Somewhere Else (Razorlight song)

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"Somewhere Else"
Somewhere else.jpg
Single by Razorlight
from the album Up All Night
B-side "Keep the Right Profile", "Hang By, Hang By", "Up All Night" (live)
Released11 April 2005 (2005-04-11)
Studio Sphere, Abbey Road, Brixton Academy (London, England)
Length3:16
Label Vertigo
Songwriter(s) Johnny Borrell
Producer(s) Razorlight
Razorlight singles chronology
"Rip It Up"
(2004)
"Somewhere Else"
(2005)
"In the Morning"
(2006)
Music video
"Somewhere Else" on YouTube

"Somewhere Else" is a song by English indie rock band Razorlight, and was featured as a bonus track on the 2005 re-release of their debut album, Up All Night . It was their first new material following that album and became their biggest hit to date in the United Kingdom at the time when released as a single, debuting at number two in the UK Singles Chart, only to be bettered by "America", which charted at number one in October 2006. In 2007, the lyrics: "and I met a girl/She asked me my name/I told her what it was", were voted the third-worst lyrics of all time. [1]

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Music video

The video features Johnny Borrell walking around various place in London, before returning to where he started at the beginning. A large portion of the video was filmed inside and outside the Northumberland Arms pub.

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [11] Silver200,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
United Kingdom11 April 2005CD Vertigo [12]
United States25 April 2005 Alternative radio Universal [13]

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