Matthew Wilder

Matthew Wilder (born January 24, 1953 in New York ; actually Matthew Weiner ) is an American musician who became known through his international chart success Break My Stride from 1983.

life and career

Wilder was one half of the Greenwich Village Folk Group Matthew & Peter in the 1970s. In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles to sing for various television commercials. He was also heard as a background singer with Rickie Lee Jones and Bette Midler .

Wilder's breakthrough came with his debut album I Don't Speak the Language in 1983. It reached number 49 on the US Billboard charts , and the most successful release, Break My Stride , even rose to number five on the US charts . The song was also a great success internationally, reaching number four in Great Britain , number seven in Germany , number eight in Austria and number 22 in Switzerland . The following singles and albums were not successful.

Despite the lack of success of his solo career, Wilder remained loyal to the music industry and from then on proved himself to be a successful songwriter and record producer . He wrote songs for No Doubt , 702 , Christina Aguilera , Kelly Clarkson and Joanna , dubbed “Ling” in the Disney film Mulan (1998) and contributed to the soundtrack . Wilder produced songs for the Australian singer-songwriter Mig Ayesa and for Hayden Panettiere .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		DE	US
1983	I don't speak the language	DE59 (4 weeks) DE	US49 (16 weeks) US
1984	Bouncin 'Off the Walls	-	-

Compilations

• 1999: I Don't Speak the Language / Bouncin 'Off the Walls

Soundtracks

• 1998: Disney's Mulan (soundtrack) (with David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith )

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1983	Break My Stride I Don't Speak the Language	DE7 (13 weeks) DE	AT8 (8 weeks) AT	CH22 (6 weeks) CH	UK4th silver (13 weeks)UK	US5 (29 weeks) US	Sales: + 285,000
1984	The Kid's American I Don't Speak the Language	DE35 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK93 (1 week) UK	US33 (13 weeks) US
	Bouncing Off the Wall Bouncin 'Off the Walls	-	-	-	-	US52 (9 weeks) US

Author participations and productions

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1990	Wild Women Do Natalie Cole	-	-	-	UK16 (7 weeks) UK	US34 (10 weeks) US
1996	Just a Girl No Doubt	DE24 (14 weeks) DE	AT21 (5 weeks) AT	CH31 (13 weeks) CH	UK3 (9 weeks) UK	US23 (19 weeks) US	Sales: + 75,000
	Don't speak no doubt	DE2 platinum (25 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (16 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (28 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)UK	-	Sales: + 2,325,000
	Break My Stride Unique II	-	AT1 platinum (26 weeks)AT	-	-	-	Sales: + 127,500
1997	Can't Nobody Hold Me Down Puff Daddy feat. Ma $ e	DE23 (21 weeks) DE	-	CH37 (2 weeks) CH	UK19 (6 weeks) UK	US1 × 2 Double platinum (17 weeks)US	Sales: + 2,000,000
	Spiderwebs No Doubt	-	-	-	UK16 (3 weeks) UK	-
1998	True to Your Heart 98 Degrees feat. Stevie Wonder	DE52 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH25 (11 weeks) CH	UK51 (2 weeks) UK	-
2002	Beauty on the Fire Natalie Imbruglia	-	-	-	UK26 (2 weeks) UK	-
2004	Break My Stride Blue Lagoon	DE2 gold (18 weeks)DE	AT6 (16 weeks) AT	CH15 (15 weeks) CH	-	-	Sales: + 150,000
2013	Break My Stride Bodybangers feat. Tony T.	DE90 (1 week) DE	AT62 (1 week) AT	-	-	-
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2007	GNO (Girl's Night Out) Miley Cyrus	-	-	-	-	US91 (2 weeks) US

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2020: for the single Break My Stride  France 1997: for the production Don't Speak (No Doubt)  Italy 2018: for the production Don't Speak (No Doubt)  Canada 1984: for the single Break My Stride  New Zealand 1997: for the author's participation Break My Stride (Unique II)  Netherlands 1996: for the production Don't Speak (No Doubt)  Norway 1997: for the production Just a Girl (No Doubt)  Sweden 1997: for the production Don't Speak (No Doubt)

Platinum record  Australia 1997: for the production Just a Girl (No Doubt) 1997: for the author's participation Break My Stride (Unique II)  Belgium 1997: for the production Don't Speak (No Doubt) 2 × platinum record  Australia 1997: for the production Don't Speak (No Doubt)  Norway 1997: for the production Don't Speak (No Doubt)

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

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	4 × platinum4th	315,000	aria.com.au AU2
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	platinum1	650,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	250,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	-	50,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	-	7,500	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	5,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	75,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	2,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	2 × platinum2	1,400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	10 × gold10	12 × platinum12

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
3. ↑ Author participations and productions at austriancharts.at

Web links

• Matthew Wilder at Allmusic (English)
• Matthew Wilder at Discogs (English)