Follow Your Fire

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"Follow Your Fire"
Single by Kodaline
from the album Politics of Living
Released23 March 2018
Recorded2017
Length3:58
Label B-Unique
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Steve Mac
Kodaline singles chronology
"Ready to Change"
(2017)
"Follow Your Fire"
(2018)
"Shed a Tear"
(2018)

"Follow Your Fire" is a song by Dublin-based alternative rock quartet Kodaline. The song was released on 23 March 2018 as the second single from the band's third studio album, Politics of Living (2018). [1] The song peaked at number twenty on the Irish Singles Chart.

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Background

In an interview with the Official Charts Company, Steve Garrigan said, "I'm very excited! We worked with Steve Mac and Johnny McDaid on this one. It’s kind of a new sound for us. My comfort zone is in slow ballads – this is not a slow ballad in any sense. Steve Mac was amazing… to share a room with him was an honour really. I think it’s pretty commercial, the single. Every song we’ve done is different, but this is probably the most mainstream." [2]

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "Follow Your Fire" was first released onto YouTube on 23 March 2018. [3]

Track listing

Digital download [1]
No.TitleLength
1."Follow Your Fire"3:58
Digital download [4]
No.TitleLength
1."Follow Your Fire" (Syn Cole Remix)3:06
Digital download [5]
No.TitleLength
1."Follow Your Fire" (Stripped Back Version)3:46

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA) [6] 20
Scotland (OCC) [7] 64
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [8] 82

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
Worldwide23 March 2018 [1] Digital download B-Unique

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