Magic (Pilot song)

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"Magic"
Magic by Pilot.jpg
German single picture sleeve
Single by Pilot
from the album From the Album of the Same Name
B-side "Just Let Me Be"
ReleasedSeptember 1974 (UK)
April 1975 (US)
Recorded1974, Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre
Length3:03
Label EMI
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Alan Parsons
Pilot singles chronology
"Just a Smile"
(1974)
"Magic"
(1974)
"January"
(1975)

"Magic" is a 1974 song by Scottish pop rock band Pilot and was the first hit single for the group. It was written by band members David Paton and Billy Lyall for their debut album, From the Album of the Same Name .

Contents

Background

According to Paton, the song is inspired by the sunrise on Blackford Hill in Edinburgh. [5] In a 2012 interview with Hotdisc Television, Paton also stated that at the time, his wife said she had "never seen a daybreak", which also inspired the song. [6]


Personnel

Pilot

Additional personnel

Chart performance

"Magic" charted most successfully in Canada, where it topped the RPM national singles chart on 19 July 1975, [7] and received a gold certification. [8] It climbed as far as number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and reached number 5 during the summer of 1975 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100.

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [8] Gold75,000^
United States (RIAA) [22] Gold1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Selena Gomez version

"Magic"
Single by Selena Gomez
from the album Wizards of Waverly Place
Released21 July 2009 (2009-07-21)
Recorded2009
Genre Pop rock
Length2:49
Label Walt Disney
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Selena Gomez singles chronology
"Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)"
(2009)
"Magic"
(2009)
"Come & Get It"
(2013)
Music video
"Magic" on YouTube

A version by Selena Gomez was released as a single on 21 July 2009. It peaked at No. 61 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, No. 80 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart, No. 5 on the Norwegian Singles Chart and at No. 90 on the UK Singles Chart. It has sold 563,000 copies in the United States. [23] Gomez covered "Magic" for the soundtrack of the Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place ; it was marked with an asterisk (*) as "Magic*" due to two other songs on the album having identical names (the other two performed by Meaghan Martin and Honor Society). The song was featured in the television film Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie . The music video premiered on the Disney Channel on 24 July 2009, and was directed by Roman Perez.

Charts

Chart (2009-2010)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [24] 80
Guatemala (EFE) [25] 8
Norway (VG-lista) [26] 5
Scotland (OCC) [27] 72
UK Singles (OCC) [28] 90
US Billboard Hot 100 [29] 61

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [30] Gold500,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Ozempic television advertisement

In 2018, pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk began using the song in its ads for Ozempic, an injectable drug originally intended for people with type 2 diabetes, but which became popular for its off-label use as a weight-loss drug. David Paton was asked to return to Abbey Road Studios to record a new version of the song, which from a vocal standpoint is little more than his singing the opening line, replacing the words "It's magic" with "Ozempic" and otherwise adding nonverbal singing. [31] [32]

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