Tear Up This Town

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"Tear Up This Town"
Keane - Tear Up This Town.jpg
Single by Keane
Released23 September 2016
RecordedJanuary 2016 [1]
Genre
Length3:07
Label Island
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tim Rice-Oxley and Dan Grech-Marguerat
Keane singles chronology
"Won't Be Broken"
(2014)
"Tear Up This Town"
(2016)
"The Way I Feel"
(2019)

"Tear Up This Town" is a 2016 song by English alternative rock band Keane. The song was released as a one-off single to feature on the soundtrack of the 2016 fantasy film A Monster Calls , directed by J. A. Bayona (Keane worked with Bayona on the video for their 2012 single "Disconnected"). The song was made available for digital download on 23 September 2016. [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Tear Up This Town" (orchestral version)3:07
2."Tear Up This Town"3:12

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
UK Vinyl Singles (Official Charts Company) [3] 13
UK Physical Singles (Official Charts Company) [4] 19

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