Breathe (Erasure song)

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"Breathe"
"Breathe" cover
Single by Erasure
from the album Nightbird
B-side(s) "Gone Crazy"
Released January 3, 2005
Format CD Single
DVD single
digital download
Recorded 2004
Genre Synth pop
Length 03:49
Label Mute Records
Writer(s) Vince Clarke,
Andy Bell
Producer(s) Erasure
Chart positions
  • 4 (UK)
  • 35 (Germany)
  • 1 (U.S. Dance)
Erasure singles chronology
"Oh L'amour (August Mix)"
(2004)
"Breathe"
(2005)
"Don't Say You Love Me"
(2005)

"Breathe" is a song by British synth pop duo Erasure. It was released by Mute Records in the UK and the U.S. as the first single from the band's eleventh studio album Nightbird. Written and produced by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, the track is a mid-tempo love song similar in musical style to their 1994 hit "Always", albeit with more uplifting lyrical content. "Breathe" was remixed slightly for its radio version — most notably in the song's introduction. The UK compact disc single included CD-ROM information that allowed buyers to download the Digipro software package and use isolated musical tracks of "Breathe" to create their own remixes. For a time fans were able to upload their finished "Breathe" remixes to Erasure's website to share with others.

Upon its release, "Breathe" hit number four on the UK singles chart, Erasure's highest-charting UK single since "Always" hit number four a decade earlier. In the United States, Erasure entered the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart for the first time in eight years and scored their second U.S. dance chart-topper — the first being "Victim of Love" in 1987. In Germany, "Breathe" was Erasure's twentieth top-forty single, peaking at number thirty-five.

Contents

[edit] Track listings

[edit] CD single #1 (CDMUTE330)

  1. "Breathe"
  2. "Gone Crazy"

[edit] CD single #2 (LCDMUTE330)

  1. "Breathe" (LMC Extended Club Mix)
  2. "Breathe" (When Andy Bell Met Manhattan Clique Extended Remix)
  3. "Breathe" (Acoustic Version)
  4. CD-ROM: "Breathe" (PC Digipro Remix software)

[edit] DVD single (DVDMUTE330)

  1. "Breathe" (Radio Version)
  2. "Mr. Gribber and His Amazing Cat"
  3. Video: "Breathe"

[edit] Digital download (iMUTE330)

  1. "Breathe" (Radio Version)
Erasure
Vince Clarke | Andy Bell
Erasure discography | B-sides and non-album songs
Albums/EPs: Wonderland | The Circus | The Two Ring Circus | The Innocents | Crackers International
Wild! | Chorus | Abba-esque | I Say I Say I Say | Erasure | Cowboy | Loveboat | Other People's Songs | Nightbird | Union Street
Compilations: Pop! - the First 20 Hits | Hits! The Very Best of Erasure
Box Sets: EBX 1 | EBX 2 | EBX 3 | EBX 4
Singles: Who Needs Love Like That | Heavenly Action | Oh L'amour | Sometimes | It Doesn't Have To Be | Victim of Love | The Circus | Ship of Fools | Chains of Love | A Little Respect | Stop! | Drama! | You Surround Me | Blue Savannah | Star | Chorus | Love to Hate You | Am I Right? | Breath of Life | Take a Chance on Me | Who Needs Love Like That (remix) | Always | Run to the Sun | I Love Saturday | Stay With Me | Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day) | Rock Me Gently | In My Arms | Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me | Rain | Freedom | Moon & the Sky | Solsbury Hill | Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) | Oh L'amour (remix) | Breathe | Don't Say You Love Me | Here I Go Impossible Again / All This Time Still Falling Out of Love | Boy
Video/DVD: Sanctuary - the EIS Christmas Concert 2002 | Hits! the Videos | The Tank, the Swan and the Balloon | Great Hits Live - Live at Great Woods | The Erasure Show - Live in Cologne