Truly Madly Deeply
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"Truly Madly Deeply" is a song by Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n pop band Savage Garden
Savage Garden
Savage Garden were an Australian pop rock performance and songwriting duo. Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones formed the group in Brisbane, Queensland in 1994...

, released as a single in March 1997. Written by band-mates Darren Hayes
Darren Hayes
Darren Stanley Hayes is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States...

 and Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones (musician)
Daniel Jones is a musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his part in the hugely popular Australian pop duo Savage Garden, whose international hit singles included the songs "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", "Truly Madly Deeply", "I Knew I Loved You", and "Crash and Burn"...

, the song is a reworking of a song called "Magical Kisses" that the pair wrote together long before recording began on their debut album. "Truly Madly Deeply" was released as the third single from their self-titled
Savage Garden (album)
Savage Garden is the eponymous debut album from Australian pop duo Savage Garden. It was released on March 4, 1997. The album sold more than 18 million copies worldwide...

 debut album. In 1998, it became the main theme from the soundtrack of the movie Music from Another Room, starring Jude Law
Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...

 and Gretchen Mol
Gretchen Mol
Gretchen Mol is an American actress and former model. She is known for her roles in films like Rounders, Celebrity, 3:10 to Yuma, The Thirteenth Floor,and The Notorious Bettie Page, where she played the title character...

.

Versions

There are two distinct versions of the song. The first was made available on the Australian version of the group's album, whereas the second version appears on the release of the album in Europe and America. This version was composed in 1996, and features a drum-machine track instead of the more acoustic-sounding music featured on the Australian version. The European version also features on the group's greatest hits compilation, Truly Madly Compeletely.

Music video

Two music videos were made for the song. The video used for the European market was filmed in the Sacré-Cœur area of Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. It was directed by Adolfo Doring. The video depicts the story of two lovers, a young man and a lady, who have been separated by circumstances. The woman arrives in Paris, possibly at Gare du Nord
Gare du Nord
Paris Nord is one of the six large terminus railway stations of the SNCF mainline network for Paris, France. It offers connections with several urban transportation lines, including Paris Métro and RER...

 station, in search of her lover, who is also waiting for her. He is wandering in various places within the Montmartre
Montmartre
Montmartre is a hill which is 130 metres high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district...

 area, including the Soleil de la Butte restaurant. In between the scenes involving the two lovers, Darren Hayes
Darren Hayes
Darren Stanley Hayes is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States...

 can be seen walking around Paris, in locations such as the place de la Concorde
Place de la Concorde
The Place de la Concorde in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.- History :...

 and the Jardin des Tuileries. He is singing, thereby acting as a narrator to the story involving the two lovers. Towards the end of the video, Hayes enters a small concert hall where Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is the name of:* Daniel Jones , phonetician, author of The Pronunciation of English* Daniel Jones , chancellor of the University of Mississippi* Daniel Jones , Welsh composer...

 is playing guitar. Shortly afterwards, the young lady manages to find her lover, right in the centre of Paris. They are both filled with emotion on seeing each other again. The video ends with Hayes and Jones coming out of the concert hall, and coming across the two lovers who are rejoicing in their reunion. The second video, used for the Australian market, features the pair performing in the outback.

Chart success

The song was a major and sustained success in the U.S. beginning in 1997. Entering the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 singles chart at #26 on 6 December 1997, it peaked at #1 for two weeks in January 1998 and lingered for a full year on the chart. It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and #2 on the Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart. It also went Top 10 on the Rhythmic Top 40
Rhythmic Airplay Chart
The Rhythmic Airplay Chart is an airplay chart that is featured weekly in Billboard Magazine. The chart tracks and measures the airplay of songs played on Rhythmic stations, whose playlist includes mostly hit-driven R&B/Hip-Hop, Rhythmic pop, and some Dance tracks...

 chart. On the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream
Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs)
The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart...

 chart the song hit number one for one week on 31 January before dropping to number two as Celine Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

 assumed the top spot with the theme to the hit film Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...

, "My Heart Will Go On
My Heart Will Go On
"My Heart Will Go On" is the theme song/love theme of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic. With music by James Horner, lyrics by Will Jennings, and production by Simon Franglen, James Horner and Walter Afanasieff ,, it was recorded by Céline Dion...

