Snap Out of It

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"Snap Out of It"
Arctic Monkeys Snap Out of It.jpg
Single by Arctic Monkeys
from the album AM
Released9 June 2014 (2014-06-09)
Recorded2012–13
Genre Pop rock [1]
Length3:13
Label Domino
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s) Alex Turner
Producer(s)
Arctic Monkeys singles chronology
"Arabella"
(2014)		"Snap Out of It"
(2014)		"Four Out of Five"
(2018)
Music video
"Snap Out of It" on YouTube

"Snap Out of It" is a song by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys from their fifth studio album, AM . The song was released as the album's sixth overall single on 9 June 2014, impacting contemporary hit radio in the United Kingdom. [3] [4]

Contents

Music video

The music video was directed by Focus Creeps and was released on 16 June 2014. [5] In the video, a woman (Stephanie Sigman) [6] sits on her couch, and watches footage of the band recording in the studio. She gets fixated on frontman Alex Turner and starts crying, dancing, and puts her face close to the television. Towards the end, she also appears in the recording, alluding to, that in the story, they were a couple and now they had broken up. [7]

Critical reception

Mic Wright of The Quietus wrote the song "has clicks, claps and the kind of catchy hooks that'll get you a job pumping out new songs for Icona Pop". [8]

Personnel

Arctic Monkeys
Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [9] 13
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia) [10] 35
Canada Rock ( Billboard ) [11] 19
CIS (TopHit) [12] 188
Ireland (IRMA) [13] 68
UK Singles (Official Charts Company) [14] 82
UK Indie (Official Charts Company) [14] 6
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [15] 37

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI) [16] Gold50,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [17]
(since 2015) 		Gold30,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [18] Platinum600,000‡
Streaming
Greece (IFPI Greece) [19] Gold1,000,000†

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom [3] 9 June 2014 Contemporary hit radio Domino

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References

  1. ↑ "Every Arctic Monkeys song ranked in order of greatness". NME . 17 December 2020. Full of bounce and shine, 'Snap Out Of It' is a delightful shot of pop rock escapism that shimmers over a snappy melody and insistent backbeat.
  2. ↑ AM (liner notes). Arctic Monkeys . 2013.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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