Have a Nice Day (Stereophonics song)

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All tracks are written by Kelly Jones except "Heart of Gold", written by Neil Young

"Have a Nice Day"
Have a Nice Day Stereophonics.jpg
Single by Stereophonics
from the album Just Enough Education to Perform
B-side "Surprise"
Released11 June 2001 (2001-06-11)
Studio
Length3:25
Label V2
Songwriter(s) Kelly Jones
Producer(s) Bird and Bush
Stereophonics singles chronology
"Mr. Writer"
(2001)		"Have a Nice Day"
(2001)		"Step on My Old Size Nines"
(2001)
Music video
"Have a Nice Day" on YouTube
UK CD1 [14]
No.TitleLength
1."Have a Nice Day" 
2."Surprise" 
3."Piano for a Stripper" (demo) 
UK CD2 [15]
No.TitleLength
1."Have a Nice Day" (live acoustic) 
2."Heart of Gold" (live acoustic) 
3."I Stopped to Fill My Car Up" (live acoustic) 
UK 7-inch and cassette single; European CD single [16] [17] [18]
No.TitleLength
1."Have a Nice Day" 
2."Surprise" 
Australian, New Zealand, and Japanese CD single [19] [20]
No.TitleLength
1."Have a Nice Day" 
2."Surprise" 
3."Piano for a Stripper" (demo) 
4."Heart of Gold" (live acoustic) 
5."I Stopped to Fill My Car Up" (live acoustic) 

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the Just Enough Education to Perform album booklet. [2]

Studios

Stereophonics

Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [9] Platinum600,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref(s).
United Kingdom11 June 2001
  • CD
  • cassette
 V2 [4] [5]
Japan13 June 2001CD [28]
United Kingdom18 June 20017-inch vinyl [29]
Australia2 July 2001CD [30]
United States15 October 2001 Hot adult contemporary radio [31]
16 October 2001 Alternative radio [32]
26 November 2001 Triple A radio [33]
11 January 2002 Contemporary hit radio [34]

Appearances in media

"Have a Nice Day" was briefly used in Dawn of the Dead , in an episode of The Naked Chef and in the Veronica Mars episode "Drinking the Kool-Aid". It was also included in the 2002 Roswell TV soundtrack. [35] The song plays in Black Mirror episode Shut Up and Dance . [36]

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