". Savage Garden's single held at #2 for ten weeks, before returning to the number one spot again the week of 18 April. The song set a record for the most weeks of any single in history on the U.S. Hot Adult Contemporary chart. In 1998 the song logged eleven weeks at number one on this chart, but its full chart span lasted 123 weeks. That record would stand for just under two years, when another of the group's ballads spent its 124th week on the chart. The song was "I Knew I Loved You
I Knew I Loved You
"I Knew I Loved You" is a song by Australian pop duo Savage Garden, released as the second single from their second studio album, Affirmation. It was their second number one in the United States after "Truly Madly Deeply", peaking at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 29, 2000, and staying...

", from the album Affirmation. After leaving the main Adult Contemporary chart, the song entered the Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart where it charted for another 202 weeks. The song was so popular that it re-entered Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart in March 2002 and—four and a half years after its release—again became a U.S. Top 30 bestseller, remaining on that chart until late July 2002. The original version logged its final week on the Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart on 17 June 2006. The song also reached #1 in their home country of Australia and in Canada. Savage Garden's single hit #2 in Norway, Sweden, Austria and Ireland and went top ten in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, where it peaked at #4. In 1998, the song was certified a Gold single in France, for sales of 200,000 copies. In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
Australasian Performing Right Association
The Australasian Performing Right Association is a copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. The association's head offices located in Sydney Australia, and it has branch offices in Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth...

, as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "Truly Madly Deeply" as one of the Top 30 Australian songs
APRA Top 30 Australian songs
APRA's Top 30 Australian songs between 1926 and 2001 was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association to celebrate its 75th anniversary...

 of all time. In 2008, the song was listed at #30 on Billboards All Time Top 100.

Track listings

  • UK CD1 (665602 2)
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" (album version) – 4:38
  2. "Truly Madly Deeply" (Australian version) – 4:38
  3. "This Side of Me" – 4:09
  4. "Love Can Move You" – 4:47

  • UK CD2 (665602 5)
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" (album version) – 4:38
  2. "Truly Madly Deeply" (Night Radio Mix) – 4:35
  3. "I Want You" – 3:52
  4. "I'll Bet He Was Cool" – 3:57

  • Australian single
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" (Australian version) – 4:38
  2. "Promises"
  3. "Truly Madly Deeply" (Night Radio Mix) – 4:35
  4. "I Want You" (Bastone Club Mix)
  5. "I Want You" (I Need I Want Mix)

  • European CD1 / American CD single
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" (LP version) – 4:37
  2. "I'll Bet He Was Cool" – 4:58

  • European CD2 / Austrian CD single (665127 2)
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" (LP version) – 4:38
  2. "Truly Madly Deeply" (Australian version) – 4:38
  3. "Truly Madly Deeply" (Night Radio Mix) – 4:35
  4. "This Side of Me" – 4:09
  5. "Love Can Move You" – 4:47

Peak positions

Charts (1997/1998) Peak
Position
Australian ARIA
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

 Singles Chart
1
Austrian Ö3 Top 40
Ö3 Austria Top 40
Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...

 Singles Chart
2
Belgian Flemish Ultratop 50
Ultratop 50
Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...

 Singles Chart
4
Belgian Walloon Ultratop 40
Ultratop
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...

 Singles Chart
5
Canadian Singles Chart
Canadian Singles Chart
The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....

1
Dutch MegaChart Top 50
MegaCharts
MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...

 Singles Chart
8
Finnish Singles Chart 13
French SNEP Singles Chart 9
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 12
Norwegian VG-lista
VG-lista
VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...

 Singles Chart
2
Swedish Singles Chart 2
Swiss Singles Chart 7
UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

1
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 1
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 2


End of year charts

End of year chart (1997) Position
Australian ARIA chart 7

End of year chart (1998) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4

End of decade charts

Chart (1990-1999) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 63


Sandy & Junior version

The song was covered in 1998 by Brazilian brother-sister singing duo Sandy & Junior
Sandy & Junior
Sandy & Junior was a Brazilian pop music duo consisting of siblings Sandy Leah Lima and her brother Durval de Lima Junior . They have one of the 10 best-selling albums ever in Brazil...

. The Portuguese-language
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 version, No Fundo Do Coração ("Deep Inside The Heart"), was released as the third single from the teens' eighth album, Era Uma Vez (Ao Vivo). The album was certified Diamond in Brazil in 1999 by the Brazilian Association of Discs Producers (ABPD) for sales of over 1,8 million copies in Brazil alone. The album was their last for PolyGram Records before moving to Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

.

