First Day of My Life (Melanie C song)

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“First Day of My Life”
“First Day of My Life” cover
Single by Melanie C
from the album Beautiful Intentions
B-side "Runaway"
Released Flag of Germany September 30, 2005
Format CD single
Recorded 2005
Genre Pop
Length 4:04
Label Red Girl
Writer(s) Guy Chambers
Enrique Iglesias
Producer Richard Flack
Certification 2x Platinum — Germany (over 400,000 units),

Gold - Switzerland, Austria
Melanie C singles chronology
"Better Alone"
(2005)		 "First Day of My Life"
(2005)		 "The Moment You Believe"
(2007)
Audio sample
Info "First Day of My Life" (help·info)

"First Day of My Life" is the third single from Melanie C's third solo album, Beautiful Intentions. It was released on September 30, 2005 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland only. Later it was released internationally and peaked at number-one in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain selling over 550,000 units and awarded platinum in Germany, and gold in Switzerland and Austria. The song became the most successful Melanie single in Europe, spending 2 years in different European charts.

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[edit] Song information

The song was written by Guy Chambers and Enrique Iglesias and had previously been recorded by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, with lyrics in Italian as "Un Nuovo Giorno" (A new day). The song was not from the original "Beautiful Intentions" release, but was included on a re-release in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and some other European countries. After a huge success of this single in Europe, Melanie recorded this song in French (Je suis née pour toi — I Am Born For You), to promote the single and album for French market.

The song became one of the biggest hits in Europe in 2005, but it was never released in UK. The song also was nominated as the single of the year at the 2006 ECHO Awards in Germany, but lost to Hung Up by Madonna.

On 15th September 2006 "First Day of My Life" went 'platinum' in Germany, selling over 400,000 copies.

The song has spent the past year and a half in the Switzerland singles chart.

[edit] Music video

The video was shot on location in Hannover, Germany, on August 26, 2005. For key scenes of the video, a busy downtown thoroughfare known to locals as the Raschplatzhochstrasse or Raschplatz overpass (on which you can see Melanie standing and singing in the video) was closed for the afternoon.

[edit] Track listing and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "First Day of My Life".

  • European 3-Track CD
  1. "First Day of My Life" - 4:04
  2. "First Day of My Life" (acoustic version) - 4:04
  3. "Runaway" - 3:24
  • German 2-Track CD
  1. "First Day of My Life" - 4:04
  2. "Runaway" - 3:24
  • German Maxi CD
  1. "First Day of My Life" - 4:04
  2. "First Day of My Life" (acoustic version) - 4:04
  3. "Runaway" - 3:24
  4. "First Day of My Life" (music video) - 4:04
  • Australian Maxi CD
  1. "First Day of My Life"
  2. "First Day of My Life" (acoustic)
  3. "Better Alone" (special Productions Re-work)
  4. "Better Alone" (edit)
  5. "Better Alone" (pop mix)
  • France CD
  1. "First Day of My Life" - 4:04
  2. "First Day of My Life" (acoustic version) - 4:04

[edit] Charts

Chart Peak Position
Germany Singles Top 50 1 (2 weeks)
Spain Singles Top 20 1 (2 weeks)
Switzerland Singles Top 100 1 (2 weeks)
Polish National Airplay Chart 1 (3 weeks)
Austria Singles Top 75 2
Czech IFPI Chart 3
Russian Top 20 3
Europe Top 100 6
Estonia singles chart 7
Sweden Top 60 Singles 9
Romanian Top 100 37
World Airplay Top 100 17
World Singles Top 40 34 [1]
Latvia Top 40 19
France Singles Chart 25
Italy Singles Chart 32
Australian Singles Chart 65

[edit] External links

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