"Too Lost in You" is a song by English girl group
Sugababes
Sugababes are a British girl group composed of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy. The lineup changed three times before returning to the original lineup in 2011.
Formed in 1998 by All Saints manager Ron Tom, Sugababes releas ...
from their third studio album, ''
Three
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'' (2003). It was written by American songwriter
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956) is an American songwriter. She has received several awards including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three ''Billboard'' Music Awards and an Honorary Academy Award.
Wa ...
as an English rendition of the song "Quand j'ai peur de tout" ("When I'm Afraid of Everything") by French singer
Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas (; born 5 December 1966) is a French singer. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson.
Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album '' Mademoiselle chante...'', Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide. She h ...
(which had lyrics in French by
Jean-Jacques Goldman
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). The song was produced by the Australian musician
Rob Dougan
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in collaboration with Andy Bradfield, and recorded at the Realsongs studio in Hollywood. "Too Lost in You" is prominently featured in the soundtrack to the 2003 film ''
Love Actually
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'', and was chosen for the film specifically by its director
Richard Curtis
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. It is a
pop rock
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and
R&B ballad
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composed of an
orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
l music arrangement and dark
harmonies
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.
"Too Lost in You" was released in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2003 as the album's second single. It received favourable reviews from most critics, who commended the Sugababes' performance and considered it one of the best pop singles of the 2000s. The song was commercially successful worldwide, and reached the top ten on the singles charts of the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. A music video for the single was directed by
Andy Morahan
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Married to Joanna Lewis, he has two children.
Vi ...
and filmed at
London Stansted Airport
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London Stansted serves over 160 destinations acro ...
over a two-day period. It features each member of the Sugababes with a man from the airport. Since its release, "Too Lost in You" has become a staple of the group's live performances, and was included in the
set list
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s for their tours in support of ''
Taller in More Ways
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'' (2005), ''
Overloaded: The Singles Collection'' (2006) and ''
Change
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'' (2007).
Development and release
![Diane Warren 03 b](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Diane_Warren_03_b.jpg)
"Too Lost in You" is a
cover
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of "Quand j'ai peur de tout" ("''When I'm Afraid of Everything''"), a 1997 song performed by French singer
Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas (; born 5 December 1966) is a French singer. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson.
Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album '' Mademoiselle chante...'', Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide. She h ...
. It was written in English by American songwriter
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956) is an American songwriter. She has received several awards including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three ''Billboard'' Music Awards and an Honorary Academy Award.
Wa ...
for the
Sugababes
Sugababes are a British girl group composed of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy. The lineup changed three times before returning to the original lineup in 2011.
Formed in 1998 by All Saints manager Ron Tom, Sugababes releas ...
' third studio album, ''
Three
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3, three, or III may also refer to:
* AD 3, the third year of the AD era
* 3 BC, the third year before the AD era
* March, the third month
Books
* '' Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 ...
'' (2003).
Warren composes her songs in an uncleaned room, where she is seated on an old stool and surrounded by keyboards, drum machines, and a tape recorder.
Group member
Heidi Range
Heidi India Partakis ( Range; born 23 May 1983) is an English singer, best known as a former member of the girl group Sugababes. She was an original member of girl group Atomic Kitten, although she left the group before they released any materi ...
commented on the experience of collaborating with Warren, saying: "It could be easy to turn around and make people feel not as important as you. She made us feel 100 percent comfortable."
The song was produced by Andy Bradfield and the Australian musician
Rob Dougan
Robert Don Hunter Dougan () is an Australian composer, known for his genre-blending music. Mixing elements of orchestral music, trip hop, and bluesy vocals, his work is tangentially relatable to electronic music. He is known primarily for his b ...
, and
mixed by Bradfield.
It was recorded at Realsongs, which is located in Hollywood and shares the name of Warren's publishing company.
"Too Lost in You" was
programmed by Yoad Nevo, who also provided the instruments.
The group members' vocals were
engineered
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by Mario Luccy and produced by Khris Kellow.
According to Range, "Too Lost in You" represented all three group members' romantic lives, saying: "You need that comfort when you go home."
