If Tomorrow Never Comes

[Caribeing]

Who had the first hit with the song If tomorrow Never Comes, I know Garth Brooks wrote it, but did Ronan Keating have the first hit with it. Just trying to sort out a dispute.

[Unsureme]

Barry Manilow sang it years ago,as well as other artists.

[JimF]

I wouldn't know where to begin with a question like this. But this might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Tomorrow_Never_Comes

[Mamyalynne]

Garth went to Number 1 in the US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) charts in 1989-90

[Buenchico]

It probably defines how you describe 'hit'.

Garth Brooks topped the *US country* chart with the song in 1989 but Ronan Keating topped the *UK singles* chart with it in 2002.

So a country fan might say that GB had the first hit with it, whereas a pop fan in the UK might say that it was RK that had the first (and, to their mind, only) hit with it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Tomorrow_Never_Comes