Breathe (Faith Hill song)

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"Breathe" was the first single off of Faith Hill's 1999 album, Breathe. The song was extremely successful in the United States, and became Hill's signature song.

[edit] Chart performance

In November of 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, due the fact that Santana's hit "Smooth" was occupying the top spot, 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.)

[edit] CD-Singles

US CD-Single:

1. Breathe (Pop Version) - 4:10
2. It All Comes Down to Love - 4:16

UK CD-Single

1. Breathe (Pop Version) - 4:09
2. This Kiss (Pop Radio Version) - 3:16
3. What's In it For Me - 5:36

[edit] Charts

• ^ASix weeks
• ^BOne week
• ^CSeventeen weeks

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Achievements