"Too Lost in You" is prominently featured on the soundtrack to the
romantic comedy
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film ''
Love Actually
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'', which was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2003.
The director,
Richard Curtis
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis (born 8 November 1956) is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, producer and film director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them '' ...
, specifically chose the song for the film,
and described the soundtrack as "the life and soul of the film."
According to Heather Phares of
AllMusic
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, "
emphasis on songs from British artists, such as Sugababes' "Too Lost in You"
..keep the soundtrack from becoming too predictable". "Too Lost in You" is the second single from ''Three'', and was released as a CD single and
12-inch single
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in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2003.
The song's release around Christmas time prompted several media outlets to classify it as a contender for the 2003
Christmas number one
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. In Australia, the song was issued as a CD single on 9 February 2004.
Composition
"Too Lost in You" is a
downtempo
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pop rock
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and
R&B ballad
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, backed by an
orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
l music arrangement that consists of a piano and strings.
A writer from ''
Music Week
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'' noted that Dougan's production of the song provides it with a "dramatic, string-soaked feel". According to the digital
sheet music
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published by
EMI Music Publishing
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, the song was composed in the
key
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of
C sharp minor
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The C-sharp natural minor scale is:
:
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using
common time
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signature, at a
tempo
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of 98
beats per minute
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.
The Sugababes' vocal range in the song spans from the lower note of
E3 to the higher note of
C#5.
Like many of Warren's compositions,
the lyrics follow the
verse-chorus form; the song also includes a
middle eight
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A ...
performed by Range.
"Too Lost in You" is emotive and melodic, and presents the group's dark
harmonies
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throughout.
According to Harry Rubenstein of ''
The Jerusalem Post
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'', "
n 'Too Lost in You'we're led to believe that these girls are actually losing control in a moment of passion, but the song refrains from moving into typical pop fairy-land characters".
[ ] A survey conducted by scientists in 2004 found that the song's slow tempo can assist in the prevention of accidents and promotion of safer driving.
Critical response
The song received generally positive reviews from most critics. Simon Evans of
musicOMH
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described "Too Lost in You" as "instantly, infectiously likeable" and called it one of the album's best tracks.
According to Alan Braidwood of
BBC Music
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, the ballads from ''Three'', including "Too Lost in You", match the quality of the group's songs "
New Year
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" and "
Stronger". Dan Gennoe of
Yahoo! Music
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interpreted the song as a reminder that the Sugababes "handle trip-hop melancholy with the same devastating confidence as their seething club stomps". ''
Herald Sun
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'' critic Cameron Adams wrote that the group made "Too Lost in You" sound edgy and described it as "stunning". Writing for ''
Hot Press
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'', Phil Udell praised the Sugababes' performance of the ballad, which he considered a transition from Warren's "big radio number" into "something genuinely lovely".
Becky Howard and Andrew Williams of the ''
London Evening Standard
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In October 2009, after be ...
'' wrote that "Too Lost in You" "
weepsyou up all misty-eyed" and regarded it as "utterly brilliant" in comparison to "
Caught in a Moment
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", another ballad from ''Three''. ''
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''s
Kitty Empire
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was unfavourable and criticised the song's "dead maturity", while Stuart McCaighy of ''
This Is Fake DIY
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'' regarded the song as turgid. Fiona Shepherd of ''
The Scotsman
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'' dismissed lines such as "Flowing into your arms, falling into your eyes" as "lyrical gubbins" and stated that the song's release would be "for the name behind
trather than any individual merits". In 2007, Udell described "Too Lost in You" as one of the finest pop songs of the 2000s. James Mortlock of the ''
Eastern Daily Press
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'' considered it to be one of the group's classic pop singles.
Commercial performance
"Too Lost in You" debuted on the
Irish Singles Chart
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on 18 December 2003 at number 16 and peaked at number 13 in the issue dated 15 January 2004.
The song achieved more success in the group's native United Kingdom; it entered the
UK Singles Chart
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on 25 December 2003 at number ten, a position it held for two consecutive weeks.
