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The song was the ninth-highest-selling single of the 2000–2009 decade with worldwide sales exceeding 5 million copies. [4] As of 2021, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is the only song to win both the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. It remains one of Green Day's signature songs.
Video Killed the Radio Star. " Video Killed the Radio Star " is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1979. It was recorded concurrently by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album English Garden and by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles, which consisted of Horn and ...
Carolina in the Morning. "Carolina in the Morning" is a popular song with words by Gus Kahn and music by Walter Donaldson, first published in 1922 by Jerome H. Remick & Co. [ 1] The song debuted on Broadway in the elaborate and risqué musical revue The Passing Show of 1922 at the Winter Garden Theater. [ 2] Vaudeville performers incorporated ...
Torn (Ednaswap song) " Torn " is a song written by Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, and Phil Thornalley. It was first recorded in 1993 in Danish (under the title " Brændt " [pʁænˀt], meaning "Burnt") by Danish singer Lis Sørensen, then in English in 1995 by Cutler and Preven's American rock band Ednaswap, and in 1996 by American-Norwegian singer ...
Music video. "Nothing Compares 2 U"on YouTube. Audio sample. file. help. "Nothing Compares 2 U" is a song written by the American musician Princefor his band the Family. It first appeared on their only album, The Family(1985). Its lyrics express the feelings of longing expressed by an abandoned lover.
The music video's only lyrical reference to the song is the use of red shoes, which appear in several scenes and represent several themes. [2] Bowie explained: [7] The red shoes are a found symbol and it seemed a propos for this particular video. They are the simplicity of the capitalist society – the pair of luxury goods – red leather shoes.
The song has a tempo of 127.5 beats per minute and is written in the key of A major with a chord progression of D-A-F#m-E. According to Dan Smith, the song is written as a conversation between two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, stating in an interview, "I was reading a book that had some picture of the people who got caught up in the volcanic eruption.
The song was the world's fourth-best-selling digital single of 2017, with 9.7 million units, ranking among the best-selling singles worldwide. The accompanying music video, which was directed by Jonathan Lia and Mars, depicts the latter reciting the song's lyrics and combines choreography with black-and-white animation.