As Long as You Love Me
Backstreet Boys
1997
Annual listening-list association, not an original-release-date field. Original release year reconciled with reviewed recording-specific Artist Essentials evidence in v3.6.
Release: 1997
Release: 1997Source checked
V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. The original artist album chronology and song-specific anthology field establish 1997. The isolated inherited 1996 field on another current package is rejected.
The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.
Owner-supplied release annotations
Reported dates in 1997.html. Not independently established; neighboring dates can reflect album/single or regional differences.
Backstreet Boys - original release timeline
The artist timeline explicitly dates We've Got It Goin' On to 1995, Quit Playing Games to 1996, Everybody and As Long as You Love Me to 1997, Drowning to 2001, Incomplete to 2005, Inconsolable to 2007 and Don't Go Breaking My Heart to 2018. It also documents formation in Orlando in 1993 and the later group albums. Only year precision is used; regional day differences are not treated as exact worldwide first dates.
Backstreet Boys - original U.S. album program
The artist explicitly dates the U.S. album to 1997 and lists As Long as You Love Me and All I Have to Give among its recordings. The current program includes Everybody; no claim is made that every later-listed addition was on the earliest U.S. pressing.
Backstreet's Back - original program and named Everybody Radio Edit
The original 1997 program explicitly names Everybody (Radio Edit) and includes As Long as You Love Me and All I Have to Give. An inherited 1996 As Long as You Love Me field conflicts with the artist's original release chronology and is rejected.
The Hits - Chapter One - recording-specific original single fields
Drowning retains its original 2001 single date, independently confirmed by the artist's timeline. Quit Playing Games retains its original 1996 single field. Everybody Extended Version and More Than That Radio Mix are explicitly named; inherited years of unrelated anthology tracks are not used.
Inspiration and background
Supplied note - not independently verified
This note came with the supplied collection and has not been independently verified.
Unconditional love and acceptance in a relationship.
Evidence scope: Source-provided note, not an established account of the songwriter's intent
Sources for this information
Owner-supplied 1997.html, song-list position 104
Supplied annotation reproduced with attribution; underlying historical claims have NOT been independently verified.
Other appearances and versions
catalog version unspecified
Textual identity reconciliation, not audio-fingerprint or exact-pressing verification. Version labels are catalog safeguards.
An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.
Sources and scope
Imported annual selection - further review needed
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Owner-supplied 1997.html
Original list position 104; annual selection retained from supplied material, not independently corroborated.
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