Be a Boy

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"Be a Boy"
Be-a-Boy-Robbie Williams.jpg
Single by Robbie Williams
from the album Take the Crown
Released11 March 2013
Recorded2011–12
Genre Pop
Length4:39 (album version)
3:42 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Jacknife Lee
Robbie Williams singles chronology
"Different"
(2012)
"Be a Boy"
(2013)
"Goin' Crazy"
(2013)
Music video
"Be a Boy" on YouTube

"Be a Boy" is a song by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, taken from his ninth studio album, Take the Crown . It was released as the album's third and final single on 11 March 2013. The song was written by Robbie Williams, Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis. The song charted in Belgium. It was inspired by the fact people told Robbie his career was over, which is reference in the lines "They said it was leaving me, the magic was leaving me" and "I can make this last forever"

Contents

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "Be a Boy" was first released onto YouTube on 29 January 2013 at a total length of three minutes and fifty-two seconds. [1]

Track listing

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Be a Boy"4:39

Chart performance

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Albania (NRG Top 50 Chart) [2] 33
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders) [3] 14
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia) [4] 11
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [5] 52
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100) [6] 95

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom11 March 2013 Digital download Universal

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