Songfacts®:

• Diane Warren wrote "There You'll Be" for the 2001 movie Pearl Harbor, a love story set during World War II starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale. The song very loosely follows the plot of the film, which finds Beckinsale's character falling in love with Ben Affleck's character, who is thought to be killed in combat but returns.
  
  The film did well at the box office but was forgotten pretty quickly. It had a huge budget and earned accolades for its special effects. In the movie, the song plays under the closing credits.
• The song was offered to Celine Dion, who became the queen of sentimental movie ballads in 1997 when she sang "My Heart Will Go On" for Titanic. She turned the song down because she was taking some time off, so it went to Faith Hill.
• Faith Hill had a hat full of country hits when she started out in the '90s but had crossed over to mainstream pop (à la Shania Twain) by the end of the decade when she landed hits with "Breathe" and "This Kiss." "There You'll Be" moved her deeper into pop territory and was her first single to place higher on the Hot 100 (#10) than the Country chart (#11). It was also a #1 hit on the Adult Contemporary chart. She wasn't able to get much further as a pop singer and reverted back to country a few years later, topping the Country chart with "Mississippi Girl" in 2005.
• The movie Pearl Harbor did well internationally, which helped send this song up the charts around the world. In many territories, including the UK, it's Faith Hill's highest charting song.
• David Campbell conducted the orchestra on the song; Trevor Horn and Byron Gallimore produced it. Horn was a member of The Buggles in the '70s and Yes in the '80s. He also produced the Frankie Goes to Hollywood hit "Relax."
• Michael Bay, who directed Pearl Harbor, also directed the song's music video, which is mostly scenes from the film but also shots of Faith Hill singing it with a pretty powerful wind machine blowing at her.
• The song earned Grammy nominations for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, and for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. It also got an Oscar nomination for Best Original song.
  
  The best song Grammy that year went to "Boss Of Me," the theme to the TV series Malcolm In The Middle. Diane Warren, who as the songwriter is the nominee in that category, often shows up in the nominations and got a win with "Because You Loved Me" (recorded by Celine Dion) in 1997.
  
  Warren is also frequently nominated for the Best Song Oscar but so far hasn't gotten a win. "There You'll Be" lost to "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc., written by another Oscar contender regular Randy Newman, on his eighth nomination.
  
  Warren also wrote "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" from the movie Armageddon, but that one lost to "When You Believe" from The Prince Of Egypt.
• "There You'll Be" returned to the UK chart at #10 in 2008 after 18-year-old contestant Amy Connolly performed it at her audition for the competition show The X-Factor. It was a very emotional audition, as Connolly that her mother had died when she was 7.