"Sunrise" is a 2003 single released by Simply Red

Simply Red

Simply Red were a British soul band that sold more than 50 million albums over a 25-year career. Their style drew influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, rock, reggae and jazz...

 from the album Home

Home (Simply Red album)

Home is the eighth Simply Red studio album, released in 2003. It is the first Simply Red album released on band frontman Mick Hucknall's own record label, Simplyred.com...

. It was released in March 2003 as the first single from the album. The song contains a sample of Hall & Oates

Hall & Oates

Hall & Oates are an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Both sing and play instruments. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul."...

's 1981 smash hit "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)

I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)

"I Can't Go for That " is a 1981 song recorded by Daryl Hall and John Oates.It was the fourth number-one hit single of their career on the Billboard Hot 100 and the second hit single from their album Private Eyes...

". It peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play for the week of August 30, 2003.

Video

The success of "Sunrise" was due in part to the sensuous video being shot on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

. It was filmed in February 2003 at house designed by renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture...

.

Chart performance

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Chart (2003)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	35
Austrian Singles Chart	25
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart	35
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart	22
Canadian Singles Chart	3
Dutch Top 40 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...	6
French SNEP Singles Chart	17
German Singles Chart	14
Irish IRMA Singles Chart	14
Italian Singles Chart	4
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	11
Swiss Singles Chart	22
UK Singles Chart	7
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks	5
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100	22
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	1