Wild Love (James Bay song)

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"Wild Love"
Wild Love by James Bay.jpg
Single by James Bay
from the album Electric Light
Released8 February 2018 (2018-02-08)
Genre [1]
Length3:17
Label Republic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
James Bay singles chronology
"Running"
(2016)
"Wild Love"
(2018)
"Pink Lemonade"
(2018)

"Wild Love" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter James Bay, from his second studio album, Electric Light (2018). The song was released by Republic Records on 8 February 2018 as the lead single off the album. It reached number 39 on the UK Singles Chart on 16 February 2018. In 2020, the song was used by Virgin Media as hold music.

Contents

Music video

A lyric video to accompany the release of "Wild Love" was first released onto YouTube on 8 February 2018, through James Bay's official YouTube account. [2]

The official music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld and released on 19 February 2018. [3] Natalia Dyer appears in the video.

Track listing

Album version [4]
No.TitleLength
1."Wild Love"3:17
Remixes [5]
No.TitleLength
1."Wild Love" (Jonas Blue remix)3:25
2."Wild Love" (Kove remix)3:13
3."Wild Love" (Shadow Child remix)4:19

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Wild Love
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Portugal (AFP) [15] Gold5,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [16] Silver200,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

CountryDateFormatVersionLabelRef.
Various8 February 2018 Digital download, streaming Album version Republic [4]
Various8 February 2018Digital download, streamingRemixesRepublic [5]

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