Take My Breath Away
Encyclopedia
American pop
singer Jessica Simpson
covered "Take My Breath Away" and released it as the third single
from the album In This Skin
in 2004. Her version was produced by Billy Mann. Simpson chose to cover this song because she felt that it was the theme song of her relationship with her then husband, Nick Lachey
. Simpson's version was also included on the compilation album
Now That's What I Call Music! 16
(from the U.S. Now! series). The remix is seen on Much Dance 2005. It also received heavy airplay on Mainstream Urban
stations.
shows Simpson driving through a southwestern desert. She stops to fill up with fuel, and then arrives at a diner where she watches lovers in motion. The music video peaked at number five on MTV's TRL and spent a total of 12 days on the countdown.
, as well as a top ten hit on the Top 40 Tracks
and the Top 40 Mainstream charts. The song also became another number-one hit for Simpson on the Hot 100 Singles Sales
. Although the song did not break records of any sorts, it performed decently on the other tracks it charted on: the Adult Top 40, the Adult Contemporary
, the Hot 100 Airplay, the Hot Dance Club Play
, and the Hot Digital Tracks
. In late 2005 it received a gold certification by the RIAA
.
!Country
!Certification
!Sales
|-
|U.S.
|align="center"| Gold
|align="center"|500,000
|-
|Australia
|align="center"| Gold
|align="center"|35,000
|-
|}
of The Motels
was asked by Giorgio Moroder
to make a demo of the song. Her demo version is available on The Motels' Anthologyland CD.
The Shadows
covered the song as an instrumental in 1987 on Simply Shadows. The band Copeland
performed it on their album of cover songs, Know Nothing Stays the Same
. It was translated into Cantonese and covered by Sandy Lam
. Diana Ross
covered the song in 2007 on the US release of her album I Love You
.
Soda Club featuring Hannah Alethea's cover of the song reached #16 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002.
The pipes and drums
of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
covered the song for their 2007 album, Spirit of the Glen.
My Morning Jacket
has a rendition on one of its Early Recordings
discs. It ends with a clip from the film Top Gun.
Scottish singer, Sharleen Spiteri
covered the song for her 2010 album, "The Movie Songbook
"
It was also covered by Eva Cassidy on her "American Tune" albumn
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson is an American recording artist, actress, television personality, and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and...
covered "Take My Breath Away" and released it as the third single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
from the album In This Skin
In This Skin
In This Skin is the third studio album by American pop singer Jessica Simpson. The album was released on August 19, 2003 in the United States by Columbia Records...
in 2004. Her version was produced by Billy Mann. Simpson chose to cover this song because she felt that it was the theme song of her relationship with her then husband, Nick Lachey
Nick Lachey
Nicholas Scott "Nick" Lachey is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer and television personality. Lachey rose to fame as a member of the boy band 98 Degrees. He later starred in the reality television series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica with his then-wife, Jessica Simpson. He has released...
. Simpson's version was also included on the compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
Now That's What I Call Music! 16
Now That's What I Call Music!
Now That's What I Call Music! is a series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Polygram /EMI/Sony Music/Virgin Records ; spinoff series were later introduced in South Africa and many other countries worldwide, including the United States...
(from the U.S. Now! series). The remix is seen on Much Dance 2005. It also received heavy airplay on Mainstream Urban
Mainstream Urban
Mainstream Urban is a term used to describe a radio format similar to an Urban Contemporary format. The format differentiates itself due to two factors: playlist composition and target demographic...
stations.
Music video
The videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
shows Simpson driving through a southwestern desert. She stops to fill up with fuel, and then arrives at a diner where she watches lovers in motion. The music video peaked at number five on MTV's TRL and spent a total of 12 days on the countdown.
Australian CD single
- "Take My Breath Away"
- "With You" [Acoustic Version]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Club Mix]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Passengerz Hourglass Mix]
Brazilian Promo CD single
- "Take My Breath Away"
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Club Mix]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Dub Mix]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Passengerz Hourglass Mix]
Remixes and other versions
- "Take My Breath Away" [Album Version] - 3:12
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Night Dub Mix] - 7:08
- "Take My Breath Away" [Orangefuzzz Club Mix] - 7:35
- "Take My Breath Away" [Passengerz Hourglass Mix] - 6:17
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Club Mix] - 6:30
Chart performance and certifications
"Take My Breath Away" became a number-twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
, as well as a top ten hit on the Top 40 Tracks
Top 40 Tracks
Top 40 Tracks is a defunct airplay chart from Billboard Magazine. It was created in 1998, when Billboard Magazine changed the airplay profile of The Hot 100 Airplay to include more R&B, Country, and Rock stations to its profile . To preserve the notion of the former chart, Top 40 Tracks was...
and the Top 40 Mainstream charts. The song also became another number-one hit for Simpson on the Hot 100 Singles Sales
Hot 100 Singles Sales
The Hot Singles Sales chart is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures sales of commercial singles and is one of three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Airplay and the Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the...
