Green Lights

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"Green Lights"
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Single by Aloe Blacc
from the album Good Things
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2011
Recorded2000–11
Genre R&B, soul
Length2:56
Label Stones Throw
Songwriter(s) Jeffrey Scott Silverman, Leon Marcus Michels, Nicholas Anthony Movshon, E. Nathaniel Dawkins
Producer(s) Leon Michels, Jeff Dynamite
Aloe Blacc singles chronology
"Loving You Is Killing Me"
(2011)
"Green Lights"
(2011)
"Wake Me Up!"
(2013)

"Green Lights" is a song by American artist Aloe Blacc, with music and lyrics by Jeffrey Scott Silverman, Leon Marcus Michels, Nicholas Anthony Movshon, E. Nathaniel Dawkins and produced by Leon Michels and Jeff Dynamite. It was released on 9 September 2011 as a Digital download in the United Kingdom. It has peaked to number 130 on the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "Green Lights" was first released onto YouTube on 12 August 2011 at a total length of three minutes and twelve seconds. [1]

Credits and personnel

Track listings

Promo CD single
  1. "Green Lights" – 2:54
Digital download
  1. "Green Lights" – 2:56
  2. "Green Lights" (Future Fitz Radio Mix) – 3:11
  3. "Green Lights" (Grand Scheme Mix) – 2:55
  4. "Green Lights" (Jack Beats Remix) – 4:11
  5. "Green Lights" (Wideboys Remix) – 6:37

Chart performance

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [2] 69
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) [3] 130

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom, United States9 September 2011 [4] Digital download Stones Throw Records

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