I Knew I Loved You

"I Knew I Loved You"
Single by Savage Garden
from the album Affirmation
Released	28 September 1999
Format	CD single, Cassette
Recorded	1999
Genre	Pop, adult contemporary
Length	4:10
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Daniel Jones, Darren Hayes
Producer(s)	Daniel Jones, Darren Hayes, Walter Afanasieff
Savage Garden singles chronology
"The Animal Song" (1999) "I Knew I Loved You" (1999) "Crash and Burn" (2000)

"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. The song went straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's second number one in the United States after "Truly Madly Deeply". After its third week at number one, the single was knocked off by Mariah Carey's "Thank God I Found You" featuring Joe and 98 Degrees. It later returned to the top again the following week for its fourth and final week at the top.

It was the last song by an Australian artist to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for over 12 years until Gotye peaked at number one with his single "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra) in 2012.

The music video featured then-teen actress Kirsten Dunst as Darren Hayes' love interest and received a heavy rotation on MTV.

Music video

The music video was filmed by director Kevin Bray in August 1999 on a New York City Subway set that had previously been used on the sitcom Seinfeld.^[1] It features Hayes playing out a romantic plot on a subway train, with a female passenger (played by American actress Kirsten Dunst) as the object of his affections. At one point, the train comes to a stop due to a power outage; red emergency lighting comes on and everyone in the carriage joins hands. Hayes, who is sitting opposite his aforementioned love interest, extends his hand to her. As they touch, the video cuts to a montage of the couple walking through a park, bathed in sunlight, laughing and holding hands. The video then cuts back to the carriage as the power comes back on and the train pulls into the station. Hayes and the woman exit with the other passengers, and share a fleeting glance before going their separate ways. Shots of the band performing alone on the subway platform and in the carriage are interspersed throughout the video.

Track listing

UK CD1 "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 "I Knew I Loved You" (acoustic version) – 4:08 "Mine (And You Could Be)" – 4:29 CD2 "I Knew I Loved You" (radio version) – 3:49 "I Knew I Loved You" (club mix) – 8:26 "Universe" – 4:20 Cassette "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 "I Knew I Loved You" (acoustic version) – 4:08 America "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 "I Knew I Loved You" (7" Mini-Me Remix) – 4:17 Australia "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 "I Knew I Loved You" (acoustic version) – 4:08

Japan Maxi-CD "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 "I Knew I Loved You" (radio version) – 3:49 "I Knew I Loved You" (acoustic version) – 4:08 Double A-side "Last Christmas" – 4:48 "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 Europe CD1 "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 "I Knew I Loved You" (radio version) – 3:49 CD2 "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:12 "I Knew I Loved You" (extended instrumental version) – 5:06 "I Knew I Loved You" (Daniel's Remix) – 4:19 "Mine (And You Could Be)" – 4:29

Charts

The song was a huge success in the United States, on the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent four weeks at the top, and an eventual 124 weeks on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart,^[2] breaking the record for 123 weeks set by another of the duo's songs, "Truly Madly Deeply" (which, in terms of sales and later time spent on the Recurrents chart, is still the #1 AC song of all time). It ranked #21 in the All Time Adult Contemporary Chart. The song was also certified Platinum by the RIAA and became the highest-played song on US radio of 2000.

Weekly charts

Charts (1999–2000)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[3]	4
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[4]	36
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[5]	9
Canada Top Singles (RPM)	1
France (SNEP)[6]	43
Germany (Official German Charts)[7]	34
Ireland (IRMA)	18
Italy (FIMI)[8]	15
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[9]	54
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10]	3
Norway (VG-lista)[11]	7
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[12]	3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[13]	34
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)	10
US Billboard Hot 100[14]	1
US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	1
US Billboard Adult Contemporary	1
US Billboard Adult Top 40	3

Year-end charts

Chart (1999)	Position
Australia (ARIA)[15]	27

Chart (2000)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[16]	7

Decade-end charts

End-of-decade chart (2000–2009)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[16]	54
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[17]	1

All-time charts

Chart	Position
US Billboard Adult Contemporary [18]	21

Cover versions

• Country singer Daryle Singletary covered the song for his 2000 album, Now and Again. His version reached #55 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 2000.
• Cantopop singer Edison Chen covered the song for his 2002 album, Break Through.

See also

• List of number-one singles of 2000 (Canada)
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2000
• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1999 and 2000 (U.S.)
• List of Billboard Mainstream Top 40 number-one songs of 2000

References

1. Savage Garden diary entry for 26 August 1999
2. "CHART BEAT BONUS". Billboard.com. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
3. "Australian-charts.com – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
4. "Austriancharts.at – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
5. "Ultratop.be – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You" (in Dutch). Ultratip.
6. "Lescharts.com – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You" (in French). Les classement single.
7. "Musicline.de – Savage Garden Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
8. "Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: S". hitparadeitalia.it.
9. "Dutchcharts.nl – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
10. "Charts.org.nz – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You". Top 40 Singles.
11. "Norwegiancharts.com – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You". VG-lista.
12. "Swedishcharts.com – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You". Singles Top 100.
13. "Swisscharts.com – Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You". Swiss Singles Chart.
14. "Savage Garden – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Savage Garden.
15. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
16. "Billboard Top 100 - 2000". Retrieved 2010-08-31.
17. "Billboard's Top Adult Contemporary Songs of the 2000's". Retrieved 2010-08-31.
18. "The Top 100 Adult Contemporary Songs Ever". Billboard. Posthumous Global Mdia. Retrieved 2013-10-17.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics