I Love You (Martina McBride song)

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“I Love You”
“I Love You” cover
"I Love You" single cover; 1999.
Single by Martina McBride
from the album Emotion
Released 1999
Format CD single
Genre country pop, adult contemporary
Length 2:49
Label RCA Nashville
Writer(s) Keith Follese, Adrienne Follese, Tammy Hyler
Martina McBride singles chronology
"Whatever You Say"
(1999)
"I Love You"
(1999)
"Love's the Only House"
(1999)

"I Love You" is a hit single by Country singer, Martina McBride, released in 1999 as the first single off her new album, Emotion.

[edit] Chart performance

"I Love You" spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Country Charts in mid-1999, and is her biggest country hit to date. The song also charted at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 21 on the Adult Contemporary tracks. "I Love You" is McBride's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, and was her first entry as a solo artist on the Adult Contemporary chart. To date, it is one of McBride's best-known songs, along with "Independence Day" and others.

The song was later released on McBride's 2000, Greatest Hits compilation album.

[edit] Music video

McBride originally recorded "I Love You" for the 1999 film's soundtrack, Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. the promotion the song got on the soundtrack is one of the reasons for its high chart performance. The single was then released on her upcoming album. The song's music video shows McBride singing in a dress at a wedding hall, with video screens of the Runaway Bride film in the background.

Preceded by
"Something Like That"
by Tim McGraw
Billboard Hot Country Songs number one single
by Martina McBride

October 30, 1999-November 27, 1999
Succeeded by
"When I Said I Do"
by Clint Black feat. Lisa Hartman Black