"I'll Never Break Your Heart" | |||||||||||||||
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Single by Backstreet Boys | |||||||||||||||
from the album Backstreet Boys | |||||||||||||||
B-side | "Roll with It" | ||||||||||||||
Released | December 13, 1995 (International) July 14, 1998 (US) |
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Format | CD single | ||||||||||||||
Recorded | Spring 1995; Parc Studios Platinum Post Studios (Orlando, Florida) |
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Genre | Pop, R&B | ||||||||||||||
Length | 4:48 (LP version) 4:25 (Radio edit) |
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Label | Jive | ||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Eugene Wilde, Albert Manno | ||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Veit Renn, Timmy Allen | ||||||||||||||
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"I'll Never Break Your Heart" is a song by American boy band Backstreet Boys. It was released as the second single from their self-titled debut album. It was later included on their U.S. debut album as well. The song was written by singer-songwriters Eugene Wilde & Albert Manno.
The song was first released in December 1995, then in 1996 for a few other markets, and subsequently was re-released June 1998 of the US debut. The song peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, but fared better on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it became the group's first number one song on this chart. Outside the US, 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 AJ McLean, the two lead vocalists on the song, had colds.Spanish version of the song, titled "Nunca Te Haré Llorar", was later recorded in Zürich along with a Spanish version of "Anywhere for You".Andy Williams released a version in 2007 on his album, I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up.