“Don't Speak”
Single by No Doubt from the album Tragic Kingdom
Released	1995 (North America) February 10, 1997 (UK) (Australia and Europe)
Format	Airplay only
Genre	Rock, ballad
Length	4:23
Label	Interscope
Writer(s)	Gwen Stefani Eric Stefani
Producer	Matthew Wilder
Certification	Platinum (RIANZ)
No Doubt singles chronology
"Spiderwebs" (1995) "Don't Speak" (1996) "Excuse Me Mr." (1996)

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Despite the song's popularity, "Don't Speak" did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 (as rules of the times required commercial singles for charting and one was not issued for the song), but it did reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay. The song also reached number one in the UK, Canada, Latvia, New Zealand, Netherlands and Australia. The single is No Doubt's most successful international single, propelling them to superstardom. "Don't Speak" is arguably No Doubt's biggest hit and was nominated for the Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal at the Grammy Awards of 1998.This song was featured on a King of the Hill episode. The Hot 100 Airplay is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... The Song of the Year is one of the two most prestigious awards in the Grammies, if not in all of the American music industry. ... The Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal has been awarded since 1966. ... The 40th Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1998. ... This article is about the television program. ...

The song was ranked at number 495 in Blender magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".^[1] Look up blender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Song information

The song was co-written by Eric Stefani and Gwen Stefani and co-produced by Matthew Wilder. The bittersweet ballad is based on a true story on the turbulent relationship between Gwen Stefani and bassist Tony Kanal. After being in a relationship for seven years, Kanal informed Stefani that his feelings about her had changed and that he did not want to be her boyfriend anymore. Stefani became depressed. To help cope with her emotional pain, she began to write music, and the final version of "Don't Speak" was born. Although the song was originally a more sugary love song, after the events as described above, the song was changed with a darker tone. Eric Matthew Stefani (born June 17, 1967, in Fullerton, California) is an American pop musician, former Simpsons animator, and Grammy-nominated composer and writer. ... Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) (pronounced [1]), is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and occasional actress. ... Matthew Wilder (born Matthew Weiner on January 24, 1953 in New York City) is an American musician best known for his 1983 hit Break My Stride. ... Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) (pronounced [1]), is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and occasional actress. ... Tony Ashwin Kanal (born August 27, 1970 in Kingsbury, London, England) is the bassist for the US band No Doubt. ... For other uses, see Boyfriend (disambiguation). ... On the Threshold of Eternity. ...

While "Don't Speak" does not draw as much from ska as many of the other songs on Tragic Kingdom do, it helped, along with "Just a Girl", to get people interested in No Doubt, contributing to the mid-1990s ska revival. Just a Girl is the first single from the breakthrough 1995 album, Tragic Kingdom, by No Doubt. ...

Don't Speak is a rock song composed in the key of C minor. written in common time and moves in a slow tempo at 80 beats per minute. The song follows a verse-chorus form and includes a bridge and a guitar solo. This article is about the genre. ... Also see: C major, or C-sharp minor. ... The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational device used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value (minim, crotchet, eighth note and so on) constitutes one beat. ... Beats per minute (bpm) is a unit typically used as either a measure of tempo in music, or a measure of ones heart rate. ... Verse-chorus form is a musical form common in popular music and predominant in rock since the 1960s. ... This article is about a bridge section in a piece of popular or classical music. ... Guitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. ...

Various bands have released cover versions of the track, including dance-pop group Clueless, released a dance version of the song as their debut single. It has also been covered by The Countdown Singers, German alternative group 7th Saturn and Canadian pop group Déjà Vu. It has also been recently covered by R&B singer Leela James. // In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... The Countdown Singers is a name given to Madacy Entertainments revolving group of studio musicians, used since 1994. ... Leela James is an African American Los Angeles native and soul singer who cites James Brown, Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Gladys Knight, Mavis Staples and Stevie Wonder as influences. ...

The song is a downloadable track for the music video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Computer and video games redirects here. ...

Music video

In the music video, Stefani pleads with the band.

The majority of the music video for "Don't Speak" takes place in a garage. Other scenes tell the story of how the media mainly focused on Gwen while the band was always in the background.^[2] The second half of the video features snippets of live footage filmed during the band's performance with Dog Eat Dog and Goldfinger at Roseland Ballroom in New York City on August 21, 1996. Image File history File links Speak. ... Image File history File links Speak. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Dog Eat Dog, an American band originally based out of Bergen County, New Jersey, began as part of the hardcore music scene of New York City and New Jersey. ... For other uses, see Goldfinger. ... The Roseland Ballroom (also referred to as Roseland Dance City) is a catering hall/music venue/dance hall in a converted ice skating rink with a colorful ballroom dancing pedigree in New York Citys theatre district on West 52nd Street. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

Before the music starts, at the beginning of the video, there is a scene of Tony Kanal picking a rotten orange from a Christmas tree. The video ends with Kanal replacing the orange in the tree. These scenes are usually cut out when VH1 airs this video. Tony Ashwin Kanal (born August 27, 1970 in Kingsbury, London, England) is the bassist for the US band No Doubt. ... For other uses, see Christmas tree (disambiguation). ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994 and VH1: Music First until 2003) is an American digital television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently...

