Amazed

"Amazed"
Single by Lonestar
from the album Lonely Grill
B-side"Tell Her"
ReleasedMarch 22, 1999 (1999-03-22)
Genre
Length
  • 4:00 (album version)
  • 4:29 (pop remix)
  • 4:22 (2023 version)
LabelBNA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Lonestar singles chronology
"Saturday Night"
(1999)
"Amazed"
(1999)
"Smile"
(1999)
Alternate cover
Alternate US pop cover
Music video
"Amazed" on YouTube

"Amazed" is a song by American country music group Lonestar, released on March 22, 1999, to country radio as the second single from their third studio album Lonely Grill (1999).[2] The power ballad[1] is the band's longest-lasting number one single and biggest hit, spending eight weeks at the top of the Billboard country chart. The song was written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo, and Chris Lindsey. A pop remix of the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts in 2000. The song has sold over 1,650,000 digital copies in the US as of February 2016.[3]

Only five years after Lonestar's "Amazed" topped the Billboard Hot 100 did another country song top the chart, as Carrie Underwood's "Inside Your Heaven" debuted at number one on the Hot 100 in 2005, making it one of just two country songs to top the Hot 100 during the 2000s.

Since the release of the original, the song has been covered by Bonnie Tyler, Duncan James, and Fady Maalouf, all of whom have released their respective versions as singles. Ben Mills, Boyz II Men and Shane Filan of Westlife have included covers in their respective albums. On The Sing-Off (season 4, episode 3), judge Shawn Stockman, of Boyz II Men fame, mentioned that the song had been offered to them first, and they decided to turn it down.

  1. ^ a b "Official Charts Flashback 2000: Craig David – Fill Me In". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 7, 2020. American band Lonestar landed inside the Top 40 with their country power ballad Amazed
  2. ^ Bjorke, Matt. "Lonestar - Lonely Grill CD Review". about.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
  3. ^ Bjorke, Matt (February 23, 2016). "The Top 30 Digital Singles: February 22, 2016". Roughstock.