I'll Never Break Your Heart

Infobox Single
Name = I'll Never Break Your Heart


Caption = US CD single part 1 cover
Artist = Backstreet Boys
from Album = Backstreet Boys
Released = August 6, 1996 flagicon|Europe
December 1, 1998 flagicon|US
Format = CD single
Recorded = 1995
Genre = Slow jam
Length = 4:48
Label = Jive
Writer = Eugene Wilde
Albert Manno
Producer = Timmy Allen
Chart position =

• #35 (U.S.)

• #8 (U.K.)

• #5 (GER)

Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Backstreet Boys int'l singles
Type = single
Last single = "Get Down (You're the One for Me)"
(1996)
This single = "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (1996)
Next single = "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
(1996) Extra chronology 2
Artist = Backstreet Boys US singles
Type = single
Last single = "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"
(1998)
This single = "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (1998)
Next single = "All I Have To Give" (1999)

"I'll Never Break Your Heart" is a single by the Backstreet Boys from their self-titled debut album. It was later included on their US debut album as well. The song was released in 1996 internationally, and subsequently was re-released in 1997 and 1998 off of the U.S. debut. The song peaked at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. , but fared better on the adult contemporary chart, where it became the group's first #1 song on this chart. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=341&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Adult+Contemporary+Tracks&ci=3032420&cdi=7382790&cid=12%2F26%2F1998 Chart info at billboard.com] ] Outside the U.S., the song peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart and also went to the Top 10 in Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.

The song replaced "I'll Never Find Someone Like You" on the album, which was to be the band's first single. The band's label, Jive Records, had not committed to using the song for the band, and as a result, it was offered to singer Keith Martin, who accepted it and released it as a single on the "Bad Boys" soundtrack, and his own albums "It's Long Overdue" and "All the Hits". Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell supposedly discovered this when he heard Martin's song play on the radio one day.Interview with Backstreet Boys, management, and others from "Entertainment Weekly" 10th Anniversary Issue.]

"I'll Never Break Your Heart" was supposedly recorded over two weeks, because Littrell and A. J. McLean, the two lead vocalists on the song, had colds. Spanish vocals for the song, titled "Nunca Te Haré Llorar", were later recorded in Zurich along with a Spanish verison of "Anywhere For You".

Track listing

1996 single
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit)
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version)
#"Roll With It"

US part 1
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version)
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Spanish Version) - "Nunca Te Haré Llorar"
#"Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" (Live Version)

US part 2
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit)
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version)
#"Get Down (You're the One for Me)" (DESIGN Radio I)
#"Get Down (You're the One for Me)" (Smokin' Beats Club Mix)

Europe part 1
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit)
#"We've Got It Goin' On" (Amadin's Club Mix)
#Mark Goodier Interview (Part I)

Europe part 2
#"I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit)
#"Roll With It" (Mr. Lee & Mad Mike Remix)
#Mark Goodier Interview (Part II)

Remixes double vinyl
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Davidson Ospina Extended Club Mix)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Davidson Ospina Edit)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Soul Solution Vocal Mix)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Soul Solution Radio Edit)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Original Radio Edit)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Soul Solution Dub Mix)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Soul Solution Bonus Beats)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Davidson Ospina Chronicles Dub Vocal)
# "I’ll Never Break Your Heart" (Davidson Ospina Chronicles Dub Instrumental)

Music videos

Two music videos were released for "I'll Never Break Your Heart". The video released in conjunction with the original single release follows a group of girls, one of whom has just broken up with her boyfriend as explained in the video's preface. The band members are on a ski vacation, and each partners up with one of the girls. Brian Littrell attempts to get together with the girl who has just broken up. The girl Kevin Richardson is matched with was his then-girlfriend and now-wife Kristin Willits. This original video was filmed in November 1995 in the Rocky Mountains.

In 1998, a second video(filmed April 1998) was released for the US market. The video features each band member singing in their own uniquely styled apartment which are stacked atop one another in a tall building. Late in the video, each of the the members is shown to have a girl their apartment. The group is also shown singing together in a cylindrical tunnel which has a rotating round porthole at the near end, though which the camera observes. A version of the video was also released for the Spanish version of the song. The dog in Littrell's apartment was actually his dog, and the girl in his apartment was his then-girlfriend, now-wife Leighanne Wallace.

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