I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)

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"I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)"

Single by Shania Twain
from the album Come on Over
Released	July 2000
Recorded	1997
Genre	Country
Length	3:30
Label	Mercury Nashville
Producer(s)	Mutt Lange
Chart positions
#17 (U.S. Country)
Shania Twain singles chronology
"Rock This Country!" (2000)	"I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" (2000)	"I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" (2002)

"I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was the eleventh and final single released from her 1997 album Come on Over. It was written by Mutt Lange and Twain. The song was originally released to North American country radio stations in July of 2000. With no promo performances, video, or commercial single, the song was still able to reach the top twenty of the Billboard Country Singles chart. "I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" was performed on the Come on Over Tour, in a medley on the Up! Tour, and on Twain's 2003 special Up! Close and Personal.

1 Review
2 Audio versions
3 Chart performance
4 Notes

[edit] Review

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Mercury dips into Twain's multi-platinum Come On Over album for yet another single, and if her track record is any indication, this should be another hit. "I'm Holdin' On To Love (To Save My Life)" is typical Twain, marked by a bouncy melody, frisky performance, and sing-along chorus that will ingrain itself into the listeners' consciousness. The production is a sonic smorgasbord of hand claps, kittenish quips, and insistent percussion. Twain vocally sashays through this feisty uptempo tune about hanging on to a good love. The lyric is rather lightweight, but the production is ear-catching, and there's no denying Twain's ability to reel in both programmers and listeners with her vocal charisma. This is one of those little tunes that pushes all the right buttons that Twain and Lange have engaged so successfully before. Look for it to follow its predecessors up the chart.

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--Billboard, August 19, 2000

[edit] Audio versions

Original Country Version (3:30)
International Version (3:30)
Pop Mix (3:44)
Live from Dallas (3:27)
Live from Up! Close and Personal (3:24)

[edit] Chart performance

"I'm Holdin' On" debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the week of July 8, 2000 at number 66. The single spent 21 weeks on the chart and slowly climbed to a peak position of number 17 on November 11, 2000, where it remained for two weeks. "I'm Holdin' On" became the tenth top twenty single from Come on Over, her sixteeth in all. The song went on to top the Hot Country Recurrents chart for one week. "I'm Holdin' On" was the final single from Come on Over, and peaked three years after the release in 1997.