“What the World Needs Now Is Love” Rises to Top of iTunes Chart

After some of Broadway’s top musical artists appeared on NBC’s June 21 evening telecast of the Maya & Marty variety show to perform “What the World Needs Now Is Love”—an updated version of the classic Burt Bacharach/Hal David song that is helping to support the devastated LGBT community of Orlando, FL, where a gunman murdered 49 people at the Pulse nightclub and injured 53 more—the song hit the top spot as the most downloaded song on iTunes.

It has remained at number one or two on iTunes all morning June 22.

Seth Rudetsky, who helped organize the recording of the uplifting tune, posted the news on Twitter.

Watch the exclusive music video here!

The TV performance was a recreation of the recording produced and filmed by Playbill June 15, with the song and accompanying video being sold on BroadwayRecords.com and available on iTunes, with all proceeds going to the LGBT Center of Central Florida.

Click here to purchase the song for $1.99—100% of the proceeds from the digital download of “Broadway for Orlando” benefit the LGBT Center of Central Florida.

Sara Bareilles, Carole King, Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bernadette Peters, Whoopi Goldberg and dozens more sing on the track.

Goldberg appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to discuss her participation in “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” Watch the interview below:

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