Rank SinatraStart voting
▶ Listen and vote
Song tier list
Break My Stride
Matthew Wilder
?No votes yet. Be the first to rank it.
Vote on this song
- Album
- '80s Pop Hits
- Released
- 2001
- Genres
- Pop
- Length
- 3:00
- Tempo
- 110 BPM
- Label
- SMSP
▶ Listen and vote
About this song
Wilder wrote the song in part out of frustration with his label, Arista Records. He left Arista after a note from Clive Davis called the song interesting but not a hit, and he then went to Epic subsidiary Private I Records to make an album and release the single. The song peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1984, and Diddy later sampled it in his 1997 song "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down."
What it's about
The song is about a girl leaving Wilder behind as she moves on to further adventures.
Summary written with AI, based on the song's page on Genius.
Fun facts
- Sampled in 1 other song, like “2020 has progressed past the need for months by jan Misali”.
- Covered 7 times, including “Break My Stride by Santamaria”.
- Written by Greg Prestopino and Matthew Wilder.
- Produced by Bill Elliott, Rick Chudacoff and Peter Bunetta.