Miracles (Someone Special)

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"Miracles (Someone Special)"
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Promotional single by Coldplay and Big Sean
from the EP Kaleidoscope
Released14 July 2017 (2017-07-14)
Genre Dance-pop [1]
Length4:36
Label Parlophone
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)

"Miracles (Someone Special)" is a song by British rock band Coldplay and American rapper Big Sean. [2] It was released on 14 July 2017 as part of the Kaleidoscope EP , a companion piece to their seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams (2015). [3] It was the first time the band featured a rapper in one of their tracks since Jay-Z's "Lost+". [4] The song is noted for using sampling a line by Michael J. Fox from Back to the Future (1985). [5] It was also ranked among the best of its year by 3voor12, [6] and Panorama . [7]

Contents

Background

The track was served to contemporary hit radio in Italy as a promotional single upon release. [8] An official lyric video, directed by Ben Mor, was made available in the following day. [9] It switches between several photographs, most of them concerning immigrants reaching Ellis Island, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. [10]

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Miracles (Someone Special)"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI) [35] Gold25,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
Italy14 July 2017 Contemporary hit radio Warner [8]
United Kingdom21 July 2017Parlophone [36]

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