There You’ll Be (Song)

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For the album, see There You’ll Be (album).

Not to be confused with You’ll Be There.

“There You’ll Be” is a song by American country music singer Faith Hill. Written by Diane Warren, produced by Trevor Horn and Byron Gallimore, and orchestrated by David Campbell, the song was released on May 21, 2001, and was included on the Pearl Harbor soundtrack. The track also appears on Hill’s greatest hits albums There You’ll Be and The Hits. “There You’ll Be” is about remembering deceased acquaintances and reminding oneself that they will always be with them. The power ballad was first offered to Celine Dion, who turned it down because she did not want to record another romantic ballad for a soundtrack album.

Upon its release, “There You’ll Be” became Hill’s highest-charting single in the United Kingdom and Ireland, reaching numbers three and four, respectively. The single topped the charts of Canada, Portugal, and Sweden and became a top-10 hit in the United States and several European nations. Despite the film’s poor critical reception, music critics responded positively to the song, and garnered two Grammy nominations at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards as well as an Academy Award nomination at the 74th Annual Academy Awards. The accompanying music video was directed by Michael Bay, who also directed Pearl Harbor. The video is set in the same time period as the film and draws many parallels.

Composition and lyrics

Musically, “There You’ll Be” is a power ballad in the key of A-flat major, set in common time.^[2][3] Arden Lambert from Country Daily described the recording as a love song, writing, “The song starts with a mellow tone, but slowly builds up as the track advances. This melody simulates what people feel when they lose someone. Its lines speak of gratefulness to a deceased person who has shown another person that there is more to life. It is a song that looks back on all the experiences they shared together. Ultimately, it is a reminder that even if they are not living anymore, they will continue to provide comfort, as the line in the song says, “I’ll keep a part of you with me / And everywhere I am there you’ll be”.

Release and airplay

Warner Bros. Records serviced “There You’ll Be” to US country radio on May 21, 2001, and to contemporary hit radio the following day. Due to the track’s usage in Pearl Harbor, many radio stations, especially country-music stations, began playing the single early to build up anticipation for the film’s release. The week before its official release, the track received a total of 369 adds, becoming the most-added song on country radio, contemporary hit radio, and two adult contemporary formats for that week. According to Hill’s website, “There You’ll Be” was the second-most-added song during a single day in US radio history, after USA for Africa‘s “We Are the World” in 1985. Throughout the rest of northern summer, the song remained a mainstay on US radio. Immediately following the September 11 attacks, airplay for “There You’ll Be” increased by 12 percent, allowing it to re-enter the top 75 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. A commercial 7-inch vinyl single and CD single were issued in the US in 2001; the 7-inch contains Hill’s previous single “Breathe” as its B-side while the CD includes “There Will Come a Day” as a B-side.

In the United Kingdom, “There You’ll Be” experienced a spike in airplay in mid-June 2001, receiving the biggest increase in plays and the second-highest number of adds on UK radio on the week ending June 16. Two days later, the single was released physically in the UK as a CD single and a cassette single. While the cassette features the same track listing as the US CD, the UK CD includes a third track: “If I Should Fall Behind”. A two-track CD with “There Will Come a Day” was issued in Europe in 2001, and the three-track version was also released in Australia and Japan. In Australia, “There You’ll Be” was issued on the same day as its UK release, June 18, while in Japan, the CD was distributed on July 4.

Critical reception

Arden Lambert from Country Daily declared “There You’ll Be” as “a lovely ballad”, noting Hill’s “sky-high vocals” on the song. David Browne from Entertainment Weekly described it as a “ballad [with] orchestration that crests in choruses”, stating that “soaring diva” Faith Hill can follow in the footsteps of Celine Dion and Trisha Yearwood. Mary Ann A. Bautista from Philippine Daily Inquirer wrote that it “makes the images of the movie Pearl Harbor come alive in your mind as you listen.” A reviewer from Richmond Times-Dispatch noted the song as “vocally soaring” and “string-soaked”. Randy Wilcox from The Robesonian called it a “pop gem”. In her review of There You’ll Be: The Best of Faith Hill, Kathy Korsmo from The Spokesman-Review said that Hill “is an amazing vocalist” and added that her versatility reminds of early Mariah Carey. Chuck Taylor of Billboard compared the song to Celine Dion‘s 1998 hit “My Heart Will Go On“, describing it as having “lush orchestration, a chorus that flies above the clouds, and a vocal that makes Hill’s signature ‘Breathe’ sound like a sleepy lullaby.”

Chart performance

On May 26, 2001, “There You’ll Be” debuted at number 46 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming that week’s Hot Shot Debut. The song then rose up the chart and peaked at number 10 on June 30, giving Hill her fifth and final US top-10 hit. The single also reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. On the Billboard Adult Contemporary ranking, it stayed at number one for 11 non-consecutive weeks. For the issue of September 1, 2001, “There You’ll Be” tied Dido‘s “Thank You” at number one with 1,595 detections—the first time this had happened since Billboard began using Broadcast Data Systems in 1991. Because both songs lost detections, and because the same number of radio stations were playing the two singles that week, a third tiebreaker based on the smallest decrease of plays had to be utilized; “There You’ll Be” lost 125 plays while “Thank You” lost 15, so the latter song ascended to number one.

In Canada, “There You’ll Be” topped the Canadian Singles Chart for three non-consecutive weeks. In Europe, the single peaked at number one in Portugal and Sweden; in the latter nation, the single reached number one on August 2 and remained at the top for five weeks in total, ending 2001 as Sweden’s 10th-most-successful hit. In the Flanders region of Belgium, the song rose to number two on the chart week of August 25 and was the region’s 23rd-best-selling hit of the year. Elsewhere, the track peaked within the top 10 in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland. It additionally became a top-20 hit in Finland, Italy, New Zealand, and Spain. On the Eurochart Hot 100, the song peaked at number six. In Australia, it reached number 24 and spent eight weeks on the ARIA Singles Chart.

