I Can See Clearly Now
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Certifications
| Country | Certification | Date | Sales certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | Silver | August 30, 1994 | 125,000 |
Charts
| Chart (1994) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
18 |
| U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
9 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Track | 98 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 7 |
| Australian 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... |
17 |
| Dutch Singles Chart Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... |
39 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart | 1 |
| German Singles Chart | 52 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 1 |
| 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 ... |
23 |
| End of year chart (1994) | Position |
|---|---|
| French Singles Chart | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 66 |
Other covers
The song also appears in various other films, such as Grosse Pointe BlankGrosse Pointe Blank
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, The Break-up
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, Thelma & Louise, Antz
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, Deep Blue Sea
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, Envy, Hitch
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in the Middle East and Russia. It is also briefly sung by Cheech
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.
It has also been covered
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remix - Free Wild, in medley with Waiting on a Friend by the Rolling Stones
R&B guitarist Jonathan Butler
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recorded a cover from his 2010 album "So Strong."
It is also a perennial favorite for several a cappella
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groups, including The Coats
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, The Nylons
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, University of Oregon
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's On the Rocks, and the European formation "Klapa Sinj & Ida Ajdukovic".
In November 2002, the song was featured prominently in "The Freak," an episode of the NBC
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police drama television series Boomtown.