Faking Love

{{Distinguish|Fake Love (disambiguation){{!}}Fake Love}} {{short description|1982 song by T. G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks}} {{Infobox song | name = Faking Love | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = T. G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks | album = Perfect Stranger | B-side = Reno and Me | released = October 1982 | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Country | length = 2:52 | label = Warner Bros./Curb | writer = Matraca Berg<br />Bobby Braddock | producer = Buddy Killen | chronology = T. G. Sheppard | prev_title = War Is Hell (On the Homefront Too) | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = Without You | next_year = 1983 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Karen Brooks | type = single | prev_title = New Way Out | prev_year = 1982 | title = Faking Love | year = 1982 | next_title = If That's What You're Thinking | next_year = 1983 }} }} "'''Faking Love'''" is a song written by Matraca Berg and Bobby Braddock, and recorded by American country music artists T. G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks. It was released in October 1982 as the second single from Sheppard's album ''Perfect Stranger''. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks within the Top 40.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=56}}</ref>

==Charts==

===Weekly charts=== {|class="wikitable sortable" !align="left"|Chart (1982–1983) !align="center"|Peak<br />position |- {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=T.G. Sheppard}} |- |align="left"|Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks |align="center"|1 |}

===Year-end charts=== {|class="wikitable" !Chart (1983) !Position |- |US Hot Country Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1983/BB-1983-12-24.pdf|title=1984 Talent Almanat|magazine=Billboard|volume=95|issue=51|page=TA-24|date=December 24, 1983|accessdate=June 19, 2021}}</ref> |align="center"|15 |}

==References== {{reflist}}

Category:1982 singles Category:Male–female vocal duets Category:1982 songs Category:Karen Brooks songs Category:Songs written by Matraca Berg Category:Songs written by Bobby Braddock Category:T. G. Sheppard songs Category:Song recordings produced by Buddy Killen Category:Warner Records singles Category:Curb Records singles