Iron Sky (song)

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"Iron Sky"
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Single by Paolo Nutini
from the album Caustic Love
Released14 August 2014
Recorded2014
Genre
Length6:13
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Paolo Nutini, Dave Nelson
Paolo Nutini singles chronology
"Let Me Down Easy"
(2014)
"Iron Sky"
(2014)
"One Day"
(2014)

"Iron Sky" is a rock song by Scottish singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini from his third studio album Caustic Love , which was released in April 2014. The song was released as a single on Atlantic Records in August 2014. The song was a minor hit in the UK charts in the spring of 2014, reaching number 42 in April of that year, ahead of its official single release. [1]

Contents

The song was described as being a "slow burner." The Independent described it as being a "stirring blend of conscious-soul subject with deep-soul style" and compared the song to being, "like Percy Sledge singing Curtis Mayfield.". [2] The song features an audio excerpt of the famous speech Charlie Chaplin gave in his film The Great Dictator (1940). [3]

Initially a non-charting single in the Netherlands, the song was revived by radio station 3FM in early 2015 following the Paris shootings at the Charlie Hebdo offices on 7 January 2015. It was rush re-released as a single and only a week later reached number 15 in 3FM's Mega Top 50 chart.

The song is also sampled in Bon Iver's song "33 'GOD"" from their 2016 album 22, A Million .

Music video

The music video was filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine by Daniel Wolfe. It won the best music video award at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival. [4]

Charts

Chart (2014–15)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [5] 7
Ireland (IRMA) [6] 96
Italy (FIMI) [7] 71
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [8] 24
UK Singles (OCC) [9] 42

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI) [10] Gold25,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [11] Platinum600,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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