Sticks & Stones (Arlissa song)

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"Sticks & Stones"
Arlissa - Sticks and Stones.png
Single by Arlissa
from the album Battles (Unreleased)
Released3 March 2013
Recorded2013
Length3:36
Label London
Songwriter(s)
Arlissa singles chronology
"Hard to Love Somebody"
(2012)
"Sticks & Stones"
(2013)
"Into the Light"
(2013)

"Sticks & Stones" (also written "Sticks and Stones") is a song by British singer/songwriter Arlissa. The song was released on 3 March 2013 as the lead single from her scrapped debut album, Battles. The song was written by Arlissa, Mark Taylor, Patrick Mascall & Jamie Scott. [1] The song peaked at number 48 in the UK Singles Chart on week ending 16 March 2013 and spent 3 weeks in the top 100. [2]

Contents

Charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA) [3] 89
UK Singles (OCC) [4] 48

Metro and Nelly Furtado version

"Sticks & Stones"
Metro and Nelly Furtado - Sticks & Stones.png
Single by Metro and Nelly Furtado
from the album The Ride
Released25 May 2018
Recorded2017 (original version)
Length3:24
Label Radikal
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Nelly Furtado
  • Brian Rawling
  • Mark Taylor
Nelly Furtadosingles chronology
"Phoenix"
(2017)
"Sticks & Stones"
(2018)
"Eat Your Man"
(2023)

"Sticks & Stones" is the dance version of Nelly Furtado's cover that she recorded for her 2017 album The Ride featuring the British production duo Metro (Brian Rawling and Mark Taylor). Impressed with Metro’s remixes of her song, Furtado rerecorded the vocals from her cover on the new version, giving the single an electro-house feel. [5]

The 2018 version became Furtado's seventh number one and Metro's first on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart, reaching the summit, as well as reaching number 30 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

Track listing

EP [6]

  1. "Sticks & Stones" (Original) – 3:34
  2. "Sticks & Stones" (F9 Remix Edit) – 3:29
  3. "Sticks & Stones" (F9 Extended Remix) – 7:20
  4. "Sticks & Stones" (Chrome Tapes Extended Remix) – 5:50
  5. "Sticks & Stones" (Mojito Remix) – 3:47

Remixes [7]

  1. "Sticks & Stones" (StoneBridge & Damien Hall Epic Mix) – 3:23
  2. "Sticks & Stones" (StoneBridge & Damien Hall Epic Extended Mix) – 5:12
  3. "Sticks & Stones" (StoneBridge & Damien Hall Epic Dubstrumental) – 5:12
  4. "Sticks & Stones" (Bimbo Jones Vocal Mix) – 6:13
  5. "Sticks & Stones" (Bimbo Jones Ibiza Club Mix) – 5:50
  6. "Sticks & Stones" (Manuel Riva & Cristian Poow Remix) – 8:24

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 1
US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs ( Billboard ) [9] 30

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