I'll Stand by You

Infobox Single
Name = I'll Stand by You


Artist = The Pretenders
from Album = Last of the Independents
B-side =
Released = 1994
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Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
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Writer = Chrissie Hynde, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg
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Certification =
Last single = "Night in My Veins"
(1994)
This single = "I'll Stand by You"
(1994)
Next single =

"I'll Stand by You" is a 1994 song recorded by The Pretenders from their sixth studio album, "Last of the Independents". Written by Chrissie Hynde in collaboration with the songwriting team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, it was the Pretenders' most recent significant hit single.

The song is a ballad that pledges love and faithful assistance in times of personal darkness. Since its initial release, "I'll Stand by You" has also become a major hit for British girl group Girls Aloud in 2004 and Carrie Underwood in 2007, both times recorded as a charity single.

The Pretenders original

"I'll Stand by You" was released as the second single from the album "Last of the Independents" in 1994, and it reached number sixteen on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100, the top forty on "Billboard"'s Modern Rock Tracks chart and number ten in the United Kingdom. It charted higher in the UK and the U.S. than "Night in My Veins", the album's first single.

The "I'll Stand by You" music video was released in 1994 and features Chrissie Hynde caring for an ill man.

Charts

"Real Life"
* ^A Charted from unsolicited airplay.

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