All or Nothing (O-Town song)

"All or Nothing"
Single by O-Town
from the album O-Town
ReleasedMarch 20, 2001 (2001-03-20)
Length
  • 4:41 (album version)
  • 4:12 (radio edit)
LabelJ
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Steve Mac
O-Town singles chronology
"Liquid Dreams"
(2000)
"All or Nothing"
(2001)
"We Fit Together"
(2001)
Music video
"All or Nothing" on YouTube

"All or Nothing" is a song by American boy band O-Town. The track was written by Wayne Hector and Steve Mac, and produced by Mac. It was released on March 20, 2001, as the second single from their debut album, O-Town (2001). The song reached number three in the United States, number five in Canada, and number four in the United Kingdom.

In 2006, Irish boy band Westlife recorded a cover version on their seventh studio album, The Love Album—to which was used extensively as background music during the audition stages of The X Factor UK. The song itself charted without being properly released as a single in the United Kingdom. Westlife later revealed that the song was first offered to them but Simon Cowell, their executive producer, rejected it and passed it on to O-Town, becoming their hit.[citation needed] Rolling Stone ranked the song as the 32nd best boy band song of all time.[1]

  1. ^ Walters, Barry; Spanos, Brittany; Sheffield, Rob; Shaffer, Claire; Pipia, Alexa (July 24, 2020). "75 Greatest Boy Band Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 22, 2021.