Robbed hit of the week 12/6/21 - Shania Twain's "You've Got A Way"...

 

 

"You've Got A Way" - Shania Twain

from the albums Come On Over (1997) and Notting Hill (Original Soundtrack) (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #49 

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from Shania Twain, whose massive crossover album Come On Over had already sent six songs into the Billboard Hot 100 top-40 already with "Love Gets Me Every Time", "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)", "You're Still The One", "From This Moment On", "That Don't Impress Me Much", and "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!". Incredibly, with this momentum, Twain released her seventh single to pop radio from the album, another ballad with "You've Got A Way". Written by Shania and husband-producer Mutt Lange, it really just was another rearrangement of love phrases that made up "You're Still the One" and "From This Moment On". It's a little more delicate than the other two, with a different mix on the single that made it spacier which was used on the soundtrack to the Julia Roberts/Hugh Grant movie Notting Hill...

While "You've Got A Way" made it into the top ten of Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary radio chart at #6, and rose to #13 on the Country Singles list, the song stalled right above the halfway point on the pop Hot 100 in August of 1999. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in her native Canada (#17) as well as New Zealand (#17) and Australia (#28). In a shock to a lot of people, "You've Got A Way" was nominated for Song Of The Year at the Grammys in 2000, losing out to Santana and Rob Thomas' unstoppable "Smooth". 

(5/10)

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Here's Shania on her Come On Over tour...

and lastly, for a TV appearance...