This Side of Paradise (song)

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"This Side of Paradise"
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Single by Bryan Adams
from the album Room Service
Released2005
Genre Rock
Length3:35
Label Universal
Songwriter(s) Bryan Adams, Gretchen Peters
Producer(s) Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams singles chronology
"Room Service"
(2005)
"This Side of Paradise"
(2005)
"Why Do You Have to Be So Hard to Love?"
(2006)

"This Side of Paradise" is a single by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams, his fourth and last single from his studio album Room Service , released in 2005. Unlike previous singles, "Open Road" and "Room Service", it didn't chart in the UK or Germany, but it did reach number 20 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the US.

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Chart positions

Chart (2005)Peak
position
US Billboard Adult Contemporary [1] 20

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References

  1. "Chart history - Bryan Adams". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-06-24.