Like Gold

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"Like Gold"
Like Gold by Vance Joy.jpg
Single by Vance Joy
from the album Nation of Two
Released3 November 2017 [1]
Genre Pop rock [2]
Length3:44
Label Liberation Music
Songwriter(s) James Keogh, Dan Wilson
Producer(s) Phil Ek
Vance Joy singles chronology
"Lay It on Me"
(2017)
"Like Gold"
(2017)
"We're Going Home"
(2018)

"Like Gold" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy. It was released on 3 November 2017 as the second single from Joy's album Nation of Two (2018).

Contents

Vance wrote "Like Gold" after coming off the road at the start of 2016. Joy said: "It started with a simple melody I was humming and the idea of looking back at a relationship." [3]

In February 2018, Joy said: "I play a different rhythm from anything I've played before. I really like what the producer Phil Ek did with this song with big spacious drums and I like the way it sounds full of life. It's about a love that you're kind of reflecting on and the fire's gone out but there was some really good times in there." [4] [5]

"Like Gold" was certified gold in Australia in 2019.

Reception

Al Newstead from ABC called the song a "slower heart-on-sleeve ballad", saying: "Between hypnotic plucking and gentle prose, he captures the embers of a relationship that "used to roar like an open fire". [3] Emmy Mack from Music Feeds called the song a "rollicking folk toe-tapper [which] sounds like it was custom-made for group campfire singalong." [6]

Charts

Chart performance for "Like Gold"
Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [7] 124
Australian Artist Singles (ARIA) [8] 14
US Alternative Digital Song Sales ( Billboard ) [9] 13
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [10] 30
US Rock Digital Song Sales ( Billboard ) [11] 16

Certifications

Certifications for "Like Gold"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [12] Platinum70,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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