Never Gonna Be Alone

"Never Gonna Be Alone"
Song

"Never Gonna Be Alone" is the 6th overall single (4th mainstream single in U.S., 5th overall single in U.S. and mainstream single in Canada due to I'd Come For You released only in Europe and Canada) since off of Nickelback's sixth studio album Dark Horse. The song is a power ballad, similar to other hits by the band such as, I'd Come For You, Far Away, and If Everyone Cared.

Background

The song made its North American debut on Montreal hot adult contemporary radio station CJFM-FM (Mix 96, now Virgin Radio) in December 2008; however, it was not yet released as a single when the station played it. It is also getting rotation on CKRV-FM in Kamloops, British Columbia and many other Canadian radio stations.

The song is featured on the soundtrack of the Brazilian soap opera: Caminho das Índias.

The song was used during the 2009 WWE Tribute to the Troops highlighting John Cena and his visit to Iraq for six years. The band performed the song live for the very first time, on the opening show of the Summer 2010 leg of the Dark Horse tour in Atlantic City on the 3rd April 2010.

Commercial performance

"Never Gonna Be Alone" reached #68 on The Billboard Hot 100 a few months before it was released as a single. It recently reappeared on the chart, entering at #96 and it's currently at #58, which is their new peak. As of early 2010, the single had shifted 513,456 downloads in the US.

Music video

The music video was released on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 on the Road Runner Records Twitter page. The video world premiered on YouTube. It tells an extremely sad story of a young woman who has lost her father. The video opens with the young woman in a limousine being taken to her wedding. She is holding a fake blue flower with her bouquet. As she walks down the aisle, she looks back at her mother and father, who are smiling proudly. The scene then cuts back to her high school graduation, where her father is again smiling and clapping for her as she receives her diploma. The video flashes back three more times, the first with the girl's father seeing her off to her prom and the second with him teaching her how to ride a bike. The final flashback shows the father's funeral, the young woman being just a little girl. She is holding two fake flowers in her hand, one yellow and one blue. She tosses the yellow one into her father's grave. The events in the flashbacks are shown again from a different perspective, each time the girl looks up at her father and sees him disappear in a shimmer of light. Back at the wedding, the girl is still looking back, seeing her father's ghost surrounded in light. She realizes that he has still been there for her all along, even in death. The girl places the blue flower in her new husband's breast pocket, and the two wed. As they are leaving the church, the video cuts to her father once more, smiling proudly. He disappears for the final time, his daughter now fully grown up. The video is intercut with scenes of the band singing in a room with a large, light-filled backdrop.

Charts

Chart (2009-2010)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	64
Canadian Hot 100	25
Dutch Top 40	37
Netherlands Singles Chart	37
Portugal Singles Chart	46
Japan Hot 100	97
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	58
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	17
U.S.Billboard Pop Songs	28
U.S.Billboard Adult Pop Songs	5