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Back to Black (song)
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| Single by Amy Winehouse | |||||||||||||
| from the album Back to Black | |||||||||||||
| B-side | "Valerie" "Hey Little Rich Girl" |
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| Released | 30 April 2007 (UK) 7 March 2008 (Germany) |
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| Format | CD single, digital download, 7" single, 12" maxi single | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | Chung King Studios Daptone Studios (New York City, New York) Metropolis Studios (London, England) |
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| Genre | R&B, jazz, soul | ||||||||||||
| Length | 4:01 (Album Version) 3:54 (Radio Edit) |
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| Label | Island | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson | ||||||||||||
| Producer | Mark Ronson | ||||||||||||
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"Back to Black" is a song by English recording artist Amy Winehouse. It was released on 30 April 2007 as the third single from her second studio album, Back to Black. It was written by Winehouse and Mark Ronson. It was also produced by Ronson.
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Music video
The music video was directed by Phil Griffin and features a funeral procession in which Winehouse mourns over a grave that reads "R.I.P. the Heart of Amy Winehouse".[1] The video was primarily shot nearby Gibson Garden and Chesholm Road in Stoke Newington, London. The graveyard scenes were filmed at Abney Park Cemetery nearby London. According the official Winehouse website, "Amy's sultry new video for Back In Black [sic] is both beautifully and artistically shot in black and white and compares in imagery a doomed love affair with that of a funeral."[2]
Reception
Pre-release, the song charted in the UK Singles Chart on downloads alone for five consecutive weeks, peaking at number 40.[3] The single charted at number 25 once it had been released in physical format, and has sold around 96,000 copies to date in the UK;[4] it has spent 34 non-consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart to date. It has re-entered with "Rehab" together on the chart. The song featured on BBC Radio 1's The B List Playlist during the week commencing 2 May.[5] Channel 4 Music awarded the song ten stars out of ten in its review,[6] while the Manchester Evening News rated the song as five out of five stars, commending it as "one of the best singles of the year."[7]
With sales of 96,000, "Back to Black" finished as the UK's 85th biggest-selling single of 2007.
During 2007, the song was also used various times for TV trail campaigns, such as for BBC's Philip Pullman adaptation The Shadow in the North in December 2007.
Phil Tufnell and his dance partner Katya Virshilas performed a tango to "Back to Black" in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing.
On 31 July 2011, following her death, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at 8, also giving the song a new peak position and second top ten hit in UK.
Covers
A cover version of "Back to Black" by the English band The Rumble Strips appears as a B-side to their 2007 "Motorcycle" EP. On the fourth season of the UK TV talent show The X Factor, the girl group Hope covered the song during one of their live performances.
Lightspeed Champion included a cover of this song as a B-side to their 2008 single "Tell Me What It's Worth".
"Back to Black" was covered twice on the Live Lounge segment of BBC Radio 1's The Jo Whiley Show, first by Elbow on 5 June 2008 and later by Glasvegas on 1 September 2008.
Ronnie Spector has occasionally performed a rendition of Back to Black during live performances.
The song appeared on French singer Amanda Lear's 2009 album, Brief Encounters.
"Back to Black" was covered by Paije Richardson during the seventh series of the X Factor in one of the live shows.
The song was used as part of Mexican telenovela Llena de Amor for English-born Mexican actress Azela Robinson for her stripper character (La Reina).
The song was covered on Glee in the second season episode "Funeral" by Naya Rivera's character Santana Lopez.
A German version was produced and sung by Ivo Lotion.
Track listings and formats
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Charts
Certifications
| Country | Certification |
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| Greece | Platinum[18] |
| Italy | Platinum[22] |
| Spain | Gold[23] |
| Switzerland | Platinum[24] |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2008) | Rank |
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| German Singles Chart[25] | 48 |
References
- ^ iTunes Store
- ^ "Back in Black – watch a clip". AmyWinehouse.com. 12 March 2007. http://www.amywinehouse.com/. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^ BBC Radio 1, 2/5/07
- ^ BBC Radio 1, 5/5/07
- ^ song has been well received by music critics. shtml BBC Radio 1 Playlist
- ^ Channel 4 Music
- ^ Manchester Evening News
- ^ Discogs.com - CD single
- ^ Discogs.com - 7" White Vinyl
- ^ Discogs.com - 12" single
- ^ 7 Digital
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Forum - ARIA Chartifacts 01-August-2011 (ARIA Charts: Weekly ARIA Chartifacts)". australian-charts.com. http://www.australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=36744. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Amy Winehouse – Back To Black – Music Charts". αCharts.us. http://acharts.us/song/12483. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
- ^ "RADIO TOP100 Oficiální" (in Czech). IFPI. http://www.ifpicr.cz/hitparada/index.php?a=titul&hitparada=2&titul=145834&sec=1d2b512013acde321f0967a5dca09c1a. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Amy Winehouse - Back To Black". dutchcharts.nl. http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Amy+Winehouse&titel=Back+To+Black&cat=s. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ "European Hot 100 Singles". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=349&cfgn=Singles&cfn=European+Hot+100+Singles&ci=3090398&cdi=9619209&cid=05%2F19%2F2007. Retrieved 2008-01-19.[dead link]
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Amy Winehouse - Back To Black". lescharts.com. http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Amy+Winehouse&titel=Back+To+Black&cat=s. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ a b "Greek Singles Chart". IFPI Greece. 2010-04-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20100404055427/http://www.ifpi.gr/chart03.htm. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
- ^ "Media Forest: Airplay chart". mediaforest.biz. 2011-07-30. http://www.mediaforest.biz/WeeklyCharts/HistoryWeeklyCharts.aspx?year=2011&week=30.
- ^ "italiancharts.com – Amy Winehouse – Back To Black". ItalianCharts.com. http://italiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Amy+Winehouse&titel=Back+To+Black&cat=s. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
- ^ "Spanish Singles Top 50". PROMUSICAE. http://spanishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Amy+Winehouse&titel=Back+To+Black&cat=s. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
- ^ "Sales Certification FIMI" (in Italian). FIMI. http://www.fimi.it/temp/cert_Nielsen_week3411.pdf. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- ^ "Top 50 Canciones 30/2011" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España. http://promusicae.es/files/listastonos/Top%2050%20Canciones%20(PUBLICAR)_w30.2011.pdf. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade und Music Community". Hitparade.ch. http://hitparade.ch/awards.asp. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ^ [1][dead link]
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