"I'm Holdin' On to Love (To Save My Life)" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian

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singer

Shania Twain Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain ( ; born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records, making her one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time and the best-sel ...

. It was released as the twelfth and final single from her double-Diamond certified third studio album ''

Come on Over ''Come On Over'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain. Mercury Records in North America released it on November 4, 1997. Similar to her work on its predecessor, '' The Woman in Me'' (1995), Twain entirely collab ...

''. It was written by

Robert John "Mutt" Lange Robert John "Mutt" Lange ( ; born 11 November 1948) is a South African record producer. He is known for his work in rock music as well as co-writing and producing various songs for Shania Twain, his ex-wife. Her 1997 album ''Come On Over'', whic ...

and Twain. The song was originally released to North American country radio stations on July 3, 2000. With no promotional performances or

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, the song was still able to reach considerable chart success. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100, becoming her second longest running single on the chart after "

You Win My Love "You Win My Love" is a song recorded by Canadian country music singer Shania Twain. It was released on January 27, 1996, as the fifth single from her second studio album '' The Woman in Me.'' The song was written solely by then-husband and produce ...

". It also reached number 17 on the US

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and number 4 on the Canadian

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Country Tracks. It is also the only single from ''Come On Over'' to be released without an accompanying

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, staged or live. "I'm Holdin' On to Love" was performed on the Come On Over Tour, in a medley on the

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, and on Twain's 2004 NBC special '' Up! Close and Personal''. The song is commonly cited as a "fan favorite" from Twain's career, despite her not performing or mentioning the song in almost two decades.

Critical reception

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'' magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying "This is one of those little tunes that pushes all the right buttons that Twain and Lange have engaged so successfully before. Look for it to follow its predecessors up the chart."''

'', August 19, 2000

Official versions

*Original Country Version (3:30) *International Version (3:30) *Pop Mix (3:44) *Live from Dallas (3:27) *Live from '' Up! Close and Personal'' (3:24)

Chart performance

"I'm Holdin' On to Love" debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the week of July 8, 2000 at number 66. The single spent 21 weeks on the chart and slowly climbed to a peak position of number 17 on November 11, 2000, where it remained for two weeks. "I'm Holdin' On to Love" became the tenth top 20 single from ''Come On Over'', her 16th overall. The song went on to top the Hot Country Recurrents chart for one week. "I'm Holdin' On to Love" was the final single from ''Come On Over'', and peaked three years after the album's debut, which was released on November 4, 1997. The song also reached number two on the

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (also known as Bubbling Under the Hot 100) is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The chart lists the top songs that have not yet charted on the main ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Chart ...

chart on November 4, 2000; combining with the mainline

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, "I'm Holdin' On to Love" reached number 102. The song debuted at number 74 on the ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart the week of July 24, 2000. Just a week before ''RPM'' ceased publication in November 2000, "I'm Holdin' On to Love" reached a peak position of number 4 on the Canadian Top Country Tracks; it would become the album's lowest peaking single and only one of two, the other being " Rock This Country!", to miss the top two. The song had the slowest rise to the top ten out of every other ''Come On Over'' single, reaching the top ten in its eleventh week on the chart.

Charts

References

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