Hometown Glory
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| Single by Adele | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album 19 | |||||||||||||||||
| Released | 22 October 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, CD single, digital download | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, Soul | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:31 (Album Version) 3:37 (Single Version/Radio Edit) |
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| Label | Pacemaker Recordings, XL Recordings |
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| Writer(s) | Adele | ||||||||||||||||
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"Hometown Glory" is the first single from Adele's debut album 19, released on 22 October 2007 in the United Kingdom. In 2008, the song was re-released as her fourth single. Adele wrote the song in 10 minutes after her mother tried to persuade her to leave her home town of West Norwood in London for university.
In 2007, "Hometown Glory" was released on singer Jamie T's Pacemaker Recordings label as a limited edition 7" vinyl single, of which only 500 copies were made.[1] The song failed to chart initially. However, due to high downloads of the song during the release week of her 19 album, the song managed to chart inside the UK Singles Chart Top 40 for the first time. In 2010, the song received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.[2]
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[edit] Background and composition
As aforementioned, "Hometown Glory" was re-released on 21 July 2008 as the follow-up to second single Cold Shoulder. The song was added to Radio 1's B-list on 18 June 2008, and moved up to Radio 1's A-list on 2 July 2008. Its B-side now featured Adele's brand-new cover of the Etta James song 'Fool That I Am', which was recorded during a live performance in Cambridge.[3] The song was later released in 2008 as Adele's debut single for the U.S. market. Due to the popularity of the song in the UK, which resulted in the song charting inside the UK Top 40 twice on download sales alone, the song was (re-)released as the third single (fourth including the original single release) from the album on 21 July 2008. As of July 2008, the track has become Adele's third consecutive UK Top 20 hit single.
The song is played in the key of B♭ Minor at a tempo of 60bpm. The vocal range is D♭3-A5.[4]
[edit] Music video
The initial limited edition vinyl release of "Hometown Glory" does not have a promo video. A video was filmed for the single's re-release in Hayes, West London, on top of the Iceland/Wilkinson car park. The video shows Adele singing while posters of cities are moving around her.
[edit] In the media
On 7 April 2008, "Hometown Glory" was featured in the teen drama series Skins, resulting in the song re-entering the UK Singles Chart Top 40 at #32. Later that month, on 24 April 2008, the song was featured in episode 5.15 of One Tree Hill. On 22 May 2008, the song was featured in the season four finale of Grey's Anatomy. According to Adele's manager Jonathan Dickins, the powerful music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas chose the song after seeing Adele perform at Hotel Café in Los Angeles following a recommendation by Columbia Records' creative licensing staffer Jonathan Palmer.[5] On 10 June 2008, the song was used on popular UK soap Hollyoaks, where it has been used again on the 13 October 2008 episode. It was used again on Hollyoaks in the 10 November 2010 episode which featured the death of one of the UK's most popular television characters Steph Cunningham. The opening of the song played as Steph said goodbye to screen-husband Gilly Roach, choosing to perish in a housefire rather than face death from the cervical cancer they had been informed was terminal. The episode was a season-high for Hollyoaks, viewed by 2.12 million viewers (including timeshift and E4 figures, 0.7, a high for the channel) – a high figure for a non-BBC or ITV show.
On 2 July 2008, it was featured on Season 4 of So You Think You Can Dance in a Mia Michaels' contemporary dance by Katee Shean and eventual winner, Joshua Allen. It also featured in a season 2 episode of Secret Diary of A Call Girl. A remixed version of the song was featured in the superhero drama-comedy Misfits. The track has recently been used on advertisements and promotional scenes for the UK soap Coronation Street. The song was featured in a season 1 episode of American teen drama series 90210. It was also featured on The Hills. The song was sampled by Mississippi Rapper Big K.R.I.T. on his single "Hometown Hero," in Big Sean's song Hometown from his mixtape Finally Famous Vol. 3: BIG, by French Rapper La Fouine on his song "Vecu" featuring French Rapper Kamelancien, by The OCS on his song "Hometown" featuring Glasses Malone, Jay Rock and XO, and by Minneapolis hippy-hop artist Mod Sun on his song "The Same Way." The song has been used in various soap operas in accompaniment to the deaths of Danielle Jones, Steph Roach, Joe McIntyre, Archie Mitchell, and Bradley Branning. It has also been used in EastEnders: Revealed. Various reality singing and talent shows use the song in between performances such as The X Factor (UK), The X Factor (Australia), Britain's Got Talent and Australia's Got Talent.
[edit] Track listings
[edit] Original release
- 7-inch Vinyl
- "Hometown Glory"
- "Best For Last"
[edit] Re-release
- CD Single
- "Hometown Glory" 4:32
- "Fool That I am" (Live) 3:45
- Digital EP
- "Hometown Glory" 3:40
- "Hometown Glory" (Axwell Radio Edit) 3:35
- "Hometown Glory" (Axwell Club Mix) 5:11
- "Hometown Glory" (Axwell Remode) 5:55
- "Hometown Glory" (High Contrast Remix) 6:36
- "Hometown Glory" (High Contrast Remix) [Instrumental] 6:35
- 7-inch vinyl
- "Hometown Glory" 4:32
- "Fool That I am" (Live) 3:45
- 12-inch vinyl
- "Hometown Glory" (High Contrast remix)
- "Hometown Glory" (High Contrast remix instrumental)
[edit] Official remixes
- Album Version
- Single Version
- Radio Edit (Single Version – Clean with omission of word "shit")
- High Contrast Remix
- Axwell Remix
- Axwell Remode Mix
- Axwell Radio Edit
[edit] Charts
On 13 April 2008, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at #32 following its showcase on an episode of Skins. On 6 July 2008, the song re-entered the chart at #74 and then climbed to #49 the following week. The song eventually peaked at #19 on 27 July 2008, following its physical release.
The song received little attention when it was released in the United States and did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
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[edit] References
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- ^ Pacemaker Recordings web site
- ^ TWO-TIME GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER ADELE TO PERFORM ON CBS CBS Radio Retrieved 23 February 2011
- ^ Adele interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' July 2008
- ^ "Adele: Hometown Glory Sheet Music". sheetmusicdirect.com. © Copyright 2007 Universal Music Publishing Limited. http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/40056/Product.aspx.
- ^ "Interview with Jonathan Dickins". HitQuarters. 14 Jul 2008. http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_Jonathan_Dickins_Interview.html. Retrieved 18 Feb 2011.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Adele – Hometown Glory" (in Dutch). Ultratip. ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Adele – Hometown Glory" (in French). Ultratip. ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
- ^ "Lescharts.com – Adele – Hometown Glory" (in French). Les classement single. Hung Medien.
- ^ "Adele – Hometown Glory – Music Charts". Acharts.us. http://acharts.us/song/33375. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "ADELE – The Official Charts Company". Theofficialcharts.com. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/adele/. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ http://www.ukchartsplus.co.uk/ChartsPlusYE2008.pdf
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