[2] The power ballad[1] is the band's longest-lasting number one single and biggest hit, spending eight weeks at the top of the Billboard country chart.

Ben Mills, Boyz II Men and Shane Filan of Westlife have included covers in their respective albums.

On The Sing-Off (season 4, episode 3), judge Shawn Stockman, of Boyz II Men fame, mentioned that the song had been offered to them first, and they decided to turn it down.

With this accomplishment, it set a record for the longest run at number one on the country chart since Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems was initiated in 1990.

This run was later tied by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett's 2003 single "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", and later surpassed by Morgan Wallen's "You Proof" in 2023, which spent ten non-consecutive weeks at number one.

The song was then remixed for pop radio (a tactic commonly used to present country-leaning songs to mainstream audiences) by Brian Tankersley, who redid the entire backing track with session musicians and added a new key change to D major for the final chorus and A minor for the outro; also having lead singer Richie McDonald re-record his vocals for the final portion of the remix in the new key.

[11] It also made Lonestar the first country band to place a song in the top ten of the Hot 100 year-end countdown.

[15] A review in Billboard was mostly favorable, praising Richie McDonald's lead vocals for "perfectly convey[ing] the tenderness and wonder felt in a loving relationship" but saying that some of the lyrics were "a little too clichéd".

This was the first video that Lonestar members do not wear cowboy hats, and Keech Rainwater no longer has long hair.

English singer Duncan James recorded a version of "Amazed" from his debut studio album Future Past (2006).