I Hope You Dance

For the album, see I Hope You Dance (album).

"I Hope You Dance"
Single by Lee Ann Womack featuring Sons of the Desert
from the album I Hope You Dance
B-side"Lonely Too"
ReleasedMarch 20, 2000 (2000-03-20)
GenreCountry pop
Length4:54
LabelMCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Mark Wright
Lee Ann Womack singles chronology
"Don't Tell Me"
(1999) 		"I Hope You Dance"
(2000) 		"Ashes by Now"
(2000)
Sons of the Desert singles chronology
"Everybody's Gotta Grow up Sometime"
(1999) 		"I Hope You Dance"
(2000) 		"What I Did Right"
(2001)
Music video
"I Hope You Dance" on YouTube

"I Hope You Dance" is a crossover country pop song written by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers and recorded by American country music singer Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert. (Drew and Tim Womack of Sons of the Desert are not related to Lee Ann.)[1] It is the title track on Womack's 2000 album. Released on March 20, 2000, the song reached number one on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts, and also reached number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100. It is considered to be Womack's signature song,[2][3] and it is the only Billboard number one for both Womack and Sons of the Desert.

"I Hope You Dance" won the 2001 Country Music Association (CMA) Award for Single of the Year, as well as the Academy of Country Music (ACM), Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), and Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) awards for Song of the Year. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and was nominated for Grammy Award for Song of the Year. "I Hope You Dance" is ranked 352 in the list Songs of the Century compiled by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "I Hope You Dance" reached its 2 million sales mark in the United States in October 2015,[4] and as of August 2016, it has sold 2,093,000 digital copies in the US.[5]

  1. ^ Marie, Lisa (January 5, 2016). "One-Hit Wonder: Sons of the Desert/Drew Womack". KRFO-FM.
  2. ^ Womack's song of 'Hope' dances its way to success
  3. ^ Anderson, Sherry (April 2001). "Countrypolitan's Versatility is Evident in Today's Country Music". Countrypolitan.com. Archived from the original on June 16, 2007.
  4. ^ Bjorke, Matt (October 27, 2015). "Top 30 Digital Singles: October 27, 2015". Roughstock. Archived from the original on June 17, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  5. ^ Bjorke, Matt (August 23, 2016). "Top 30 Digital Singles Sales Report: August 23, 2016". Roughstock.