Simon Says (Laleh song)

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"Simon Says"
Single by Laleh
from the album Me and Simon
Released12 January 2009
Recorded2008
Genre Pop
Length3:55
Label Warner Music Sweden
Songwriter(s) Laleh Pourkarim
Producer(s) Laleh Pourkarim
Laleh singles chronology
"Snö"
(2007)
"Simon Says"
(2009)
"Big City Love"
(2009)

"Simon Says" is a song by Iranian-Swedish singer-songwriter Laleh from her third studio album, Me and Simon [1] which was released as the lead single of the album on 12 January 2009. [2] The song peaked at No. 41 on the Swedish Singles Chart. [3]

Contents

Music video

The music video was shot in Skellefteå, Sweden and directed by Martin Fodor-Nilsson who also directed the music videos for "Invisible (My Song)", "Storebror", and "Live Tomorrow".

Track listing

  1. "Simon Says" – 3:55

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Swedish Singles Chart 41

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References

  1. "Laleh – Music, Me and Simon". laleh.se. Archived from the original on 15 December 2009.
  2. "Laleh – Simon Says". 7digital.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011.
  3. "Laleh – Simon Says". swedishcharts.com.