Flux (Ellie Goulding song)

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"Flux"
Flux (official single cover).png
Single by Ellie Goulding
Released1 March 2019 (2019-03-01)
Recorded2018
Studio
Length3:49
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Kearns
  • Maxwell Cooke
Ellie Goulding singles chronology
"Mama"
(2019)
"Flux"
(2019)
"Close To Me (Red Velvet Remix)"
(2019)
Music video
"Flux" on YouTube

"Flux" is a song by English singer Ellie Goulding, released on 1 March 2019. [1] [2] The song was written by Goulding, Jim Eliot and Joe Kearns. It was included on Goulding's fourth studio album, Brightest Blue (2020).

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Background

In an interview with The Guardian on New Year's Day 2019, Goulding announced that her fourth album would be released in 2019. She also talked about three songs named "Flux", "Love I'm Given" and "Electricity". According to her, "Flux" is "about the person who you almost ended up with". [3] On 21 February, she took to social media to announce the single by posting its cover art and the release date of the track. [1] The following week she shared further details regarding the song, including lyrics and a still from the music video. [4] [5]

Composition

"Flux" is written in the key of C major and has a tempo of 93 beats per minute in common time. [6]

Music video

Goulding posted a silent teaser of the music video hours prior to its release. [7] The accompanying music video premiered on YouTube on 1 March 2019, alongside the song's official release on all platforms. [8] [9] Shot entirely in black and white, the video depicts Goulding inside a dark hall playing a piano as rain pours on her. The video ends as a soaked Goulding stares gloomily at the camera as the rain continues.

Track listing

Digital download [10]
No.TitleLength
1."Flux"3:49

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [11]

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [12] 32
Scotland (OCC) [13] 35
UK Singles (OCC) [14] 97

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
Various1 March 2019 Polydor [8] [10] [11]

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