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I Breathe

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"I Breathe"
Single by Vacuum
from the album The Plutonium Cathedral
Released1996
Length
  • 4:37 (album edit)
  • 3:55 (radio edit)
LabelStockholm
Songwriter(s)Alexander Bard, Anders Wollbeck
Producer(s)Alexander Bard, Anders Wollbeck, Anders Hansson, Jacob Schulze
Vacuum singles chronology
"I Breathe"
(1996)
"Science of the Sacred"
(1997)

"I Breathe" is a song by Swedish pop band Vacuum. The track was written by Alexander Bard and Anders Wollbeck, who co-produced the song with Anders Hansson and Jacob Schulze. It was released in 1996 as the band's debut single and peaked at number two in Sweden, becoming Vacuum's highest-charting single in their home country as well as their only top-40 hit.[1] The song also experienced airplay success in Italy, where it peaked at number four on Music & Media's Italian airplay chart.

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1997) Peak
position
Italy Airplay (Music & Media)[2] 4
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[1] 2

Year-end charts

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Chart (1996) Position
Sweden (Topplistan)[3] 54
Chart (1997) Position
Sweden (Topplistan)[4] 32

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Sweden (GLF)[5] Gold 15,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Vacuum – I Breathe". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Major Market Airplay: Italy" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 14, no. 28. 12 July 1997. p. 23.
  3. ^ "Årslista Singlar, 1996" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Årslista Singlar, 1997" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  5. ^ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2025.