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"Something About the Way You Look Tonight"

Single by Elton John

from the album The Big Picture

A-side

"Candle in the Wind 1997"

B-side

"You Can Make History (Young Again)"

Released

13 September 1997 (UK)
23 September 1997 (US)

Format

CD, 7"

Length

4:01

Label

Mercury / Rocket

Writer(s)

Elton John, Bernie Taupin

Producer

Chris Thomas

Elton John singles chronology

"Live Like Horses"
(1996)

"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997"
(1997)

"Recover Your Soul"
(1998)

"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" is a song by Elton John, released as the first single from The Big Picture. The single was released as a double A-side single with "Candle in the Wind 1997".

The video for the song featured actors and actresses from the UK television programme This Life, as well as supermodels Kate Moss and Sophie Dahl and is regarded as one of Elton John's best videos. John has publicly revealed (through his "warts and all" documentary Tantrums and Tiaras) that he finds videos "fucking loathsome" and after the album The Big Picture refrained from appearing in his own videos unless they were cameo appearances.

Sales and chart positions

"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" and the video were dedicated (and maybe this inspired the song) to the memory of Gianni Versace, murdered that year.

In the UK only, the single sold over 4,864,600 copies (8x Platinum), making the song the best-selling single ever in UK history. It remained for five weeks at the number-one position. In the US, the song was considered a double-A-side with "Candle in the Wind 1997" and spent fourteen weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. On the US adult contemporary chart, however, "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" and "Candle in the Wind 1997" charted separately, and while the tribute to Princess Diana peaked at #5 on this chart, "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" spent ten weeks at #1 in late 1997 and early 1998.^[1]

Preceded by "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid	UK best-selling single in history ^[2] 14 September 1997 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by "Macarena" by Los Del Río	Billboard Hot 100 Single of the Year 1997	Succeeded by "Too Close" by Next
Preceded by "The Drugs Don't Work" by The Verve	UK Singles Chart number-one single 14 September 1997 – 19 October 1997	Succeeded by "Spice Up Your Life" by Spice Girls
Preceded by "Men in Black" by Will Smith	Australia ARIA Singles Chart number-one single 5 October 1997 – 9 November 1997	Succeeded by "Barbie Girl" by Aqua
Preceded by "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba	New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart number-one single 5 October 1997 – 9 November 1997	Succeeded by "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by N-Trance
Preceded by "4 Seasons of Loneliness" by Boyz II Men	Billboard Hot 100 number one single 11 October 1997 – 10 January 1998	Succeeded by "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden

References

#1 in Top 100 ever

^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
^ UK Top 10 Best Selling Singles ukcharts.20m.com

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1960s and 1970s	"Lady Samantha" (1969) · "It's Me That You Need" (1969) · "Border Song" (1970) · "Rock n' Roll Madonna" (1970) · "From Denver to L.A." (1970) · "Take Me to the Pilot" (1970) · "Your Song" (1970) · "Levon" (1971) · "Tiny Dancer" (1972) · "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)" (1972) · "Honky Cat" (1972) · "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" (1972) · "Crocodile Rock" (1972) · "Daniel" (1972) · "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" (1973) · "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (1973) · "Step into Christmas" (1973) · "Candle in the Wind" (1974) · "Bennie and the Jets" (1974) · "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (1974) · "The Bitch Is Back" (1974) · "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (1974) · "Philadelphia Freedom" (1975) · "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" (1975) · "Island Girl" (1975) · "Grow Some Funk of Your Own" (1976) · "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" (1976) · "Pinball Wizard" (1976) · "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (1976) · "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (1976) · "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)" (1977) · "Crazy Water" (1977) · "The Goaldigger's Song" (1977) · "Ego" (1978) · "Part-Time Love" (1978) · "Song for Guy" (1978) · "Are You Ready for Love" (1979) · "Johnny B. Goode" (1979)

1980s	"Little Jeannie" (1980) · "Sartorial Eloquence (Don't Ya Wanna Play This Game No More?)" (1980) · "Dear God" (1980) · "Blue Eyes" (1982) · "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" (1982) · "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1982) · "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" (1983) · "I'm Still Standing" (1983) · "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" (1984) · "Nikita" (1985) · "That's What Friends Are For" (1985) · "Your Song" (1987) · "Candle in the Wind" (1987) · "Take Me to the Pilot" (1988) · "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" (1988) · "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Part Two)" (1988) · "Sacrifice" (1989)

1990s	"Club at the End of the Street" (1990) · "Sacrifice" (1990) · "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (1991) · "The One" (1992) · "True Love" (1993) · "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (1994) · "Circle of Life" (1994) · "Believe" (1994) · "Made in England" (1995) · Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997" (1997) · "Written in the Stars" (1999)

2000s	"This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" (2002) · "Your Song" (2002) · "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (2002) · "Are You Ready for Love" (2003) · "The Bridge" (2006) · "Tinderbox" (2006) · "Rocket Man" (2007) · "Step into Christmas" (2007) · "Joseph, Better You Than Me" (2008)

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