"I Love Saturday" is a song by British synth pop duo Erasure

Erasure

Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...

. It was released as the third single from the band's sixth studio album I Say I Say I Say

I Say I Say I Say

I Say I Say I Say is the sixth studio album from synth pop duo Erasure, released in 1994 by Mute Records in the UK and Elektra Records in the U.S...

. An uptempo love song, "I Love Saturday" was written by Vince Clarke

Vince Clarke

Vince Clarke is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure....

 and Andy Bell

Andy Bell (singer)

Andrew Ivan "Andy" Bell is the lead singer of the English synthpop duo Erasure. He also has a solo career, with the albums Non-Stop and Electric Blue.-Early life:Andy Bell originates from the Dogsthorpe area in Peterborough...

 and produced by Martyn Ware

Martyn Ware

Martyn "Teddy Bear" Ware is a British musician and music producer. He is the chairman of a local football team: PPA. As a founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit records such as "Being Boiled" and "Temptation"...

.

Mute Records

Mute Records

Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...

 issued the single in the UK while Elektra Records

Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

 released it in the U.S. In addition to the normal vinyl, cassette and CD singles, Mute released the "I Love Saturday EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

" in the UK shortly afterwards. The EP contained several new tracks.

"I Love Saturday" peaked at number twenty on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 and number twenty on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. In Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, the single stopped at number sixty-nine, Erasure's lowest-charting single in that country up to that point.

Track listings

Cassette single (CMUTE166)

1. "I Love Saturday"
2. "Dodo"
3. "Because You're So Sweet" (Session Version)

12" single (12MUTE166)

1. "I Love Saturday"
2. "I Love Saturday" (Beatmasters
   Beatmasters
   The Beatmasters are a team of dance music songwriters, musicians and producers who were successful as artists in their own right in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s and then went on to produce and remix records for many other groups...
   
   ' Club Mix)
3. "I Love Saturday" (JX Mix)
4. "I Love Saturday" (Flower Mix)

CD Single #1 (CDMUTE166)

1. "I Love Saturday"
2. "I Love Saturday" (JX Mix)
3. "I Love Saturday" (Beatmasters' Dub Mix)
4. "Dodo"

CD Single #2 (LCDMUTE166)

1. "I Love Saturday" (Beatmasters' Club Mix)
2. "I Love Saturday" (Flower Mix)
3. "I Love Saturday" (303 Mix)
4. "Always" (X Dub Cut)

I Love Saturday EP (EPCDMUTE166)

1. "I Love Saturday"
2. "Ghost"
3. "Truly, Madly, Deeply"
4. "Tragic" (Live Vocal)

U.S. maxi-single (66171-2)

1. "I Love Saturday" (JX Mix)
2. "I Love Saturday" (Beatmasters' Dub Mix)
3. "I Love Saturday" (Beatmasters' Club Mix)
4. "I Love Saturday" (Flower Mix)
5. "Dodo"
6. "Because You're So Sweet"

Chart performance

Chart (1994)	Peak position	Total weeks
German Singles Chart	69	10
Swedish Singles Chart	34	4
UK Singles Chart	20	6
US Dance/Club Play Singles	20	9
US Hot Dance Music Sales	43