"Breakin' Away" is a song by the English singer Kim Wilde, released in September 1995 by MCA Records as the first single from her ninth album, Now & Forever (1995). Wilde had initially made her name in the 1980s as the highest-selling British female soloist of that decade. She had also earned some degree of success in the early 1990s. "Breakin' Away" was written by Tracy Ackerman, M. Percy and T. Lever, and produced by Ricki Wilde and Serious Rope. It was released both in its original form and as several different extended remixes on the 12" and CD-single formats. On the CD and cassette single, a song called "Staying with My Baby" was also included. This track was somewhat exclusive as it was only included on the Japanese issue of the Now & Forever album.