Never Gonna Be Alone
| "Never Gonna Be Alone" | |||||||
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| Single by Nickelback | |||||||
| from the album Dark Horse | |||||||
| Released | September 29, 2009 (U.S. radio) | ||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||
| Recorded | March–July 2008 at Mountain View Studios, Abbotsford, British Columbia | ||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, country rock, post-grunge | ||||||
| Length | 3:47 | ||||||
| Label | Roadrunner | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Chad Kroeger | ||||||
| Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | ||||||
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"Never Gonna Be Alone" is the sixth overall single from the Nickelback album Dark Horse. The song is a power ballad.
Background
The song made its North American debut on Montreal hot adult contemporary radio station CJFM-FM (Mix 96, now Virgin Radio) in December 2008; however, it was not yet released as a single when the station played it. It is also getting rotation on CKRV-FM in Kamloops, British Columbia and many other Canadian radio stations.
The song is featured on the soundtrack of the Brazilian soap opera: Caminho das Índias.[1]
The song was used during the 2009 WWE Tribute to the Troops special highlighting John Cena's six-year visit to Iraq.
The band performed the song live for the very first time, on the opening show of the Summer 2010 leg of the Dark Horse tour in Atlantic City on 3 April 2010.
Music video
The music video was released on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 on the Roadrunner Records Twitter page. The video world-premiered on YouTube. It tells a story of a young woman (played by Emily Bett Rickards) who has lost her father. The video opens with the young woman in a limousine being taken to her wedding. She is holding a fake blue flower with her bouquet. As she walks down the aisle, she looks back at her mother and father, who are smiling proudly. The scene then cuts back to her high school graduation, where her father is again smiling and clapping for her as she receives her diploma. The video flashes back three more times, the first with the girl's father seeing her off to her prom and the second with him teaching her how to ride a bike. The final flashback shows the father's funeral, the young woman being just a little girl. She is holding two fake flowers in her hand, one yellow and one blue (the blue one being similar to the one at her wedding). She tosses the yellow one into her father's grave. The events in the flashbacks are shown again from a different perspective, each time the girl looks up at her father and sees him disappear in a shimmer of light. Back at the wedding, the girl is still looking back, seeing her father's ghost surrounded in light. She realizes that he has still been there for her all along, even in death. The girl places the blue flower in her new husband's breast pocket, and the two wed. As they are leaving the church, the video cuts to her father once more, smiling proudly. He disappears for the final time, his daughter now fully grown up. The video is intercut with scenes of the band singing in a room with a large, light-filled backdrop.
Charts
| Chart (2009–10) | Peak position[2] |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart[3] | 64 |
| Austria Singles Chart | 73 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 25 |
| Dutch Top 40[4] | 37 |
| Japan Hot 100 | 97 |
| Netherlands Singles Chart | 37 |
| Portugal Singles Chart | 46 |
| UK Rock Chart | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] | 58 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[6] | 17 |
| U.S.Billboard Pop Songs | 28 |
| U.S.Billboard Adult Pop Songs | 5 |
Track listing
- Never Gonna Be Alone (album version)
References
- ↑ http://vagalume.uol.com.ar/caminho-das-indias-novela/never-gonna-be-alone-nickelback.html
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/artist/312256/nickelback/chart
- ↑ http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20100105-0000/Issue1035.pdf
- ↑ Dutch Top 40 Never gonna be alone
- ↑ Never Gonna Be Alone rises to #62 Retrieved on December 10, 2009
- ↑ , billboard.com