Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) Explained

Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)
Cover:	Mint Condition - Breakin' My Heart single cover.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Mint Condition
Album:	Meant to Be Mint
Released:	^[1]
Recorded:	1991
Studio:	Flyte Tyme Studios (Edina, Minnesota)
Length:	(album version) (radio edit)^[2]
Label:	Perspective Records
Prev Title:	Are You Free
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Forever in Your Eyes
Next Year:	1992

"Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)" is a song performed by Mint Condition, issued as the second single from their debut album Meant to Be Mint. The song was written by band members Jeffrey Allen, Lawrence Waddell and Stokley Williams. Released in 1991,^[1] the song is their biggest hit to date, peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1992. The single spent 34 weeks total and 20 weeks in the top 40 on the Hot R&B Singles chart.^[3]

In 2022 and 2024 there was media notice that the song had been repopularized on TikTok.^{[4] [5]}

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amazon.com: Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes): Mint Condition: MP3 Downloads. Amazon.com. April 6, 2014.
2. Web site: Mint Condition - Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) (CD) at Discogs. Discogs. April 6, 2014.
3. Web site: Mint Condition - Awards - AllMusic. AllMusic. April 6, 2014.
4. Web site: Leight . Elias . 2022-01-21 . 'The Gift That Keeps Giving': Mint Condition on Scoring an Unlikely TikTok Hit, 30 Years Later . 2024-09-27 . Rolling Stone . en-US.
5. Web site: Razman . Amirah . 2024-09-26 . Thanks to TikTok, people are rediscovering a 1991 hit by a St. Paul band . 2024-09-27 . Twin Cities . en-US.
6. Web site: Mint Condition Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs). Billboard.
7. Web site: Billboard Top 100 - 1992 . LongboredSurfer.com . July 30, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708050630/http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1992 . July 8, 2009.