Loneliness (song)

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"Loneliness"
Loneliness (song cover).png
Single by Tomcraft
Released12 September 2002 (2002-09-12)
RecordedAugust 2002
Studio Elektroraum (Berlin, Germany)
Genre
Length2:44
Label Kosmo
Songwriter(s)

Edmund Clement

  • Eniac
Producer(s)
  • Eniac
  • Tomcraft
Tomcraft singles chronology
"Bang Bang"
(2002)		"Loneliness"
(2002)		"Brainwashed (Call You)"
(2003)

"Loneliness" is a song by German disc jockey Tomcraft (Thomas Bruckner). It was written by Ivan Matias, Andrea Martin, Tomcraft and Eniac and produced by the latter two. The song is based on an excerpt of Martin's 1999 single "Share the Love". [3] "Loneliness" was released as a single in September 2002 in Germany and in April 2003 in the United Kingdom. The single peaked at number 10 on the German Singles Chart and topped the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

British singer-songwriter Will Young sampled the song for his 2015 single "Love Revolution". [4]

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the German maxi-CD single liner notes. [5]

Studio

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [33] Silver200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
Germany12 September 200212-inch vinylKosmo [34]
2 December 2002CD
United Kingdom28 April 2003
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 [35]
Australia7 July 2003CDSuperphunk [36]

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