By early 2010, it had sold 145,000 copies in the United Kingdom, ranking as the Sugababes' tenth highest-selling single in the country. "Too Lost in You" was also a top-ten hit in various other European countries. The song peaked at number seven on the
Norwegian Singles Chart
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and became the group's fifth top-ten hit in Norway.
On the
Swiss Singles Chart
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, it debuted at number 26 on 18 January 2004 and peaked at number eight on 1 February 2004.
The single was the band's fourth top-ten single in Switzerland, spent 18 weeks on the chart, and ranked 53rd on the chart's 2004 year-end list.
"Too Lost in You" entered the
Dutch Top 40
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chart at number 24 and reached number eight four weeks later, continuing the trio's string of top-ten singles in the Netherlands.
The song peaked at number 13 on the
Hungarian Dance Chart,
14 on the
German Singles Chart
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,
and number 17 on the
Danish Singles Chart
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.
It became the band's first top-forty hit on the
French Singles Chart
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, where it appeared at number 22.
"Too Lost in You" also reached the top forty on the singles charts of Australia,
Austria,
Belgium,
New Zealand and Sweden.
On 2 December 2022, the single charted at number 29 on the UK Official Singles Sales Chart Top 100; one week before, "Too Lost in You" had been danced to as a rumba by
Fleur East
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and dance partner Vito Coppola on ''
Strictly Come Dancing
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''.
Music video
The music video for "Too Lost in You" was directed by
Andy Morahan
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Married to Joanna Lewis, he has two children.
Vi ...
and filmed at
London Stansted Airport
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London Stansted serves over 160 destinations acro ...
in November 2003 over a two-day period.
It premiered on the Sugababes' official website in the same month,
and was included on the song's CD release.
The video begins with the trio walking together in the airport.
Buchanan captures the attention of a passenger and begins to have fantasies about him, in which she positions him into a chair and touches his body.
In subsequent scenes, the man is shown handcuffed.
Buena fantasizes about a worker who she sees in the airport and slices his shirt off with a sword.
Range gets the attention of a
flight attendant
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and has dream sequences of touching and kissing him; she also throws a large bag full of ice onto him.
Following the completion of the video, clips from ''Love Actually'' were added to it in promotion of the film's release.
Live performances
The Sugababes performed "Too Lost in You" on the British television programme ''
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'' in December 2003, and at the
MTV Asia Awards
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on 14 February 2004. The song was one of six tracks that they played on 20 June 2004 at Live & Loud, a music event held at
Hampden Park
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in Glasgow, Scotland. The group performed "Too Lost in You", along with "
Hole in the Head
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" and "
In the Middle", at
Birmingham
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's
Party in the Park
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festival on 10 July 2004. The song was played as part of a gig in August 2004 at
Delamere Forest
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, Cheshire, in which a critic from the ''
Manchester Evening News
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'' wrote that the Sugababes "showed they can handle a ballad as well as the uptempo material in their vast pop catalogue".
The group sang "Too Lost in You" at the
Edinburgh Corn Exchange
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on 18 August 2004 as part of a set list. The song was performed as part of the Sugababes' 2006 tour in support of ''
Taller in More Ways
''Taller in More Ways'' is the fourth studio album by British girl group Sugababes, released by Island Records on 10 October 2005. It was primarily produced by Dallas Austin and Jony Rockstar, with additional production from Cameron McVey, Xenom ...
''. They played it during a gig at the
100 Club
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, London on 3 October 2006 in promotion of their 2006
greatest hits
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album, ''
Overloaded: The Singles Collection'', and on the album's accompanying 2007 tour in the UK and Ireland. The group performed an
acoustic version at the Peel Bay Festival during June 2007 in
Peel, Isle of Man
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, as part of a set list; the event contained a crowd of 25,000 people.
The band played "Too Lost in You" in July 2007 at the
Liverpool Summer Pops
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festival, which was held at the
Aintree Pavilion.
The group performed the single on 14 September 2007 at London's music club
indig02
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, and according to Nick Levine of
Digital Spy
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, their harmonies managed "the unfathomable trick of sounding both delicate and sturdy".
