We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
| We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Taylor Swift | |
| publication | August 13, 2012 |
| length | 3:12 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , bubblegum |
| text | Taylor Swift, Max Martin , Shellback |
| music | Max Martin, Shellback |
| album | Red |
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is a pop song by Taylor Swift from her album Red , which was released on October 22, 2012. The single was released on August 13, 2012. The piece was legally downloaded 623,000 times in the first week, according to the Billboard .
Music video
The music video for We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together premiered on YouTube on August 31, 2012 , after a lyric video had already appeared on August 14, 2012 . It was directed by Declan Whitebloom, who previously directed the Mean and Ours videos . It is stylistically reminiscent of a pop-up book that was shot as a one-shot video and viewed over 618 million times on YouTube (as of August 2020).
reception
criticism
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together received mostly positive reviews. Digital Spy’s Robert Copsey said that if anyone had the right to produce a break-up song, it would be Taylor Swift. He awarded four stars out of five. Billboard's Jason Lipshutz gave it 85 points out of a possible 100 and wrote that We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together looks familiar.
Charts
The single became Swift's first number one hit in the United States . In the UK , the song reached number four, while in German-speaking countries it did not make it into the top 20. Further number-one placements were achieved in Canada and New Zealand .
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
21st (21 weeks) | 21st |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
22nd (14 weeks) | 14th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
21st (21 weeks) | 21st |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
4th (33 weeks) | 33 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
1 (24 weeks) | 24 |
Awards for music sales
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together was awarded 4 × gold , 16 × platinum and 1 × diamond. According to awards, the single was sold more than 6.1 million times.
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
||
 Australia (ARIA)
|
 5 × platinum
|
350,000 |
 Denmark (IFPI)
|
platinum
|
2,600,000 (streaming) |
|
Germany (BVMI)
|
 gold
|
150,000 |
 Italy (FIMI)
|
gold
|
15,000 |
 Japan (RIAJ)
|
 diamond
|
1,000,000 |
 Canada (MC)
|
gold
|
40,000 |
 Mexico (AMPROFON)
|
gold
|
30,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
|
2 × platinum
|
30,000 |
 Sweden (IFPI)
|
platinum
|
40,000 |
|
United States (RIAA)
|
6 × platinum
|
3,900,000 |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
platinum
|
600,000 |
| All in all |
4 × gold 16 × platinum 1 × diamond |
6,155,000 |
Main article: Taylor Swift / Music Sales Awards
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- ↑ Caitlin R. King: 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together': Taylor Swift Debuts New Single, Talks Album. (No longer available online.) In: Huffington Post . TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., archived from the original on August 19, 2012 ; accessed on September 18, 2012 (English).
- ^ Robbie Daw: Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" Sets Sales Record, Tops Hot 100. In: Buzzmedia. Idolator, accessed September 18, 2012 .
- ↑ TaylorSwiftVEVO: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Lyric Video). YouTube, accessed September 18, 2012.
- ↑ Taylor Swift's New Video Debuts Thursday . In: CMT News . August 28, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- ↑ Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together . In: YouTube . August 31, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- ↑ Robert Copsey: Taylor Swift: 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' - Single review. In: Digital Spy . Hearst Magazines UK, accessed September 18, 2012 (English): "[...] but if anyone's earned the right to their own break-up anthem, it's surely Taylor Swift."
- ↑ Jason Lipshutz: Track Review: Taylor Swift, 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together'. In: Billboard. Rovi Corporation, accessed September 18, 2012 : "With a new album," Red, "that will likely showcase her experimental impulses when it hits stores in October, Swift has tossed out a lead single that's at once bold and familiar . "
- ↑ Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together chart placement New Zealand. In: Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien, accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ^ Gary Trust: Ask Billboard: All-Taylor Swift Edition. In: Billboard. November 11, 2014, accessed October 3, 2017 .