I'll Never Break Your Heart
"I'll Never Break Your Heart" | |||||||||||||||||||
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U.S. Cover | |||||||||||||||||||
Single by Backstreet Boys | |||||||||||||||||||
from the album Backstreet Boys | |||||||||||||||||||
B-side | "Roll with It" | ||||||||||||||||||
Released |
December 13, 1995 (See release history) | ||||||||||||||||||
Format | CD single | ||||||||||||||||||
Recorded |
Spring 1995; Parc Studios Platinum Post Studios (Orlando, Florida)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Genre | Pop, R&B | ||||||||||||||||||
Length |
4:48 (LP version) 4:25 (Radio edit) | ||||||||||||||||||
Label | Jive | ||||||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Eugene Wilde, Albert Manno | ||||||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Timmy Allen, Veit Renn | ||||||||||||||||||
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"I'll Never Break Your Heart" is a song written by singer-songwriters Eugene Wilde & Albert Manno and was the second single by the Backstreet Boys from their self-titled debut album. It was later included on their US debut album as well. This was featured on the 1999 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 2 as well as on Radio Disney Jams, Vol. 2, which released on CD and cassette on February 29th, 2000.
Background
The song was first released in December 1995, then in 1996 for a few other markets, and subsequently was re-released June 1998 off of the U.S. debut. The song peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., but fared better on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it became the group's first number one song on this chart.[2] Outside the U.S., the song peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart and also went to the Top 10 in Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. The song replaced "I'll Never Find Someone Like You" on the album, which was to be the band's first single. The band's label, Jive Records, had not committed to using the song for the band, and as a result, it was offered to singer Keith Martin, who accepted it and released it as a single on the Bad Boys soundtrack, and his own albums It's Long Overdue and All the Hits. Brian Littrell discovered this when he heard Martin's song play on the radio one day.[3] "I'll Never Break Your Heart" was supposedly recorded over two weeks, because Littrell and A. J. McLean, the two lead vocalists on the song, had colds.[3] Spanish version of the song, titled "Nunca Te Haré Llorar", was later recorded in Zürich along with a Spanish version of "Anywhere For You".[3] Andy Williams released a version in 2007 on his album, I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up.
Track listing
- UK
- Original
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version) - 4:49
- "Roll with It" [alternate version] - 4:43
- Re-release CD1
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "We've Got It Goin' On" (Amadin's Club Mix) - 6:33
- "Mark Goodier Interview" (Part 1)
- Re-release CD2
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "Roll with It" - 4:43
- "Mark Goodier Interview" (Part 2)
- Cassette
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "Roll with It" - 4:43
- America
- Original CD1
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP version) - 4:49
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Spanish version) - 4:49
- "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" (live version) - 4:08
- Original CD2
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (radio edit) - 4:25
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP version) - 4:49
- "Get Down" (DESIGN Radio I) - 3:55
- "Get Down" (Smokin' Beats Club Mix) - 6:43
- Re-release
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (radio edit) - 4:25
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP version) - 4:49
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Spanglish version) - 4:48
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Spanish version) - 4:44
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (instrumental) - 4:25
Music videos
Two music videos were released for "I'll Never Break Your Heart".
The video released in conjunction with the original single release follows a group of girls, one of whom has just broken up with her boyfriend as explained in the video's preface. The band members are on a ski vacation, and each partners up with one of the girls. Brian Littrell gets together with the girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend. The girl Kevin Richardson is matched with was his then-girlfriend and now-wife Kristin Willits. This original video was filmed in November 1995 in the Rocky Mountains. It first aired in December 1995 in Germany, France, and other nations in Western Europe.
The second video, directed by Bille Woodruff in April 1998, was released to MTV in June 1998 for the US market. It later appeared as the first video on Total Request Live on September 14, 1998. The video features each band member singing in their own uniquely styled apartment which are stacked atop one another in a tall building. Late in the video, each of the members is shown to have a girl in their apartment. The group is also shown singing together in a cylindrical tunnel which has a rotating round porthole at the near end, though which the camera observes. A version of the video was also released for the Spanish version of the song. The dog in Littrell's apartment was actually his dog, and the girl in his apartment was his then-girlfriend, now-wife Leighanne Wallace. "I'll Never Break Your Heart" appears on the US version of Now That's What I Call Music! 2 which was released on July 27, 1999.
Charts
Chart (1995-1996) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Chart | 42 |
Austrian Singles Chart | 5 |
Belgium (Flanders) Singles Chart | 4 |
Belgium (Walonia) Singles Chart | 8 |
Dutch Singles Chart | 3 |
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[4] | 6 |
German Singles Chart | 5 |
Irish Singles Chart | 19 |
Swedish Singles Chart | 7 |
Swiss Singles Chart | 2[5] |
UK Singles Chart (re-release) | 8 |
Canadian RPM Singles Chart | 47 |
Australian Singles Chart | 10 |
New Zealand IANZ Singles Chart | 11 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 35 |
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 4 |
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 1 |
End of year charts
End of year chart (1996) | Position |
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Austrian Singles Chart[6] | 31 |
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[7] | 30 |
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[8] | 43 |
Dutch Singles Chart[9] | 23 |
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[10] | 41 |
German Singles Chart[11] | 33 |
Swiss Singles Chart[12] | 12 |
End of year chart (1998) | Position |
Australian Singles Chart[13] | 33 |
Release history
Country | Release Date | Format |
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Europe | December 13, 1995 | Airplay |
February 12, 1996 | CD Single | |
United States | June 1998 | Airplay |
July 14, 1998[14] | CD Single |
References
- ↑ "Entertainment Weekly 10th Anniversary". Retrieved 30 May 2012.
- ↑ Chart info at billboard.com
- 1 2 3 Interview with Backstreet Boys, management, and others from Entertainment Weekly 10th Anniversary Issue.
- ↑ http://books.google.ca/books?lr=&rview=1&id=_gwEAAAAMBAJ&q=backstreet+boys#v=snippet&q=backstreet%20boys&f=false. Missing or empty
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(help) - ↑ "Backstreet Boys: I'll Never Break Your Heart". swisscharts.com. Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
- ↑ 1996 Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at (Retrieved April 20, 2010)
- ↑ 1996 Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved April 20, 2010)
- ↑ 1996 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved April 20, 2010)
- ↑ http://www.dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1996&cat=s
- ↑ url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=wQ4EAAAAMBAJ&lr=&rview=1
- ↑ 1996 German Singles Chart . Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ↑ 1996 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch (Retrieved April 20, 2010)
- ↑ 1998 Australian Singles Chart (Retrieved April 20, 2010)
- ↑ "Backstreet Boys – I'll Never Break Your Heart – Amazon.com Music". Retrieved November 9, 2015.
External links
Preceded by "To Love You More" by Celine Dion |
Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single October 17 – November 30, 1998 |
Succeeded by "From This Moment On" by Shania Twain |
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