Daylight in Your Eyes

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“Daylight in Your Eyes”
“Daylight in Your Eyes” cover
Single by No Angels
from the album Elle'ments
Released February 5, 2001
October 1, 2001 (UK, U.S.)
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 Thorsten Brötzmann
Certification 3x Platinum
2x Gold (IFPI)
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 released as the band's debut single on February 5, 2001 in Continental Europe and in October 2001 in the United Kingdom and the United States (see 2001 in music), and peaked at number one in Austria, Brazil, Estonia, Germany, and Switzerland, making it the No Angels' most successful single release to date.

According to various sources, the song is one of the best-selling German recordings of the decade.[1] It was nominated for an Amadeus Austrian Music Award and awarded for "Best National Single - Rock/Pop" at the 2002 ECHO Awards. "Daylight in Your Eyes" received a triple platinum certification by the IFPI for more than a million copies sold.[2]

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[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.[3] Bruno and Faiella had previously met each other as background musicians 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.[3] Instead, Bruno sold 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. The song received limited release on various compilations, but it never was released as an official single on any format outside America, since Polydor held the right to release the song on all European music markets.[3]

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 although 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.[3] As reported, the song was eventually selected as the album's lead single out of a total of ten songs.

[edit] Music video

Jessica, Nadja, Sandy, Lucy and Vanessa in the music video for "Daylight" (2001).
Jessica, Nadja, Sandy, Lucy and Vanessa in the music video for "Daylight" (2001).

The original music video for "Daylight in Your Eyes" was directed and produced by Robert Bröllochs for Camelot Filmproduktionen and entirely filmed at 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.[4] As reoprted, the band worked with Popstars coach Detlef Soost on most of all choreographies.[4]

The video does not have a substantial plot, but as both the band's management and label 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 images 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.[5]

[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, instantly reaching number one. With more than 500,000 CD singles sold within its first week of release[6] the song also debuted on top of the German Media Control singles chart,[1] making it both the third fastest-selling single ever in Germany (behind Elton John's 1997 version of "Candle in the Wind" and follow-up Popstars Bro'Sis' 2001 debut "I Believe"), and one of the biggest-selling German singles of the 2000s.[1] 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.[7] However, with more than one million copies shipped to stores "Daylight in Your Eyes" was ranked first on the German Media Control singles year-end charts.[8]

In Switzerland, the single sat six weeks atop the Swiss Top 100 singles chart, making it the twelfth successful single of the year.[9] The song remained within the top 50 until July 2001, but fell out of the chart 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, reaching the top position three weeks later for four consecutive 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)."[10]

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.[11] Released in early October 2001 in the UK and in the United States respectively, "Daylight in Your Eyes" also saw minor commercial success in both countries with peak positions of number 88 on the UK Singles Chart[12] and a single entry at number 36 on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales chart.[13]

[edit] Music charts

[edit] Worldwide

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Austrian Singles Chart [14] 1
Brazil Singles Chart [15] 1
Estonian Singles Chart [16] 1
Euro 200 Chart [17] 3
French Singles Chart [11] 80
German Singles Chart [7] 1
Luxembourgian Airplay Chart 1
Swiss Singles Chart [18] 1
UK Singles Chart [12] 89
U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Sales [13] 36
United World Chart [19] 20

[edit] Formats and tracklistings

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

CD single I
  1. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (radio version)
  2. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (extended version)
  3. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (instrumental version)
  4. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (video)
UK CD single
  1. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (radio version)
  2. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (Wip Wonderkins remix)
  3. "100% Emotional"
  4. "Daylight in Your Eyes" (video)

[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

  1. ^ a b c "Bro'Sis". MTV.de. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
  2. ^ Band HIstory. ProSieben. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
  3. ^ a b c d No Angels: "Daylight In Your Eyes". BR-Online. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  4. ^ a b MVD-Base: "Daylight in Your Eyes (version I)". mvdbase.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  5. ^ MVD-Base: "Daylight in Your Eyes (version II)". mvdbase.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  6. ^ "Popgruppe Bro'Sis schon erfolgreicher als No Angels". Die Welt. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
  7. ^ a b German chart history. chartsurfer.de. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  8. ^ Jahrescharts 2001. Mix1.de. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
  9. ^ Year-end Charts 2001. Swisscharts. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
  10. ^ Year-end Charts 2001. Austrian Charts. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
  11. ^ a b Chat-Log (2001). Beepworld. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  12. ^ a b Chart log UK. Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
  13. ^ a b Chart Archive. Billboard.biz. Retrieved on 2007-06-23.
  14. ^ Austrian chart history. Austrian Charts. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  15. ^ Full chart history. Top40 Charts. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  16. ^ German chart history. Chartsurfer. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  17. ^ Chart Archive. APC-Chart. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
  18. ^ Swiss chart history. Swisscharts. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
  19. ^ United World Chart. Media traffic. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
Notes
  1. ECHO History 2002. Echopop.de. Retrieved 2006-12-26.

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Preceded by
"Super (1, 2, 3)" by Gigi D'Agostino		 Austrian number-one single
February 25, 2001 - April 7, 2001		 Succeeded by
"Butterfly" by Crazy Town
Preceded by
"Vou Te Procurar" by Os Travessos		 Brazil number-one single
August 25, 2001 - August 31, 2001		 Succeeded by
"Faca O Que Eu Digo" by Exaltasamba
Preceded by
"Ms. Jackson" by Outkast		 German number-one single
February 19, 2001 - March 26, 2001		 Succeeded by
"Butterfly" by Crazy Town
Preceded by
"Stan" by Eminem featuring Dido		 Swiss number-one single
February 25, 2001 - April 7, 2001		 Succeeded by
"Butterfly" by Crazy Town
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