"If You Ever Have Forever in Mind" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill

Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

. Released in May 1998, it was the first single from the album The Key

The Key (Vince Gill album)

The Key is the ninth studio album from American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in 1998 on MCA Nashville Records. It features the singles "If You Ever Have Forever in Mind," "Kindly Keep It Country," "Don't Come Cryin' to Me" and "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man." This final track...

. The song reached number 5 on the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

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 chart and number 1 in Canada. It also won Gill the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance was awarded between 1965 and 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male...

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Critical reception

Chuck Taylor, of Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that "there's a classy vintage sound to this soft ballad." He goes on to say that the "delicate piano and whispery percussion underscore Gil's silky vocal performance."

Chart performance

"If You Ever Have Forever in Mind" debuted at number 61 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 30, 1998.

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	5
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	60
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1