. Although the song did not break records of any sorts, it performed decently on the other tracks it charted on: the Adult Top 40, the Adult Contemporary
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
, the Hot 100 Airplay, the Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
, and the Hot Digital Tracks
Hot Digital Tracks
The Hot Digital Tracks chart is a song popularity chart that ranks the best selling digital tracks in the United States according to Billboard magazine...
. In late 2005 it received a gold certification by the RIAA
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
.
Charts
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
15 |
| Belgian Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization... Singles (Wallonia) |
7 |
| Belgian Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995... Singles (Flanders) |
12 |
| Canadian Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.... |
10 |
| European Hot 100 Singles | 74 |
| French Singles Chart | 18 |
| Mexico Top Singles | 9 |
| Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
43 |
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
159 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
20 |
| US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 8 |
| US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs... |
10 |
| US Billboard Adult Contemporary Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
23 |
| US Billboard Adult Top 40 | 29 |
Year-end charts
| Country | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
99 |
| Belgium Ultratop Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... Singles |
58 |
Certifications
{| class="wikitable"!Country
!Certification
!Sales
|-
|U.S.
|align="center"| Gold
|align="center"|500,000
|-
|Australia
|align="center"| Gold
|align="center"|35,000
|-
|}
Other cover versions
Originally Martha DavisMartha Davis
Martha Davis may refer to:*Martha Davis , lead singer of the new wave band The Motels*Martha Davis , vocalist and pianist who performed as "Martha Davis and Spouse"*Martha Davis , who wrote "Brutal Need"...
of The Motels
The Motels
The Motels are a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles area best known for "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer", each of which peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively. Their song "Total Control" reached #4 on the Australian charts in 1980...
was asked by Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder
Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records...
to make a demo of the song. Her demo version is available on The Motels' Anthologyland CD.
The Shadows
The Shadows
The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
covered the song as an instrumental in 1987 on Simply Shadows. The band Copeland
Copeland (band)
Copeland was an indie rock band, originally formed in 2001 by singer Aaron Marsh with his friend, bassist and backup singer James Likeness, in the city of Lakeland, Florida.-Inception:...
performed it on their album of cover songs, Know Nothing Stays the Same
Know Nothing Stays the Same
Know Nothing Stays the Same is the follow-up to Copeland's 2003 debut album Beneath Medicine Tree. Know Nothing Stays The Same is a 5 track cover EP.-Track listing:#"Another Day in Paradise" #"Coming Around Again"...
. It was translated into Cantonese and covered by Sandy Lam
Sandy Lam
Sandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin, is a Cantopop singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese.-Career:...
. Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
covered the song in 2007 on the US release of her album I Love You
I Love You (Diana Ross album)
I Love You is Diana Ross' latest album, released in the United Kingdom and some parts of Europe on October 2nd 2006. Diana was inspired to release an album of love songs after she had been looking through a family photo album and wanted to base her next project around the greatest factor in her...
.
Soda Club featuring Hannah Alethea's cover of the song reached #16 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002.
The pipes and drums
Pipe band
A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers. The term used by military pipe bands, pipes and drums, is also common....
of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and the senior Scottish regiment. It was formed on 2 July 1971 at Holyrood, Edinburgh, by the amalgamation of the 3rd Carabiniers The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) (SCOTS DG) is a cavalry regiment of...
covered the song for their 2007 album, Spirit of the Glen.
My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket is an American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky.The band consists of Jim James , Tom 'Two-Tone Tommy' Blankenship , Patrick Hallahan , Carl Broemel , and Bo Koster .-History:My Morning Jacket was...
has a rendition on one of its Early Recordings
Early Recordings (album series)
Early Recordings is a compilation album series by Louisville, Kentucky rock band My Morning Jacket. It was released in 2004 on Darla Records. The two constituent albums, called chapters, are called The Sandworm Cometh and Learning respectively. Danny Cash created the graphic design to both albums...
discs. It ends with a clip from the film Top Gun.
Scottish singer, Sharleen Spiteri
Sharleen Spiteri
Sharleen Spiteri is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter, best known as being the lead singer of Scottish rock/blues band Texas. Texas began their career in 1986, and shot to fame in 1989 with their UK Top Ten single, "I Don't Want a Lover" released from Southside...
covered the song for her 2010 album, "The Movie Songbook
The Movie Songbook
The Movie Songbook is the second studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Sharleen Spiteri. It was released on 1 March 2010. The album consists of film song covers, chosen and recorded by Spiteri herself in 2009.- Reception :...
"
See also
- List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1986
- List of number-one singles of 1986 (Ireland)
- List of number-one singles from the 1980s (UK)
- List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1986 (U.S.)
It was also covered by Eva Cassidy on her "American Tune" albumn