Gotta Get Thru This (song)
2001 single by Daniel Bedingfield
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"Gotta Get Thru This" is a song by New Zealand-British singer Daniel Bedingfield. It was released in November 2001 as Bedingfield's debut single and as the lead single from his first studio album, Gotta Get Thru This (2002). The track, along with some others, was recorded in Bedingfield's bedroom with his PC and a microphone, using the music software Reason.[2]
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| Single by Daniel Bedingfield | ||||
| from the album Gotta Get Thru This | ||||
| Released | 26 November 2001 | |||
| Genre | UK garage[1] | |||
| Length | 2:42 | |||
| Label | Relentless | |||
| Songwriter | Daniel Bedingfield | |||
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The single went to number one on the UK Singles Chart in both 2001 and 2002, making it one of Bedingfield's most successful singles on the chart.[3] Outside the United Kingdom, the single peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Canada and the United States, becoming Bedingfield's highest charting U.S. hit. In the latter country, it received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording but lost to "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas. The single became Britain's sixteenth biggest-selling single of 2001 and has since been certified double platinum. Capital Xtra included the song on their list of "The Best Old-School Garage Anthems of All Time".[4]
Song background
Bedingfield was inspired to write the song while walking across Tower Bridge in London, frustrated at being separated from a girl he was in love with from Leeds, in the north of England.[5] The girl was a red-haired American dancer named Gina, and he was upset that the distance between them was preventing him from pursuing her. Bedingfield went home and recorded the song in his bedroom with a microphone plugged into his home computer using the Making Waves audio program. The song cost £1,500 to record, and after pressing some of his own copies of the song, Bedingfield sent them to various DJs, and DJ EZ included it on a compilation. After hearing it, Polydor signed him, and the song became a big hit.[6][7]
Music video
The music video features Bedingfield looking for a woman in a number of locations in London, most notably West India Quay, a bridge connecting West India to Canary Wharf, and the Canary Wharf Docklands area. He is pursuing a woman he may know and comes inches close while chasing her around Docklands Light Railway, and eventually meets her at Canary Wharf. Canadian director Little X directed the video.[6]
A second version of the video, also directed by Little X, was created for North America. It was filmed in and around the St. James Town neighbourhood in downtown Toronto. In the beginning of the North American music video, an acoustic version of "Gotta Get Thru This" is featured and then the official D'n'D version starts playing after.
Track listings
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UK CD single[8]
UK 12-inch single[9]
UK cassette single[10]
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European CD single[11]
Canadian CD single[12]
Australian CD single[13]
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
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Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Australia (ARIA)[57] | Gold | 35,000^ |
| New Zealand (RMNZ)[58] | Gold | 15,000‡ |
| United Kingdom (BPI)[59] | 2× Platinum | 1,200,000‡ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
Release history
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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| United Kingdom | 26 November 2001 |
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Relentless | [60] |
| Australia | 11 February 2002 | CD | Ministry of Sound | [61] |
| Canada | 23 April 2002 | Jive | [62] | |
| United States | 1 July 2002 | Island | [63] |