Breathe (Faith Hill album)
Breathe is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Faith Hill, released November 9, 1999, via Warner Bros. Nashville. The album is one of the most successful country pop albums of all time and Hill's best selling album to date, being certified certified 8× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[6]
Breathe
The album became her most successful record to date, debuting atop both the Billboard 200 and the Top Country Albums chart and becoming the second most successful album of 2000 on the latter chart. Breathe additionally became a top 40 album in ten countries internationally. The album also contains her most successful singles on both the pop and country charts, the title track, and "The Way You Love Me", with the two spending ten weeks combined at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and peaking at numbers two and six on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, with "Breathe" becoming the number one song of 2000 on the Hot 100. The album also spawned the country top ten hits "Let's Make Love" (a duet with her husband Tim McGraw) and "If My Heart Had Wings", with the former peaking at number six and the latter at number three. Several album tracks also charted solely on unsolicited airplay. The album includes a cover version of Bette Midler's 1998 song "That's How Love Moves".
Commercial success[edit]
Breathe debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, debuting with 242,000 units sold first week.[7] The album became Hill's first number one on the all-genre charts and outsold albums from the likes of Mariah Carey and Savage Garden. Breathe went on to become one of the top twenty most successful albums of 2000. To date, the album has spent 103 weeks on the chart, Hill's only album on the Billboard 200 to spend more than 100 weeks. Breathe also went on to debuted atop the Top Country Albums chart, becoming Hill's first number one album on that chart and went on to spend six weeks atop it, becoming the second most successful country album of 2000 on the chart. The album has gone on to spend 104 weeks on the chart, tying with Faith (1998) to being her second longest running album on the chart.[8] Internationally, Breathe performed moderately well, peaking within the top ten in New Zealand, Norway, and Australia.