"How Do I Live" was also covered by F.I.R. (Faye and Real featuring LeAnn Rimes). F.I.R. invited Rimes to record a portion of the song for their third album "Flight Tribe" in 2006. At the end of the decade "Billboard" would rank "How Do I Live" as the 12th-most-successful song of the 1990s. In 2014, to commemorate the magazine's 120th anniversary, "Billboard" reformulated the top Hot 100 songs for each decade, and "How Do I Live" finished as the number-one song of the 1990s, despite never reaching the position on the weekly tally. In a retrospective compilation in conjunction with SiriusXM from 2019, "Billboard" ranked "How Do I Live" second on their list of top performing songs of the decade.