Cascada version

German Eurotrance group Cascada
Cascada
Cascada is a German Eurodance act most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", and "Evacuate the Dancefloor"...

 covered "Truly Madly Deeply" on the album Everytime We Touch
Everytime We Touch (album)
Sharon Mawer from Allmusic gave the album a mixed review and said the album's songs were for "dancing to" in a "club with lights flashing and people all around" but said that "after an hour of the same repetitive beat, one's senses can become a little jaded." Dom Passantino from Stylus Magazine...

and released it as the second single in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Although the album version of the song is a ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

, there is also a trance version of the song more in keeping with their typical style, which is the main single version. Both versions are featured on the UK edition of the album. First released in the U.S. exclusively in the iTunes store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...

 on 27 February, the U.S. physical release was 13 March 2007.

Track listing

UK CD single Part 1
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" [radio edit] – 2:57
  2. "Everytime We Touch
    Everytime We Touch (Cascada song)
    "Everytime We Touch" is the debut single by German dance act Cascada, which borrows the chorus from Maggie Reilly's song of the same name. The song was produced by Manuel Reuter and Yann Pfeiffer. It was a worldwide dance-hit in early 2006...

    " – 3:19


UK CD single Part 2
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" [radio edit] – 2:57
  2. "Truly Madly Deeply" [album version] – 4:14
  3. "Truly Madly Deeply" [club mix] – 4:34
  4. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Styles & Breeze remix] – 5:03
  5. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Thomas Gold remix] – 8:32
  6. "Truly Madly Deeply" [DJ Bomba & El Senor remix] – 6:49
  7. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Frisco Remix] – 6:07


German 12" single
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" [2-4 Grooves Remix] – 6:00
  2. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Thomas Gold Remix] – 8:29


German CD single
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" [radio edit] – 2:55
  2. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Thomas Gold radio edit] – 3:36
  3. "Truly Madly Deeply" [2-4 Grooves radio edit] – 3:27
  4. "Truly Madly Deeply" [album version] – 4:12
  5. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Candy radio edit] – 3:18

U.S. 12" single
  1. "Truly Madly Deeply" [radio edit] – 2:58
  2. "Truly Madly Deeply" [album version] – 4:12
  3. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Thomas Gold radio edit] – 3:38
  4. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Tune Up! radio edit] – 2:58
  5. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Thomas Gold remix] – 8:30
  6. "Truly Madly Deeply" [UK club mix] – 4:34
  7. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Tune Up! remix] – 4:35
  8. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Styles & Breeze remix] – 4:58
  9. "Truly Madly Deeply" [DJ Bomba & El Senor remix] – 6:48
  10. "Truly Madly Deeply" [Frisco remix] – 6:00


Australian (2007)
  1. Truly Madly Deeply (2-4 Grooves Radio Edit) 3:30
  2. Truly Madly Deeply (UK Radio Edit) 2:54
  3. Truly Madly Deeply (Radio Pop Mix) 4:14
  4. Truly Madly Deeply (Ivan Filini Radio Edit) 3:07
  5. Truly Madly Deeply (Album Version)
  6. Truly Madly Deeply (Styles & Breeze Remix) 5:03
  7. Truly Madly Deeply (Tune Up! Remix) 4:35
  8. Truly Madly Deeply (DJ Bomba & El Senor Remix) 6:49
  9. Truly Madly Deeply (Thomas Gold Remix) 8:30

Other remixes
  • Truly Madly Deeply (Alex K Remix) 6:15
  • Truly Madly Deeply (Original Dance Remix (Asian Edition)
  • Truly Madly Deeply (Original Dance Edit (Asian Edition)

Chart performance

The Cascada single entered the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 at number 17 solely on downloads and peaked at number 4 the following week, after its physical release. In Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, it remained in the top 4 for four weeks.
Charts (2006) Peak
position
Austrian Singles Chart 22
Irish Singles Chart
Irish Singles Chart
The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...

3
UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

4
Swedish Singles Chart 11
Belgium (Ultratop) (Wallonia) 25
U.S. Hot Dance Airplay 14
Finnish Singles Chart 16
Dutch top 40 32
Charts (2007) Peak
position
German Singles Chart 26
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 39
Latvian Chart 10

Release and track listings

Country Date Format Label
United Kingdom 31 January 2006 CD
Germany 14 February 2006 12" Zooland Records
Germany 2 March 2006 12" Zeitgeist
United States 13 March 2006 12" Robbins Entertainment
Germany 6 April 2006 CD Zeitgeist
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