You Win My Love

"You Win My Love"
Single by Shania Twain
from the album The Woman in Me
B-side "Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)"
Released January 27, 1996
Format Radio single
Maxi single
7" vinyl single
Genre Country
Length 3:45
Label Mercury Nashville
Writer(s) Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Shania Twain singles chronology
"(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!"
(1995)
"You Win My Love"
(1996)
"No One Needs to Know"
(1996)

"You Win My Love" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was the fifth single released from her 1995 album The Woman in Me. The song was written solely by Mutt Lange, making it one of the very few Shania songs which she did not co-write. The song became Twain's third number-one hit at country radio. It spent two weeks at the top of the chart in May 1996, before taking a considerably large drop to number 11. It was originally released to radio in early 1996, the song was also released as a single in Australia. "You Win My Love" was later included on Twain's 2004 Greatest Hits package.

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Music video

The music video for "You Win My Love" was shot in Orlando, Florida and directed by Steven Goldmann. It was filmed on January 14 and 15, 1996 and released January 27, 1996. The video is set at a race track where Twain drives around in a race car in a skin-tight leather outfit, the video is based on the lyrics to the song which are vehicle-related. Two versions of the video were released, one with the 'Album Version' and one with the 'Mutt Lange Mix'. The 'Mutt Lange Mix' music video is available on The Platinum Collection

Chart performance

"You Win My Love" debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the week of February 24, 1996 at number 47. This was the highest debut of the week as well as her highest debut at the time, a record previously held by "The Woman in Me", when it entered the chart at number 65. "You Win My Love" spent 20 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number one on May 4, 1996, where it remained for two weeks. The single became Twain's third number-one single, third top ten single, and fifth consecutive top twenty single. "You Win My Love" was tied with "Any Man of Mine" for fastest climb to the top at eleven weeks, as well as both "Any Man of Mine" and "I'm Outta Here!" for most weeks at number-one, at two. The song reached number two on the Hot Country Singles Sales chart.

"You Win My Love" remains the last song to have fallen from number one out of the Top 10 on Hot Country Songs. It plummeted 1-11 on the chart dated May 18, 1996.[1]

Official versions

Charts

Chart (1996)[2] Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts 67
Canada RPM Country Singles[3] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles 8
Preceded by
"No News"
by Lonestar
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single

May 4-May 11, 1996
Succeeded by
"My Maria"
by Brooks & Dunn
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

April 8-April 22, 1996
Succeeded by
"My Heart Has a History"
by Paul Brandt

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