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"If I Let You Go"
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Single by Westlife
from the album Westlife
Released 9 August 1999
Format CD Single
Recorded Cheiron Studios, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre Pop
Length 3:40
Label BMG, RCA
Writer(s) Jörgen Elofsson, David Kreuger, Per Magnusson
Producer David Kreuger, Per Magnusson
Certification Silver (United Kingdom)
Westlife singles chronology
"Swear It Again"
(1999)		 "If I Let You Go"
(1999)		 "Flying Without Wings"
(1999)
"If I Let You Go CD2"
"If I Let You Go CD2"

"If I Let You Go" is a song by Westlife, released in the United Kingdom on 9 August 1999, as the band's second single. It became the second of the band's fourteen UK number 1 hit singles, spending eleven weeks on charts.[1] The song has received a Silver sales certification in the UK for over 315 000 copies sold so far.[2]

Contents

Tracklisting [link]

  • United Kingdom
CD1
  1. "If I Let You Go" (Radio Edit) - 3:40
  2. "Try Again" - 3:35
  3. "If I Let You Go" (Video) - 3:40
CD2
  1. "If I Let You Go" (Radio Edit) - 3:40
  2. "If I Let You Go" (Extended Version) - 6:09
  3. "Interview With Andi Peters" - 7:24

Release history [link]

Country Release Date
United Kingdom 9 August 1999
Australia 26 September 1999

Chart performance [link]

Country/Chart Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart 13
Belgian Flanders Singles Chart 7
Finnish Singles Chart 7
German Singles Chart 50
Irish Singles Chart 1
Netherlands Singles Chart 19
New Zealand Singles Chart 8
Norwegian Singles Chart 1
Swedish Singles Chart 6
Swiss Singles Chart 25
UK Singles Chart 1
UK Radio Airplay Chart 7

End-of-year charts [link]

End of year chart (1999) Position
Australian Singles Chart 95
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart 45

Chart successions [link]

Preceded by
"When You Say Nothing At All" by Ronan Keating		 Irish IRMA number one single
14 August 1999 (2 weeks)		 Succeeded by
"Mambo No. 5" by Lou Bega
Preceded by
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by The Eiffel 65		 Norwegian Singles Chart
Week 39 1999 to Week 42 1999 (3 weeks)		 Succeeded by
"Genie In A Bottle" by Christina Aguleria
Preceded by
"When You Say Nothing At All" by Ronan Keating		 UK Singles Chart
15 August 1999 (1 week)		 Succeeded by
"Mi Chico Latino" by Geri Halliwell

Personnel [link]

Song credits [link]

If I Let You Go
Written By : Jörgen Elofsson, David Kreuger, Per Magnusson
Bass : Tomas Lindberg
Recorded By (Strings) : Bernard Löhr
Try Again
Written By : Jorgen Elofsson, David Krueger, Per Magnusson
Fiddle : Ulf Forsmark
Whistle (Tin Whistle) : Jan Bengtsson
Whistle (Tin Whistle) : Jan Bengtsson
Recorded By (Strings & Tin Whistle) : Ronnie Lahti
Mastered By : Björn Engelmann Cutting Room Studios

CD production [link]

Arranged By (Strings) : Desta Bareta, Ulf Janson
Arranged And Programmed By : David Kreuger, Per Magnusson
Mixed By : Bernard Löhr
Artwork By (Design) : Root
Photography : Nicole Nodland
Acoustic Guitar, Guitar (Electric) : Mats Berntoft
Keyboards : Per Magnusson
Backing Vocals (Additional) : Anders von Hofsten (If I Let You Go), Andreas Carlsson (Try Again)
Other (Management) : Louis Walsh, Ronan Keating

References [link]

  1. ^ https://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/WESTLIFE/
  2. ^ https://www.mtv.co.uk/music/charts/official-uk-countdowns/westlife-official-top-20#37363

External links [link]

Preceded by
"When You Say Nothing at All" by Ronan Keating		 UK Singles Chart number one single
8 August 1999 – 15 August 1999		 Succeeded by
"Mi Chico Latino" by Geri Halliwell
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If I Let You Go

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Day after day
Time pass away
And I just can't get you off my mind
Nobody knows
I hide it inside
I keep on searching
But I can't find
The courage to show
To letting you know
I've never felt so much love before
And once again
I'm thinking about
Taking the easy way out
But if I let you
I will never know
What my life would be
Holding you close to me
Will I ever see
You smiling back at me
(Oh yeah)
How will I know
If I let you go
Night after night
I hear myself say
Why can't this feeling just fade away
There's no one like you (no one like you)
To speak to my heart (speak to my heart)
It's such a shame
We're worlds apart
I'm too shy to ask
I'm too proud to lose
But sooner or later
I gotta chose
And once again
I'm thinking about
Taking the easy way out
But if I let you
I will never know
What my life would be
Holding you close to me
Will I ever see
You smiling back at me
(Oh yeah)
How will I know
If I let you go
Once again
I'm thinking about
Taking the easy way out
But if I let you
I will never know
What my life would be
Holding you close to me
Will I ever see
You smiling back at me
(Oh yeah)
How will I know
If I let you go
But if I let you
I will never know
What my life would be
Holding you close to me
Will I ever see
You smiling back at me
(Oh yeah)
How will I know




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