“There You’ll Be” is Faith Hill’s highest-charting hit single in the United Kingdom, debuting and peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart in June 2001 and spending 14 weeks inside the top 100. On September 20, 2008, a contestant named Amy Connelly sang the song for her audition on The X Factor. Her performance renewed interest in the original Faith Hill rendition of the song, and the track re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 10 the next week based purely on downloads, which gave the song an extra four weeks inside the top 100. It gained yet another week on the chart in 2012, when it re-entered at number 47. The single is certified platinum in the UK and Sweden and gold in Belgium.

Music video

Michael Bay, who directed Pearl Harbor, directed the music video for “There You’ll Be” as well. The video shows Hill performing the song interspersed with various scenes from Pearl Harbor. The clip premiered on music television channel VH1 on May 22, 2001, and debuted on MTV on May 24. Country-music channel CMT added the video to their playlist on the week ending May 20, and the following week, it was the channel’s number-one video. When the Pearl Harbor two-disc DVD was released on December 4, 2001, the video for “There You’ll Be” was included.

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Grammy Awards

Track listings

US 7-inch single

US and European CD single; UK cassette single

UK, Australian, and Japanese CD single

Personnel

Personnel are lifted from the US CD single liner notes and the There You’ll Be album booklet.^[11][57]

• Diane Warren – writing
• Faith Hill – vocals
• Tim Pierce – guitar
• Ira Siegel – guitar
• Tony Shanahan – bass
• Rich Pagano – drums
• Trevor Horn – production
• Byron Gallimore – production
• Jamie Muhoberac – programming
• David Campbell – orchestration, conducting
• Fiachra Trench – arrangement
• James S. Levine – arrangement
• Bob Brockmann – recording
• Steve MacMillan – additional recording, mixing
• Mike Shipley – mixing
• James Duncan – assistant engineering
• Graham Hawthorne – Pro Tools
• Robert Hadley – mastering
• Sandy DeCrescent – music contracting
• Booker White – music preparation
• Jerry Bruckheimer – soundtrack executive production
• Kathy Nelson – soundtrack executive production, music supervision
• Bob Badami – music supervision
• Bill Green – executive in charge of music for the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for “There You’ll Be”

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for “There You’ll Be”

Certifications

Release history

There You’ll Be (Album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

There You’ll Be is an international greatest hits album by country music artist Faith Hill. It was released on October 8, 2001, in Europe and Australia only following the success of her singles from her past two albums, Breathe (1999) and Faith (1998). The name of the album comes from the single “There You’ll Be“, which Hill recorded for the movie Pearl Harbor.

“There You’ll Be” was released as the lead single on May 21, 2001 to country radio before being released throughout June 2001 in Europe. The song received critical acclaim, with praise being towards Hill’s vocals. The song became her highest-peaking single internationally, peaking at number three in the United Kingdom and the top ten in 14 other countries. Remixed by English electronic duo Tin Tin Out, Hill’s previously released single “Breathe” was reissued on October 1, 2001. “Breathe”, in its initial release, was a moderate top forty hit in seven countries. The reissue did peak at number 36 on the UK Singles Chart.

Content

There You’ll Be consists of songs from Faith and Breathe, most of which are included in their “radio” or “pop” remixes. The compilation opens up with the title track, which was written by famed songwriter Diane Warren and recorded for the soundtrack of the 2001 Michael Bay film Pearl Harbor. “This Kiss“, Hill’s first crossover single from 1998, is followed after, included in its “radio version” which removes the country elements. “Breathe” is followed, with the version included on There You’ll Be being remixed by Tin Tin Out. The next song included is “The Way You Love Me“, which like “Breathe” was specifically remixed for this compilation by the UK-based dance producers Love to Infinity; the Australian version of There You’ll Be includes the album version. “Let Me Let Go” is next, with the version included being the pop remix used for the film Message in a Bottle. The Erma Franklin cover “Piece of My Heart“, which Hill made a country number one in 1994, is included in its international pop remix. Three non-singles from Faith are included: “You Give Me Love”, “My Wild Frontier”, and “Love Will Always Win”; the latter was the title of the international edition of the album and was originally supposed to appear before being cut from the project and later being recorded by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. The top forty country song “There Will Come a Day” from Breathe was also included. A cover of the Amy Grant song “Somewhere Down the Road” was recorded specifically for the compilation. The classic cover “Over the Rainbow” was recorded. The final song included on the standard edition of There You’ll Be is the pop version of “Breathe“. The album track “If I Should Fall Behind”, which was included on Breathe, was exclusively in the Australian edition.

Track listing

There You’ll Be track listing

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Personnel

• Stephanie Bentley – backing vocals
• Bekka Bramlett – backing vocals
• Mike Brignardello – bass
• Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
• Marcus Cliff – bass
• The Duke Quartet – strings
• Glen Duncan – fiddle
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle
• David Foster – keyboards
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Mark Johns – guitar
• Jeffrey C. King – electric guitar
• Michael Landau – electric guitar
• Paul Leim – drums
• B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Steve Nathan – keyboards
• Beth Nielsen Chapman – backing vocals
• Rich Pagano – drums
• Tim Pierce – guitar
• John Robinson – drums
• Chris Rodriguez – backing vocals
• Tony Shanahan – bass
• Ira Siegel – guitar
• Gary Smith – piano
• Michael Thompson – electric guitar
• Lonnie Wilson – drums
• Glenn Worf – bass

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for There You’ll Be

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for There You’ll Be

Certifications

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