Songoftheday 2/8/19 - And I can't get you out of my head how in the world, will I begin To let you walk right out my life and blow my heart away?

"Breathe Again" - Toni Braxton
from the album Toni Braxton (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 33

Today's song of the day comes from soul singer Toni Braxton, who by the fall of 1993 had already scored three top-40 pop hits with "Give U My Heart" (with Babyface), "Love Shoulda Brought You Home", and the top ten "Another Sad Love Song", with the latter song winning her a Grammy Award for Best R&B Female Performance. Also, all three hit #2 on the R&B genre chart in Billboard magazine.The fourth single released from her self-titled debut album would be the big ballad from the record, "Breathe Again". Written by Babyface, who produced the track with L.A. Reid and Daryl Simmons, the song has Toni going through a breakup that she claims would actually cease her existence. But with careful lyrics it doesn't come off as needy but rather resolved...

"Breathe Again" became Toni's second top ten pop hit in the U.S., and first to reach the top five, in January of 1994. The song also climbed to #4 on both the R&B and Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format charts in Billboard. Internationally, the single hit #2 in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and reached the top ten in Canada (#7), the Netherlands (#7), Norway (#7), and Ireland (#10), and made the top-40 in Belgium (#13), Sweden (#25), and Iceland (#34). Toni won her second consecutive Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance with the song as well.

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Here's Toni performing on The Today Show with her sisters (with a very creepy Bryant Gumbel)...