How Do I Live

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“How Do I Live?”
Single by LeAnn Rimes from the album You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs
Released	1997
Format	CD, Cassette tape
Recorded	1997
Genre	Country, Pop
Length	4:27
Label	Curb
Writer(s)	Diane Warren
Producer	Diane Warren
Certification	3x platinum (US)
LeAnn Rimes singles chronology
"The Light in Your Eyes" (1996) "How Do I Live" (1997) "You Light Up My Life" (1997)

“How Do I Live”
Single by Trisha Yearwood from the album (Songbook) A Collection of Hits
B-side	"How Do I Live (video version)"
Released	May 27, 1997
Format	CD single
Recorded	1997
Genre	Country
Length	4:03
Label	MCA
Writer(s)	Diane Warren
Trisha Yearwood singles chronology
"I Need You" (1997) "How Do I Live" (1997) "In Another's Eyes" (1997)

How Do I Live is a 1997 song, written by Diane Warren, that was released originally by LeAnn Rimes, and shortly afterward by Trisha Yearwood.

The song was originally intended for release as a single for the 1997 action blockbuster Con Air soundtrack. Warren wrote the song for Rimes to sing. The producers felt that Rimes's version had too much of a pop feeling to it, and requested that she re-record it to fit their standards. She refused, and the producers chose Trisha Yearwood to record the song. Her more country-style version was released on May 27, 1997. When Rimes heard of the release, she quickly released her version. Both versions became very successful, although Rimes's version is widely considered^[who?] to be the more popular of the two. Yearwood's version won her the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, while Rimes's version outsold Yearwood's by three million copies. It also set a record for staying on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for sixty-nine weeks.

Despite only peaking as high as number seven in the UK Singles Chart^[1], LeAnn Rimes' version of How Do I Live spent thirty-four weeks in the chart.

How Do I Live was covered by F.I.R. (Faye and Real featuring LeAnn Rimes). F.I.R. invited Rimes to record a portion of the song for their third album Flight Tribe in 2006.

Yearwood's version appeared in the 1997 movie Con Air.

The song has also been performed on the hit show American Idol, Vonzell Solomon in Season 4, Paris Bennett in Season 5, and Meosha Denton in Season 2. It was also part of American Idol Season 2 compilation, sang by Carmen Rasmusen. Pop singer Taylor Horn covered the song on her 2002 debut, taylor-made at the age of nine.

[edit] Charts

Both the Rimes and the Yearwood versions debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending June 21, 1997. LeAnn Rimes' version peaked at number two and spent a record-breaking sixty-nine weeks on the chart, more than any other song in history, and spent 34 weeks on the UK singles chart. Trisha Yearwood's version was moving quickly up the charts, getting as high as number twenty-three, when MCA refused to issue any more copies of the single, for fear of cannibalizing album sales. The limited press run of 300,000 sold out quickly, and the single was off the Hot 100 after twelve weeks. Yearwood's single on the country charts quickly climbed all the way to number 2.

In Australia, Rimes' version peaked on the ARIA Charts at number 17 while Yearwood's peaked at number 2.

[edit] Awards

In 1998, the Grammy Awards for the first time in history nominated the two artists for the same song in the same category. LeAnn Rimes performed the song at the award shows, and Trisha Yearwood won the Grammy for the song. Yearwood also performed the song at the CMAs and Oscars and won the female vocalist award for CMA, and ACM that year as well.

[edit] References

1. ^ EveryHit.com

• F.I.R's Blog Article of the trip to Nashville (Written in Chinese)

[edit] External links

• Photo Album of F.I.R- Trip of the recording of How Do I Live