"Never Gonna Be Alone" is the 6th overall single (4th mainstream single in U.S., 5th overall single in U.S.

United States

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 and mainstream single in Canada

Canada

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 due to I'd Come For You released only in Europe and Canada) since off of Nickelback

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's sixth studio album Dark Horse

Dark Horse (Nickelback album)

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. The song is a power ballad, similar to other hits by the band such as, "I'd Come For You

I'd Come for You

"I'd Come for You" is the second European single from Nickelback's 2008 album Dark Horse. This was confirmed in January 2009 when the video shoot of the song was announced. The song was written by the band and Mutt Lange. It is a power ballad in the vein of the band's previous hits "Far Away" and...

", "Far Away", and "Gotta Be Somebody

Gotta Be Somebody

"Gotta Be Somebody" is the first official single released from Nickelback's sixth studio album, Dark Horse. Originally, the lead single from the album was set to be "If Today Was Your Last Day" but was changed instead to "Gotta Be Somebody". The song was digitally delivered to all formats on...

".

Background

The song made its North America

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n debut on Montreal

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 hot adult contemporary radio station CJFM-FM

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 (Mix 96, now Virgin Radio) in December 2008

2008 in radio

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; however, it was not yet released as a single when the station played it. It is also getting rotation on CKRV-FM

CKRV-FM

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 in Kamloops, British Columbia

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 and many other Canadian radio stations.

The song is featured on the soundtrack of the Brazilian soap opera

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: Caminho das Índias

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.

The song was used during the 2009 WWE Tribute to the Troops

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 highlighting John Cena

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 and his visit to Iraq for six years.

The band performed the song live for the very first time, on the opening show of the Summer 2010 leg of the Dark Horse tour in Atlantic City on the 3rd April 2010.

Commercial performance

"Never Gonna Be Alone" reached #68 on The 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...

 a few months before it was released as a single. It recently reappeared on the chart, entering at #96 and it's currently at #58, which is their new peak. As of early 2010, the single had shifted 513,456 downloads in the US.

Music video

The music video was released on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 on the Road Runner Records Twitter page. The video world-premiered on YouTube. It tells a bittersweet story of a young woman who has lost her father. The video opens with the young woman in a limousine being taken to her wedding. She is holding a fake blue flower with her bouquet. As she walks down the aisle, she looks back at her mother and father, who are smiling proudly. The scene then cuts back to her high school graduation, where her father is again smiling and clapping for her as she receives her diploma. The video flashes back three more times, the first with the girl's father seeing her off to her prom and the second with him teaching her how to ride a bike. The final flashback shows the father's funeral, the young woman being just a little girl. She is holding two fake flowers in her hand, one yellow and one blue (the blue one being similar to the one at her wedding). She tosses the yellow one into her father's grave. The events in the flashbacks are shown again from a different perspective, each time the girl looks up at her father and sees him disappear in a shimmer of light. Back at the wedding, the girl is still looking back, seeing her father's ghost surrounded in light. She realizes that he has still been there for her all along, even in death. The girl places the blue flower in her new husband's breast pocket, and the two wed. As they are leaving the church, the video cuts to her father once more, smiling proudly. He disappears for the final time, his daughter now fully grown up. The video is intercut with scenes of the band singing in a room with a large, light-filled backdrop.

Charts

Chart (2009–2010)	Peak position
Australian 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...	64
Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...	25
Dutch Top 40	37
Netherlands Singles Chart	37
Portugal Singles Chart	46
Japan Hot 100 Japan Hot 100 The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....	97
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	58
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...	17
U.S.Billboard Pop Songs	28
U.S.Billboard Adult Pop Songs	5