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"Daylight in Your Eyes" is the debut song by all-female German pop group No Angels. It was written by Tony Bruno and Tommy Byrnes and initially recorded by American rock band New Life Crisis. Their version appeared on MTV's ''Party to Go Remixed'' compilation, released in 2001, but as their record company, Tommy Boy Entertainment, folded soon after, their original recording failed to receive a wider release, and the song was eventually sold separately abroad. There it was re-recorded by Columbian pop singer Victoria Faiella for her Epic Records debut. In 2001, Faiella's producer Peter Plate offered the newly created pop group No Angels to re-record "Daylight in Your Eyes" for their debut studio album ''Elle'ments'' (2001) following their participation in the first installment of the German adaption of the reality television program ''Popstars''. Released as the band's debut single on February 5, 2001 in German-speaking Europe and the following months in the United Kingdom and the United States, the single became a major international hit, reaching number-one in Austria, Estonia, Germany, and Switzerland, making it the No Angels' most successful single release to date.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Austriancharts )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Swisscharts )〕 The song became the best-selling single of the year 2001 in Germany, and emerged as one of the best-selling German recordings of the decade, ranking fifth on the highest-selling singles of the 2000s in Germany. It was nominated for an Amadeus Austrian Music Award and awarded the 2002 ECHO Award for Single of the Year (National). "Daylight in Your Eyes" received a Platinum certification from the Bundesverband Musikindustrie for shipping half a million copies, and has since been covered by various artists. ==Writing and recording== "Daylight in Your Eyes" was composed by American songwriters and guitarists Tony Bruno and Tommy Byrnes, and initially intended for inclusion on American rock band New Life Crisis' self-titled debut album on Tommy Boy Records.〔 Recorded in 2000, their variation of the track received limited release in the United States in January 2001, and eventually ended on various sampler albums such as MTV's ''Party to Go (Remixed)'' compilation. Plans for a Europe-wide release however fell through as Bruno and Byrnes had sold the song separately both stateside and abroad and the label lacked the right to release the band's version on any format throughout Europe. Further problems arose as Byrnes, Bruno, and the publishing company that bought the rights to the song were forced to not only acknowledge the writing contribution of Paul Mahos, but to also pay him back and continuing royalties, something which Byrnes and Bruno do not receive from the song. Well-known to writer Tony Bruno, whom she had met while they were working as background musicians on Enrique Iglesias' 1999 ''Cosas del Amor World Tour'', he introduced Victoria Faiella to German producer Peter Plate, one half of the musical duo Rosenstolz, with whom she started working on her first solo album ''Drama'' on the Sony subsidiary Epic Records, resulting into the re-recording of "Daylight".〔 Picked as the album's lead single, a music video for the song was produced and sent to music networks, but as the record lacked airplay support, it underperformed and the singer was eventually dropped from her label.〔 A few months later, Plate got known that Polydor Records, the RTL II network and production company Tresor TV were searching songs for the soon-to-be-cast result of the debut season of the reality show ''Popstars''.〔 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 band members of the newly formed No Angels.〔 As reported, the song was eventually selected as the album's lead single out of a total of ten songs.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daylight in Your Eyes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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