"Breathe"
Single by Faith Hill
from the album Breathe
B-side"It All Comes Down to Love"
ReleasedOctober 4, 1999 (1999-10-04)[1]
GenreCountry pop
Length4:09
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Faith Hill singles chronology
"The Secret of Life"
(1999) 		"Breathe"
(1999) 		"The Way You Love Me"
(2000)
Music video
"Breathe" on YouTube
"Breathe" (1999)
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"Breathe" is a song written by Stephanie Bentley and Holly Lamar and recorded by American country music artist Faith Hill. Warner Bros. Records released it on October 4, 1999, as the first single from Hill's fourth album of the same name (1999). The song was produced by Byron Gallimore and Hill. "Breathe" became Hill's seventh number one on the Hot Country Songs chart in the United States, spending six weeks at number one. It also peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 2000. Despite not peaking at number one, it was the number-one single of 2000.

Critical reception

Bill Lamb from About.com said that country singer Faith Hill "leaned heavily in a pop direction" on "Breathe". He described it as "a classic power ballad".[2] In 2005, Blender ranked it at number 167 in their list of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".[3] They described it as a "swooning ballad [that] turns country gal into Mississippi queen." The Daily Vault's Alfredo Narvaez said it is a "great song", adding, "if it is not a single already, it must be soon. This song is destined for the prom night halls and the wedding receptions of tomorrow. (Yeah, it's that good and strong.)"[4]

Chart performance

On October 4, 1999, "Breathe" was released US radio, and on February 8, 2000, it was issued as a physical single.[1][5] The song spent six weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs 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 number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five non-consecutive weeks starting with the week ending April 22, 2000.

Even though "Breathe" never made it to number one on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart, it was on the chart for 53 weeks and named the number one single of 2000 on Billboard's year-end countdown. It was one of only four songs in the history of the Hot 100 to be named the number one 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 and the Pharaohs in 1965, the third was "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse in 2001, and the fourth was "Levitating" by Dua Lipa in 2021.[6][7])

In 2009, the single was named the 27th-most-successful song of the 2000s, on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.[8] The song was released in the United Kingdom in May 2000 and reached number 33.

Track listings

2000 releases

2001 releases

Awards and accolades

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[52]
(physical) 		Gold 800,000[51]
United States (RIAA)[52]
(digital) 		Gold 500,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States October 4, 1999 Radio Warner Bros. [1]
February 8, 2000
  • CD
  • cassette
 [5]
Japan February 9, 2000 CD [53]
Canada February 29, 2000 [54]
New Zealand May 8, 2000 [55]
United Kingdom
  • CD
  • cassette
 [56]
Japan August 23, 2000 Remix CD EP [57]
United Kingdom (re-release) October 1, 2001
  • CD
  • cassette
 [58]

Covers and parodies

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