"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum, who describes it as being about "unconditional undeserved love." It was a number one single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray. The song, included on her 1978 album Let's Keep It That Way, was also a top-five country single and won Song of the Year at the Academy of Country Music awards. The Anne Murray version was number one in Malaysia for ten weeks. Although the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, it never topped the two Billboardcharts where Murray had the most success - Country and Adult Contemporary.

In 1979, Kenny Rogers and Dottie West released a cover on their album Classics.

Anne Murray re-recorded the song with Shania Twain for Murray's 2007 album Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends.

The song was featured in an ongoing storyline on the CBS soap Guiding Lightin 1980-81, as a theme song for the characters Kelly Nelson and Morgan Richards.

You Needed Me became the second single for Irish Boyband Boyzone from their album By Request. The single became number #1 on the UK Singles Chart, beating the debut solo single of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, outselling her by just 700 copies. The song has received a Silver sales status certification for sales of over 200,000 copies in the UK.