The Reason Why (song)

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"The Reason Why"
Lorenzo Fragola - The Reason Why - Front cover.jpg
Single by Lorenzo Fragola
from the album Lorenzo Fragola
Released5 December 2014
Genre Pop
Length3:02
Label Sony Music Italy
Songwriter(s) Lorenzo Fragola, Michelle Lily Popovic, Fausto Cogliati
Producer(s) Fausto Cogliati
Lorenzo Fragola singles chronology
"The Reason Why"
(2014)		"Siamo uguali"
(2015)
Music video
"The Reason Why" on YouTube

"The Reason Why" is a song by Italian singer-songwriter Lorenzo Fragola, released as his debut single on 5 December 2014, during the week preceding the final of the eight season of Italian talent show X Factor , which was won by Fragola himself.

Contents

The song was written by Fragola with Michelle Lily Popovic and Fausto Cogliati. The latter also served as the song's producer. [1]

Background

Fragola started composing the song a few years before it was completed, during a summer holiday when some friends asked him to write a song as a joke while they played the guitar together. He later continued to work on the track, and he chose to perform it during the auditions for the eighth series of X Factor. [2] [3] On 4 December 2016, during the semi-final of the show, each contestant was required to perform a previously unreleased track, and Fragola chose to perform "The Reason Why". [4] The following day, the song was released as a single, together with the other contestant's entries. [1] "The Reason Why" later allowed Fragola to win the X Factor series, on 11 December 2014. [5]

Writing for Italian magazine Panorama , Gianni Poglio described "The Reason Why", as a "pop song written to receive airplay, incisive, immediate, without being trivial". [6] Critics including Alessandro Alicandri and la Repubblica's Anna Puricella also compared the song's sound to the work of British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. [7] [8]

Track listing

  1. "The Reason Why" – 3:02

Charts

Chart (2014-2015)Peak
position
Italy (FIMI) [10] 1

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI) [11] 2× Platinum60,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat
Italy [12] [9] 5 December 2014Airplay
Digital download

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  7. ↑ Alessandro Alicandri (5 December 2016). "X Factor 8: il miglior inedito in semifinale". Panorama (in Italian). Retrieved 18 September 2016.
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  10. ↑ "Lorenzo Fragola – The Reason Why". Top Digital Download. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Italian single certifications – Lorenzo Fragola – The Reason Why" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 18 September 2016. Select "2015" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "The Reason Why" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
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