I Could Not Ask for More

"I Could Not Ask for More"
Single by Edwin McCain
from the album Messenger
ReleasedMay 25, 1999 (1999-05-25)
Studio
  • Tree Sound (Atlanta, Georgia)
  • Cello (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length
  • 4:36 (album version)
  • 4:09 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)Diane Warren
Producer(s)Matt Serletic
Edwin McCain singles chronology
"What Matters"
(1998)
"I Could Not Ask for More"
(1999)
"Go Be Young"
(2000)

"I Could Not Ask for More" is a song by American singer-songwriter Edwin McCain for the soundtrack of the 1999 romantic drama film Message in a Bottle. It was also included in his third studio album Messenger (1999), on which it would be released on May 25, 1999, via Atlantic Records to contemporary hit radio, as the lead single. Despite being a songwriter, this is one of two tracks featured on Messenger not written by McCain; instead, famed American songwriter Diane Warren wrote and composed it while Matt Serletic produced it.

The track proved to be a decent commercial success, becoming a top forty hit on the Billboard Hot 100; on component charts, the single reached numbers three, six, and twenty one on the Adult Contemporary, Adult Top 40, and Mainstream Top 40 charts. In Canada, it was his biggest single, topping the country's adult contemporary chart and peaking at number 12 on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart.

American country music artist Sara Evans covered the song in 2000 for her third studio album Born to Fly (2000), in which her rendition would go on to become a huge country radio hit.