Green Garden (song)

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"Green Garden"
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Single by Laura Mvula
from the album Sing to the Moon
Released22 February 2013 (2013-02-22)
RecordedMay–August 2012
Genre
Length4:09
Label
Songwriter(s) Laura Mvula
Laura Mvula singles chronology
"Like the Morning Dew"
(2012)		"Green Garden"
(2013)		"That's Alright"
(2013)
Music video
"Green Garden" on YouTube

"Green Garden" is a song by British singer Laura Mvula. It was released as the second single from her debut studio album Sing to the Moon (2013). It was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2013.

Contents

Music video

A music video to accompany "Green Garden" was first released onto YouTube on 17 January 2013, at a total length of three minutes and 50 seconds. It was filmed in Southern California at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge and the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood of Los Angeles. [1]

Live performances

On 8 February 2013, Mvula performed the song on The Graham Norton Show . [2]

Critical reception

John Robinson of The Guardian gave the song a positive review stating:

"Laura Mvula has a voice like the Queen has a house: classy, and so big she doesn't need to use all of it at once. This very good debut single is duly a masterclass of restraint [...] the minimal, chiming repetitions of the production and Mvula's understated Nina Simone delivery are as much the key to the song's success as the eventual gospel explosion of the chorus." [3]

Heat gave the song four stars out of five, calling it a "soulful tune". [4]

Track listings

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Green Garden"4:09

Chart performance

On 27 February 2013, the song was number 25 on the Official Chart Update. [5] It ultimately debuted at number 32 on 3 March, moving up by one place to 31 a week later. On 28 February 2013, the song entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 77.

Weekly charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [6] 3
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders Urban) [6] 12
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia) [7] 47
Denmark (Tracklisten) [8] 40
Ireland (IRMA) [9] 50
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [10] 74
Russia (Tophit) [11] 246
Scotland (OCC) [12] 42
UK Singles (OCC) [13] 31

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)Position
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders Urban) [14] 51

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom22 February 2013 [15] Digital download RCA Records, Sony Music Entertainment

References

  1. ↑ Laura Mvula – Green Garden on YouTube
  2. ↑ Laura Mvula – Green Garden (Live Graham Norton Show) on YouTube
  3. ↑ John Robinson (25 February 2013). "Laura Mvula, Richard Hawley: this week's new tracks reviewed". The Guardian . London: guardian.co.uk/.
  4. ↑ "Singles of the week". Heat (720). Bauer Media: 86. 2–8 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Corner, Lewis (27 February 2013). "Justin Timberlake, Bastille battle for No.1 spot". Digital Spy .
  6. 1 2 "Laura Mvula – Green Garden" (in Dutch). Ultratip.
  7. ↑ "Laura Mvula – Green Garden" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Laura Mvula – Green Garden". Tracklisten.
  9. ↑ "Chart Track: Week 11, 2013". Irish Singles Chart.
  10. ↑ "Laura Mvula – Green Garden" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  11. ↑ "Laura Mvula - Songs". Tophit.ru. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  13. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  14. ↑ Year-end: Urban (in Dutch). ultratop (NL). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  15. ↑ iTunes – Music – Green Garden – Single by Laura Mvula
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