I'll Never Break Your Heart
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"I'll Never Break Your Heart" is a song written by singer-songwriters Eugene Wilde
& Albert Manno and was the second single by the Backstreet Boys
from their self-titled debut album
. It was later included on their US debut album
as well.
chart in the U.S., but fared better on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it became the group's first number one song on this chart. Outside the U.S., the song peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart
and also went to the Top 10 in Australia
, Germany
, The Netherlands
, Sweden
and Switzerland
. The song replaced "I'll Never Find Someone Like You" on the album, which was to be the band's first single. The band's label, Jive Records
, had not committed to using the song for the band, and as a result, it was offered to singer Keith Martin
, who accepted it and released it as a single on the Bad Boys soundtrack, and his own albums It's Long Overdue
and All the Hits
. Brian Littrell
discovered this when he heard Martin's song play on the radio one day. "I'll Never Break Your Heart" was supposedly recorded over two weeks, because Littrell and A. J. McLean, the two lead vocalists on the song, had colds. Spanish
vocals for the song, titled "Nunca Te Haré Llorar", were later recorded in Zürich
along with a Spanish version of "Anywhere For You
".
Original
Re-Release CD1
Re-Release CD2
Cassette
Original CD1
Original CD2
Re-Release
s were released for "I'll Never Break Your Heart". The video released in conjunction with the original single release follows a group of girls, one of whom has just broken up with her boyfriend as explained in the video's preface. The band members are on a ski vacation, and each partners up with one of the girls. Brian Littrell
attempts to get together with the girl who's just broken up. The girl Kevin Richardson
is matched with was his then-girlfriend and now-wife Kristin Willits. This original video was filmed in November 1995 in the Rocky Mountains
. It first aired in December 1995 in Germany
, France
, and other nations in Western Europe
. The second video, directed by Bille Woodruff
in April 1998, was released to MTV in June 1998 for the US market. It later appeared as the first video on Total Request Live
on September 14, 1998. The video features each band member singing in their own uniquely styled apartment which are stacked atop one another in a tall building. Late in the video, each of the members is shown to have a girl in their apartment. The group is also shown singing together in a cylindrical tunnel which has a rotating round porthole at the near end, though which the camera observes. A version of the video was also released for the Spanish version of the song. The dog in Littrell's apartment was actually his dog, and the girl in his apartment was his then-girlfriend, now-wife Leighanne Wallace
. I'll Never Break Your Heart appears on the US Version of Now That's What I Call Music! 2 which was released on July 27, 1999.
Eugene Wilde
Eugene Wilde is an American R&B singer and songwriter, who had two #1 hits on the US R&B charts in the 1980s.-Career:...
& Albert Manno and was the second single by the Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys...
from their self-titled debut album
Backstreet Boys (International)
Backstreet Boys is the self-titled international debut album from the pop group Backstreet Boys. The album was released around Europe, Asia, Canada and in a few other markets. It was a success, becoming one of the biggest debut albums ever and contains a number of the band's most memorable singles...
. It was later included on their US debut album
Backstreet Boys (US)
Backstreet Boys is the second but debut U.S. self-titled album by the vocal-pop group Backstreet Boys. The first was their 1996 Backstreet Boys, which was not released in the United States. This second self-titled album was released in 1997 and was their debut album in the country. It became one...
as well.
Background
The song was first released in December 1995, then in 1996 for a few other markets, and subsequently was re-released June 1998 off of the U.S. debut. The song peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100Billboard 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...
chart in the U.S., but fared better on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it became the group's first number one song on this chart. Outside the U.S., the song peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
and also went to the Top 10 in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, The Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. The song replaced "I'll Never Find Someone Like You" on the album, which was to be the band's first single. The band's label, Jive Records
Jive Records
Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...
, had not committed to using the song for the band, and as a result, it was offered to singer Keith Martin
Keith Martin (musician)
Keith Martin is an American R&B singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, currently living in Surabaya, Indonesia, Indonesia. Martin is best known for writing and singing romantic love songs...
, who accepted it and released it as a single on the Bad Boys soundtrack, and his own albums It's Long Overdue
It's Long Overdue
It's Long Overdue is a Keith Martin's album released on 18 April 1995 by Sony and Ruffhouse, which peaked at #82 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The song "Never Find Someone Like You" was released as a first single and peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #43 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles &...
and All the Hits
All the Hits
All the Hits is a Keith Martin's album released in 2003 by Blockbuster.-Track listing:# Forever Will Be - 4:59# Because of You - 3:55# Moment in Time - 4:56# If Love Feels So Good - 4:41...