"Too Lost in You" was included in the set list for their 2008
Change Tour
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. The trio played it on 3 July 2008 at the Liverpool Summer Pops, held in
Echo Arena Liverpool
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. In June 2009, they performed the single at the
Cannock Chase Forrest as part of a 75-minute show, and at
Canterbury, Kent
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of the ...
as the sixth song on the set list.
During the latter performance, members of the crowd began to leave the event after Range forgot the words to the song.
The Sugababes performed "Too Lost in You" on 10 July 2009 at the
Riverside Ground
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H ...
in County Durham, England, as part of a set list, and on 12 July 2009 at the Cornbury Music Festival. In early 2010, the fourth line-up of the Sugababes, comprising Range,
Amelle Berrabah
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and
Jade Ewen
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, played the single during the album launch for ''
Sweet 7
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'' as the fourth song on the set list. In November 2010, the three singers performed "Too Lost in You" at the Yas Hotel in
Abu Dhabi
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...
along with many other of the group's songs.
Mutya Keisha Siobhan
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Formed in 1998 by All Saints (group), All Saints manager Ron Tom, ...
, the group's original line-up, performed the song along with "Promises", "Overload", "Run for Cover", "Freak Like Me", "Push the Button", "Hole in the Head" and "Stronger" as part of the Sacred Three tour.
Track listings and formats
* UK and European CD1 maxi single
# "Too Lost in You" – 3:59
# "Someone in My Bed" – 4:16
# "Too Lost in You" (Kujay DaDa's Bass Shaker Mix) – 6:45
# "Too Lost in You" (Video)
* UK and European CD2 maxi single
# "Too Lost in You" (Love Actually Version) – 4:12
# "Down Down" – 2:50
# "Too Lost in You" (Kardinal Beats LA Remix) – 4:50
* European CD single and German 3-inch mini CD single
# "Too Lost in You" – 3:59
# "Someone in My Bed" – 4:16
* UK 12-inch single
# "Too Lost in You" (Kujay DaDa's Bass Shaker Mix) – 6:45
# "Who" – 3:46
# "Too Lost in You" (Kardinal Beats LA Remix) – 4:50
Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of ''
Overloaded: The Singles Collection'' (2006).
Recording
* Vocals recorded at Realsongs Studio D, Hollywood
Personnel
* Songwriting –
Diane Warren
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Wa ...
* Production –
Rob Dougan
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, Andy Bradfield
* Additional
programming – Yoad Nevo
*
Instruments
Instrument may refer to:
Science and technology
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* Laboratory equipment, the measuring tools used in a scientific lab ...
– Yoad Nevo
* Vocal producer – Khris Kellow
* Executive producer – Diane Warren
* Vocal engineer – Mario Luccy
* Piano – Rob Dougan
*
Mixing – Andy Bradfield
* Orchestra – Prague Symphony Orchestra
* Strings – Nick Ingman, Rob Dougan
* Orchestral arrangement – Nick Ingman, Rob Dougan
* Conductor – Nick Ingman
* Vocals –
Keisha Buchanan
Keisha Kerreece Fayeanne Buchanan (; born 30 September 1984) is an English singer and a founding member of the girl group Sugababes alongside Mutya Buena and Siobhán Donaghy. With the Sugababes, she had six number one singles and two number on ...
,
Mutya Buena
Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena (born 21 May 1985) is an English singer and songwriter who rose to fame as a member of girl group the Sugababes. With the Sugababes, Buena had four UK number one singles, an additional six top-ten hits and three multi-pl ...
,
Heidi Range
Heidi India Partakis ( Range; born 23 May 1983) is an English singer, best known as a former member of the girl group Sugababes. She was an original member of girl group Atomic Kitten, although she left the group before they released any materi ...
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
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2000s ballads
2003 singles
2003 songs
Contemporary R&B ballads
Island Records singles
Music videos directed by Andy Morahan
Pop ballads
Songs written by Diane Warren
Sugababes songs