Daniel Powter

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Daniel Powter is a Canadian recording artist, born on 25 February 1971. He grew up in Vernon, in the Okanagan Valley region of British Columbia. With few local musical influences, he credits his early exposure to music to his mother, who was a pianist and took her son on long distance trips to see artists like Prince perform in Vancouver.

Daniel Powter’s first piano pop single, “Bad Day,” debuted not in his home country of Canada, but rather in Europe in mid-2005. It was chosen by Warner Brothers as a submission for commercial production and was subsequently chosen by Coca-Cola as the theme song for an ad campaign in Europe. Additionally, “Bad Day” is currently being used extensively by American Idol in its fifth season. Powter sang the song live at the end of the penulimate show of that season. The song achieved heavy airplay in most European countries, and made it as high as number three on the overall European airplay chart. It did best in Germany, where it peaked at number one in national airplay, Ireland where it peaked at #1 on the Singles Chart, and in the UK, where it peaked at number two in the singles chart and stayed in the top 10 for 13 weeks. In the United States the song peaked at number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 seven weeks after it was released. In Australia, it peaked at number three. The song reached top five in Canada and is now a top 10 hit at Adult Top 40 radio. It was fifth place in the British Record of the Year 2005.

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.

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1	Bad Day	4,429
2	Free Loop	1,001
3	Next Plane Home	808
4	Jimmy Gets High	741
5	Lie to Me	552
6	Song 6	542
7	Love you Lately	407
8	Give Me Life	387
9	Lost on the Stoop	382
10	Best Of Me	374
11	Styrofoam	372
12	Hollywood	362
13	Suspect	349
14	Not Coming Back	282
15	Whole World Around	280

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paulkiller wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Free Loop ~~

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Mc-dalena wrote:
Monday afternoon

I like his songs and voice. :)

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dsvierge wrote:
last week

j'aime cette chanson so much...

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IchWillPizza wrote:
last week

Love his voice (:

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igorsoares07 wrote:
last week

His songs are soo greattt, makes me feel so good

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Pan_Totencham wrote:
last month

Am I Still the One has to be the next single!

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desigualboy wrote:
last month

I saw him yesterday in Barcelona. In a MTV concert . He was amazing!

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felipeattilio wrote:
last month

yeahhhhhh....

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Matthew_888 wrote:
last month

nooo he got a lot of great songs :P it's not his fault that most people known only one :D

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xxxamazexxx wrote:
last month

Should we tag him 'one-hit-wonder' ?

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dexter_mm wrote:
last month

Love You Lately ^^

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MoOdnight wrote:
last month

bad day.. yeaa :*

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last month

el mejor!
lovemede wrote:
last month

AMAZING!!!! LOVE IT <3

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Coco4294 wrote:
last month

He has a great voice, so bad he's a one-hit wonder :/

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Makko88 wrote:
last month

Next Plane Home is a cute song :P

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gyllenhaalic wrote:
last month

i love next plane home <3

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Brazilianchap wrote:
last month

NEW ALBUM IS GREAT

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Chelseaclub wrote:
last month

he's a one hit-wonder, i'm sure!

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MarielleOwl wrote:
last month

Hello, I would love to spread my music taste with you all as I see we share some good tastes... hope you enjoy! Treehouse Demo

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