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Daniel Powter Bio
Daniel Powter Bio
Daniel Powter
Background information
Genres
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Musiciansingersongwriter
Instruments
PianoKeyboardsSynthesizerMandolinViolinVocals
Labels
OutsideWarner Bros.AvexEMIUnleashed
Website danielpowter.com
Daniel Richard Powter (/ˈpaʊtər/; born February 25, 1971) is a Canadian musician. He is best
known for his self-penned hit song "Bad Day" (2005), which spent five weeks atop the Billboard
Hot 100.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Self-titled album
3 Later career
4 Personal life
6 Discography
6.1 Albums
6.2 Singles
7 Music videos
8 References
9 External links
Early life
Powter met producer Jeff Dawson in 1997 and released his debut studio album, I'm Your Betty,
on June 21, 2000.[1] The album, limited to a very small print, contains ten songs, two of which
—"More Than I" and "Negative Fashion"—were featured on the television show Higher Ground.
Self-titled album
Powter at the MTV Asia Awards 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand
Powter's first single, "Bad Day", was first released in Europe in mid-2005, in advance of his
second album, Daniel Powter. Warner Bros. Records submitted the single for commercials, and it
was subsequently chosen by Coca-Cola as the theme song for an ad campaign in Europe. The
song achieved heavy airplay in most European countries, peaking at number three on the overall
European airplay chart. It reached number one on national airplay in Germany, number one on
the singles charts in the Republic of Ireland[2] and Italy, number two in the United Kingdom—
where it stayed in the top ten for thirteen weeks—and number three in Australia.
In the United States, "Bad Day" was used extensively on the television series American Idol in its
fifth season. Powter sang the song live at the end of the final show of that season on May 23,
2006. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Top 40 and Adult
Contemporary charts, making Powter the first solo Canadian male artist to top the Hot 100 since
Bryan Adams in 1995 (with "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"). The song also reached
number one in Powter's homeland, Canada.
On May 31, 2005, Powter released his first extended play known as "Free Loop."[3]
On July 2, 2005, Powter performed at the Berlin installment of Live 8, a simultaneous group of
concerts in nine countries intended to raise awareness of poverty in Africa and put pressure on
world leaders for aid.
"Bad Day" came in fifth in the British Record of the Year 2005. In 2006, Powter won in the New
Artist of the Year category at the Canadian Juno Awards, and was nominated for Best
International Breakthrough Act at the BRIT Awards. "Bad Day" was nominated at the 2006
Billboard Music Awards for Hot 100 Single of the Year, and was named Billboard magazine's song
of the year in 2006.[4] At the 2007 Grammy Awards, Powter received a Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance nomination for the song.
The subsequent singles from Daniel Powter – "Jimmy Gets High", "Free Loop", and "Lie to Me" –
were released in different parts of the world, each failing to match the success of "Bad Day".
"Free Loop" was deemed chart ineligible in the UK (as the release included a version of "Bad
Day" as a B-side whilst "Bad Day" was still in the chart, hence breaking chart rules) and failed to
chart in the U.S., though it reached the top forty on the Adult Contemporary chart. Following the
release of "Lie to Me", "Jimmy Gets High" was to be the fourth single from the album in the UK,
but its release was cancelled. A new track called "Love You Lately" was released as the next U.S.
single, preceding a re-release of the album Daniel Powter that was also cancelled. Powter was
never able to have another major hit after "Bad Day" and never cracked the U.S. Hot 100 again.
Later career
In March 2008, a song by Japanese singer Haru featuring Powter, "Find My Way", was released.
In September, Powter released his third album, Under the Radar. This was the same year in
which he embarked on the Wolfbaggin' Tour, joining the likes of Alphabeat and Lil Chris.
Powter also performed piano on tracks for what was scheduled to be Marcy Playground
frontman John Wozniak's solo album, Leaving Wonderland...in a fit of rage, but the album was
released under the band's name. Powter was still given credit for his contributions to the song
"Gin and Money".
On March 16, 2009, Powter performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival then in December 2009,
Powter was named as the decade's top One-Hit Wonder by Billboard. The magazine describes
one-hit wonders as acts whose second hit did not reach the top 25; they only included acts from
2000 to 2007.[5] Powter's notoriety is unmistakable, since "Bad Day" is his only Hot 100 hit.
