"Truly Madly Deeply" is a song by Australian pop duo Savage Garden, released in March 1997 as the third single from their self-titled debut album (1997) by Roadshow and Warner Music.
1 in Australia, Canada, and the United States; in the latter country, Billboard ranked it the most successful song of all time on their Adult Contemporary chart.
Two music videos were filmed for the track: one for its original Australian release and another for the international market, shot in Paris, France.
The songs added to the list provide a snapshot of Australian life and have "cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance and relevance".
[2] Having got their breakthrough with the single "I Want You", Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones were sent to Sydney for eight months to record material for a debut album.
He noted further that "with its romantic lyrics and plush, guitar-etched instrumentation, this song 'truly madly deeply' deserves as much airplay as the top 40 programmers can heap upon it.
"[4] Insider described it as "a truly sweet song, written out of homesickness; this love ballad has total staying power and is still played over 20 years later.
"[5] Pan-European magazine Music & Media stated, "This Australian duo possesses a fine knack for writing excellent mainstream pop with top flight radio appeal."
They added, "This track [...] is no exception—as proven by its recent two-week stay at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.
"[6] A reviewer from Music Week gave "Truly Madly Deeply" three out of five, remarking that the song had been successful in both Australia and the US, while the UK "is a little less keen.
[15] The original version logged its final week on the Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart on 17 June 2006.
2 in Norway, Sweden, Austria and Ireland, and went top ten in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK.
[19] In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "Truly Madly Deeply" as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.
The original Australian video, which presents Hayes with long hair, features the band in a white room with several other people.
In between the scenes involving the two lovers, Hayes can be seen walking around Paris, in locations such as the Place de la Concorde and the Jardin des Tuileries.
Towards the end of the video, Hayes enters a small concert hall where Daniel Jones is playing guitar.
The Portuguese-language version, "No Fundo do Coração" ("From the Bottom of the Heart"), was released as the third single from the teens' eighth album, Era Uma Vez (Ao Vivo).
German Eurodance group Cascada covered "Truly Madly Deeply" on their debut album, Everytime We Touch (2007), and released it as the second single in the UK and Germany.