My Favorite Mistake

"My Favorite Mistake"
Single by Sheryl Crow
from the album The Globe Sessions
B-side	"There Goes the Neighborhood"
Released	August 31, 1998 (1998-08-31)
Studio	Globe (New York City) Sunset Sound Factory (Los Angeles)
Genre	Rock
Length	4:08
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Sheryl Crow Jeff Trott
Producer(s)	Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow singles chronology
"Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997) "My Favorite Mistake" (1998) "There Goes the Neighborhood" (1999)
Music video
"My Favorite Mistake" on YouTube

"My Favorite Mistake" is the first single from Sheryl Crow's third studio album, The Globe Sessions (1998), released on August 31, 1998, through A&M Records. Crow wrote the song about a relationship with a man who proves to be unfaithful and is widely believed to have been written about Eric Clapton. Released in 1998, the single peaked at number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Crow's fifth top-20 single in the United States, while reaching number two in Canada and giving Crow her seventh top-five hit there. In the United Kingdom, it reached number nine, becoming her last top-10 single in Britain.