"Another Night" is a dance song by Real McCoy

Real McCoy (band)

Real McCoy, originally known as M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy, is a German band, best known for their 1993/1994 singles "Another Night" and "Run Away", which were both Top 10 hits in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.-Formation:...

 from their album Another Night. It was one of their biggest hits, reaching number 18 in Germany, number three on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 singles chart in the U.S. during the holiday season of 1994-1995, number two on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 and number one on the Australian ARIA

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

 Chart. In the U.S., the single was certified Platinum by the RIAA, spent 40 weeks in the Top 40, and became the best-selling single by a German act in U.S. rock history. It was produced by the Berman Brothers and AxelFF (Axel Wernecke) at the Boogie Park Studios Hamburg. It was mixed by Andreas "Boogieman" Herbig.

"Another Night" was inspired by Roni Griffith

Roni Griffith

Roni Griffith is a former 1980s disco musician and model from Bloomington, Indiana. She was one of the original Coconuts in the popular 1980s group Kid Creole and the Coconuts. They opened up for The B-52's, Huey Lewis and the News and appeared on SNL in 1981...

's "Desire", the Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

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 theme tune and "More and More" by Captain Hollywood Project

Captain Hollywood Project

Captain Hollywood Project is a German Eurodance project fronted by Tony Dawson Harrison.Harrison, a United States Army captain, was nicknamed Captain Hollywood, because he danced even when in uniform. He first started in the break dance scene in Europe as he performed on early '80s music TV shows...

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In Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 Magazine's Top 100 songs of the first 50 years of the Hot 100, "Another Night" was ranked at number 91. As a number three hit, it is the lowest ranked song to be listed on this chart.

Lyrical content

In the song, the female vocalist, Karin Kasar, longs to be with an anonymous individual, claiming that every night she is with him, but only in her dreams. Olaf Jeglitza

O-Jay

O-Jay is the professional name of the music producer and songwriter Olaf Jeglitza.-Biography:O-Jay was born in Berlin in 1965. After finishing the regular school system, he studied at the Lette Foundation, a technical college for photography in Berlin. At age 18 he started working as an...

 backs up this notion as the man's voice in the woman's head, saying the things she wants to hear and promising to fulfill her desires. Additionally, Karin goes on to sing that when she later awakes, she is alone again until the next night, carrying on the theme of unrequited love

Unrequited love

Unrequited love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such, even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired. The beloved may or may not be aware of the admirer's deep affections...

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Official Versions

• Radio Mix 4:00 (also known as US Top 40 Airplay Mix)
• Club Mix 5:17
• Dance Mix 5:04
• Inferno Mix 6:26
• Nightmare Mix 6:00
• Black Belt Mix 5:56
• Ragga Airplay Mix 3:43
• Ragga II House Mix 5:16
• Armand's New School Mix 5:16
• Armand's Nightmare Mix 6:40
• US Airplay Hot Mix 3:59
• US Club Mix 5:47
• US House Mix 5:17 (also known as 'House Mix')
• Psycho Mix 5:30 (appeared on 12" Vinyl)

Peak positions

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	1
Austrian Singles Chart	30
French Singles Chart	20
German Singles Chart	18
Irish Singles Chart	6
Swedish Singles Chart	22
Swiss Singles Chart	42
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	2

End of year charts

End-of-year chart (1994)	Position
US Billboard Hot 100	63
End-of-year chart (1995)	Position
US Billboard Hot 100	6

End of decade charts

Chart (1990–1999)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	51

Usage

Farmers Insurance Group uses the song in their 2011 TV commercial. J.K. Simmons appears in the commercial.

See also

• List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1990s
• List of Mainstream Top 40 number-one hits of 1994 (U.S.)
• List of number-one dance singles of 1994 (U.S.)