"A Moment like This"
Single by Kelly Clarkson from the album Thankful
A-side	"Before Your Love"
Released	September 17, 2002
Format	CD single DVD single
Recorded	2002
Genre	Pop ballad
Length	3:49
Label	RCA Records
Writer	Jörgen Elofsson John Reid
Producer	Stephen Ferrera Steve Mac
Certification	Platinum
Kelly Clarkson singles chronology
"A Moment like This"/"Before Your Love" (2002) "Miss Independent" (2003)

"A Moment like This" is the first single, released as a double A-side with "Before Your Love", by Kelly Clarkson, the winner of the first season of American Idol, and later included on her multi-platinum debut album, Thankful. It has been covered by Leona Lewis, the third winner of the British television programme The X Factor. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American pop rock singer. ... Alternate cover Japanese edition Singles from Thankful Released: September, 2002 Released: May, 2003 Released: August 25, 2003 Released: December, 2003 Thankful is the debut album by American pop singer Kelly Clarkson, released in the United States by RCA on April 15, 2003 (see 2003 in music). ... “B-Sides” redirects here. ... is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc. ... A DVD single is a music single in the form of a DVD. The format was introduced in the late 1990s/early 2000s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In jazz and popular music, the term ballad denotes a short song in a slow tempo, usually with a romantic or sentimental text, though the term is also used for instrumental pieces. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Jörgen Kjell Elofsson (born January 14, 1962) is a songwriter who has written or co-written hits for stars such as Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Ana Johnsson, Marie Serneholt and Shayne Ward. ... John Reid may refer to: John Reid (UK politician) (born 1947), British politician, cabinet minister and current Home Secretary. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Steve Mac, is a well known song writer and record producer. ... “Golden record” redirects here. ... “Golden record” redirects here. ... Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American pop rock singer. ... Before Your Love single, released as a double A-side with A Moment Like This, by Kelly Clarkson, the winner of the first season of American Idol, and later included on her multi-platinum debut album, Thankful. ... Miss Independent is the second single (first in Australia and the UK) from pop rock singer, Kelly Clarksons multi-platinum debut album, Thankful. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... “B-Sides” redirects here. ... Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American pop rock singer. ... AMERICAN IDOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO DEATH OF SIMON ... Alternate cover Japanese edition Singles from Thankful Released: September, 2002 Released: May, 2003 Released: August 25, 2003 Released: December, 2003 Thankful is the debut album by American pop singer Kelly Clarkson, released in the United States by RCA on April 15, 2003 (see 2003 in music). ... Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is an English singer-songwriter who was the winner of the third series of the popular television talent show The X Factor. ... For the current series, see The X Factor (UK series 4). ...

The single was co-written by Jörgen Elofsson and John Reid (of dance act Nightcrawlers) and produced by Stephen Ferrera and Steve Mac. It was written to be the first single for the winner of the first season of American Idol. As a result, the four remaining finalists, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Tamyra Gray, and Nikki McKibbin each recorded a version of the song in case they won. The song was first revealed to the public when McKibbin was removed from the competition, and Guarini and Clarkson competed in a final showdown while singing this song, along with another track, "Before Your Love". After the American public had voted, the two once again performed the song (along with "Before Your Love" again) at the final show before the results were revealed. When Clarkson was announced as the winner, she became emotional, and once again sang the song as her final performance. Jörgen Kjell Elofsson (born January 14, 1962) is a songwriter who has written or co-written hits for stars such as Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Ana Johnsson, Marie Serneholt and Shayne Ward. ... Nightcrawlers was an one-hit wonder electronica band, with a couple of dance-floor hits in the nineties, including Push The Feeling On and Surrender Your Love.    This article is a stub. ... Steve Mac, is a well known song writer and record producer. ... AMERICAN IDOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO DEATH OF SIMON ... Justin Guarini (born Justin Eldrin Bell on October 28, 1978 in Columbus, Georgia) is a singer/songwriter, actor who rose to fame in 2002, as the first runner-up on the debut season of the television show “American Idol”. His father, Eldrin Bell, is a former Atlanta Chief of Police. ... Tamyra Monica Gray (born July 26, 1979 in Takoma Park, Maryland) is an American actress and singer, best known for her rise to fame as one of the finalists on the first season of the reality television program American Idol in 2002. ... Nikki McKibbin (born Katherine Nicole McKibbin on September 28, 1978 in Grand Prairie, Texas, U.S.) is an American rock music singer songwriter who finished third in the 2002 debut season of the reality television series American Idol. ...

"Before Your Love", was also given to radio and had a video shot, which debuted on MTV's TRL before "A Moment like This" did; however, it failed to achieve the level of success of "A Moment like This". The single, to date, has sold approximately 1,000,200 copies. This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ... TRL redirects here. ...

The song is also used in television commercials for Sandals Resorts in the UK and United States. Sandals Resorts is the largest operator of luxury all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean. ...

