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  • Un-Break My Heart
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  • 12-inch single
  • CD single
  • Cassette single
has language
  • eng
Subject
  • Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
  • 1996 singles
  • Number-one singles in Sweden
  • Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles
  • Torch songs
  • Number-one singles in Austria
  • Number-one singles in Switzerland
  • 1990s ballads
  • 1996 songs
  • Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one singles
  • European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles
  • Pop ballads
  • RPM Adult Contemporary number-one singles
  • Songs written by Diane Warren
  • Singles certified gold by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique
  • Rhythm and blues ballads
  • Ultratop 50 Singles (Wallonia) number-one singles
  • Song recordings produced by David Foster
  • LaFace Records singles
  • Il Divo songs
  • Music videos directed by Bille Woodruff
  • Toni Braxton songs
abstract
  • %22Un-Break My Heart%22 is a song performed by American recording artist Toni Braxton, taken from her second studio album, Secrets (1996). The ballad was written by Diane Warren. Braxton expressed a dislike for the song; however, L.A. Reid was able to convince the singer to record it and include on her album. It was released as the second single from the album in October 1996, through LaFace Records. Lyrically, the song alludes to a %22blistering heartbreak%22 in which Braxton begs a former lover to return and undo the pain he has caused. It won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1997.%22Un-Break My Heart%22 attained commercial success worldwide. In the United States, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed a total of eleven weeks, while reaching the same position on the Hot Dance Club Songs and Adult Contemporary component charts. When Billboard celebrated their 40 years charting from 1958 to 1998, the song was declared as the most successful song by a solo artist in the Billboard Hot 100 history. In Europe, the song reached the top five in more than ten countries while peaking at number one in Austria, Belgium (Wallonia), Sweden, and Switzerland.Bille Woodruff directed the accompanying video for the single. It portrays Braxton mourning the death of her lover, while remembering the good times they had together. Braxton performed the song on the opening ceremony of the 1996 Billboard Music Awards. %22Un-Break My Heart%22 has been covered by several artists, including American alternative rock band Weezer on the album Death to False Metal.
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  • Diane Warren
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