Breathe (Faith Hill song)

Single infobox
Name = Breathe


Artist = Faith Hill
from Album = Breathe
B-side = "It All Comes Down To Love"
Released = November 1999
Format = CD Single
Writer = Stephanie Bentley, Holly Lamar
Genre = Country Pop
Length = 4:09
Label = Warner Brothers
Producer = Faith Hill, Byron Gallimore, Dann Huff
Certification = Gold (U.S.)
Last single = "The Secret of Life"
(1999)
This single = "Breathe"
(1999)
Next single = "The Way You Love Me"
(2000)Extra album cover
Upper caption = International cover
Background = khaki

"Breathe" is a song by Faith Hill, released as the first single from the album of the same name. The song was extremely successful in the United States, and became Hill's signature song.

Chart performance

In November 1999, "Breathe" was released to Country and Pop radio. It spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, seventeen weeks at number one on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and one week at number one on the Adult Top 40 chart. The song also reached a peak of #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Even though "Breathe" never made it to No. 1 on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart it was on the chart for 53 weeks, and was thus named the Number One single of 2000 on Billboard's year-end countdown. It was only the second song in the history of the Hot 100 to be named the No. 1 single of the year without making it to the top of the chart on any of the weekly surveys. (The first was "Wooly Bully" by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, which was the number one song of 1965.)

"Breathe'"s music video was ranked #4 on CMT's 100 Greatest Videos. [>cite web | title=100 Greatest Videos |url=http://lounge.teamshania.com/showthread.php?t=6760|accessdate=2008-07-29]

CD-Singles

US CD-Single:
# Breathe (Pop Version) - 4:10
# It All Comes Down to Love - 4:16

UK CD-Single
# Breathe (Pop Version) - 4:09
# This Kiss (Pop Radio Version) - 3:16
# What's In it For Me - 5:36

Charts

*^ASix weeks
*^BOne week
*^CSeventeen weeks

Parodies

*Country music parodist Cledus T. Judd recorded a parody of the song, called "Breath" (about a person with bad breath), on his 2002 album "Cledus Envy".

Awards

*2000 Billboard Music Awards: Hot 100 Single of the Year "won"
*2000 Billboard Music Awards: Hot 100 Airplay Track of the Year "won"
*2000 Grammy Awards: Best Female Country Vocal Performance "won"
*2000 Grammy Awards: Song of the Year "nominated"

References

Achievements