The song is commonly played at sporting events which involve a title (e.g. Super Bowl), this song is played for the winning team of the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, and World Series. Especially if the home team wins the title in their hometown. The winning Super Bowl team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. ... The winning Super Bowl team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. ... Logo of the NBA Finals. ... The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup (French: ) is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... For other events named World Series, see World Series (disambiguation). ...

Music video

The music video for "A Moment like This" is relatively simple, and has Clarkson exploring an abandoned theatre. She can be seen taking the stage to sing, and clips of her singing on American Idol and getting emotional when she won are also shown. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...

Chart performance

As the first single ever from American Idol, much pressure was put on "A Moment like This" to perform well. The debut single from Will Young, the winner of Britain's Pop Idol (the forerunner to American Idol), sold 1.2 million copies in its first week, becoming the fastest-selling British debut single of all time; however, critics argued that the American singles market was different from the British market. Kelly proved her critics wrong and the single became a smash hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. Sales of the commercial single also helped the song (as evidenced by its number-one peak on the Hot 100 Singles Sales) break records. With the release of the single, the song broke The Beatles' record for the biggest leap ever to number one, from 52, in the history of the Hot 100 Chart, a record that would stand for five years, until Maroon 5's "Makes Me Wonder" jumped from 64 to 1 in May 2007. William Robert Young BA (Exon) (born January 20, 1979) is a British singer and actor. ... This article is about the British television series. ... “Hot 100” redirects here. ... The Hot 100 Singles Sales (also known as Singles Sales) is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Maroon 5 is a soul-influenced American band originating from Los Angeles, California. ... Makes Me Wonder is the first single released from Maroon 5s second album, It Wont Be Soon Before Long (2007). ...

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Leona Lewis version

"A Moment like This"
Single by Leona Lewis
B-side	"Summertime" "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
Released	December 17, 2006 (Digital download) December 20, 2006 (CD single)
Format	CD single Digital download
Genre	Pop ballad
Length	4:17
Label	Syco Music, Sony BMG
Certification	Platinum (UK)
Leona Lewis official singles chronology
	"A Moment like This" (2006)	"Bleeding Love" (2007)
Leona Lewis unofficial singles chronology
	"A Moment like This" (2006)	"It's All for You" (2006)
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In December 2006, this song was recorded by Leona Lewis, the winner of series 3 of The X Factor. The single was rush-released on Wednesday, December 20, 2006. This is unusual as most new singles are released on a Monday to gain maximum sales for the UK Singles Chart the following Sunday, although a mid-week rush-release also happened in 2005 with The X Factor series 2 winner Shayne Ward's debut single "That's My Goal". The late release of "A Moment like This" was due to the fact that Lewis was only chosen as the artist on the night of Saturday December 16, when the live final was transmitted. The song was available for download after she was announced winner of The X Factor. Image File history File links A_Moment_like_This_(Leona). ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is an English singer-songwriter who was the winner of the third series of the popular television talent show The X Factor. ... “B-Sides” redirects here. ... Summertime is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. ... Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc. ... // A digital download (also known as a digital single or a paid digital download) is an official and legal music single available for purchase through an online store. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation). ... Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Bertelsmann is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based in G tersloh, Germany. ... “Golden record” redirects here. ... Bleeding Love is a song by Leona Lewis, to be released as her official second single on 29 October 2007 from her upcoming debut album. ... Its All for You is the unofficial second single by Leona Lewis, released as a download only single on 18 December 2006 on the Schizofrenik Records label. ... Image File history File links A_Moment_like_This_(Leona). ... Image File history File links A_Moment_like_This_(Leona). ... Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is an English singer-songwriter who was the winner of the third series of the popular television talent show The X Factor. ... The third UK series of The X Factor was broadcast on the ITV Network in the United Kingdom and TV3 in the Republic of Ireland. ... For the current series, see The X Factor (UK series 4). ... is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... “British Hit Singles” redirects here. ... The second UK series of The X Factor ran from 20 August to 17 December 2005. ... Shayne Thomas Ward (born 16 October 1984 in Clayton, Manchester) is an English pop singer of Irish background, who rose to prominence in the UK and Ireland after becoming the winner of the 2005 series of the talent show The X Factor. ... Thats My Goal is the first single by the second United Kingdom X Factor winner Shayne Ward. ... is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

The song was also recorded by the other finalists in The X Factor, Raymond Quinn and Ben Mills, as it was to be released by whichever artist won the competition.^[1][2] Raymond Arthur Quinn (born 25 August 1988 in Knowsley, Merseyside) is an English actor and singer. ... Benjamin Collett Mills (born 1 March 1980 in Chatham, Kent, England) is a British singer who shot to fame on the third series of The X Factor, where he finished in third place. ...

In January 2007, "A Moment like This" was shortlisted for the British Single award at the 2007 BRIT Awards. It made it to the second round but was eliminated and did not make it to the final selection. In May it was awarded the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Best Selling British Single. The 2007 Brit Awards was the 27th edition of the biggest annual pop music awards in the United Kingdom. ... Ivor Novello David Ivor Davies (January 15, 1893 – March 6, 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century. ...

