Break My Stride

Infobox Single
Name = Break My Stride


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Artist = Matthew Wilder
from Album = I Don't Speak the Language
A-side = "Break My Stride"
B-side = Instrumental
Released = 1983
Format = 7" vinyl; 12" vinyl
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:02
Label = Private I
Writer = Matthew Wilder, Greg Prestopino
Producer = Peter Bunetta, Rick Chudacoff, Bill Elliot
Certification = BPI Silver "Break My Stride", BPI certification [http://www.bpi.co.uk/] (Retrieved July 20, 2008)]
Last single =
This single = "Break My Stride"
Next single = "The Kid's American"
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"Break My Stride" was a major hit single for Matthew Wilder in 1983 and 1984. It was covered by many artists throughout the years, including Blue Lagoon in 2004.

Matthew Wilder version

Track listings

; 7" single
# "Break My Stride" — 3:05
# "Break My Stride" (instrumental) — 3:05

Charts performances

Included on his 1983 album "I Don't Speak the Language", the single went to #5 on the U.S. Hot 100 and to #4 in the UK in January 1984. On the U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 chart, the song went all the way to #3, and on the U.S. Cashbox charts, Wilder's single didn't break stride until the #2 position, where it remained for two weeks, in early February. A remix version went top twenty on the Dance charts, and the song even hit the "Billboard" Hot Black Singles charts for four weeks.

Though "Break My Stride" was Matthew Wilder's only UK hit, he also reached the U.S. Top 40 with his next two singles, "The Kid's American" (#28 on the ARC chart) and "Bouncing Off The Walls" (#39 ARC), before turning to behind-the-scenes work on other artists' recordings.

The Wilder/Prestopino composition has been covered numerous times in several languages, and the song has been the basis for several rap/hip hop tracks. In 1997 the Wilder song reached a new audience when it was sampled for the hit Puff Daddy track "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down".

Charts

Other cover versions

* Herreys ("Det finns ingenting som hindrar mig")
* Unique II ("Break My Stride", 1997)
* Natusha ("Moviendo la cintura")
* El Simbolo ("No te preocupes", 1996)
* The chorus was later interpolated for the Puff Daddy song "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" in 1997.
* Max-A-Million ("Break My Stride", 1998)
* AC Rock ("Break My Stride", 1999) a capella version
* Mumsdollar ("Break My Stride", 2002)
* Legend Has It ("Break My Stride", (2003?))
* Lil' Kim used the last line of the chorus as the last line of her verse for the girl power anthem, "Can't Hold Us Down" by Christina Aguilera.
* P-nuckle ("Stride") Voted best Reggae act in 2006 used the chorus lyrics of Break My Stride in the own version called "Stride".
* Matisyahu used the chorus lyrics of Break My Stride as the bridge in his single "Jerusalem".
* Goldenchyld (*Got to keep on moviing*) 2007

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