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
Writer(s)	Robert Lange, Shania Twain
Producer	Robert "Mutt" Lange
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 twelveth 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.

Contents 1 Critical reception 2 Audio versions 3 Chart performance 4 Notes

[edit] Critical reception

Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably saying "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."^[1]

[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 sixteenth 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.

Chart[2]	Peak position
Canada RPM Country Singles	4
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	17
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles	2*

*Equivalent to #102 on Billboard Hot 100.

[edit] Notes

v • d • e Shania Twain Studio albums Shania Twain (1993) · The Woman in Me (1995) · Come on Over (1997) · Up! (2002) Compilations The Complete Limelight Sessions (2001) · Greatest Hits (2004) DVDs Live · The Platinum Collection · The Specials · Up! Live in Chicago · Up! Close and Personal Tours Come on Over Tour · Up! Tour Related articles Discography · Awards · Videos · Shania Twain Centre · Shania: A Life in Eight Albums · Robert John "Mutt" Lange

v • d • e Shania Twain singles Shania Twain "What Made You Say That" · "Dance with the One That Brought You" · "You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me" The Woman in Me "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" · "Any Man of Mine" · "The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)" · "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!" · "You Win My Love" · "No One Needs to Know" · "Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)" · "God Bless the Child" Come on Over "Love Gets Me Every Time" · "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" · "You're Still the One" · "From This Moment On" · "When" · "Honey, I'm Home" · "That Don't Impress Me Much" · "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" · "You've Got a Way" · "Come on Over" · "Rock This Country!" · "I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" Up! "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" · "Up!" · "Ka-Ching!" · "Forever and for Always" · "Thank You Baby! (for Makin' Someday Come So Soon)" · "She's Not Just a Pretty Face" · "When You Kiss Me" · "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing" Greatest Hits "Party for Two" · "Don't!" · "I Ain't No Quitter" · "Shoes"