I Keep On Loving You

"I Keep On Loving You"
"I Keep On Loving You"
Single by Reba
from the album Keep On Loving You
Released	February 1, 2010
Genre	Country
Length	3:13
Label	Starstruck/Valory
Songwriter(s)	Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride
Producer(s)	Tony Brown, Reba McEntire
Reba singles chronology

"I Keep On Loving You" is a song recorded by American country music singer Reba McEntire. Written by Ronnie Dunn and Terry McBride, it is the third single from McEntire's studio album Keep On Loving You. The song was released to radio in February 2010 as her eighty-fourth chart single.

History

"I Keep On Loving You" was written by Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn,^[1] along with his frequent co-writing partner, former McBride & the Ride lead singer Terry McBride. In the song, the female narrator expresses patience with her partner after he has made mistakes, telling him that she "keep[s] on loving" him.^[1]

McEntire told The Boot that she identified with the song because of her long marriage to her manager, Narvel Blackstock, as well as Dunn's long marriage to his wife, Janine: "We have been through rough times and tough times and arguments, but we made up over and over again."^[1] Reba also performed this song on the Faith Hill special: Home for the Holidays, for people giving their love to tell their adopted kids to show how much they mean to them.

She performed the song at the 2010 ACM Awards. Dunn recorded his version of the song for the Cracker Barrel edition of his self-titled debut album in 2012.

Music video

The music video was directed by Michael Salomon, and premiered on CMT & GAC in March 2010. Mostly shot in black-and-white plus color shots of Reba singing, the video depicts a young bride and groom's wedding. She also portrays the bride's aunt. The bride's parents are played by Christian LeBlanc and Tracey E. Bregman (Michael and Lauren Baldwin from the CBS soap The Young & The Restless).

Critical reception

The song has been met with generally favorable reviews. Mikael Wood and Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times thought that the song was an example of "mixed messages" on the album, saying that its theme of "patience and forgiveness for a partner who missteps time after time" was in contradiction to "Consider Me Gone."^[2]

Blake Boldt of Engine 145 gave the song a thumbs-up, saying that it "becomes something special on the strength of her performance."^[3] Bobby Peacock of Roughstock also commended McEntire's performance, but thought that the second verse was weakly written and that the song was overproduced.^[4]

Chart performance

"I Keep On Loving You" debuted at number 57 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of February 6, 2010. It also debuted number 90 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for the week of May 8, 2010, and at number 98 on the Canadian Hot 100 for the week of June 12, 2010. It entered the Top 10 on the Hot Country Songs chart for the week of June 19, 2010 becoming her 58th Top 10 hit on that chart, with a peak of number 7 on the chart dated July 3, 2010.

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^[5]	97
Canada Country (Billboard)^[6]	6
US Billboard Hot 100^[7]	78
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[8]	7

Year-end charts

Chart (2010)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[9]	53

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Hackett, Vernell (1 February 2010). "Reba McEntire Keeps on Relating to Songs ... and Fans". The Boot. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
^ Wood, Mikael; Randy Lewis (20 August 2009). "Record Rack". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
^ Boldt, Blake (11 January 2010). "Reba McEntire — "I Keep On Loving You"". Engine 145. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
^ Peacock, Bobby (22 February 2010). "Reba McEntire — "I Keep On Loving You"". Roughstock. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
^ "Reba McEntire Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
^ "Reba McEntire Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
^ "Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
^ "Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
^ "Best of 2010: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.

[boot-1] Hackett, Vernell (1 February 2010). "Reba McEntire Keeps on Relating to Songs ... and Fans". The Boot. Retrieved 23 February 2010.

[2] Wood, Mikael; Randy Lewis (20 August 2009). "Record Rack". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 February 2010.

[3] Boldt, Blake (11 January 2010). "Reba McEntire — "I Keep On Loving You"". Engine 145. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2010.

[4] Peacock, Bobby (22 February 2010). "Reba McEntire — "I Keep On Loving You"". Roughstock. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2010.

[sc_Billboardcanadianhot100_Reba_McEntire-5] "Reba McEntire Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.

[sc_Billboardcanadacountry_Reba_McEntire-6] "Reba McEntire Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.

[sc_Billboardhot100_Reba_McEntire-7] "Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Reba_McEntire-8] "Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2022.

[9] "Best of 2010: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.

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Albums Singles Videos
1970s	"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (with Jacky Ward) "Sweet Dreams"
1980s	"(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven" "I Can See Forever in Your Eyes" "I Don't Think Love Ought to Be That Way" "Today All Over Again" "Only You (And You Alone)" "I'm Not That Lonely Yet" "Can't Even Get the Blues" "You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving" "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)" "There Ain't No Future in This" "Just a Little Love" "He Broke Your Memory Last Night" "How Blue" "Somebody Should Leave" "Have I Got a Deal for You" "Only in My Mind" "Whoever's in New England" "Little Rock" "What Am I Gonna Do About You" "Let the Music Lift You Up" "One Promise Too Late" "The Last One to Know" "Love Will Find Its Way to You" "A Sunday Kind of Love" "I Know How He Feels" "New Fool at an Old Game" "Cathy's Clown" "'Til Love Comes Again" "Little Girl"
1990s	"Walk On" "You Lie" "Rumor Has It" "Fancy" "Fallin' Out of Love" "For My Broken Heart" "Is There Life Out There" "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" "The Greatest Man I Never Knew" "Take It Back" "The Heart Won't Lie" (with Vince Gill) "It's Your Call" "Does He Love You" (with Linda Davis) "They Asked About You" "Why Haven't I Heard from You" "She Thinks His Name Was John" "Till You Love Me" "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" "And Still" "On My Own" "Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands" "Starting Over Again" "You Keep Me Hangin' On" "The Fear of Being Alone" "How Was I to Know" "I'd Rather Ride Around with You" "What If It's You" "If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Brooks & Dunn) "Forever Love" "Wrong Night" "One Honest Heart" "What Do You Say"
2000s	"I'll Be" "We're So Good Together" "I'm a Survivor" "Sweet Music Man" "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain" "Somebody" "He Gets That from Me" "My Sister" "You're Gonna Be (Always Loved by Me)" "Love Needs a Holiday" "Because of You" (with Kelly Clarkson) "The Only Promise That Remains" (with Justin Timberlake) "Every Other Weekend" (with Kenny Chesney or Skip Ewing) "Strange" "Consider Me Gone"
2010s	"I Keep On Loving You" "Turn On the Radio" "If I Were a Boy" "When Love Gets a Hold of You" "Somebody's Chelsea" "Going Out Like That" "Until They Don't Love You" "Just Like Them Horses" "Softly and Tenderly" "Back to God" "God and My Girlfriends" "Freedom"
2020s	"Does He Love You" (with Dolly Parton) "I Can't"
Other singles	"Mind Your Own Business" (with Hank Williams Jr.) "Oklahoma Swing" (with Vince Gill) "What If" "Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Brooks & Dunn) "Forever Country" (with Various artists) "Be a Light" (with Thomas Rhett)