"I'll Always Love You" is a song by Taylor Dayne

Taylor Dayne

Taylor Dayne was born Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 before later adopting her current stage name. She is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, and dance artist. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine...

 and is one of her best known songs. This song showed Dayne's softer side, after the first two singles released were mainly high energy dance tracks.

Charts

This single gave Dayne her first adult contemporary hit and her first (and to date) only song to chart on the R&B chart. It reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 on September 24, 1988.

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	3
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	2
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles	21
UK Singles Chart	41
Switzerland Singles Chart	30
German Singles Chart	38
Dutch Singles Chart	85

Covers

In 1997, Tito Nieves

Tito Nieves

Humberto "Tito" Nieves became one of the leading Salsa singers of the 1980s and the early 1990s....

covered the song in salsa from his album, I Like It Like That.