"Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)"
Single by Shania Twain
from the album Up!
B-side
ReleasedAugust 11, 2003
Recorded2002
Genre
Length4:01
LabelMercury Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Shania Twain singles chronology
"Forever and for Always"
(2003)		 "Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)"
(2003)		 "She's Not Just a Pretty Face"
(2003)
Music video
"Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)" on YouTube

"Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was released as the fifth single from her fourth studio album Up! on August 11, 2003. It was one of two, along with "Ka-Ching!", to be exclusively released to Europe. The song was written by Twain and her then-husband Mutt Lange. It was announced onstage by Twain that "Thank You Baby!" would be the next single from Up! at the Kilkenny concert, her first concert since the Come On Over Tour ended in December 1999.

The song had decent success on the charts, boosted by club play of the Almighty remixes;[1]the song was a top 10 hit in Scotland and barely missed the UK top 10. The European single was released on August 11, 2003 and the UK single on August 25, 2003.

Twain performed the song on the Up! Tour. After almost two decades she didn't perform nor mentioning the song, she finally perform it on her Queen of Me Tour.

Composition

"Thank You Baby!" is performed in the key of G♭ major in compound quadruple (12
8) time with a tempo of 114 beats per minute. Twain's vocals span from G♭3 to E♭5.[2]

Critical reception

Critical reception for "Thank You Baby!" was warm. About.com called the song a "nice mid-tempo ballad",[3] while Rolling Stone magazine noted it conveyed "motherly intimacy and an undeniable pop sense".[4]

Music video

Shania on TV screens in the "Thank You Baby!" video

The music video for "Thank You Baby!" was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at First Light Film Studio by director Paul Boyd. It was exclusively released in Europe on July 28, 2003. It is set in an art gallery, with three four-sided TVs stacked on top of each other in the middle of the room. Twain is singing on the TVs (her head on the top screen, her torso in the middle and her legs on the bottom), while the people in the gallery start noticing her and crowd around the TVs to watch. Also, paintings of an orchestra come to life to play along to the song. The video is available on select CD singles. It was later uploaded to YouTube in October 2009 and has over 8.9 million views as of August 2023.[5]

Chart performance

"Thank You Baby!" proved to be less successful than the previous singles released from Up!, nevertheless it just missed the top ten in the UK when it debuted at its peak of number 11. It entered the chart on September 6, 2003, and remained on the chart for seven weeks.[6] While it did break the streak of top ten singles at seven in the UK, it did become her tenth top 20 single. In Scotland however the song cracked the top ten, peaking at number 10. The song also hit the top 20 in Austria and Germany. The moderate chart success led to "Thank You Baby!" only peaking at number 23 on the European Hot 100 Singles chart.

Track listings

These are the formats for major releases.

Audio versions

  • Red Album Version (4:01)
  • Green Album Version (4:01)
  • Blue Album Version (4:01)
  • Almighty Mix (6:36)
  • Almighty Dub (6:33)
  • Live from Up! Live in Chicago (4:12)

Charts

Chart (2003–04) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 17
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)[8] 23
France (SNEP)[9] 72
Germany (Official German Charts)[10] 20
Ireland (IRMA)[11] 23
Romania (Romanian Top 100)[12] 53
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[13] 48
Scotland (OCC)[14] 10
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[15] 35
UK Singles (OCC)[16] 11

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Germany August 11, 2003 CD single Mercury [17]
United Kingdom August 25, 2003 [18]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.almightyrecords.com/remixes/277/ Almighty Remixes
  2. ↑ Twain, Shania (17 March 2003). "Shania Twain "Thank You Baby!" Sheet Music in F Major - Download & Print". Musicnotes.com. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  3. ↑ CD Review: Up – Shania Twain – By Matt Bjorke
  4. ↑ Shania Twain: Up! : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
  5. ↑ Shania Twain - Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon) (Official Music Video), retrieved 2023-08-11
  6. ↑ Official Charts Company
  7. ↑ "Shania Twain – Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard. September 13, 2003. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Shania Twain – Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Shania Twain – Forever and for Always" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  11. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Thank You Baby". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Arhiva romanian top 100". SC Vento Consultanta. Archived from the original on May 14, 2005. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Shania Twain – Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Shania Twain – Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Shania Twain: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Thank You Baby: Amazon.de: CDs & Vinyl". Amazon Germany.
  18. ↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. August 23, 2003. p. 23. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
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