Keep Your Head Up (Girls Can't Catch song)

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"Keep Your Head Up"
Keep Your Head Up.jpg
Single by Girls Can't Catch
B-side "Stop"
Released30 July 2009
Recorded2008
Genre Pop, electropop
Length3:31
Label Polydor/Fascination
Songwriter(s) Chris Braide, Nina Woodford
Producer(s) Chris Braide
Girls Can't Catch singles chronology
"Keep Your Head Up"
(2009)
"Echo"
(2010)

"Keep Your Head Up is the debut single by British girl group Girls Can't Catch. It was written by Chris Braide and Nina Woodford, and produced by Braide. It was released on 30 July 2009, and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 26. The single reached the top 5 in the Scottish Singles Chart, peaking at number 4.

Contents

The group performed the song at several different events, including GMTV, G-A-Y and the iTunes Festival. [1]

Music video

The music video was filmed and released in June 2009. It features the group playing croquet with three guys at a dump site, singing their verses in different parts of the dump site.

Track listing

iTunes Pre-Order

  1. "Keep Your Head Up"
  2. "Keep Your Head Up" (Acoustic)

CD1:

  1. "Keep Your Head Up" (Braide, Woodford)
  2. "Stop" (Daizy Agnew, Jess Stickley, Phoebe Brown, Viktoria Hanson, Jonathan Douglas)

Maxi CD-single

  1. "Keep Your Head Up"
  2. "Kimberly Walsh from Girls Aloud interviews GCC Part 1"
  3. "Keep Your Head Up" (Music Video)
  4. "Keep Your Head Up" (Riff & Rays Remix Video)

iTunes EP

  1. "Keep Your Head Up" (Riff and Rays Club Mix)
  2. "Keep Your Head Up" (Soulseekerz Club Mix)
  3. "Keep Your Head Up" (Starsmith Club Mix)

Other download stores

  1. "Keep Your Head Up"
  2. "Keep Your Head Up" (Riff and Rays Radio Edit)
  3. "Keep Your Head Up" (Soulseekerz Radio Edit)
  4. "Keep Your Head Up" (Starsmith Radio Edit)

Live performances

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Scotland (OCC) [2] 4
UK Singles (OCC) [3] 26

Release details

RegionDateLabelFormat
United Kingdom and Ireland30 July 2009 [4] [5] Polydor Digital download
3 August 2009CD Single

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References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2009-08-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  3. "Girls Can't Catch: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
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