The music video won the award for Best Group Video and was nominated for the Video of the Year award at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. The following is a list of MTV Video Music Awards winners for Best Group Video. ... The following is a list of MTV Video Music Awards winners for Video of the Year. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ...

The video features Pat Smear playing guitar with Tom Dumont during the black and white scene (right before the guitar solo).

Chart performance

Upon release, the song immediately began to receive extensive airplay, and it became the most widely played song on American radio in 1996.^[3] Not surprisingly, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, and maintained that position for sixteen consecutive weeks, a record at the time.^[4] Although the record was broken in 1998 by the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" with eighteen weeks at number one, the song remains in second place of songs on the Hot 100 Airplay with the most weeks at number one. For all its airplay though, the song was not allowed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 as no commercial single was released for it (which were required for charting purposes at the time). Not surprisingly, the song was also a hit on No Doubt's main radio format at the time, Modern Rock Tracks where it climbed to number two.^[5][6] The song also proved to be a crossover smash, hitting number one on Adult Top 40 and even hitting a number six and number nine on Adult Contemporary and the Rhythmic Top 40 respectively.^[5][6] It also was the number one hit single for the Hot 100 Airplay on the 1997 Year End chart.^[7] Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Iris is an epic song by American alternative rock band the Goo Goo Dolls. ... “Hot 100” redirects here. ... Modern Rock Tracks is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. ... Adult Top 40 is a another variation on the Top 40 format, in which this genre is more geared towards an adult audience who are not into Rock music teen Pop, Dance music, Hip-Hop, Modern Rock or slower Adult Contemporary fare. ... The Adult Contemporary chart (formerly known as Adult Contemporary Singles) lists the most popular songs weekly calculated by airplay and occasionally sales. ... For another definition see rhythmic and CHR Rhythmic Top 40 is a contemporary hit music genre where the music, direction and makeup of the audience differ from the more mainstream Top 40 format. ...

Internationally, the song was also very successful. In December 1996, it reached number one in The Netherlands, ^[8] and two months later, it debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, maintaining the top position for three weeks.^[9] It occupied the Canadian BDS Airplay Chart for fifteen weeks and became the most-played song of the year. Australia was another major music market where the song received widespread airplay, debuting at number one and maintaining the peak position for 8 weeks. In Switzerland, "Don't Speak" debuted at number eighteen before climbing to number one (for four weeks) six weeks later. After falling from number one, it remained in the top ten for an additional seven weeks. Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections. ...

The song peaked at number one on the United World Chart and stayed at number one for seven weeks.

The song was recently named one of the top Ballads of the 1990's.

Track listing

Australian/Japanese CD maxi single

1. "Don't Speak" (album version) – 4:27
2. "Don't Speak" (alternate version recorded in New Zealand, September 1996) – 4:27
3. "Hey You" (acoustic version recorded in New Zealand, September 1996) – 3:28
4. "Greener Pastures" (from The Beacon Street Collection album) – 5:05

British/European CD single

1. "Don't Speak" (album version) – 4:27
2. "Greener Pastures" (from The Beacon Street Collection album) – 5:05

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Charts

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Album appearances

"Don't Speak" is featured on these No Doubt albums:

• Tragic Kingdom as track number ten;
• The Singles 1992-2003 as track number thirteen;
• Twice on Boom Box:
  • As track number thirteen on disc one (same as The Singles),
  • Track number thirteen on disc four (a live DVD);
• "Excuse Me Mr." (a very rare No Doubt bootleg) as track number nine.

According to Allmusic, "Don't Speak" also appears on the following albums: The Singles 1992-2003 is a compilation album by American band No Doubt, and features the bands singles between 1992 and 2003, including a cover of Talk Talks Its My Life. The album was the bands final album to date (other than Everything in Time, which... Boom Box is a limited edition box set released by No Doubt in 2003 at the same time as their first compilation album, The Singles 1992-2003. ... For other uses, see Bootleg. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a large, comprehensive and high quality metadata database about music. ...

• Festivalbar '97
• Pure Hits '97
• The Nominees CD for the 1998 Grammy Awards
• Love Vol. 4

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Notes

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References

• All Music Guide, Accessed March 9, 2005.
• Official No Doubt Website, Accessed March 9, 2005.
• Article on Official Website, Accessed March 9, 2005.
• Swiss Charts, Accessed September 6, 2005.

External links

• No Doubt's official site
  • Lyrics and guitar tablature
• Don't Speak karaoke version