Ruby (Kaiser Chiefs song)

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"Ruby"
Ruby single.jpg
Single by Kaiser Chiefs
from the album Yours Truly, Angry Mob
B-side
  • "Admire You"
  • "From the Neck Down"
Released29 January 2007
Genre Power pop [1]
Length3:23
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Stephen Street
Kaiser Chiefs singles chronology
"Modern Way"
(2005)
"Ruby"
(2007)
"Everything Is Average Nowadays"
(2007)
Music video
"Ruby" on YouTube

"Ruby" is a song by English indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs. It was released in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2007 as the lead single from their second studio album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob (2007). It became the band's first British number-one single on 25 February 2007 and ended 2007 as the year's 10th-biggest-selling single in the UK, with total sales of 313,765. [2] As of September 2016, it has sold over 600,000 copies in the UK as stated by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). "Ruby" was voted number 13 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007, Australia's largest annual music poll. [3]

Contents

A video single of the song was released in the United States at Best Buy stores on 13 March 2007, two weeks before the album was released there, and featured a live version of "Everything Is Average Nowadays" and the B-side "Admire You" (released on the UK 7-inch version). [4]

Content

Speaking about the song lead singer Ricky Wilson said that Ruby "is super cool, totally unapproachable" and that "there was a girl like that at school". [5] Andrew White said, "[I]t's not really about anyone" and "if you know someone called Ruby, it's about them". [6] In a 2022 TikTok video, Nick Hodgson revealed that Ruby was his family pet, a black Labrador. [7]

Music video

The promo for "Ruby" was directed by Swedish production company Stylewar, who also produced the 2005 video for "I Predict a Riot", and features the band performing in a desert landscape whilst a CGI metropolis-like miniature city builds around them. The video was scheduled to be shown on Channel 4 at 11:35 p.m. on 15 January 2007 but was pulled from the schedules for unknown reasons. The video finally premiered on the official Kaiser Chiefs website four days later.

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [43] Gold30,000
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [44] Gold7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI) [45] 2× Platinum1,200,000

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United States29 January 2007 Modern rock radio Universal Motown [46]
United Kingdom5 February 2007 Digital download [ citation needed ]
19 February 2007
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
[47]
United States22 May 2007 Contemporary hit radio Universal Motown [48]

Notable cover versions

As part of the BBC Electric Proms the song was performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. [49] On 19 January 2011, Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese played a cover version of the song at the nationwide TV-show Parla con Me, with lyrics changed into a satiric reference to the Rubygate sex scandal, which then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had just been involved with. [50] [ better source needed ]

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