"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.

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. 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".

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. 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.

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.

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

UK CD single "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D radio edit) "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D full length version) "Gotta Get Thru This" (Stella Browne vocal mix) "Gotta Get Thru This" (CD-ROM video)

UK 12-inch single A1. "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D full length version) B1. "Gotta Get Thru This" (original version) B2. "Gotta Get Thru This" (Stella Browne vocal mix)

UK cassette single "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D radio edit) "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D full length version)

European CD single "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D radio edit) – 2:41 "Gotta Get Thru This" (CD-ROM video)

Canadian CD single "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D radio edit) – 2:41 "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D full length version) – 4:44 "Gotta Get Thru This" (Stella Browne vocal mix) – 7:33

Australian CD single "Gotta Get Thru This" (radio edit) – 2:41 "Gotta Get Thru This" (D'n'D full length version) – 4:39 "Gotta Get Thru This" (Stella Browne vocal mix) – 7:33 "Gotta Get Thru This" (original version) – 4:31

Charts

Weekly charts +Chart (2001–2002)Peakpositionscope="row"scope="row"scope="row"Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)5scope="row"Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)8scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"Ireland Dance (IRMA)5scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"Romania (Romanian Top 100)56scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"UK Airplay (Music Week)1scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"US CHR/Pop (Radio & Records)3US CHR/Rhythmic (Radio & Records)24

Year-end charts +Chart (2001)PositionUK Singles (OCC)16

+Chart (2002)PositionAustralia (ARIA)89Australian Dance (ARIA)16Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)61Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)70UK Singles (OCC)63UK Airplay (Music Week)30US Billboard Hot 10061US Dance Club Play (Billboard)22US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)32US Rhythmic Top 40 (Billboard)55US CHR/Pop (Radio & Records)34US CHR/Rhythmic (Radio & Records)88

+Chart (2003)PositionBrazil (Crowley)70US CHR/Pop (Radio & Records)60

Decade-end charts +Chart (2000–2009)PositionUK Top 100 Songs of the DecadeRadio 1 Official Chart of the Decade, as broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on 29 December 2009, presented by DJ Nihal61

Certifications

Release history +RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)United Kingdom26 November 2001RelentlessAustralia11 February 2002CDMinistry of SoundCanada23 April 2002JiveUnited States1 July 2002Island

See also List of UK Singles Chart number ones of 2001 List of UK Singles Chart number ones of 2002 List of number-one dance singles of 2002 (U.S.)

References

External links Music video (US version) on ArtistDirect.com Music video (UK version) on YouTube