Daylight in Your Eyes

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"Daylight in Your Eyes"
Single by No Angels
from the album Elle'ments
Released	February 5, 2001
Format	Digital download, vinyl single, CD single
Recorded	Park Studios, Tutzing, Germany; 2000
Genre	Pop, Eurodance
Length	3:30
Label	Cheyenne
Writer(s)	Tony Bruno, Tommy Byrnes
Producer(s)	Thorsten Brötzmann
Certification	3x Platinum 2x Gold
Chart positions
#1 (Austria, Brazil, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland) #20 (UWC)
No Angels singles chronology
	"Daylight in Your Eyes" (2001)	"Rivers of Joy" (2001)

"Daylight in Your Eyes" is a dance-pop song originally written by Tony Bruno and Tommy Byrnes for Victoria Faiella debut album Drama (2000), and re-recorded by the No Angels' for their debut studio album Elle'ments (2001). It was produced by Thorsten Brötzmann and received a mixed reception from music critics. The song was released as the band's debut single on February 5, 2001 in Europe and in July 2001 in the United Kingdom and the United States (see 2001 in music), and peaked at number one in Austria, Brazil, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, making it the No Angels's most successful single release to date. "Daylight in Your Eyes" was awarded for "Best National Single - Rock/Pop" at the 2002 ECHO Awards and received a triple platinum certification.

Contents 1 Writing and recording 2 Music video 3 Chart performance 4 Music charts 4.1 Worldwide 5 Formats and tracklistings 6 Official versions 7 References 8 External link

[edit] Writing and recording

"Daylight in your Eyes" was written by American guitarists Tony Bruno and Tommy Byrnes and originally offered to New York pop singer Victoria Faiella.^[1] Bruno and Faiella had previously met each other as background musician and vocalist respectively on Enrique Iglesias' 1999 Cosas del Amor World Tour, before he decided to introduce her to German producer Peter Plate. The pair eventually started working on Victoria's first solo album entitled Drama on Epic Records, but due to "Daylight"'s minor airplay success both the single and album got instantly shelved by the record company.^[1] Instead, Bruno offered the song to American rock band New Life Crisis who recorded an alternate version of the song for their self-titled debut album on Tommy Boy Records in autumn 2000; but although the song received limited release on various compilations, it never was released as an official single on any format.^[1]

Around the same time, Plate got known that Polydor was searching songs for the new Popstars band. The producer offered the track a third time, and though the label favoured album cut "Go Ahead and Take It" as the album's lead single, "Daylight in Your Eyes" found general approval among the No Angels.^[1]

[edit] Music video

The original music video for "Daylight in Your Eyes" was directed by Robert Bröllochs and entirely filmed inside the X-Sight-Studios in Groß-Gerau, Hesse in December 2000. Shot in a time span of twenty-one hours, the video primarily features close shots and dance sequences using bluescreen technique.^[2]

The video does not have a substantial plot, but since Polydor attempted to introduce aliases assigning each member of the group (similar to the Spice Girls' pseudonyms) in due consideration of the polysemous album title, focus is on the personalization of the classical elements: While Nadja Benaissa ("Wind"), Lucy Diakovska ("Fire"), Sandy Mölling ("Ice"), and Vanessa Petruo ("Earth") incorporated one of the four archetypal type image for each themselves, a fifth element, "Spirit" was specially-created for Jessica Wahls because of a lack of another element.

The video for "Daylight in Your Eyes" premiered in January 2001 at the end of the "Making of" episode on the first installment of Popstars. In April 2001, a more "child-friendly" second version for the North American market was shot by Stephen Scott in a park in Toronto, Canada.^[3]

[edit] Chart performance

Although "Daylight in Your Eyes" was officially released on February 5, 2001, it appeared a week early on the German Airplay chart, directly reaching number one. With more than 500,000 CD single copies sold within its first week of release the song also debuted on top of the German Top 100 singles chart, making it the second-fastest selling German single ever (the record is currently hold by Elton John and "Candle in the Wind"). While it remained another five weeks on top of the charts due to constant sales, it quickly fell out of the top 100 in its fifteenth week. However, with more than 900,000 copies shipped to stores "Daylight in Your Eyes" was ranked first on the German Media Control singles year-end charts.

In Switzerland, the single also sat six weeks on top of Swiss Top 100 singles chart, making it the twelth successful single of the year. While the song remained within the top 50 until July 2001, it fell out of the top 100 in early August - one week prior to the release of the band's third single "There Must Be an Angel". In Austria, however, "Daylight in Your Eyes" debuted at number 4 on the Austrian Top 75 singles chart. It eventually climbed to number one in its third week of release and remained at the top position for another four weeks. The song charted until its nineteenth week on particular, and became the third successul single of the year (behind Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You out of My Head" and Gigi D'Agostino's "Super (1, 2, 3)").

While the song also reached number one in Luxembourg, Estonia, and on the Brazil Hot 100, it failed to succeed on the French Singles Chart with a peak position of number 80 only. Released on July 17, 2001 in the UK and in the United States respectively, "Daylight in Your Eyes" also saw less to no commercial success in both countries.

[edit] Music charts

[edit] Worldwide

Chart (2001)	Peak position
Austrian Top 75 [4]	1
Brazilian Singles Chart [5]	1
Estonian Singles Chart [6]	1
French Singles Chart [7]	80
German Singles Chart [8]	1
Luxembourgian Airplay Chart	1
Swiss Top 100 [9]	1
UK Singles Chart [10]	89
Europe Official Top 100	3
United World Chart [11]	20

[edit] Formats and tracklistings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Daylight in Your Eyes".

CD single I "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Radio Version) "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Extended Version) "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Instrumental Version)

UK Vinyl single "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Wip Wonderkins Remix) "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Extended Version) "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Wip Wonderkins Bvox Dub)

[edit] Official versions

1. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Acoustic Version)
2. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Big Band Version)
3. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Extended Version)
4. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Re-Supreme Remix)
5. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Wip Wonderkins Remix)
6. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Wip Wonderkins Bvox Dub)

[edit] References

Notes

1. ECHO History 2002. Echopop.de. Retrieved 2006-12-26.

[edit] External link

• "Daylight in Your Eyes" – watch the original video at YouTube.
• "Daylight in Your Eyes" (U.S. version) – watch the alternate video at YouTube.

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Preceded by "Ms. Jackson" by Outkast	German number-one single February 19, 2001 - March 26, 2002	Succeeded by "Butterfly" by Crazy Town
Preceded by "Super (1, 2, 3)" by Gigi D'Agostino	Austrian number-one single February 25, 2002 - April 7, 2002	Succeeded by "Butterfly" by Crazy Town
Preceded by "Stan" by Eminem featuring Dido	Swiss number-one single February 25, 2002 - April 7, 2002	Succeeded by "Butterfly" by Crazy Town