Breathe (Faith Hill song)

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"Breathe"
Single by Faith Hill from the album Breathe
B-side	"It All Comes Down To Love"
Released	November 1999
Format	CD Single
Genre	Country Pop
Length	4:09
Label	Warner Brothers
Writer	Stephanie Bentley, Holly Lamar
Producer	Faith Hill, Byron Gallimore, Dann Huff
Certification	Gold (U.S.)
Faith Hill singles chronology
"The Secret of Life" (1999) "Breathe" (1999) "The Way You Love Me" (2000) International cover [[Image:|International cover|200px]]

"Breathe" was the first single off of Faith Hill's 1999 album, Breathe. The song was extremely successful in the United States, and became Hill's signature song.

Contents 1 Chart performance 2 CD-Singles 3 Charts 4 Parodies 5 Awards 6 Achievements

Chart performance

In November of 1999, "Breathe" was released to Country and Pop radio. It spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, seventeen weeks at number one on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and one week at number one on the Adult Top 40 chart. The song also reached a peak of #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Even though "Breathe" never made it to No. 1 on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart, due the fact that Santana's hit Smooth was occupying the top spot, it was on the chart for 53 weeks, and was thus named the Number One single of 2000 on Billboard's year-end countdown. It was only the second song in the history of the Hot 100 to be named the No. 1 single of the year without making it to the top of the chart on any of the weekly surveys. (The first was "Wooly Bully" by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, which was the number one song of 1965.)

CD-Singles

US CD-Single:

1. Breathe (Pop Version) - 4:10
2. It All Comes Down to Love - 4:16

UK CD-Single

1. Breathe (Pop Version) - 4:09
2. This Kiss (Pop Radio Version) - 3:16
3. What's In it For Me - 5:36

Charts

Chart	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	1A
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Year-end Chart (2000)	1
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40	1B
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	1C
UK Top 75 Singles	33
AUS Top 50 Singles	23

• ^ASix weeks
• ^BOne week
• ^CSeventeen weeks

Parodies

• Country music parodist Cledus T. Judd recorded a parody of the song, called "Breath" (about a person with bad breath), on his 2002 album Cledus Envy.

Awards

• 2000 Billboard Music Awards: Hot 100 Single of the Year won
• 2000 Billboard Music Awards: Hot 100 Airplay Track of the Year won
• 2000 Grammy Awards: Best Female Country Vocal Performance won
• 2000 Grammy Awards: Song of the Year nominated

Achievements

Preceded by "When I Said I Do" by Clint Black (feat. Lisa Hartman Black)	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number one single by Faith Hill December 25, 1999-January 29, 2000	Succeeded by "Cowboy Take Me Away" by Dixie Chicks
Preceded by "Believe" by Cher	Billboard Hot 100 Number one single of the year 2000	Succeeded by "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse

•  • e Faith Hill
Albums	Take Me As I Am (1993) • It Matters to Me (1995) • Faith (1998) • Breathe (1999) • There You'll Be (international only) (2001) • Cry (2002) • Fireflies (2005) • The Hits (2007)
Number-one singles	"Wild One" (1993) • "Piece of My Heart" (1994) • "It Matters To Me" (1995) • "It's Your Love" (w/ Tim McGraw) (1997) • "This Kiss" (1998) • "Let Me Let Go" (1998) • "Breathe" (1999) • "The Way You Love Me" (2000) • "There You'll Be" (2001) • "Cry" (2002) • "Mississippi Girl" (2005)
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