Songfacts®:

• Hanson followed their monster hit "MMMbop" with this song, which is a close cousin. Both songs are joyfully upbeat with lyrics that ask us to look for the best in ourselves and our surroundings. Giving up the love will bring us closer to that goal.
• When Hanson signed to Mercury Records in 1996, they had already released "MMMbop" on an independent album. Mercury brought in a bunch of seasoned songwriters to work with the brothers on the Middle Of Nowhere album, their debut with the label. These writers were asked to listen to "MMMbop" for musical direction.
  
  "Where's The Love" is a collaboration between the three Hanson brothers and Mark Hudson, who knew a thing or two about being a teen idol in a trio of brothers: In the '70s, he was the star attraction in The Hudson Brothers, who had a hit with a song called "So You Are A Star." Mark later became a songwriter for other artists. His co-writes include "Outside My Window" by Sarah Buxton and "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith.
• In America, "Where's The Love" was released as a promotional single - meaning it wasn't sold in stores - a few months after "MMMbop." Because it wasn't available for purchase, it helped boost sales of the album but wasn't eligible for the Hot 100 chart. It didn't do nearly as well as "MMMbop," garnering only enough airplay to reach #27 on Billboard's Airplay chart in August 1997.
  
  In the UK, the song was released as a commercial single and went to #4. The next Hanson single, "I Will Come To You," was released commercially in both territories and went to #5 in the UK and #9 in the US, keeping the group out of the one-hit-wonder zone.
  
  Hanson spent much of the next two years on the road and didn't put out another studio album until 2000, an eternity in pop music. That album sold poorly (relative to Middle Of Nowhere), and their next releases were on their own independent label.
• The video, directed by Tamra Davis, shows the brothers interacting with fans, being goofy, and having a good time. It's stylistically similar to the video for "MMMbop," which Davis also directed.
  
  She has a talent for capturing the antics of precocious young men on film: Davis also directed the Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison.
• Hanson joined Bowling For Soup for a pop-punk version of this song in 2021. In the video, which has a Scooby-Doo theme, both groups appear in animated form.