Clair de Lune (Flight Facilities song)

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"Clair de Lune"
Clair De Lune (Flight Facilities song).png
Single by Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg
from the album Down to Earth
ReleasedOctober 22, 2012 (2012-10-22)
Genre Electronica, ambient
Length7:43
Label Flight Facilities
Songwriter(s) Christine Hoberg, Hugo Gruzman, James Lyell
Producer(s) Hugo Gruzman, James Lyell
Flight Facilities singles chronology
"Feelin'"
(2012)
"Clair de Lune"
(2012)
"I Didn't Believe"
(2013)

"Clair de Lune" is a song released by the Australian DJ duo Flight Facilities, written by singer-songwriter Christine Hoberg and producers Hugo Gruzman and James Lyell. It features a melodic interpretation of a section of Clair de Lune by French composer Claude Debussy. The song was released in October 2012 as the second single from the band's debut studio album, Down to Earth (2014). The song peaked at number 38 on the ARIA charts and was certified gold in 2013.

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The song polled at number 17 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2012. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2013, the song was nominated for Best Video.

The song polled at number 25 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Decade (2010s) in March 2020.

Since 2018, the song has been extensively used by Telstra for many of their advertising campaigns.

Track listings

Digital Download

  1. "Clair de Lune" – 7:43

Digital Download [1]

  1. "Clair de Lune" – 7:42
  2. "Clair de Lune" (instrumental) – 7:42
  3. "Clair de Lune" (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)– 7:42
  4. "Clair de Lune" (Crazy P remix) – 6:49

Charts

Chart (2012/13)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [2] 38

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [3] Gold35,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Thelma Plum version

"Clair de Lune"
Clair de Lune by Thelma Plum.png
Single by Thelma Plum
ReleasedJuly 1, 2018 (2018-07-01)
Length4:10
Label Warner Music Australia
Songwriter(s) Hugo Gruzman, James Lyell
Producer(s) Ross James
Thelma Plum singles chronology
"Young in Love"
(2014)
"Clair de Lune"
(2018)
"Clumsy Love"
(2018)

In 2018, Thelma Plum recorded a version of the song for a new Telstra television advert campaign. The ad's theme is "the magic that happens when you combine technology and Telstra's mobile network". [4] The single was released on 1 July 2018. [5]

Plum said: "Telstra asked me to be a part of this; I've never been a part of something like this before, so I thought it would be something really cool to do." Plum said that Flight Facilities sent her the song and that she and producer Ross James worked on the song in one day. Plum said: "I'm really happy with it! It's beautiful, it was easy to do because it's a beautiful piece of work." [6]

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References

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  2. "Australian-charts.com – Flight Facilities – Clair De Lune". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  3. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2013 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
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