Someone Wake Me Up

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"Someone Wake Me Up"
Someone Wake Me Up (Joe McElderry single - cover art).jpg
Single by Joe McElderry
from the album Wide Awake and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
B-side "There's a Place for Us"
Released5 December 2010 (2010-12-05)
Recorded2010
Genre Pop
Length3:26
Label Syco Music
Songwriter(s) Liam Keenan, Ben Collier, Ray Hedges, Nigel Butler
Producer(s) Ray Hedges, Nigel Butler
Joe McElderry singles chronology
"Ambitions"
(2010)
"Someone Wake Me Up"
(2010)
"There's a Place for Us"
(2010)
Music video
"Someone Wake Me Up" on YouTube

"Someone Wake Me Up" is a 2010 pop song by singer Joe McElderry. The single was released on 5 December 2010 as the third and final single from his debut album, Wide Awake . [1] The single's B-side, "There's a Place for Us", was recorded for the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . [2] The single peaked at No. 68 on the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

Composition and reception

Jon O'Brien writing for AllMusic compared "Someone Wake Me Up" to having a combination of the refrain of "Love Story" by Taylor Swift and the backing track of "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry. [3] Darren Scott of Gay Times described it as a pop ballad unconventional to McElderry's norm, and noted similarities to Wham! [4] Scott appreciated the song's catchy nature, as did David Griffiths of 4Music. [4] [5] OK! also praised the song, calling it "an epic lighters-aloft stunner". [6]

Live performances

McElderry performed "Someone Wake Me Up" for the first time at the annual Christmas Lights turn-on in Sheffield. [7] He appeared on The Late Late Show , This Morning and The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Paul O'Grady Live to promote the single.

Music video

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Screenshot from the video

The video for the song intersperses clips from the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , with recordings of McElderry performing inside The Dawn Treader, during which the boat is being flooded. [7] [8] The video premiered on McElderry's YouTube channel on 27 November 2010, which was eventually taken down in 2011, along with his previous music videos, to be re-uploaded to Vevo.

Track listing

CD single / digital download

  1. "Someone Wake Me Up" – 3:24
  2. "There's a Place for Us" – 3:51

Chart performance

The track peaked at No. 68 on the UK Singles Chart, on its entry date of 12 December 2010.

Chart (2010)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [9]
68

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