How You Gonna See Me Now Explained

"How You Gonna See Me Now" is a song written by Alice Cooper, Bernie Taupin, and Dick Wagner, performed by Cooper and produced by David Foster. It was released on Cooper’s album, From the Inside.

The song reached number nine in Australia and the Netherlands. In the U.S., it reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was a regular part of Cooper’s setlist on the ‘Madhouse Rocks Tour’ supporting From the Inside, but despite its success as a single, “How You Gonna See Me Now” has never been performed live since 1980.^[3]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1978-1979)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] [5]	12
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[6]	22
U.S. Cashbox Top 100[7]	16
Canadian RPM[8]	16
UK Singles (OCC)[9] [10]	61
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[11]	9
Australia (Kent Music Report)[12] [13]	9
New Zealand (RIANZ)[14]	19

Year-end charts

Chart (1979)	Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[15]	97
Canada[16]	161
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[17]	85
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)[18]	87

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alice cooper singles.
2. Web site: Masley. Ed. March 16, 2021. From 'Love it to Death' to 'Detroit Stories': The best Alice Cooper albums ranked. March 20, 2021. The Arizona Republic.
3. Web site: How You Gonna See Me Now by Alice Cooper Song Statistics . Setlist.fm . October 13, 2016.
4. Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978 . Musicoutfitters.com . October 13, 2016.
5. "Alice Cooper - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles"
6. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 58.
7. Web site: Cash Box Top 100 12/30/78. 2020-05-23. 2012-10-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20121004091038/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19781230.html. dead.
8. Web site: RPM - Library and Archives Canada | RPM - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . October 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160801033457/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/ . August 1, 2016 . dead .
9. Web site: ALICE COOPER | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company . Officialcharts.com . October 13, 2016.
10. Book: Rice. Jo . Tim Rice . Paul Gambaccini . Mike Read . The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles. 2nd. Guinness Superlatives Ltd.. Enfield, Middlesex . 0-900424-99-0 . 56 . 1979.
11. Web site: dutchcharts.nl – Discography Alice Cooper. Hung Medien. April 27, 2013.
12. Web site: Kent Music Report No 236 – 1 January 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1978. Kent Music Report. Imgur.com. January 8, 2022.
13. Australian charts:
    • Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 0-646-11917-6.
    • Web site: australian-charts.com – Discography Alice Cooper . Hung Medien . April 26, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130928071856/http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Alice+Cooper . September 28, 2013 .
14. Web site: charts.nz – Discography Alice Cooper. Hung Medien. April 27, 2013.
15. Web site: Steffen Hung . Forum - Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts - 1980s (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts) . Australian-charts.com . October 13, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006134948/http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=40275 . 2014-10-06 .
16. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . October 13, 2016.
17. Book: Whitburn, Joel . 1999 . Pop Annual . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin . Record Research Inc. . 0-89820-142-X.
18. December 22, 1979 . 1979 Talent in Action – Year End Charts : Pop Singles . TIA-10 . Billboard . 91 . 51 .