Awake (Donkeyboy song)

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"Awake"
Single by Donkeyboy
from the album Caught in a Life
Released2009
Genre Alternative rock
Indie pop
Length2:58
Label Warner Music Norway
Songwriter(s) Cato Sundberg/Kent Sundberg/Simen M Eriksrud
Donkeyboy singles chronology
"Broke My Eyes"
(2009)
"Awake"
(2009)
"Blade Running"
(2009)

Awake is an English language hit in Norway for the Norwegian band Donkeyboy, their fourth single taken from their album Caught in a Life after singles "Ambitions" and "Sometimes" (both #1s for 13 and 8 weeks consecutively in the Norwegian Singles Chart) and "Broke My Eyes" (that reached #6).

"Awake" released in 2009 reached #8 in the Norwegian Singles Chart.

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Norwegian Singles Chart [1] 8

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