Blame It on Your Heart

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"Blame It on Your Heart"
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Cassette single cover
Single by Patty Loveless
from the album Only What I Feel
B-side "What's a Broken Heart"
ReleasedApril 3, 1993
Recorded1993
Genre Country
Length3:34
Label Epic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Emory Gordy Jr.
Patty Loveless singles chronology
"Send a Message to My Heart"
(1992)
"Blame It on Your Heart"
(1993)
"Nothin' but the Wheel"
(1993)

"Blame It on Your Heart" is a song written by Harlan Howard and Kostas and recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from her album Only What I Feel . A cover version by Deborah Allen was featured prominently in the 1993 film The Thing Called Love .

Contents

David Keith played the ex-boyfriend in the video.

"Blame It on Your Heart" was also recorded by Heidi Raye and released on Harlan Howard Records.

Content

The song and its video describe an ex-boyfriend who has a "lying, cheating, cold dead-beating, two-timing, double-dealing, mean-mistreating, loving" heart that he should blame for whatever backstabbing he gets from any other woman he does to what he did to its narrator. [1]

Critical reception

In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 147 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking. [2]

Chart performance

The song charted for 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching number 1 during the week of June 19, 1993. [3]

Weekly charts

Chart (1993)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [4] 2
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [5] 12
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [7] 18
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 12

Music video

The music video for "Blame It on Your Heart" was directed by Sherman Halsey,[ citation needed ] and premiered in early 1993.

Covers

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References

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