Always on Your Side
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Wildflower Album Listing
"I Don't Wanna Know"
(Track 9)
"Always on Your Side"
(Track 10)
"Where Has All the Love Gone"
(Track 11)


"Always on Your Side" is a song by American
United States
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 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...

, and is featured on her 2005 album
Album
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, Wildflower. It was released as the second single
Single (music)
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 from the album (see 2006 in music
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). While the original album version features only herself on lead vocals, the radio version is a duet with British
United Kingdom
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 musician
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 Sting.

The song debuted at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100
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 (and stayed inside the Billboard Hot 100
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 for 8 weeks), her third highest debut ever. The single also peaked in the top 20 of the UK airplay chart, while the single debuted and peaked at No. 8. The single also hit at #2 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

Sheryl Crow's Web site offered a free download of the new single to anyone who had already purchased the Wildflower-album. A subsequent edition of the parent album features the duet version.

The duet received a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
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-nomination in 2007 as Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.

The song was used as the theme for the 2006 telenovela
Telenovela
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 Desire
Desire (TV series)
Desire is an American telenovela which debuted at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central on September 5, 2006, on the American network MyNetworkTV, and ended on December 5. It was produced by Twentieth Television...

on the MyTV Network.

Year-end charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 22
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