On January 1, 2010, he performed O Canada at the NHL Winter Classic. In that same year, he
released his greatest hits album, Best of Me, and with it, recorded three new songs and a new
version of the title track to go along with 'Bad Day', 'Jimmy Gets High', 'Next Plane Home' and his
other singles. Only one was released as a single: 'Lose To Win', on November 10, 2010.
On December 1, 2010, Powter made a tribute to English singer and songwriter John Lennon with
his cover version of Happy Xmas (War Is Over). This single was released in Europe, the UK and
Japan.[6]
Powter again failed to re-capture the success of "Bad Day." In 2011, he took a hiatus.
On April 10, 2012, Powter's new single "Cupid" was released to US and Canadian iTunes stores.
Powter's latest album, Turn on the Lights, was released on July 2012.
On June 13, 2012, Powter also made a tribute to L'Arc-en-Ciel with his variation of the song Stay
Away.
On December 5, 2012, Powter was featured in a song with Japanese singer May J. titled "Back To
Your Heart". On the 18 he released the single "Christmas Cupid", which is a Christmas version of
his song "Cupid".
On June 5, Powter announced on Twitter that he was working on a new album with Jeff Dawson,
who co-produced most of his songs in the past, and John Fields, who produced "Crazy All My
Life". He also said: "I'm writing like I did during the first record. I'm not focusing on singles.
Otherwise I would try too hard and end up with garbage sort of like Bad Day. I never thought in
my wildest dreams that it was a single. I think that's what writing from your heart is. Just like
anything else. When you try too hard, it really isn't worthy of anything... So I stay open and just
let the songs write themselves."[8][9][10]
On July 15, 2013, Powter performed at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals
performing "Bad Day" and "Whole World Around." Matthew Perry also attended the event.[11]
On September 5, 2013, Powter later released 4 new songs as bonus tracks for his album Turn on
the Lights called Ur My Radio, Doesn't Matter, Cheers To Us and Goodbye.[12]
On November 27, 2016, Powter performed at The 39th Jazz Goes To Campus Festival performing
Bad Day.
On January 6, 2017, Powter released a new single called "Delicious." The music video has been
uploaded to his official YouTube channel on March 14, 2017.[13]
On December 10, 2017, Powter performed at the President's Star Charity event in Singapore
singing Bad Day and joined Sandra Riley Tang in a duet with her song "Save Myself."[14]
On April 6, 2018, Powter released a new single called "Perfect For Me.".[15] This single is
Powter's third one to not feature a music video. On April 13, he released his fourth extended
play known as Daniel Powter. There are 4 songs in this album: a remastered remix of Bad Day,
Tell Them Who You Are in an acoustic version, his 2017 single "Delicious" and his 2018 single
"Perfect For Me."[16]
On September 21, 2018, Powter released a single known as "Do You Wanna Get Lucky"[17]
followed by a single called "Survivor" released on October 26,[18] and an album called Giants
released on December 14.[19] Songs in the album include "Perfect For Me", "Survivor",
"Delicious", rerecordings of "Bad Day", "Free Loop" and "Tell Them Who You Are" (from the EP).
A remixed version of "Do You Wanna Get Lucky" is also included known as the Holiday version.
Personal life
Powter currently lives in Los Angeles and has three children. He is divorced.[20]
Powter confessed in July 2013 that he was sexually abused by a female babysitter for three years
starting from age 7 and turned to drugs and alcohol to get over his guilt and shame. He said in an
interview, "I thought that (addiction) was my problem. But it wasn’t. That was my solution. It
wasn't until I started digging in, taking a look at myself, saying I gotta work on some stuff (that) I
don’t want to look at (that I figured it out). My parents didn't know and I was too scared to tell
them."[21]
2005 MTV Europe Music Awards Himself Best New Act Nominated
The Record of the Year "Bad Day" Record of the Year Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Himself Choice Music: Breakout Artist - Male Nominated
Canadian Radio Music Awards Best New Group or Solo Artist—Mainstream AC Won
2007 Grammy Awards "Bad Day" Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Nominated
Groovevolt Music & Fashion Awards Best Pop Song Performance - Male Nominated
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications
AUS
[22] AUT
[23] BEL
(WA)
[24] FRA
[25] IRL
[26] JPN
[27] NZ
[28] SWI
[29] UK
[30] US
[31]
Label: Outside
Formats: CD
— — — — — — — — — —
Daniel Powter
14 43 18 14 8 4 6 14 5 9
US: 500,000[32]
ARIA: Gold[33]
RIAA: Gold[34]
BPI: Platinum[35]
— 74 21 29 — 10 — 20 43 —
— — — — — 177 — — 109 —
Giants
— — — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Compilation albums
JPN
[27]
B-Sides[37]
Best of Me
65
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Extended plays
Free Loop[38]
Daniel Powter
Label: Unleashed
Singles
List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album
name
CAN
[41] AUS
[22] AUT
[23] BEL
[24] GER
[42] IRL
[26] SWI
[29] UK
[43] US
[44] US
Adult
[45]
MC: 2× Platinum[46]
ARIA: Platinum[47]
BPI: Platinum[35]
BVMI: Gold[48]
RIAJ: 2× Platinum[49]
RIAA: 3× Platinum[34]
Daniel Powter
"Best of Me" — — — — — — 40 — — —
"Delicious" 2017 — — — — — — — — —
— Giants
Music videos
2005 Bad Day Marc Webb Samaire Armstrong and Jason Adelman are featured in
the video
Love You Lately Philip Andelman Rachael Leigh Cook and Brian Hallisay are featured in
the video.
