Daylight in Your Eyes

"Daylight in Your Eyes"
Single by No Angels
from the album Elle'ments
Released	5 February 2001 (2001-02-05)
Recorded	2000
Studio	Park Studios (Tutzing)
Length	3:30
Label	Cheyenne Polydor Zeitgeist
Songwriter(s)	Tony Bruno Tommy Byrne
Producer(s)	Thorsten Brötzmann
No Angels singles chronology
"Daylight in Your Eyes" (2001) "Rivers of Joy" (2001)
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"Daylight in Your Eyes" is the debut single by German girl group No Angels. It was written by Tony Bruno and Tommy Byrnes and initially recorded by American rock band New Life Crisis. A Tony Moran-produced remix of their version appeared on MTV Party to Go Remixed (2001), but as their record company, Tommy Boy Entertainment, folded soon after, the group's original recording failed to receive a wider release, and the song was eventually sold separately abroad. There, "Daylight in Your Eyes" was purchased by Epic Records and re-recorded by the singer Victoria Faiella for her debut album with the label.

In 2001, Faiella's producer Peter Plate offered the newly created pop group No Angels, winners of the debut season of the German adaption of Popstars, to re-record "Daylight in Your Eyes" for their debut studio album, Elle'ments (2001), following their participation in the first installment of the German edition of the reality television program Popstars. Released as the group's debut single on 5 February 2001 in German-speaking Europe and the following months in the United Kingdom and the United States, the single became a major international success, reaching number one in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

"Daylight in Your Eyes" was the best-selling single of the year 2001 in Germany as well as the third-best-selling single in Austria, and became fifth-highest-selling single of the 2000s in Germany. It was nominated for an Amadeus Austrian Music Award and awarded both the 2001 Top of the Pops Award for Top Single Germany and the 2002 ECHO Award for Single of the Year (National). "Daylight in Your Eyes" received a Platinum certification from the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for shipping half a million copies and has since been covered by various artists.^[1]