Track listing

1. "A Moment like This"
2. "Summertime"
3. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"

Summertime is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. ... Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. ...

Music video

The music video, like Clarkson's, is very simple, with Lewis singing the song on a stage. It also features several clips from Lewis's time in The X Factor, from her first audition to the moment she was announced the winner. Simon Cowell, Kate Thornton, Louis Walsh and Raymond Quinn all feature within the clips. Simon Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English artist and repertoire (A&R) executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom, but is known as a judge on television programmes such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol and Britains Got Talent. ... Kate Thornton (born February 7, 1973) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known in the UK as the first presenter of The X Factor and known internationally as a presenter of the VH1 coverage of the Concert for Diana. ... Louis Walsh Louis Walsh (born Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, August 5, 1952) is a manager in the music industry, and a judge on the ITV1 show The X Factor, which made him famous as a television personality rather than a manager. ... Raymond Arthur Quinn (born 25 August 1988 in Knowsley, Merseyside) is an English actor and singer. ...

Sales

One million copies of the winner's single were pre-ordered by stores, making it an almost certain number one before it was released, although at the time, the winner of the show had not been announced and it was unknown who would be releasing the single, a source of controversy for those who suggest it is the show which sold the single, and not Leona.

"A Moment like This" was downloaded 50,000 times within 30 minutes of being available online,^[1] making it the fastest selling download to date, and the biggest selling download in one week. The single sold a total of 571,253 copies in its first week, outselling the rest of the Top 40 combined and making it the fastest selling single in the UK by a female artist, beating "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears.^[3] Audio sample ...Baby One More Time is the debut single and signature song from pop singer Britney Spears, released from her debut album . ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning[1] American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter. ...

The single ended the year as the UK's second best selling single of the year, beaten only by Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy".^[4] However, it was the most downloaded song in 2006. Gnarls Barkley is a Grammy-award winning musical collaboration between DJ, multi-instrumentalist and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) from Baltimore, and rapper/vocalist Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway), from Atlanta. ... Alternate covers Promotional CD and digital download single cover Crazy is the first single from Gnarls Barkley, a musical collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, and is taken from their 2006 debut album St. ... This is a summary of the current year in the United Kingdom including the official single and album charts. ...

In January 2007, the single was awarded platinum status by the British Phonographic Industry.^[5] “Golden record” redirects here. ... The British Phonographic Industry was founded in 1973 to represent the interests of British music companies and to fight the growing problem of music piracy. ...

As of October 2007, Lewis's version of the song has sold over 1,000,000 copies in the UK.^[6] October 2007 is the tenth month of that year. ...

Chart performance

The single got the iTunes UK number-one spot on the day of release (Wednesday December 20, 2006), beating Take That who had been at the top spot for two weeks. On December 24, 2006 it debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, making it the coveted Christmas number one, and stayed at number one for four weeks. It also spent six weeks at the top of the Irish Singles Chart. It re-entered the UK Top 75 on October 28, 2007 as Leona's new single "Bleeding Love" came out. This article is about the iTunes application. ... is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Take That are a British pop boy band formed by Nigel Martin Smith in Manchester in 1990. ... is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Irish Singles Chart is the Irish music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. ... is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

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Other versions

There is a cover version of "A Moment Like This" by Dutch singer Glennis Grace, a Swedish version called "Ett kort Ögonblick" released by Swedish duo Fame, and a cover version by Sandra Oxenryd. All three have performed in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 , 2003 and 2006 respectively. Another version of "A Moment like This" is featured in the Drawn Together episode "A Tale of Two Cows", where Toot Braunstein sings a shrill, off-key version while having sex with Xandir. Kidz Bop Kids covered "A Moment like This" on their album Kidz Bop 3. The song was also covered by Idol Sweden 2005 finalist Cindy Lamreus on the Idol compilation, My Own Idol. Glennis Grace (born June 19, 1978, Amsterdam) is a singer from the Netherlands who in 2005 won the national selection in the Netherlands for the Eurovision song contest 2005 for the nation. ... Fame is a Swedish duo consisting of Jessica Andersson, (b. ... Sandra Oxenryd (born on October 1, 1982 in Kristinehamn) is a Swedish singer who won Fame Factory in 2005. ... Eurovision redirects here. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was the fiftieth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, which was held at the Palace of Sports, Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the forty-eighth Eurovision Song Contest and was held at the Skonto Hall in Riga, Latvia on May 24, 2003. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fifty-first Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on the 18 May 2006 (for the semi-final) and 20 May 2006 (for the final). ... Drawn Together is an American animated television series on Comedy Central created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, and first aired on October 27, 2004. ... A Tale of Two Cows is the seventeenth episode of the animated series Drawn Together. ... Toot Braunstein is a fictional character in the animated series Drawn Together. ... Xandir P. Wifflebottom is a fictional character in the animated series Drawn Together. ... The cover for the first Kidz Bop album. ...

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