No One Needs to Know

"No One Needs to Know"
Single by Shania Twain
from the album The Woman in Me
B-side	"Leaving Is the Only Way Out"
Released	May 15, 1996
Format	Radio single 7" vinyl single
Genre	Country
Length	3:04
Label	Mercury Nashville
Writer(s)	Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Shania Twain
Producer	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Shania Twain singles chronology
"You Win My Love" (1996) "No One Needs to Know" (1996) "Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)" (1996)

"No One Needs to Know" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music artist Shania Twain. It was released in May 1996 as the sixth single from her 1995 album The Woman in Me. The song was written by Twain and Mutt Lange. The song became Twain's third consecutive number-one hit on country radio, and fourth overall. It spent one week at the top of the chart in July of 1996. It was originally released to radio in May of 1996. The song was also used in the 1996 film Twister and included on the soundtrack. "No One Needs To Know" was later included on Twain's 2004 Greatest Hits collection.

Critical reception

Billboard reviewed the single favorably, calling it "an infectious concoction that boasts a lighter, fresher sound than her previous outings."^[1]

Music video

The music video for "No One Needs to Know" was shot in Spring Hill, Tennessee and directed by Steven Goldmann. It was filmed on April 3, 1996 and released May 15, 1996. The video is of Twain and a band playing at a big farm house, while a tornado (filmed by Charles Robertson) rolls in, sticking with the theme from the movie Twister. One version of the video contains scenes from the movie, while another, the 'Performance Only' version is just of Twain and the band. The 'Performance Only' version of the video is available on Twain's DVD The Platinum Collection. Both videos start with a brief "rehearsal", during which Twain gives instructions to the band, they play a few bars and Twain mixes up the lyrics.

Chart performance

"No One Needs to Know" debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the week of May 11, 1996 at number 62. The song spent 20 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number one on July 13, 1996, where it remained for one week. The single became Twain's fourth number-one single (third consecutive), fourth top ten single, and sixth consecutive top twenty single. "No One Needs to Know" became Twain's fastest climbing single to reach number one when it did so in ten weeks, a record held by both "Any Man of Mine" and "You Win My Love" when they made number-one in eleven weeks.

Charts

Chart (1996)	Peak position
Canada RPM Country Singles[2]	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks[3]	1

Preceded by "Time Marches On" by Tracy Lawrence	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single July 13, 1996	Succeeded by "Daddy's Money" by Ricochet
Preceded by "Anita Got Married" by Duane Steele	RPM Country Tracks number-one single July 15-July 22, 1996	Succeeded by "Blue" by LeAnn Rimes

Notes

1. ^ Billboard, May 11, 1996.
2. ^ "RPM 100 Country Tracks". RPM 63 (22). July 15, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.3030&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=tpdnrd5v0vdor7md3iihu6o837. Retrieved August 19, 2011. 
3. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=34388&model.vnuAlbumId=562635 Billboard chart history