Can't Fight the Moonlight

Infobox Single
Name = Can't Fight the Moonlight


Artist = LeAnn Rimes
from Album = I Need You
B-side =
Released = February 13, 2001
Format = CD single
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:35
Label = Curb Records
Writer = Diane Warren
Producer = Trevor Horn
Certification = 3x Platinum (ARIA), Gold (RIAA), Gold (BPI)
Last single = "I Need You" (2000)
This single = "Can't Fight the Moonlight" (2000)
Next single = "But I Do Love You" (2000)
Misc = "Can't Fight the Moonlight" is a song written by Diane Warren, recorded by LeAnn Rimes and featured on the soundtrack of the film "Coyote Ugly", and the film itself.

It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 2000. It also reached #1 in Australia and went on to become the highest selling single in Australia of 2001. It went triple platinum in Australia selling over 210,000 copies. In Ireland, it reached #1 and is currently the 18th best selling single in the history of the Irish Charts. In the US, it enjoyed two chart runs on the Billboard Hot 100. On its original chart run in 2000, "Can't Fight the Moonlight" stalled at #71. It regained renewed interest in late 2001 and 2002, and rose up the charts to #11. In the US the single is certified gold by RIAA (which signifies sales of 500,000+ copies). It is one of the most recent songs to achieve such high US sales of a physical single.

To date, it is Rimes's last song to chart in the top forty on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Tracklist

CD Single

# "Can't Fight the Moonlight" (Original Version) (3:36)
# "Can't Fight the Moonlight" (Latino Mix) (also known as the Graham Stack Radio Edit) (3:32)

Remixes

* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Almighty Radio Edit] 3:57
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Almighty Mix] 7:52
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Latino Mix / Graham Stack Radio Edit] 3:35
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Graham Stack Extended Mix] 5:20
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Plasmic Honey Radio Edit] 3:23
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Plasmic Honey Club Mix Edit] 6:34
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Plasmic Honey Club Mix] 8:33
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Sharp Radio Edit] 3:36
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Sharp Club Vocal Edit] 5:41
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Sharp Pistol Dub] 5:45
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Sharp Club Vocal Mix] 7:35
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Thunderpuss Radio Edit] 3:38
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Thunderpuss Dub] 6:27
* Can't Fight The Moonlight [Thunderpuss Club Mix] 8:49

Charts

succession box
before = "Same Old Brand New You" by a1
title = UK Singles Chart number one single
years = November 19, 2000 - November 26, 2000
after = "Independent Women Part 1" by Destiny's Childsuccession box
before = "Crusin'" by Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis
title = Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
years = January 28, 2001 - March 4, 2001
after = "Stan" by Eminem