"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum, who describes it as being about "unconditional undeserved love".

[3] It was a number-one single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray, for which she won a Grammy Award.

In 1999, Irish pop band Boyzone recorded a hit cover of the song that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.

The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and revitalized her career after several years of declining popularity as it became her first Top 40 US single since her 1974 remake of The Beatles' "You Won't See Me".

In 2013, the song was performed by Seth MacFarlane in character as Stewie Griffin on the Family Guy episode "Chris Cross", in which Anne Murray herself guest-starred.