"Last One Standing" is a song by the Canadian

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group

Emerson Drive Emerson Drive was a Canadian country music band consisting of Brad Mates (lead vocals), Danick Dupelle (guitars, backing vocals), Mike Melancon (drums), and Dale Wallace (keyboards, backing vocals). The band was founded in 1995 as 12 Gauge, which ...

. It was produced and co-written by American musician

Richard Marx Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Marx's first number one success as a songwriter came in 1984 with " What About Me?", which was recorded by Kenny Rogers ...

, with extra writing from

Fee Waybill John Waldo "Fee" Waybill (born September 17, 1950,) is the lead singer and songwriter of San Francisco band The Tubes. Waybill has also worked with other acts, including Toto, Richard Marx, and Billy Sherwood. Early life and education Waybil ...

. It was released on January 19, 2004, as the second single to their fourth studio album (second as Emerson Drive) ''What If?'' (2004). It reached a peak position of number 21 on the US

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chart, becoming their fourth top-30 hit. It also briefly charted at number 89 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 25 on the ''

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'' Canada Country chart.

Music video

Trey Fanjoy Trey Fanjoy is an American music video director. Fanjoy has directed over 150 major label music videos. Her videos have appeared on CMT, VH1, GAC, The Nashville Network, CMT Canada, and MTV. She is the first woman to win the Country Music Ass ...

, who directed the video for " Fall into Me", directed the video for "Last One Standing". It debuted to CMT on January 25, 2004.

Track listing

Charts

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Year-end charts

References

2004 singles 2004 songs Emerson Drive songs Songs written by Richard Marx Songs written by Fee Waybill Music videos directed by Trey Fanjoy DreamWorks Records singles {{2000s-country-song-stub