Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now (Samantha Fox song)

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"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"
Single by Samantha Fox
from the album Samantha Fox
B-side
  • "Dream City"
  • "Want You to Want Me"
ReleasedMay 1987
GenreItalia Disco[1]
Length3:42
LabelJive
Songwriter(s)Stock Aitken Waterman
Producer(s)Stock Aitken Waterman
Samantha Fox singles chronology
"I'm All You Need"
(1986) 		"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"
(1987) 		"I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)"
(1987)
Music video
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" by Samantha Fox on YouTube

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" is a song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman (SAW). It was released as the first single from Samantha’s eponymous second album, Samantha Fox, in the spring of 1987. The single became Fox's third and final top ten single in the United Kingdom, peaking at number eight in June.[2] In the United States, the single was released in the fall of 1987 and reached only number 80 that October.[3] It was a top 10 hit in continental Europe and also reached number 22 in Australia.

Background and writing

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"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" was recorded after Fox's label heavily lobbied SAW to record with the singer, who the trio had previously vowed not to work with due to her topless modelling past.[4] The producers agreed to record with Fox after being impressed with her during an initial meeting, with Stock then writing lyrics inspired by Fox's comments to him about wanting to break free of her manager father.[4] Stock wrote most of the lyrics with Fox sitting beside him at the console, a process interrupted for a few hours when she spilt a cup of tea onto the mixing desk.[5] Fox and her manager father insisted on the inclusion of a guitar solo,[6][5] which was added - but the sound was simulated with a synthesiser.[7] Fox never knew the guitar was simulated until 2022, expressing her shock at the revelation.[5]

Music video

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The accompanying music video for the song was filmed in Marbella, Spain. Samantha Fox is shown using several forms of locomotion including a Sunseeker XPS 34 motorboat, a horse, an Alfa Romeo Spider, a Cessna Skymaster, and a BMX bike. She is also shown beside (and in) an outdoor swimming pool, wearing a "zebra-print" one-piece bathing suit with high-heeled shoes.[8] Fox had never ridden a horse before the shoot and had only just qualified for her driver's license, having never driven a manual car before, despite the video requiring her to drive on steep mountain roads.[5]

Critical reception

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In ironic review of 23 May 1987 for Number One John Aizlewood said that this song is completely similar to "other hits" of the singer and proposed to change profession to bar maid.[9] Reviewer of american magazine Cashbox expressed opposite opinion assured that "this upbeat dance tune" will "generate instant dance club notoriety."[10] Barry McIlheney of Smash Hits described "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" as a "typically catchy pop/disco" song, which as a SAW production sounds similar to Mel & Kim's songs, but deemed that "the only difference though is that Mel & Kim do it a lot better".[11] Retrospectively, in 2021, British magazine Classic Pop ranked the song number 40 in their list of "Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs", adding: "Page 3 girl Samantha Fox, the pin-up on many a pre-pubescent teen's bedroom wall, was hardly the pop sophisticate, but SAW gave her an exceptionally big hit with this inspiriting UK No.8."[12]

Chart performance

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In Fox's home country, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" debuted at number 37 on the UK Singles Chart on 30 May 1987, reached a peak of number eight in its fourth and fifth weeks, and charted for nine weeks.[13] In Ireland, it attained number five and appeared on the chart for five weeks.[14] Elsewhere in Continental Europe, the song culminated inside the top ten in ten countries, missing it by one place in Austria only.[15] It topped the chart in Finland,[16] and came very close to the top position in Norway where it ranked in the top ten for ten weeks, and Switzerland where it charted for 14 weeks; in both countries, it was number two for two and three weeks, respectively, being blocked from the number one slot by Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody".[17][18] It was also a top-three hit in Italy, peaking for three weeks out of a 16-week chart run,[19] reached number five in Denmark and the Netherlands,[20][21] number six in the Flanders region of Belgium, France and West Germany, charting for nine weeks in the top ten of the French Singles Chart,[22][23][24] and number seven in Sweden.[25] On the Pan-European Hot 100 Singles chart compiled by Music & Media, the single entered at number 92 on 6 June 1987, reached the top ten three weeks later, peaked at number two and charted for a total of 27 weeks.[26] Outside Europe, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" was less successful, stalling within top 30 in Australia, Canada and New Zealand,[27][28] while it was only a top-80 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100.[29]

Track listings

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7" single[30]
  1. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" - 3:42
  2. "Dream City" - 4:55
UK / EU 12" single[31]
  1. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" (Extended Version) - 7:01
  2. "Dream City" - 4:55
  3. "Want You to Want Me" - 3:31
US 12" single[32]
  1. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" (Extended Version) - 7:01
  2. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" - 3:42
  3. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" (Cub Mix) - 6:58
  4. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" (Instrumental) - 3:58
  5. "Dream City" - 4:55

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)[47] Silver 250,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Daniela Katzenberger version

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"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"
Single by Daniela Katzenberger
from the album Natürlich blond
Released20 August 2010
Recorded2010
Genre
Length3:17
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Blank&Jones[48]

Charts

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Chart (2010) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[49] 14
Germany (GfK)[50] 19
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[51] 60

References

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