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Daniel Powter
Solo artist Vernon Canada Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
Daniel Powter is an artist from Vernon. Daniel Powter has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2005–2006. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Bad Day”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #143. The station that charted Daniel Powter most often is Virgin Radio (United Kingdom), with 2 appearances.
Daniel Powter, a Canadian singer-songwriter from Vernon, born in 1971, sat down at the piano in 2005 and came up with the kind of song that follows you from the supermarket to the car radio and back again. "Bad Day", from his self-titled album, is piano rock at its most chipper: a bouncing, sympathetic pick-me-up that spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
The awards circuit noticed. He won the Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2006, picked up nominations for Best New Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards and International Breakthrough Act at the BRITs, and "Bad Day" earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Lightning never struck twice. Nothing he put out afterwards came close to that song's success, and Billboard ended up naming him the top one-hit wonder of the 2000s, a strange sort of crown, but proof of just how big that one hit was.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Daniel Powter on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad Day | 2 | #143 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 143 | Bad Day | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) |
| 2005 | 265 | Bad Day | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) |
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