Take Yourself Home

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"Take Yourself Home"
Troye Sivan - Take Yourself Home.png
Single by Troye Sivan
from the EP In a Dream
Released1 April 2020 (2020-04-01)
Genre
Length4:09
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) OzGo
Troye Sivan singles chronology
"Love Me Wrong"
(2019)
"Take Yourself Home"
(2020)
"Easy"
(2020)
Lyric video
"Take Yourself Home" on YouTube

"Take Yourself Home" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan. [4] [5] The song was released via EMI Music Australia on 1 April 2020 as the lead single from his fifth EP In a Dream (2020). [6] [7] [8]

Contents

Reception

Paper stated that it "is perhaps the first great song to come out of our collective apocalyptic state of mind during the COVID-19 outbreak." [9] Critics also praised the dance coda in the song. [10] [11] [12]

Charts

Chart performance of "Take Yourself Home"
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [13] 91
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [14] 9

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel(s)Ref.
Various1 April 2020 EMI [15]
Australia3 April 2020 Contemporary hit radio EMI [16]

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