It's Your Love Explained

It's Your Love
Cover:it'syourlove.jpg
Border:yes
Type:single
Artist:Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
Album:Everywhere
B-Side:She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart
Released:[1]
Genre:Country
Label:Curb
Producer:
Chronology:Tim McGraw
Prev Title:Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It
Prev Year:1996
Next Title:Everywhere
Next Year:1997
It's Your Love
Cover:She Moves - It's Your Love.jpg
Type:single
Artist:She Moves
Album:Breaking All the Rules
Released:[2]
Recorded:1997
Genre:Pop rock
Label:
Producer:The Berman Brothers
Prev Title:Breaking All the Rules
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:Just for Tonight
Next Year:1998

"It's Your Love" is a song written by Stephony Smith and originally recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. Released in May 1997 as the lead single from his album Everywhere, the song, featuring his wife Faith Hill, reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in its fifth week and stayed there for six weeks (the first time a song spent that many weeks there since Waylon Jennings's "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" in 1977); it also became McGraw's and Hill's first top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number seven. American pop trio She Moves covered the song in 1998, and the song has also been covered by artists such as Gil Ofarim, Tommy Page, LMNT, Natural, Cyndi Almouzni (under the stage name Cherie), Jo O'Meara, and Ruben Studdard.[3]

"It's Your Love" became the first duet by a married couple to top the country chart since the inception of Nielsen BDS in 1990. No such single would top the chart again until almost 26 years later, when Kane and Katelyn Brown's "Thank God" topped the chart in February 2023.[4]

Music video

The music video was directed and produced by Sherman Halsey, and premiered on CMT on May 14, 1997, when CMT named it a "Hot Shot". Hill was pregnant with the couple's oldest daughter Gracie Katherine when it was filmed.[5]

Track listing

Promo CD

  1. It's Your Love (Hot A/C Mix)

Single

  1. It's Your Love 3:40
  2. She Never Lets It Go To Her Heart 3:02

In popular culture

Canadian country artist Madeline Merlo sampled "It's Your Love" on her 2023 single "Tim + Faith".[6] The song is intended to be a tribute to McGraw and Hill, while using "It's Your Love" as the inspiration.[7]

Awards

Academy of Country Music Awards

AwardResult
Single of the Year
Song of the Year
Video of the Year
Vocal Event of the Year

Grammy Awards

AwardResult
Best Country Collaboration
Best Country Song (songwriter)

Charts

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill version

Year-end charts

Chart (1997)Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[9] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 40
US Country Songs (Billboard)[11] 1

She Moves version

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AOL Music profile for "It's Your Love" . 2009-04-23 . 2009-04-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090412184216/http://music.aol.com/album/its-your-love/277439 . dead .
  2. http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/90s/98/RR-1998-02-13-OCR-Page-0042.pdf#search=%22she%20moves%20it's%20your%20love%22 Radio & Records February 13, 1998
  3. Web site: Cover versions of It's Your Love by Tim McGraw with Faith Hill. SecondHandSongs.
  4. Kane Brown & Katelyn Brown Top Country Airplay Chart With 'Thank God'. Asker. Jim. February 10, 2023. February 11, 2023. subscription. Billboard.
  5. Web site: 24 Years Ago: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Reach No. 1 with 'It's Your Love' . The Boot . 7 June 2023 .
  6. Web site: Lower Mainland country star releases new single. Colleen. Flanagan. The Abbotsford News. September 22, 2023. November 29, 2023.
  7. Web site: Madeline Merlo's new single "Tim + Faith" pays homage to two country greats. Sara. Harowitz. October 26, 2023. The Georgia Straight. November 29, 2023.
  8. Billboard Top Country Singles Sales. Billboard. 16 October 2023.
  9. Web site: RPM '97 Year End Top 100 Country Tracks.
  10. Web site: Top 100 Hits for 1997.
  11. Best of 1997: Country Songs. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1997. July 17, 2013.