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"What If I Said" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Anita Cochran as a duet with Steve Wariner. The single was released in November 1997 as was Cochran's only No. 1 single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, as well as her only Top 40 single on that chart. In addition, the song was Wariner's first chart entry in three years, as well as his first No. 1 since 1989's "I Got Dreams." The song was nominated by the Country Music Association for Vocal Duet of the Year in 1998.

"What If I Said" can be found on Cochran's 1997 album Back to You, as well as Wariner's 1998 album Burnin' the Roadhouse Down.

Content

The song is a ballad with Cochran and Wariner portraying two characters who are in unsatisfying relationships with other people, but express their feelings for each other.

It is in the key of C major with a primary chord pattern of C9-Dm7♭5 and an approximate tempo of 60 beats per minute.

Personnel

From Back to You liner notes.

Musicians

Anita Cochran - vocals
Eddie Bayers - drums
Eric Darken - percussion
Paul Franklin - steel guitar
Nashville String Machine - strings
Steve Nathan - piano
Don Potter - acoustic guitar
Brent Rowan - electric guitar
Steve Wariner - vocals
Willie Weeks - bass guitar

Music video

The music video was directed by Jim Shea and premiered in 1997.

Chart positions

Chart (1997-1998)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)	1
US Billboard Hot 100	59
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1998)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)	47
US Country Songs (Billboard)	22

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
Whitburn, p. 448
Mayor, Alan (18 November 2014). The Nashville Family Album: A Country Music Scrapbook. Macmillan. p. 141. ISBN 9781466885677.
"What If I Said". MusicNotes.com. 3 August 2000. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
Back to You (CD booklet). Anita Cochran. Warner Nashville. 1997. 9 46395-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
"Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 3467." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. March 2, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
"Anita Cochran Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
"Anita Cochran Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
"RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1998". RPM. December 14, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
"Best of 1998: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.

v t e Steve Wariner
Studio albums	Steve Wariner Midnight Fire One Good Night Deserves Another Life's Highway It's a Crazy World I Should Be with You I Got Dreams Laredo I Am Ready Drive No More Mr. Nice Guy Burnin' the Roadhouse Down Two Teardrops Faith in You Steal Another Day
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (1987)
Notable singles	"I'm Already Taken" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" "Your Memory" "By Now" "All Roads Lead to You" "Kansas City Lights" "Midnight Fire" "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers" "Why Goodbye" "What I Didn't Do" "Heart Trouble" "Some Fools Never Learn" "You Can Dream of Me" "Life's Highway" "Starting Over Again" "Small Town Girl" "The Weekend" "Lynda" "Baby I'm Yours" "I Should Be with You" "Hold On (A Little Longer) "Where Did I Go Wrong" "I Got Dreams" "When I Could Come Home to You" "The Domino Theory" "Precious Thing" "There for Awhile" "Leave Him Out of This" "The Tip of My Fingers" "A Woman Loves" "If I Didn't Love You" "Drivin' and Cryin'" "It Won't Be Over You" "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down" "Two Teardrops" "Katie Wants a Fast One"
Guest singles	"That's How You Know When Love's Right" "That Hand That Rocks the Cradle" "What If I Said" "Been There"
Related articles	Discography "Longneck Bottle" "One Small Miracle" "Nothin' but the Taillights" "Where the Blacktop Ends"

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