Sunrise (Simply Red song)

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"Sunrise"
Simply Red - Sunrise single cover.jpg
Single by Simply Red
from the album Home
B-side
Released17 March 2003 (2003-03-17)
Studio Metropolis (London, England)
Length3:19
Label simplyred.com
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Andy Wright
Simply Red singles chronology
"Your Eyes"
(2000)
"Sunrise"
(2003)
"Fake"
(2003)
Music video
"Sunrise" on YouTube

"Sunrise" is a song by English musical group Simply Red. It was released on 17 March 2003 as the first single from their eighth studio album, Home (2003), as well as the first single from frontman Mick Hucknall's new record label, simplyred.com. The song peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart, number three in Canada, and number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Contents

Content

The song contains samples of Hall & Oates's 1981 hit "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" and incorporates some of its lyrics. [1]

Reception

David Jeffries of AllMusic panned the track, calling it the worst on its parent album. He added: "Hall & Oates get sampled and credited, but the vocal hook from Ace's "How Long" gets lifted without acknowledgment. It sounds as shoddy as one of the song-combining "mash-up" bootlegs that swept through the U.K., and could be a cover-up for Hucknall's lack of songwriting ideas." [2]

Music video

The main success of "Sunrise" was due in part to the sensual video being shot on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. It was filmed in February 2003 at the Das Canoas house designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer for himself, which has since been open to the public.[ citation needed ]

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the Home album booklet. [9]

Studio

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [43] Gold5,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [44] Silver200,000

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom17 March 2003
  • CD
  • cassette
simplyred.com [45]
Japan21 March 2003CD Victor [46]
Australia26 May 2003simplyred.com [47]
United States26 June 2003 Hot adult contemporary radio [48]
21 July 2003 Smooth jazz radio [49]

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