Baby Can I Hold You

Baby Can I Hold You

Boyzone

In 1997, the Irish boy band Boyzone released a cover of “Baby Can I Hold You” as a double A-side with the non-album track Shooting Star, originally recorded by the American contemporary folk artist Tracy Chapman in October 1988. “Baby Can I Hold You” thus became their second single from their third studio album, Where We Belong. The single, like Picture of You before it, peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and stayed in the top 75 for fourteen weeks. The song was the 26th-best-selling single of 1997 in the United Kingdom and has received a platinum sales certification from the British Phonographic Industry for sales and streams of over 600,000 units. The song reappeared on lead singer Ronan Keating’s greatest-hits compilation 10 Years of Hits.