"Kiss Goodnight" | ||||
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Single by Tyler Shaw | ||||
from the album Yesterday | ||||
Released | December 4, 2012 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Recorded | 2012 | |||
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Length | 3:45 | |||
Label | Sony Music Canada | |||
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"Kiss Goodnight" is the debut single released by Canadian singer-songwriter Tyler Shaw. The song was written by Shaw in conjunction with Stephen Kozmeniuk and Todd Clark, and was produced by Kozmeniuk and Zubin Thakkar. It was released December 4, 2012 through Sony Music Canada as Shaw's first official single following his win of the second CocaCola MuchMusic Covers Contest (2012) and serves as the lead single for Shaw's debut studio album, Yesterday (2015). A franglais version featuring vocals by french pop artist Nathalie Noël, entitled "Je veux juste rester là" ("I Just Want to Stay There"), was released April 9, 2013.
"Kiss Goodnight" debuted at number 100 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 for the week of January 19, 2013. It entered the top forty (at number 39) in its fourth week on the chart dated February 9, 2013 and reached a peak position of 24 on the chart dated May 18, 2013. The single was certified Gold by Music Canada on April 22, 2013, indicating sales of over 40,000 units. As of September 2015, "Kiss Goodnight" has sold over 73,000 units, according to Shaw's label, Sony Music Entertainment.
The song received significant airplay on pop and adult radio formats in early 2013 and resultantly charted on multiple airplay charts compiled by Billboard via Nielsen BDS Radio. "Kiss Goodnight" spent seventeen weeks in the Top 10 on Canadian adult contemporary radio and reached a peak position of 5 on the associated Canada AC chart; it also peaked at number eighteen on the Canada CHR/Top 40 chart and at number 7 on the Canada Hot AC chart. It was the 23rd most-played song on Canadian radio between January 2001 and July 2015, according to data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.