Symphony (Clean Bandit song)

"Symphony" is a song by British classical crossover band Clean Bandit featuring Swedish singer Zara Larsson. It is the third single from Clean Bandit's second studio album, What Is Love? (2018). The song was also released as the sixth single from Larsson's second studio album, So Good (2017).[2][4][5] The single peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart, becoming Larsson's first number one on the chart and Clean Bandit's third. Outside the United Kingdom, the single also topped the chart in Larsson's native Sweden, as well as in neighbouring Norway.

"Symphony"
Single by Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson
from the album What Is Love? and So Good
Released17 March 2017 (2017-03-17)
Genre
Length3:32
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Clean Bandit singles chronology
"Rockabye"
(2016)
"Symphony"
(2017)
"Disconnect"
(2017)
Zara Larsson singles chronology
"So Good"
(2017)
"Symphony"
(2017)
"Don't Let Me Be Yours"
(2017)
Music video
"Symphony" on YouTube

Music video

The song's music video was premiered the same day the song was released, on 17 March 2017. It was directed by Clean Bandit's members Grace Chatto and Jack Patterson and features Larsson in a glittery dress backed by Clean Bandit and an orchestra while an emotional story plays out.

The directors have explained in the "Making of" video and in interviews that the video features a gay couple and "tells the tragic story of a conductor who loses his boyfriend in a bicycle crash. The conductor leads the symphony orchestra that we [Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson] are part of."[6] Singer Zara Larsson has spoken about why they wanted to specifically feature a black gay couple in the video.[7]

The video begins at dusk near Rotherhithe, accompanied to sound of an orchestra tuning up; meanwhile a young man packs away his Mac and briskly rides away, with no lighting, on a pedal bike. At the hall, during a hiatus, Zara's gaze lowers as sirens penetrate silence from faraway at the static crash cordon aftermath observed by an aerial view. Subsequent scenes show the man and his partner engaged in various activities, intercalated by scenes of the surviving partner grieving and visiting the spots they used to go together. The surviving partner paints the departed partner's bike white all-over and fixes it somewhere nearby where the fatality happened. He also begins to write music again as we find out he is a composer and his late partner was his inspiration. By the end, he has composed a beautiful symphony in his late partner's memory. The video ends with him looking out into the crowd while his deceased partner looks on proudly.[4] The conductor is played by Michael Akinsulire and his deceased partner / boyfriend is played by Josias Bertrand.[8]

As of November 2020, the video has over 1 billion views on YouTube.[9]

Live performances

Clean Bandit and Larsson gave their first live performance of the song on The Voice UK on 18 March 2017.[1]

A performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon followed on 21 April 2017.[10]

Notable uses

An edited version of the track was used in the BBC's Christmas 2017 short film and idents celebrating spending Christmas together. They were broadcast on BBC One during December 2017.[11]

It was covered by BAFTA-winning actress Suranne Jones, accompanied by a choir from the Youth Theatre group of the Half Moon Theatre, for a 2019 Children in Need charity album titled Got It Covered.

Track listing

Charts

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[112] 5× Platinum 350,000
Austria (IFPI Austria)[113] Platinum 30,000
Belgium (BEA)[114] Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[115] 4× Platinum 320,000
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[116] Platinum 90,000
France (SNEP)[117] Diamond 233,333
Germany (BVMI)[118] Platinum 400,000
Italy (FIMI)[119] 4× Platinum 200,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)[120] Platinum 30,000
Norway (IFPI Norway)[121] 4× Platinum 160,000
Portugal (AFP)[122] Platinum 10,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[123] Platinum 40,000
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[124] 2× Platinum 40,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[125] 3× Platinum 1,800,000
United States (RIAA)[126] Platinum 1,000,000
Streaming
Japan (RIAJ)[127] Silver 30,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone
streaming-only figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format Version Label Ref.
United States 16 March 2017 Digital download Alternative [14]
17 March 2017 Original [12]
Italy 24 March 2017 Contemporary hit radio Warner [128]
United States 7 April 2017 Digital download Acoustic [13]
MK remix [15]
United Kingdom 5 May 2017 Contemporary hit radio Original [129]
United States 12 May 2017 Digital download R3hab remix [16]
16 May 2017 Top 40 radio Original [130]
25 May 2017 Digital download Cash Cash remix [17]
6 June 2017 Mainstream radio Original [131]
16 June 2017 Digital download Sem Thomasson remix [18]
Lodato & Joseph Duveen remix [19]
James Hype remix [20]
Dash Berlin remix [21]
Coldabank remix [22]

See also

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