. The title track of their newest album, the ballad utilized the same template as Air Supply's trio of smashes from the previous year. Building from its simple intro, "The One That You Love" built to a soaring crescendo as Russell Hitchcock's wispy vocal was underscored with a swell of strings and vocal harmonies.

Overwrought and unabashedly sentimental, the song proved to be one of the summer's biggest pop hits, becoming Air Supply's lone US #1 when it topped the chart in August. At adult contemporary radio the song was almost as popular, just failing to equal its success on mainstream radio when it reached #2. It helped make The One That You Love and even bigger smash than Lost In Love, as the album reached the Top Ten and was certified multi-platinum.

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