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"You're Still The One" - Shania Twain

from the album Come On Over (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (nine weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 41

 

Today's song of the day comes from Shania Twain, whose third album Come On Over had already spun off two big country hits that landed her in the top 40 on the pop chart as well, "Love Gets Me Every Time" and "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)", the latter at the beginning of 1998.  The third release from the record would be the love ballad "You're Still The One". Written by Shania with producer husband Robert "Mutt" Lange, the song is simple yet grand in its execution, with Lange's wall of sound backing vocals lifting up Twain's voice on the chorus, and with generic but universal theme made the template for anniversary songs anew. The result is half country-ish sweetness and half 70s era powerballad...

"You're Still The One" became Shania's biggest pop crossover hit, spending over two months in the runner-up position on the American pop chart starting in May of 1998. The song was her sixth #1 on Billboard magazine's Country Singles chart. And for the first time, Shania broke through big on "easy listening" radio, spending eight weeks at #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart, and peaking at #6 on their Adult Top-40 format list. Internationally, the single topped the Australian chart for four weeks, and reached the top ten in Ireland (#3), Canada (#7), New Zealand (#9), the UK (#10), and the Netherlands (#10). It also reached the top 40 in Belgium (#16F), Iceland (#19), Spain (#24), and Switzerland (#26). At the Grammy Awards in 1998, "You're Still The One" was up for four categories and won two of them: Best Country Song and Best Female Country Performance. It was also nominated for two of the biggest trophies, Song of the Year and Record of the Year, both of which went to tomorrow's Song of the Day. 

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Shania went on Letterman to sing the ballad...

 

 

Here's Shania performing the song live in concert on the tour behind the Come On Over album...

Up next in 1999...

In 2018, former One Directioner Harry Styles and country queen Kacey Musgraves performed "You're Still The One" in concert...

And lastly, at her Las Vegas residency in 2014 with the most epic entrance of all time...

Up tomorrow: That song that beat out Shania for those two awards.