The song was a last minute addition to the album, as Clive Calder, then-chairman of Zomba, heard the song and called Jive Records president Barry Weiss, who then contacted the band's manager, Johnny Wright. In the song, he tells her he doesn't care about her shady past, as long as she loves him back. It's about a man professing his love for a woman. In the US, although it was never released as a commercial single, it became an MTV staple and a radio airplay hit, spending 56 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, with a peak of #4. The song is their biggest selling single in the UK and the 13th biggest selling boyband single of the 90's in the UK selling 430,000 copies. At The 1997 MTV Europe Music Awards the song won Select Video. It peaked at #1 in New Zealand and the Philippines, #2 in Australia and Austria, #3 in the United Kingdom, #4 in Switzerland and Sweden, and #5 in the Netherlands and Norway. It is one of the bands' largest hits and considered one of their signature songs. It was released in September 1997 internationally and in October of the same year in the United States. " As Long As You Love Me" is the second single by the Backstreet Boys from their debut album in the United States and the second single from Backstreet's Back internationally. September 1997 (Europe) Octo(United States)
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