Daniel Powter

Daniel Powter at the MTV Asia Awards (2006)

Daniel Richard Powter [ ˌdænjəl ˈpaʊtɚ ] (born February 25, 1971 in Vernon , British Columbia ) is a Canadian pop musician .

biography

Powter grew up in the Okanagan Valley . He started playing the violin as a child, but quickly switched to the piano. He formed his first band at the age of 18.

On February 14, 2000, Powters debut album was released in Canada, two songs of which were also featured in the television series Higher Ground . Together with producers Jeff Dawson and Mitchell Froom , his second album Daniel Powter was created in 2004 . With the album he reached the top 15 of the album charts in France; the resulting single Bad Day rose to number 1 on the airplay charts . In spring 2005 he was able to almost repeat this success in Switzerland. In June 2005, Powters single finally reached the German charts.

His third album Under the Radar was released in Germany on September 19, 2008 . The first single from it, entitled Next Plane Home , was released on September 12th.

He is the father of a daughter born in 2003.

In 2010 Powter released his album Best of Me . The released singles Lose to Win , Fall in Love (The Day We Never Met) and Come Home were successful in Asia.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2005	Daniel Powter	DE42 (16 weeks) DE	AT43 (5 weeks) AT	CH14th gold (43 weeks)CH	UK5 platinum (23 weeks)UK	US9 gold (22 weeks)US	First published: February 18, 2005
2008	Under the radar	-	AT74 (1 week) AT	CH20 (14 weeks) CH	UK43 (1 week) UK	-	First published: August 19, 2008

Compilations

year	title	Remarks
2007	B-sides	First published: January 29, 2007
2010	Best of Me	First published: December 8, 2010

EPs

year	title	Remarks
2008	iTunes Live from Tokyo	First published: August 6, 2008
	Songs from Under the Radar	First published: September 16, 2008

more publishments

• 2000: I'm Your Betty
• 2012: Turn On the Lights
• 2018: Giants

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	CA
2005	Bad Day Daniel Powter	DE17th gold (24 weeks)DE	AT13 (29 weeks) AT	CH5 (41 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (46 weeks)UK	US1 × 3 Triple platinum (32 weeks)US	CA7th platinum (… Where.)CA	First published: February 8, 2005
	Jimmy Gets High Daniel Powter	-	-	CH41 (9 weeks) CH	-	-	-	First published: August 19, 2005
	Free Loop (One Night Stand) Daniel Powter	DE55 (6 weeks) DE	AT62 (4 weeks) AT	CH38 (14 weeks) CH	-	-	CA11 (... weeks) CA	First published: November 7, 2005
2006	Lie to Me Daniel Powter	-	-	-	UK92 (1 week) UK	-	-	First published: April 17, 2006
	Love You Lately Daniel Powter	-	-	-	-	-	CA5 (... weeks) CA	First published: September 2006
2008	Next Plane Home Under the Radar	DE71 (6 weeks) DE	AT61 (3 weeks) AT	CH37 (10 weeks) CH	UK70 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: August 2008
	Best of Me Under the Radar	-	-	CH40 (3 weeks) CH	-	-	-	First published: November 2008
2013	Crazy all My Life Turn On the Lights	-	-	-	-	-	CA23 (21 weeks) CA	First published: 2013

More singles

• 2009: Whole World Around
• 2010: Lose to Win
• 2012: Cupid
• 2017: Delicious
• 2018: Perfect For Me
• 2018: Do You Want To Get Lucky
• 2018: Survivor

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2005: for the Daniel Powter album  Denmark 2007: for the single Bad Day  France 2005: for the single Bad Day  Canada 2007: for the Daniel Powter album  New Zealand 2006: for the Daniel Powter album

Platinum record  Australia 2005: for the single Bad Day  France 2006: for the Daniel Powter album  Italy 2019: for the single Bad Day

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	gold1	platinum1	105,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	-	4,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	150,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	gold1	platinum1	400,000	snepmusique.com infodisc.fr
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	50,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	gold1	platinum1	120,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold1	-	7,500	nztop40.co.nz
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	-	20,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	gold1	3 × platinum3	3,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	2 × platinum2	900,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	8 × gold8th	9 × platinum9

Web links

Commons : Daniel Powter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Daniel Powter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official international site (English)
• Daniel Powter on MySpace
• Daniel Powter on MusicBrainz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Next Plane Home on Allmusic
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US