. Brian Littrell
Brian Littrell
Brian Thomas Littrell is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist and released a solo album, Welcome Home, in 2006...
discovered this when he heard Martin's song play on the radio one day. "I'll Never Break Your Heart" was supposedly recorded over two weeks, because Littrell and A. J. McLean, the two lead vocalists on the song, had colds. Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
vocals for the song, titled "Nunca Te Haré Llorar", were later recorded in Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
along with a Spanish version of "Anywhere For You
Anywhere for You
"Anywhere for You" is the fifth single released by vocal group Backstreet Boys in 1997 from their international self-titled debut album. It was later included on their debut US album as well. This is one of the earlier recordings on their 1996 debut album. The song was written by Wayne Perry and...
".
Track listing
- UK
Original
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version) - 4:49
- "Roll With It" - 4:43
Re-Release CD1
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "We've Got It Goin' On" (Amadin's Club Mix) - 6:33
- "Mark Goodier Interview" (Part 1)
Re-Release CD2
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "Roll With It" - 4:43
- "Mark Goodier Interview" (Part 2)
Cassette
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "Roll With It" - 4:43
- America
Original CD1
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version) - 4:49
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Spanish Version) - 4:49
- "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" (Live Version) - 4:08
Original CD2
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version) - 4:49
- "Get Down" (DESIGN Radio I) - 3:55
- "Get Down" (Smokin' Beats Club Mix) - 6:43
Re-Release
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:25
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (LP Version) - 4:49
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Spanglish Version) - 4:48
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Spanish Version) - 4:44
- "I'll Never Break Your Heart" (Instrumental) - 4:25
Music videos
Two music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
s were released for "I'll Never Break Your Heart". The video released in conjunction with the original single release follows a group of girls, one of whom has just broken up with her boyfriend as explained in the video's preface. The band members are on a ski vacation, and each partners up with one of the girls. Brian Littrell
Brian Littrell
Brian Thomas Littrell is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist and released a solo album, Welcome Home, in 2006...
attempts to get together with the girl who's just broken up. The girl Kevin Richardson
Kevin Richardson (musician)
Kevin Scott Richardson is an American singer and a former member of the Backstreet Boys, model, actor, and composer. He was the oldest member of the band during his tenure.- Early years :...
is matched with was his then-girlfriend and now-wife Kristin Willits. This original video was filmed in November 1995 in the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...
. It first aired in December 1995 in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and other nations in Western Europe
Western Europe
Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...
. The second video, directed by Bille Woodruff
Bille Woodruff
Bille Woodruff is a music video and film director, noted for directing many videos for a number of R&B and hip-hop artists since the mid-1990s. These artists include Joe, for whom Woodruff has directed nine music videos since 1994, and Toni Braxton, whom he has worked 8 times since 1996...
in April 1998, was released to MTV in June 1998 for the US market. It later appeared as the first video on Total Request Live
Total Request Live
Total Request Live is a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests...
on September 14, 1998. The video features each band member singing in their own uniquely styled apartment which are stacked atop one another in a tall building. Late in the video, each of the members is shown to have a girl in their apartment. The group is also shown singing together in a cylindrical tunnel which has a rotating round porthole at the near end, though which the camera observes. A version of the video was also released for the Spanish version of the song. The dog in Littrell's apartment was actually his dog, and the girl in his apartment was his then-girlfriend, now-wife Leighanne Wallace
Leighanne Wallace
Leighanne Reena Wallace Littrell is a former American model and actress.Wallace met Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell in June 1997, when she appeared in the Backstreet Boys' music videos "As Long As You Love Me" and "I'll Never Break Your Heart". Littrell proposed on Christmas night 1999, and they...
. I'll Never Break Your Heart appears on the US Version of Now That's What I Call Music! 2 which was released on July 27, 1999.
Charts
| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart | 42 |
| Chart (1996) | Peak position |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 5 |
| Begium (Flanders) Singles Chart | 4 |
| Belgium (Walonia) Singles Chart | 8 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 3 |
| German Singles Chart | 5 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 19 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 7 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 2 |
| UK Singles Chart (Re release) | 8 |
| Chart (1997) | Peak position |
| Canadian RPM RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.... |
47 |
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
| Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
10 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 11 |
| U.S. 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... |
35 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 1 |
Release history
| Country | Release Date | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | Airplay | |
| CD Single | ||
| United States | Airplay | |
| CD Single |