If I Didn't Love You (Tina Arena song)

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"If I Didn't Love You"
If I Didn't Love You Tina Arena Artwork.jpg
Single by Tina Arena
from the album In Deep
B-side "Any Other Love"
Released3 November 1997 (1997-11-03) [1]
Length4:21 (album version)
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
  • Tina Arena
  • Pam Reswick
  • Steve Werfel
Producer(s) Mick Jones
Tina Arena singles chronology
"Burn"
(1997)
"If I Didn't Love You"
(1997)
"Now I Can Dance"
(1998)

"If I Didn't Love You" is a song written by Tina Arena, Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel, released as the second single released from Arena's third studio album, In Deep (1997), in November 1997. The song reached number 41 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. It was later included as track 11 on Arena's 2004 Greatest Hits compilation. [2] This song is written in the key of G. [3]

Contents

Track listing

Australian CD single [4]

  1. "If I Didn't Love You"
  2. "Any Other Love"
  3. "Burn" (the T & G Burn the Candle at Both Ends dub remix)

Charts

Chart (1997)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [1] 41

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