Lovesong (Amiel song)

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"Lovesong"
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Single by Amiel
from the album Audio Out
Released10 March 2003 (2003-03-10)
Length3:32
LabelFestival Mushroom
Songwriter(s)Amiel Daemion
Producer(s)Josh Abrahams
Amiel singles chronology
"The Chase"
(2000) 		"Lovesong"
(2003) 		"Obsession (I Love You)"
(2003)

"Lovesong" is a song written by American-Australian singer Amiel and produced by Josh Abrahams for Amiel's album, Audio Out (2003). It was released as the album's first single in Australia as a CD single on 10 March 2003. The song was nominated for two awards at the 2003 ARIA Awards including "Highest Selling Single" and "Single of the Year".

The video shows a split screen of Amiel and a man who both enter a restaurant and sit down. Part way through, they both go to the bathroom and end up coming out on the opposite side of the screen and finish sitting at each other's seat and being brought the other's meal.

Background and commercial performance[]

Amiel wrote the song in 1999 when she first moved to Sydney, New South Wales.[1] She states "I went out with this guy, it was three dates, just dinners, it was so irrelevant, it was completely nothing. I was new in town and I wanted something, someone. But it was a waste of time. I thought: great, all I got out of that was a love song, another fucking love song."[1] Amiel states that the lyrics were changed to "stupid Lovesong" for radio because "stupid" preserves the sentiment better than a beep.[1]

"Lovesong" was commercially successful in Australia. On its first week of release to radio it became the most added song to Australian radio for that week.[2] In March 2003, it debuted at number thirteen on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and within five weeks of its release, it had reached the top ten; becoming Amiel's first top ten single.[3] It went to peak at number six and stayed at that position for one week.[3] The single spent twenty-six weeks on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, seventeen of which were in the top fifty.[4] The song went to become the thirty-fourth highest selling single in Australia for 2003 and the Australian Recording Industry Association awarded the single a platinum certification for shipping 70,000 copies.[4][5] The song was nominated for two ARIA Awards as the "Highest Selling Single" and "Single of the Year" for 2003, but lost both awards to "Born to Try" by Delta Goodrem.

Track listings[]

Charts[]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[8] Platinum 70,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history[]

Region Date Label Format Catalogue Ref.
Australia 10 March 2003 Festival Mushroom CD, digital download 021062 [9]
Germany 26 April 2004 Ministry of Sound CD 0000025MIN

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Amiel Audio Out Biography by Warner Music". Warner Music. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
  2. ^ "Amiel Biography from her official website" Archived 6 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine. amiel.com.au. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Lovesong - Australian chart run". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "ARIA Highest Selling Singles 2003". ARIA Charts. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
  5. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2003 Singles". ARIA. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
  6. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Amiel – Lovesong". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Amiel – Lovesong" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  8. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2003 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  9. ^ "The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 10th March 2003" (PDF). ARIA. 10 March 2003. p. 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
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