There You'll Be

2001 single by Faith Hill
the album

"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. Music critics responded positively to the song, and it received two Grammy nominations at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards as well as an Academy Award nomination in 2002. 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.

Musically, "There You'll Be" is a power ballad in the key of A flat major, set in common time. 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".

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. 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. 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. 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".

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."

[[File:DidoHamm081219 (49217247348). jpg|thumb|left|300px|In September 2001, "Thank You" by Dido (pictured in 2019) tied "There You'll Be" at number one on the US Adult Contemporary chart. Three tiebreakers were used to determine the number one track, with Dido emerging victorious. 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. In Canada, "There You'll Be" topped the Canadian Singles Chart for three non consecutive weeks. 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. 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 two days later, on May 24. When the Pearl Harbor two disc DVD was released on December 4, 2001, the video for "There You'll Be" was included.

At the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2002, "There You'll Be" was nominated for two awards: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, losing in both categories. The song was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to Randy Newman's "If I Didn't Have You" from the Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc

+Release dates and formats for "There You'll Be"RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref. (Reference)United StatesMay 21, 2001Country radioHollywood Records, Hollywood, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. May 22, 2001Contemporary hit radioAustraliaJune 18, 2001CDUnited KingdomCD, cassetteJapanJuly 4, 2001CD