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"Black Velvet" is een nummer van de Canadese zangeres Alannah Myles. Het nummer verscheen op haar naar haarzelf vernoemde debuutalbum uit 1989. Op 4 december van dat jaar werd het nummer eerst in Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland op single uitgebracht als de tweede single van het album. Op 26 februari 1990 werd de single uitgebracht in Europa, de Verenigde Staten, Canada en Japan.

"Black Velvet" is a song written by Canadian songwriters Christopher Ward and David Tyson and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Alannah Myles. It was released in July 1989 as the second single from Myles' first studio album, Alannah Myles (1989), by Atlantic Records. It became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, as well as number 10 in Myles' native Canada and number two on the UK Singles Chart. The power ballad also reached number one in Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland and was a major success in several other countries. It contains blues verses with a rock chorus. The accompanying music video was directed by Doug Freel and partially shot on Myles' family ranch.

Myles won the 1991 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the song and the 1990 Juno Award for Single of the Year. Since its release, the song has received substantial airplay, receiving a "Millionaire Award" from ASCAP in 2005 for more than four million radio plays.