I'm Holdin' On to Love (to Save My Life)

Single infobox
Name = I'm Holdin' On to Love (to Save My Life)


Artist = Shania Twain
from Album = Come on Over
Released = July 2000
Format =
Recorded = 1997
Genre = Country
Length = 3:30
Label = Mercury Nashville
Writer = Robert John "Mutt" Lange,
Shania Twain
Producer = Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Last single = "Rock This Country!"
(2000)
This single = "I'm Holdin' On to Love (to Save My Life)"
(2000)
Next single = "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"
(2002)"I'm Holdin' On to Love (to Save My Life)" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was the twelfth and final single released from her 1997 album "Come on Over". It was written by Mutt Lange and Twain. The song was originally released to North American country radio stations in July of 2000. With no promo performances, video, or commercial single, the song was still able to reach the top twenty of the Billboard Country Singles chart. "I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" was performed on the Come on Over Tour, in a medley on the Up! Tour, and on Twain's 2003 special "Up! Close and Personal".

Critical reception

"Billboard" 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." ["Billboard", 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" 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" became the tenth top twenty single from "Come on Over", her sixteenth in all. The song went on to top the Hot Country Recurrents chart for one week. "I'm Holdin' On" was the final single from "Come on Over", and peaked three years after the release in 1997.

*Equivalent to #102 on "Billboard" Hot 100.

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