It's Not Over (Daughtry song)

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"It's Not Over"

Single by Daughtry
from the album Daughtry
Released	November 21, 2006
Recorded	2006
Genre	Rock
Length	3:35
Label	RCA/19 Entertainment
Chart positions
#1 (Canada BDS) #4 (U.S.) #1 (Adult Top 40) #2 (Hot Digital Songs) #3 (Pop 100) #5 (Mainstream Rock) #62 (Hot 100 Brazil)
Daughtry singles chronology
"Wanted Dead or Alive" (2006)	"It's Not Over" (2006)	"Home" (2007)

"It's Not Over" is the first official single from Daughtry's debut album entitled Daughtry. The single debuted fairly high on the Billboard Hot 100 at #65 in late November 2006,^[1] partly due to the song already reaching the top 40 on iTunes. It has since gone onto become a top 5 single for the band, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[2] It has also become a #1 single for the band on the Adult Top 40 chart. The song was also used as a teaser to the second season fall finale of Prison Break. It was also certified Gold in March 2007.

On the international scene, the song, along with the album, have recently emerged on the New Zealand RIANZ Top 40 Charts, the song debuting at number 38 on the Singles Chart, and the album debuting at number 17 on the Album Chart.^[3]

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006-2007)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	4
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	3
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay	3
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	1 ( 7 weeks )
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs	2
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	5
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	17
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary	18
Canada BDS	1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	8
United World Chart	15
Hot 100 Brasil	62

[edit] Music video

After much speculation on when and even if a video would be released, the video was finally released on AOL on January 10, 2007.^[4] The video tells the story of a couple struggling to keep their relationship alive. The video was co-directed by Dean Karr and Jay Martin (Karr directed the performance scenes while Martin did the narrative scenes).

It begins with a man laying in bed, while he has a flashback, which shows him being sentenced for an unknown crime. His girlfriend is then shown picking him up years later, after he has been released from prison. On the way back to their home they stop for something the man needs to pick up. His girlfriend then has a flashback to when she first heard the news of his arrest, revealing that she was pregnant at the time. The man gets back in the car with a stuffed animal, which he gives to his daughter that he has never met at home. His daughter seems reluctant at first to accept that he is her father, since she is several years old and has never been around him, but she finally gives him a hug. The couple are then shown lying in bed, and they seem to be distant from each other.

It proceeds to show the man looking for a job, which proves to be unsuccessful at first. He walks by a jewelry store, staring at something through the window, before noticing a "Help Wanted" sign. He gets a job as a car mechanic. Meanwhile his relationship with his girlfriend seems to be deteriorating, as he spends less time at home and more time at his job. His girlfriend appears distressed about how to pick up their relationship after so many years apart. One night, he is shown arriving home late with a small box. His girlfriend opens the door wondering where he's been, and he proposes to her with the engagement ring he was working so hard to buy. The girlfriend is overjoyed, and the video ends with the two embracing, and proving that "it's not over" for the couple.

The story in the video is intercut with scenes of the band playing the song in an immaculate looking grand room.

The video accomplished an impressive feat when it debuted at #1 on VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown the first week it was eligible for voting. It remained #1 on the countdown for four weeks until it dropped down to the #2 position and was replaced by Blue October's "Into the Ocean". However, the following week it reclaimed the #1 spot again, and has now spent a total of nine weeks at #1.

This video is estimated to be the 19th most expensive of all time.