"Thunderbirds" / "3AM" | ||||
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Single by Busted | ||||
from the album A Present for Everyone (re-issue) and A Ticket for Everyone: Busted Live | ||||
Released | 26 July 2004 | |||
Genre | Pop-punk [1] | |||
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Busted singles chronology | ||||
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"Thunderbirds Are Go" on YouTube | ||||
"3AM" on YouTube |
"Thunderbirds" (titled "Thunderbirds Are Go" on some editions of the single and album) and "3AM" are two songs by English pop punk band Busted. The songs were issued as a double A-side single on 26 July 2004 as the fourth single from their second studio album, A Present for Everyone (2003). "Thunderbirds" was not originally included on the album,having been written specifically for the 2004 film Thunderbirds ,although it later appeared on a re-issue of the album in Europe. "Thunderbirds" was not released on an album in the United Kingdom until the release of the group's live album A Ticket for Everyone:Busted Live in 2005.
"Thunderbirds" / "3AM" was Busted's last single to enter the UK Singles Chart until the release of "On What You're On" in 2016,reaching number one. It was the 19th best-selling single of 2004 in the UK and also won the title of 2004 Record of the Year,and received an 8/10 rating from Stylus Magazine. [2] "3AM" was later performed by Matt Willis during his 2007 solo tour,and by James Bourne on his 2012 acoustic solo tour. [3]
UK CD1 [4]
UK CD2 [5]
UK DVD single [6]
Japanese CD single [7]
Personnel are taken from the A Ticket for Everyone:Busted Live album booklet. [8]
Personnel are taken from the A Present for Everyone album booklet. [9]
All entries charted as "Thunderbirds" except where noted.
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [20] | Gold | 400,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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United Kingdom | 26 July 2004 | CD | [21] | |
Japan | 4 August 2004 | Universal Music Japan | [22] |
...it sounds like Lit or The Living End or some other Anzac punk-pop 98 vintage...