You're Still the One by Shania Twain

Album: Come On Over (1997)

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Shania Twain wrote this song with her rock producer husband, Robert "Mutt" Lange. Her lyrics were inspired by their marriage, which many felt wouldn't last. The soothsayers were right, as Twain and Lange divorced 10 years later in 2008 after 14 years of marriage.
This song was remixed for its single release to sound less country and appeal more to pop audiences in the hopes of giving Twain a mainstream crossover hit. The plan worked: It became Twain's first Top 10 hit in both the UK and US, and reached #1 in Australia. It was her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100, spending a record nine (non-consecutive) weeks at #2.
The song won the 1998 Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.
In her 2012 autobiography From This Moment On, Twain revealed she and Lange worked on the song separately and later joined up to collate their ideas. When she sang the chorus again and again while working out the lyrics, Lange came up with the counter line as backing vocals, leaving Twain "feeling very excited."
The album Come On Over spent a record 50 weeks at #1 on Billboard Country Albums chart, selling 22 million in the USA and in total worldwide over 39 million. It became the best-selling album by a female solo artist in the US, and the biggest-selling country album in both the UK and US.
Though unrelated to Twain's song, the soft rock band Orleans also had a let's-stay-together hit called "Still The One," which reached #5 in the US in 1976.
Though Twain and Lange divorced after 17 years of marriage because of an affair between Lange and her best friend, the Canadian star still thinks of this ode to a long-lasting union as one of her favorite songs she has written. Twain stated in her memoir that she continues to cherish the song in memory of her mother and stepfather, who shared a very true love. It remains a staple of her setlists.
Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd sing this in a 2022 Super Bowl commercial for Lay's potato chips where they think back on "that road trip in '97."

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Mark from California"You're Still the One" peaked at #2 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on 2 May 1998 for nine non-consecutive weeks; during that week which was the first one that "You're Still the One" was at that position, the #1 record for that week was Next's "Too Close". When "You're Still the One" would return to the runner-up position on 20 June of that year and remain at that position through 8 August of that year, the #1 record for those 8 weeks "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy and Monica.
Keith from Orlando, FlThis isn't a cover the Orleans song at all. It was written by Shania Twain and Mutt Lange and it has very little (if anything) in common with the Orleans song other than the title phrase.

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