Lights (song)

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Lights
Ellie Goulding
publication March 13, 2011
length 3:30 (single)
4:05 (album)
Genre (s) Synthpop , Indie-Pop , Indietronica
text Ellie Goulding, Richard Stannard, Ash Howes
music Richard "Biff" Stannard, Ash Howes
Publisher (s) Polydor
album Bright lights

Lights is a song by British singer Ellie Goulding that appeared on the album Bright Lights , a re-release of her debut album Lights (2010). The song was released in the UK on March 13, 2011 as the sixth single from the album, while it was released as the first single in the US . In May 2012, Lights was certified platinum in the US for sales above one million units. On February 15, 2013 the single was re-released in Germany.

background

Lights was originally supposed to appear on September 8, 2010. However, Goulding later announced on her Twitter page that the publication would be postponed to November 1, 2010. The release of the single was, however, in favor of the song Your Song , a cover of the song of the same name by Elton John , postponed, as this was part of a large Christmas advertising campaign.

In January 2011 she announced that Lights would follow as the next single. A download EP was released on March 13, 2011 in the United Kingdom. This contained the single Lights and an acoustic cover of Rihanna's world hit Only Girl (In the World) , which Goulding played on December 10, 2011 on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge .

criticism

Horatia Harrod from The Daily Telegraph said about the song: “Threaded with dark thoughts, but set to an airy pop production bordering on polite. Her voice is the real star. She has the magical ability, not unlike her heroine, Björk , to sing with a sort of controlled tremulousness: her voice aches with vulnerability but never breaks. " The Guardian critic Johnny Dee wrote:" a welcome return to her patented folky-pop- with-some-tasteful-drum-and-bass-wobble sound. "

Music video

The video for Lights was shot by Sophie Muller in September 2010 and officially published on January 20, 2011 on Goulding's YouTube channel. It shows Goulding dancing and playing the drums, being surrounded by many light effects and laser beams while singing. The lighting effects were created by a small group of students from Middlesex University .

Appearances

Goulding sang the song on the Alan Carr: Chatty Man Show in February 2011. She also appeared on the Saturday session on Dermot O'Leary's BBC Radio 2 afternoon show on February 26, 2011, where she sang Lights . She also sang Lights on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on March 12, 2011, along with a cover version of José González's version of The Knifes Heartbeats .

To promote the single in the US, Goulding sang the song live on Saturday Night Live on May 7, 2011 with Your Song . On January 18, 2012, she sang the single on the Late Show with David Letterman . On April 11, 2012, she sang the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show .

In Germany, Goulding performed on January 12, 2013 as part of Schlag den Raab .

Charts

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Lights
  DE 11 01/25/2013 (29 weeks)
  AT 8th 01/25/2013 (22 weeks)
  CH 14th 01/27/2013 (25 weeks)
  UK 49 03/12/2011 (3 weeks)
  US 2 01/14/2012 (57 weeks)

Lights debuted in the week of March 13, 2011 at number 64 in the UK charts and then reached its highest ranking at number 49.

In the week ending August 20, 2011, Lights debuted at # 85 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and # 89 in Canada. So it was Goulding's first single, which could place in North America in the charts. On January 14, 2012, the song rose to number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number 14 on the charts on June 1, 2012 after 24 weeks. When Lights hit the top 40 in its 19th week, it was the slowest climb of any female artist's song on the charts, after Norah Jones ' Don't Know Why and KT Tunstall's Suddenly I See . After the song was awarded gold on March 27, 2012 in the United States, Lights received the platinum award in the United States on May 2, 2012, as over one million units had been sold. As of June 9, 2012, the song had sold over 1.2 million copies in the United States.

After appearing on Stefan Raab's show, the song also hit the charts in Germany , where it initially rose to number 13 and even reached number 11 at the end of March 2013, which was Goulding's best ranking in Germany to date. In the German airplay charts , the single reached the top position for a week . The song was also awarded gold in Germany .

Awards

country Award
United StatesUnited States United States 3 × platinum
GermanyGermany Germany gold

Publications

country date Label format
Great Britain March 13, 2011 Polydor Extended play
Canada May 23, 2011 Cherrytree , Interscope Digital EP - The Remixes Pt. 1
United States
Canada July 19, 2011 Digital EP - The Remixes Pt. 2
United States
United States January 24, 2012 radio

Individual evidence

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  20. ↑ Lights in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
  21. ↑ Lights in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
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