 Despite some reviewers predicting it as a hit, the single failed to achieve commercial success.In the United States, it peaked at number 102 on "Billboard"s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart and number 88 on the "Cash Box" Top 100.George Harrison wrote "Teardrops" while on holiday in Hawaii in October 1980, after Warner Bros. Records, the company that distributed his Dark Horse record label, had rejected his initial submission of "Somewhere in England".