"Could've Been" is the third single released from
Tiffany, the debut album of American teen-pop singer
Tiffany.
The song was discovered by Music Insiders Don McGovern and
Brad Schmidt when they stumbled into a Hungry Tiger Restaurant
in Thousound Oaks, California and heard a local performer,Lois
Blaich singing the song. Then McGovern and Schmidt brought the
song to Record Producer George Tobin and encouraged Tobin to
record the song... The song is a slow ballad about the love
that "could've been so beautiful, could've been so right". Both
Tiffany's label, MCA Records, and her manager, George Tobin,
felt concern that she was not old or mature enough to handle a
song with such emotional depth. In the end, Tiffany convinced
them that she could, and the song was recorded and put on her
debut album, becoming its third single.
The B-side to the single of "Could've Been" was the track
"The Heart of Love".
For the music video, music video stations played a live
version of "Could've Been" where fans sang along to Tiffany's
performance.
"Could've Been" shot up the charts right away and in the
U.S. became Tiffany's second consecutive number-one hit
following "I Think We're Alone Now". The song was also a
number-one hit on the adult contemporary chart as well as many
other countries all over the world.