Sit Next to Me

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"Sit Next to Me"
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Single by Foster the People
from the album Sacred Hearts Club
ReleasedJuly 13, 2017
Genre
Length4:03
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Foster the People singles chronology
"Loyal Like Sid & Nancy"
(2017)
"Sit Next to Me"
(2017)
"Pay the Man (Remix)"
(2017)

"Sit Next to Me" is a song by the American indietronica band Foster the People. The song is featured as the third track on the band's third studio album Sacred Hearts Club and was released as the record's third single by Columbia Records on July 13, 2017. "Sit Next to Me" (Versions) was recorded on October 13, 2017 and featured a radio edit, an acoustic version, and a reworked version of the song. It was then released to US modern rock stations. The song was well-received by music critics, who complimented its production and catchiness.

Contents

Music video

The official video for "Sit Next to Me" was directed by Fourclops and Brinton Bryan and was released on November 10, 2017. [2] The video features 100 posts from Instagram influencers and celebrities and also includes submissions from Foster the People fans all over the world. A cardboard cut-out of Baloony from Phineas and Ferb is seen in one of the Instagram videos. "It was fun to play with the premise of a music video that hijacks your social feed," said director Fourclops in a prepared statement. "Instagram is a major destination for consuming media these days, and it made for an exciting setting for our video. We asked ourselves, what would it look like if all of the accounts within Instagram become transformed by a song?" [3]

Track listing

Download
No.TitleLength
1."Sit Next to Me"4:03
"Sit Next to Me" (Versions) [4]
No.TitleLength
1."Sit Next to Me" (Radio edit)3:22
2."Sit Next to Me" (Acoustic)4:18
3."Sit Next to Me" (Rework)5:32

Personnel

Foster the People

Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [28] Platinum80,000
United States (RIAA) [29] 4× Platinum4,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
Various [30] July 13, 2017 Download Columbia
United States [31] September 5, 2017 Modern rock radio
North America [32] October 13, 2017 Download
United States [33] [34] January 22, 2018 Hot adult contemporary
February 13, 2018 Contemporary hit radio

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