"Don't Miss You" is a song performed by Australian singer-songwriter, Ricki-Lee Coulter

Ricki-Lee Coulter

Ricki-Lee Coulter is an Australian recording artist and television and radio presenter. In 2004, Coulter was placed seventh place on the second season of Australian Idol...

. Co-written by Coulter, Nikki Gregoff and Paul Weinber the song serves as the lead single

Lead single

A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

 from her unreleased third studio album, Hear No, See No, Speak No. It was released both physically and digitally on 31 July 2009.

Background

"Don't Miss You" is a break up anthem that Coulter says expresses her feelings about her ex husband, Jamie Babbington. It is the first song Coulter wrote in New York

New York

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. She explained, "Well you’ve got to put yourself in my position where I was in a relationship for seven years, the only relationship I’d ever known and obviously you don’t write a song with lyrics like that if everything was happy as. It was very painful and humiliating going through the break up in front of the whole country. For me, that song is not about being bitter or anything. That song is about representing me turning the corner and finding my feet again."

While Coulter's previous singles have been infused with a distinctly R&B

Contemporary R&B

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 flavour, "Don't Miss You" incorporates a blend of pop

Pop music

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, rock

Rock music

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 and dance

Dance music

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. She explained, "It’s a sound that just naturally developed while I was overseas. The stuff I was writing really lent itself to this fusion of pop and rock and electro and I think it suits my voice.

Promotion

Following the physical release of "Don't Miss You", Coulter did instore appearances at Westfield Shopping Centres in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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, New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Western Australia

Western Australia

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, South Australia

South Australia

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 and Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

.

Track listing

CD single

1. "Don't Miss You" (Radio Edit) - 3:10
2. "Don't Miss You" (Acapella) - 2:56
3. "Don't Miss You" (Instrumental) - 3:07

Digital EP

1. "Don't Miss You" (Radio Edit) - 3:10
2. "Don't Miss You" (Acapella) - 2:56
3. "Don't Miss You" (Instrumental) - 3:07
4. "Don't Miss You" (Sammy J Remix) - 4:27

Charts

"Don't Miss You" debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at number thirty-six, before reaching its highest peak of number twenty-four in its fifth week on the chart. It also made its debut on the AIR Singles Chart

AIR Charts

The AIR Charts are the official sales charts for Australian independent music released by Australian owned, independent record labels. Presented by AIR, the Australian Independent Record Labels Association, the charts are calculated according to official sales figures provided by the ARIA Charts,...

 at number one.

Chart (2009)	Peak position
ARIA Singles Chart 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...	24
AIR Singles Chart AIR Charts The AIR Charts are the official sales charts for Australian independent music released by Australian owned, independent record labels. Presented by AIR, the Australian Independent Record Labels Association, the charts are calculated according to official sales figures provided by the ARIA Charts,...	1

ARIA End of Year Charts

Year	Provider	Australian Artist Rank
2009	ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...	40

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	31 July 2010	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Shock records Shock Records Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...