Lost and Found (Ellie Goulding song)

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"Lost and Found"
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Promotional single by Ellie Goulding
from the album Delirium
Released23 October 2015 (2015-10-23)
Studio
Genre Pop
Length3:36
Label Polydor
Songwriters
Producers
Ellie Goulding promotional singles chronology
"Fall into the Sky"
(2014)
"Lost and Found"
(2015)

"Lost and Found" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding from her third studio album, Delirium (2015). It was released as a promotional single on 23 October 2015. [1]

Contents

Composition

"Lost and Found" is a pop song, with a tempo of 138 beats per minute. [2] Co-written by Goulding, Carl Falk, Max Martin, Laleh Pourkarim and Joakim Berg, it is a strumming, guitar-based mid-tempo song combining elements of folk and electronic music. [1] According to Goulding, Martin originally wrote the song for Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood. [3]

Critical reception

The song received mostly positive reviews. Lewis Corner of Digital Spy called the song as a "sparkling pop anthem". [4] Rachel Brodsky of Spin wrote, "[The song] that would likely take off in any club setting", praising his chorus, saying that his beats "which never hurts". [5] Bianca Gracie Idolator stated the song "is one of the strongest tracks [Goulding] has released thus far." [1]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Delirium . [6]

Recording

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [7] 70
Ireland (IRMA) [8] 75
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [9] 89
UK Singles (OCC) [10] 57

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gracie, Bianca (23 October 2015). "Ellie Goulding's "Lost And Found": Listen To The Folk-Tinged 'Delirium' Countdown Track". Idolator . Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  2. "Lost and Found sheet music". MusicNotes.com. 30 October 2015. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  3. Robinson, Peter (January 2016). "Ellie Goulding tells Peter Robinson about acquiring "more balls" and nicking a Fleetwood Mac song". Q . No. 354. p. 107. ISSN   0955-4955.
  4. Corner, Lewis (23 October 2015). "Ellie Goulding releases sparkling new song 'Lost and Found'". Digital Spy . Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  5. Brodsky, Rachel (21 October 2015). "Hear Ellie Goulding's Soaring New Song, 'Lost And Found'". Spin . Archived from the original on 31 December 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  6. Delirium (liner notes). Ellie Goulding. Polydor Records. 2015. 00602547587152.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. "ARIA Top 100 Singles – Week Commencing 2nd November 2015" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association (1340): 4. 2 November 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 November 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2018 via Pandora Archive.
  8. "Chart Track: Week 40, 2015". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  9. "Ellie Goulding – Lost and Found". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  10. "Official Singles Chart on 30/10/2015 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 December 2018.