This Is the Night (song)

Single infobox
Name = This Is the Night


Artist = Clay Aiken
Released = June 3, 2003
Format = CD single
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Pop
Length = 7:35
Label = RCA
Producer = Steve Mac, Clive Davis
Writer = Chris Braide, Aldo Nova, Gary Burr
Chart position =

• #1 (US)

Last single = —
This single = "This Is the Night" (2003)
Next single = "Invisible" (2003)"This Is the Night", released on June 3, 2003 on the RCA label, was American Idol contestant Clay Aiken's debut CD single.

It was released simultaneously with "Flying Without Wings" by rival contestant Ruben Studdard, and immediately reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100, restricting "Flying Without Wings" to the number-two position.

The double A-side single was RIAA certified platinum on July 15, 2003. Debuting at #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot 100 Single Sales Chart, it was the fastest-selling single since Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" [ [http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/john_elton/artist.jhtml#bio MTV, Elton John] full biography, accessed May 29, 2007] [ [http://top40.about.com/od/artistsac/p/clayaiken.htm About.com Top 40 / Pop, Clay Aiken, Best-Selling First Single] accessed May 29, 2007] and the best-selling single of 2003. It was the first CD single to go platinum since 2002, when Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" sold a million copies after being released for over a year. The single also topped the charts in New Zealand where it was certified platinum, and went six times platinum in Canada.

"This Is the Night" was included as a bonus track on Aiken's "Measure of a Man" CD (October 2003), while on some international versions the bonus track was "Bridge Over Troubled Water".

Track listing

# "Bridge over Troubled Water" (Paul Simon)
# "This Is the Night" Chris Braide/Aldo Nova/Gary Burr

Discography

*Clay Aiken discography

ee also

*List of number-one hits (United States)
*List of double A-side singles

References