"http":"https";t.getElementById(r)||(n=t.createElement(e),n.id=r,n.src=i+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js",s.parentNode.insertBefore(n,s))}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. With its juxtaposition of joyous-sounding music and melancholic lyrics, it is considered a formative work of the power pop genre. [37], Some of the charts that Wilson handed to his musicians were written in different keys from each other. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was released as a single in July and peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. "[41] Carl Wilson remembered, "We really tried to make a good album. [15] It was a less integrated and collaborative process than the one for the songs they wrote afterward. [50], "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was first released on May 14, 1966 as the opening track on Pet Sounds. [58], Writing in his 2012 book Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys, biographer Mark Dillon describes "Wouldn't It Be Nice" as perhaps the band's "most gloriously innocent song" and one of Wilson's "most adventurous" arrangements. //