I Never Told You

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"I Never Told You"
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Single by Colbie Caillat
from the album Breakthrough
ReleasedFebruary 16, 2010
RecordedSummer 2007
Genre Pop rock
Length3:53(album version)
3:48 (single mix)
Label Universal Republic
Songwriter(s)
  • Colbie Caillat
  • Kara DioGuardi
  • Jason Reeves
Producer(s) Kara DioGuardi
Colbie Caillat singles chronology
"Fallin' for You"
(2009)
"I Never Told You"
(2010)
"I Do"
(2011)
Music video
"I Never Told You" on YouTube

"I Never Told You" is a song by the American pop singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat from her second album Breakthrough (2009). The song was released on February 16, 2010 in the United States as the second single. The song is a power ballad in E-flat major and was written by Caillat, Jason Reeves and Kara DioGuardi and produced by DioGuardi. The song talks about the love the singer still has for her lover they felt strongly about at one point in their life. The song received positive reviews from music critics. In the charts, the song has performed moderately well, it has peaked at #48 [1] on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Adult Pop Songs. [2]

Contents

Background

In 'I Never Told You,' Colbie Caillat reveals she still has feelings for a previous love and misses him. [3] Caillat originally penned this song while touring Europe in her hotel bathroom. She told Starpulse.com: "I wrote it about someone I had broken up with that I was missing at the time." Later, the song was completed during a three-week "writing camp" in Hawaii that Caillat organized with fellow singer/songwriter Jason Reeves and American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi. [4]

Critical reception

In the review of the album, Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine said that "Kara DioGuardi deserves some credit for helping Caillat deliver one of her most emotive performances to date on the melancholy "I Never Told You"; on any other record, the song would be easily tagged as mediocre filler, but here it's an album highlight". [5]

Promotion

Colbie began promoting the song on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show on January 8, 2010. [6] Later, she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 11, 2010. [7]

Music video

The official music video was directed by Roman White, and released on Vevo.com on April 2, 2010. [8]

It involves scenes of Colbie singing while painting, couples breaking apart but eventually were brought back again including herself and her love interest. The music video uses a different mix of the song (the "Single Mix") which is shorter than the Album Version and repeats the line "Oh no, I never told you" towards the end of the song. This version of the song was released by Promo Only in July 2010. The music video has also landed in the number #1 spot on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. She has gone to #1 twice on different occurrences during the show.

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week ending of April 10, 2010 [9] and peaked at number 48.

The song reached number three on Adult Pop Songs and number eleven on Adult Contemporary. It charted on Billboard Radio Songs and peaked at number 54, while peaking at number 43 on Hot Digital Songs chart.

"I Never Told You" was ranked at number 15 on the year-end tally for Adult Pop Songs. The song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [10]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [18] Gold30,000
United States (RIAA) [19] 2× Platinum2,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormat
United StatesNovember 6, 2009Universal RepublicDigital download (Imeem)
February 16, 2010 [20] Universal RepublicRadio Adds
June 29, 2010 [21] [22] Universal RepublicTop 40 Mainstream Radio (radio version)

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