Hold Me in Your Arms (The Trews song)

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"Hold Me in Your Arms"
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Single by The Trews
from the album No Time For Later
ReleasedNovember 25, 2007
Genre Hard rock, alternative rock
Length3:07
Songwriter(s) Colin MacDonald, John-Angus MacDonald, Jack Syperek and Sean Dalton
Producer(s) Gus Van Go
The Trews singles chronology
"I Can't Say"
(2006)
"Hold Me in Your Arms"
(2007)
"Paranoid Freak"
(2008)
Music video
"Hold Me In Your Arms" on YouTube

"Hold Me in Your Arms" is a song by Canadian rock band The Trews. It was the first single released from their third full-length studio album, No Time For Later . It premiered at the 2007 Grey Cup pre-game show and was immediately released on iTunes. It won the "Best Hard Rock" song category at the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards. [1]

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Music video

The song's music video spent 17 weeks on MuchMusic Countdown, peaking at number 1 on April 3, 2008. [2]

Commercial performance

"Hold Me in Your Arms" was the eleventh-most played rock song in Canada in 2008. [3] The song was certified Gold in Digital Downloads in Canada in April 2010. [4]

Chart positions

Chart (2007)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [5] 34
Canada Rock ( Billboard ) [6] 3

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