2008 Next Plane Home Markku Lahdesmaki Powter's daughter Sophie is featured in
the video. Filmed in Southern California's Antelope Valley
2017 Delicious
2018 Do You Wanna Get Lucky Joe Murray Filmed at The Village at Santa Monica
References
"I'm Your Betty – Daniel Powter". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
TOP 50 SINGLES, WEEK ENDING 18 August 2005. Irish Music Charts Archive
"Free Loop EP by Daniel Powter". Apple Music. Apple Music. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
"Daniel Powter Performs at the Closing Ceremony of NADCP's 19th Annual Drug Court Training
Conference".
"President's Star Charity Show with Daniel Powter and Sandra Riley Tang". Retrieved June 14,
2018.
"Survivor (single)".
"Discography Daniel Powter". australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Discographie Daniel Powter". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 15,
2013.
"Discographie Daniel Powter". ultratop.be (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Discographie Daniel Powter". lescharts.com (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Discography Daniel Powter". irish-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Discography Daniel Powter". charts.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Discographie Daniel Powter" (select "Charts" tab). swisscharts.com (in French). Hung Medien.
Retrieved May 15, 2013.
Turn on the Lights: Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK – 2012 + Weekly Updates + Sales 2012".
zobbel.de. Tobias Zywietz. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
"Daniel Powter – Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved
May 15, 2013.
"Powter Tacks New Single Onto Hit Album". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May
15, 2013.
"Certified Awards" (enter "Daniel Powter" into the "Keywords" box, then select "Search").
British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
"The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Daniel Powter)". swisscharts.com.
Hung Medien. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"B-Sides by Daniel Powter". iTunes Store. Apple. Archived from the original on November 10,
2012. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Free Loop – EP by Daniel Powter". iTunes Store. Apple. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
"iTunes Live From Tokyo – EP by Daniel Powter". iTunes Store. Apple. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Songs from Under the Radar – EP by Daniel Powter". iTunes Store. Apple. Archived from the
original on November 10, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Bad Day": "Daniel Powter – Awards (Billboard Singles)". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved
May 15, 2013.
"Love You Lately" and "Crazy All My Life": "Daniel Powter – Chart History: Billboard Canadian Hot
100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Chartverfolgung / Powter, Daniel / Single". musicline.de (in German). Media Control Charts.
Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Bad Day" and "Next Plane Home": "Daniel Powter". Official Charts Company. Archived from the
original (select "Albums" tab) on February 18, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Cupid": Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK – 2012 + Weekly Updates + Sales 2012". zobbel.de.
Tobias Zywietz. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
"Daniel Powter – Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May
15, 2013.
"Daniel Powter – Chart History: Adult Pop Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media.
Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Canadian certifications – Daniel Powter". Music Canada. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"Lie to Me [Australia Single] – Daniel Powter". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved May 15,
2013.
"Whole World Around (Taiwan DMD) – Daniel Powter". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved
May 15, 2013.
"Songs from Lose to Win – Single by Daniel Powter". iTunes Store. Apple. Retrieved May 15,
2013.[permanent dead link]
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – Single by Daniel Powter". iTunes Store. Apple. Retrieved May 15,
2013.
"Perfect for Me – Single by Daniel Powter". KKBox. KKBox. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
External links
Official website
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Billboard Year-End number one singles (2000–2019)
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Recording Industry Association of Japan – Gold Disc Award for Artist of the Year
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