Bad Day by Daniel Powter Song Info
This song is saying that even if you have a bad day once in a while, things will get better. In Europe, it was released in 2005 and became a hit when Coca-Cola used it as the theme song for an advertising campaign on the continent. It topped the Italian and German charts and was #2 in England for 3 weeks. In America, Powter’s album was released in 2006, and this song became a hit when the TV show American Idol started using it as a theme for the “goodbye video” for the departing contestants who were voted off the show on the fifth season. Daniel Powter was named by Billboard as the top one-hit wonder of the 2000s for this song. The magazine defined a one-hit wonder as an act whose second hit did not reach the Top 25 and only included acts from 2000 to 2007. Powter is from British Columbia. When this hit #1 in the US, Powter became the first Canadian to top the US charts since Nickelback did it with “How You Remind Me” in 2002. This was revealed to be the most played song in the UK over the last five years, in a survey announced in July 2008 by the British Performing Rights Society. The runner-up was Kelly Clarkson’s “Because Of You” and in third place came James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”.
