Maybe Tonight

"Maybe Tonight"
Single by Kate DeAraugo
from the album A Place I've Never Been
Released	28 November 2005 (2005-11-28) (Australia)
Format	Maxi
Recorded	Eargasm Studios, Sydney, 2005
Genre	Pop
Length	3:37
Label	Sony BMG
Writer(s)	Dave Bassett Jess Cates Lindy Robbins
Producer	Bryon Jones, Adam Reily
Certification	Platinum (ARIA)
Kate DeAraugo singles chronology
"Maybe Tonight" (2005) "Faded" (2006)

"Maybe Tonight" is a pop song written by Dave Bassett, Jess Cates and Lindy Robbins, produced by Bryon Jones and Adam Reily for Kate DeAraugo's first album A Place I've Never Been (2005). It was released as the album's first single on 28 November 2005 (see 2005 in music) in Australia as a Maxi single. It was successful in her home country Australia, becoming her first number-one hit.

Music video

The music video for the song was directed by Anthony Rose on a rainy day in Sydney November 2005. The video opens up to DeAraugo walking around a bedroom and then she looks out of a window and sees a middle aged couple with an umbrella. The couple then start walking together holding hands. While DeAraugo is still looking out of the window, a man is fixing the front of his car but fails and the couple with the umbrella then sit on the ground and kiss. DeAraugo then walks away from the window and sits on a bed, while the man who was trying to fix his car is trying to call DeAraugo with his mobile phone but it gets knocked out of his hands and breaks once it hits the ground. At that exact moment DeAraugo then tries to ring the man but it doesn't go through. The couple with the umbrella are then shown to be riding a bike together. At the end the man starts running to get to DeAraugo and then he knocks on her door and as soon as she answers he embraces her.

Promotion and chart performance

The song was released to Australian radio on 21 November 2005 and became the most added song to radio for that week^[1]. DeAraugo made an appearance on the Australian morning show Sunrise on 2 December 2005 performing the song live and she made instore appearances to stores in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast signing the single. The CD maxi single featured the song along with a cover of the Alanis Morissette song "Ironic" she performed live on Australian Idol's "Up Close & Personal" special. "Maybe Tonight" reached number fifteen on the national Australian airplay chart^[2].

The song debuted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on 5 December 2005 at the number-one position with 20,307 copies sold and was certified platinum by ARIA^[3]. It peaked at number one for two weeks. The song was nominated for an ARIA Award for "Highest Selling Single" for 2006 and was the fifty-first highest selling single for 2005 and forty-ninth for 2006.

Track listing

CD single

1. "Maybe Tonight" — 3:37
2. "Ironic" (live on Australian Idol) — 2:58

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[4]	1

References

1. ^ "Kate DeAraugo Storms Radio! Catch Our New Australian Idol Live On Sunrise This Friday ". Sony BMG. Retrieved 26 November 2007.
2. ^ "Kate Debuts At #1 On Singles Chart; 'A Place I've Never Been' Released This Sunday". Sony BMG. Retrieved 26 November 2007.
3. ^ "Idol goes into sales decline". Herald Sun. Retrieved 26 November 2007.
4. ^ Maybe Tonight chart performance. australian-charts. Retrieved 11 January 2007.

Preceded by "My Humps" by The Black Eyed Peas

ARIA (Australia) number-one single 5 December 2005 — 12 December 2005

Succeeded by "Wasabi"/"Eye of the Tiger" by Lee Harding