| "Breathless" | ||||
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| Single by The Corrs | ||||
| from the album In Blue | ||||
| B-side | "Head in the Air", "Judy" |
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| Released | 3 July 2000 (UK) 16 January 2001 (US) |
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| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Pop Rock | |||
| Length | 3:27 | |||
| Label | WEA International | |||
| Writer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange The Corrs |
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| Producer | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
| Certification | platinum (ARIA) | |||
| The Corrs singles chronology | ||||
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"Breathless" is a single by Irish folk/pop/rock group The Corrs, released in 2000, taken from their third studio album In Blue.
"Breathless" was co-written and produced by famed music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who's produced for such acts as Shania Twain and Def Leppard, and programmed by Richard Meyer aka Swayd. The song scaled the charts all over the world, including hitting number 1 in Ireland, France, Spain and the UK -- their only British chart-topper to date. It also went top ten in Australia and #34 in the United States in March 2001, giving the Corrs their only US Top 40 hit. The single was the 33rd biggest-selling in the UK in 2000. It was also featured in the opening scene of the film The Wedding Date, starring Debra Messing; it plays in the background while Messing's character races around her New York City apartment, trying to prepare to catch a plane.
In 2001 the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for best pop performance by a duo or group.
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The song is inspired by the Mary Chapin Carpenter song Passionate Kisses from her 1993 album Come On Come On. Breathless doesn't sample the original track, but rather uses the main guitar sequence and chords to elicit the same emotional response from the listener.
Breathless is an up-tempo song in a pop/country style, the verses are in B major whereas the choruses are in E major
"Judy" was not included on the US release.
The video released for the track shows the Corrs at an outdoor concert at a small airstrip with a hangar in the middle of the desert. They arrive in a Douglas DC-3 airplane (the registration N26MA is clearly visible on the side) and perform the song for an audience of bikers before the final shot shows the DC-3 leaving. There are at three extant cuts of the video; in one the bikers are hardly seen at all, and the focus is on a young man, apparently a worker at the airstrip, and his reaction to the beautiful Corr sisters. Another is where Jim Corr is seen putting up flyers for the concert, and the bikers show up and enjoy the concert .
| Chart | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[1] | 7 |
| Austria Top 40[2] | 10 |
| Belgium Singles Top 50 (Flanders)[3] | 17 |
| Belgium Singles Top 50 (Wallonie)[4] | 22 |
| Canadian Adult Contemporary[5] | 38 |
| French Singles Chart[6] | 26 |
| German Singles Chart[7] | 19 |
| Irish Singles Chart[8] | 1 |
| Italian Singles Chart[9] | 2 |
| Netherlands Mega Single Top 100[10] | 17 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart[11] | 3 |
| Spanish Singles Chart | 1 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[12] | 5 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[13] | 15 |
| UK Singles Chart[14] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[15] | 34 |
| U.S. Adult Contemporary[15] | 14 |
| U.S. Adult Top 40[15] | 7 |
| U.S. Top 40 Adult Recurrents[15] | 3 |
| U.S. Top 40 Mainstream[15] | 22 |
| U.S. Top 40 Tracks[15] | 20 |
| Country | Certification | Sales/shipments |
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| Australia | Platinum[16] | 70,000+ |
| United Kingdom | Silver[16] | 200,000+ |
| Preceded by "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem |
UK Singles Chart number-one single 9 July 2000 - 16 July 2000 |
Succeeded by "Life Is a Rollercoaster" by Ronan Keating |
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