"What If I Said" is the title of a song recorded as a duet by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artists Anita Cochran

Anita Cochran

Anita Renee Cockerham , known professionally as Anita Cochran, is an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1997, she made her debut on the U.S. country charts that year with the release of her first album Back to You...

 and Steve Wariner

Steve Wariner

Steven Noel "Steve" Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records...

. The single was Cochran's only Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, as well as her only Top 40 single on that chart. In addition, the song was Wariner's first chart entry in three years, as well as his first Number One since 1989's "I Got Dreams

I Got Dreams (song)

"I Got Dreams" is the title track to Steve Wariner's 1989 album. "I Got Dreams" was written by Steve Wariner and Bill LaBounty and was the ninth and final number one on the country chart for Steve Wariner as a solo artist...

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"What If I Said" can be found on Cochran's 1997 album Back to You

Back to You (album)

Back to You is the debut album by American country music artist Anita Cochran. It was released in 1997 by Warner Bros. Records and peaked at #24 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart...

, as well as Wariner's 1998 album Burnin' the Roadhouse Down

Burnin' the Roadhouse Down

Burnin' the Roadhouse Down is the title of an album released in 1998 by American country music artist Steve Wariner. It was the first of three albums that he recorded for the Capitol Records Nashville label after having been dropped from Arista Records' roster in 1996. It was the second album of...

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Music video

The music video was directed by Jim Shea and premiered in 1997.

Chart positions

"What If I Said" debuted at number 65 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 8, 1997.

Chart (1997-1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	59
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1