Better (Mallrat song)

"Better"
Single by Mallrat
from the album In the Sky
Released	13 October 2017 (2017-10-13)
Length	3:13
Label	Dew Process
Producer	Konstantin Kersting
Mallrat singles chronology
"For Real" (2016) "Better" (2017) "UFO" (2018)
Music video
"Better" on YouTube

"Better" is a song by Australian musician Mallrat. It was released in October 2017 ^[1] as the lead single from Mallrat's second EP In the Sky .

In May 2018, the song won Best Unpublished Work in the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition. ^{[2] [3]}

The song was certified gold in Australia in 2019.

Background

Mallrat said she wrote the songs in July 2016 saying "the lyrics were very easy to write but it took about a year to get the instrumentation sounding exactly like it did in my brain." ^{[4] [5]}

Reception

Thomas Smith from NME called the song a "youthful, joyous uplifting banger." ^[4]

Track listing

Digital download

1. "Better" – 3:13

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [6]	Platinum	70,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

1. "Better - single". iTunes Australia. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
2. "Past Winners". APRA AMCOS . Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
3. "Native Tongue Signs Brisbane Producer & Writer Konstantin Kersting". The Music AU. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
4. "Australian pop wunderkind Mallrat shares uplifting banger 'Better'". NME. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
5. "Mallrat sounding fresh with new single 'Better'". Secret Sounds. October 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
6. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2021 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.