"Sweet Life" is a song written, composed, and recorded by American singer-songwriter Paul Davis. It was the third single he released from his 1977 album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales, and his fourth-highest peaking pop hit, peaking at #17 on the Billboard chart on the week of December 16, 1978.https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1978-12-12/ On the Cash Box chart, the song spent three weeks at #15. The song also reached #15 in Canada.
"Sweet Life" spent five months on the U.S. charts, longer than any of Davis' other singles except "I Go Crazy."
Chart performance
Weekly charts Chart (1978–79)PeakpositionCanadian RPM Top Singles15U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - 17U.S. Cash Box Top 100 15U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary7U.S. Billboard Country85
Year-end charts Chart (1978)RankCanada 104U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)121
Other versions A new version by Davis as a duet with Marie Osmond made the Country charts in 1988, reaching #47 (U.S.) and #55 (Canada). A cover version was recorded by Frederick Knight and Fern Kinney the same year 1978 on Chimneyville Records based in Jackson, Mississippi, a subsidiary of Malaco Records.
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