Finders Keepers (You Me at Six song)

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"Finders Keepers"
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Single by You Me at Six
from the album Take Off Your Colours
Released25 May 2009
Genre Pop punk
Length3:11
Songwriter(s) Matt Barnes, Dan Flint, Josh Franceschi, Max Helyer, Chris Miller
You Me at Six singles chronology
"Save It for the Bedroom"
(2008)
"Finders Keepers"
(2009)
"Kiss and Tell"
(2009)
"Save It for the Bedroom"
(2008)
"Finders Keepers"
(2009)
"Kiss and Tell"
(2009)

Finders Keepers is a song by You Me At Six which was released as a single on 25 May 2009. [1] The song was released on their Myspace account on 8 April. [2] A music video was released for the song on 22 April 2009. [3] It was later featured on the deluxe edition of their Take Off Your Colours album along with their next single, "Kiss and Tell", and three B-sides. The song reached #1 in the Kerrang Rock Top 40, and peaked at #33 on the UK Singles Chart on the 31 May 2009. This was their first and only entry to date in the Top 40 Singles Chart until "Rescue Me" in 2011.

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Track listing

  1. "Finders Keepers"
  2. "Sugar, We're Goin Down" (Fall Out Boy cover)

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