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The international group [[Il Divo]] released a Spanish-language adaptation on their album ''The Promise'' (2008), which topped the charts in the UK. The song was performed by singer/songwriter [[Damien Rice]] at the 2008 [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] inductions when Cohen was [[List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees|inducted]]. That same year Welsh mezzo-soprano [[Katherine Jenkins]] recorded a [[Crossover (music)|classical-crossover]] version for her album ''[[Sacred Arias]]'' (2008).<ref name = Bray/> [[Kate Voegele]] performed her recording of the song in character as Mia Catalano in the U.S. teen drama ''[[One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill]]''. Also appearing on an album, her version made the top 100 ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' charts and reached number 53 in the UK shortly after airing of the episode there.<ref>http://jerryischubby.blogspot.com/2009/07/mia-catalano.html</ref>
The international group [[Il Divo]] released a Spanish-language adaptation on their album ''The Promise'' (2008), which topped the charts in the UK. The song was performed by singer/songwriter [[Damien Rice]] at the 2008 [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] inductions when Cohen was [[List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees|inducted]]. That same year Welsh mezzo-soprano [[Katherine Jenkins]] recorded a [[Crossover (music)|classical-crossover]] version for her album ''[[Sacred Arias]]'' (2008).<ref name = Bray/> [[Kate Voegele]] performed her recording of the song in character as Mia Catalano in the U.S. teen drama ''[[One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill]]''. Also appearing on an album, her version made the top 100 ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' charts and reached number 53 in the UK shortly after airing of the episode there.<ref>http://jerryischubby.blogspot.com/2009/07/mia-catalano.html</ref>


In 2009 the French rock artist Nicolas Duhamel released an Heavy Metal version of the song.
In 2009 the French rock artist Nicolas Duhamel released a [[Heavy metal music|Heavy Metal]] version of the song.


Although [[Alexandra Burke]] won the [[The X Factor (UK series 5)|fifth series]] of ''[[The X Factor (UK)|X Factor]]'' resulting in the release of her version, unreleased versions of "Hallelujah" sung by other of the show's finalists, [[Diana Vickers]], [[Eoghan Quigg]], and [[JLS]], have since leaked on the Internet. [[Paramore]] covers the song as an introduction to their own song by the same title, "Hallelujah", in their live album ''[[The Final Riot|The Final Riot!]]'' [[Lisa Hordijk]], the winner of the 2009 Dutch ''[[The X Factor (Netherlands)|X-Factor]]'' series released a version of "Hallelujah" as her debut single. The song went double platinum and remained at the top of the Dutch charts for ten weeks.<ref>[http://www.eurosavant.com/2009/07/11/the-baffled-king-regretting-hallelujah/ "Baffled King Regretting 'Hallelujah'"] Eurosavant. Retrieved on: 2009-07-12.</ref>
Although [[Alexandra Burke]] won the [[The X Factor (UK series 5)|fifth series]] of ''[[The X Factor (UK)|X Factor]]'' resulting in the release of her version, unreleased versions of "Hallelujah" sung by other of the show's finalists, [[Diana Vickers]], [[Eoghan Quigg]], and [[JLS]], have since leaked on the Internet. [[Paramore]] covers the song as an introduction to their own song by the same title, "Hallelujah", in their live album ''[[The Final Riot|The Final Riot!]]'' [[Lisa Hordijk]], the winner of the 2009 Dutch ''[[The X Factor (Netherlands)|X-Factor]]'' series released a version of "Hallelujah" as her debut single. The song went double platinum and remained at the top of the Dutch charts for ten weeks.<ref>[http://www.eurosavant.com/2009/07/11/the-baffled-king-regretting-hallelujah/ "Baffled King Regretting 'Hallelujah'"] Eurosavant. Retrieved on: 2009-07-12.</ref>
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On April 16, 2010, the [[Edmonton Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[Richard Eaton Singers]] conducted by [[Jack Everly]] premiered a new version of the song arranged for orchestra and chorus by Claude Lapalme.<ref>[http://www.edmontonsymphony.com/robbins-pops/2009-robbins-pops/a-chorus-of-hits-fri/ A Chorus of Hits - Program Information]. Edmonton Symphony Orchestra website, retrieved 2010-04-16.</ref>
On April 16, 2010, the [[Edmonton Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[Richard Eaton Singers]] conducted by [[Jack Everly]] premiered a new version of the song arranged for orchestra and chorus by Claude Lapalme.<ref>[http://www.edmontonsymphony.com/robbins-pops/2009-robbins-pops/a-chorus-of-hits-fri/ A Chorus of Hits - Program Information]. Edmonton Symphony Orchestra website, retrieved 2010-04-16.</ref>



==Accolades and achievements==
==Accolades and achievements==

Revision as of 18:44, 19 April 2010

"Hallelujah"
Song

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and originally released on his studio album Various Positions (1984).

Although it achieved little initial success, in recent years cover versions have been performed by a large number and broad range of artists, both in recordings and in concert, and has now surpassed "Suzanne" (written in the 1960s) to become the most-covered Cohen song.[citation needed]

Musical composition and lyrical interpretation

Jeff Buckley "Hallelujah" cover excerpt
From the album Grace released in 1994. In 2007, Sony BMG rereleased the album (subtitle "The Legacy Edition") with a live music video of the song.
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"Hallelujah", in its original version, is a song in "12/8 feel", which evokes the styles of both waltz and gospel music. Written in the key of C major, the chord progression follows the lyric "it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, and the major lift": C, F, G, A minor, F.[1] The song is played at a tempo of 56 beats per minute; the vocal range is E4-A5.[2]

Cohen's original version contains several biblical references, most notably evoking the stories of Samson and traitorous Delilah from the Book of Judges as well as the adulterous King David and Bathsheba: "she cut your hair" and "you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you".[1]

Following his original 1984 studio-album version, Cohen performed the original song on his world tour in 1985, but live performances during his 1988 and 1993 tours almost invariably contained a quite different set of lyrics with only the last verse being common to the two versions. Numerous artists mix lyrics from both versions, and occasionally make direct lyric changes, such as Rufus Wainwright, a Canadian-American singer, substituting "holy dark" and Allison Crowe, a Canadian singer-songwriter, substituting "Holy Ghost" for "holy dove".

Cohen's lyrical poetry and his view that "many different hallelujahs exist" is reflected in wide-ranging covers with very different intents or tones of speech, allowing the song to be "melancholic, fragile, uplifting [or] joyous" depending on the performer:[1] The Welsh singer-songwriter John Cale, the first person to record a cover version of the song in 1991, promoted a message of "soberness and sincerity" in contrast to Cohen's dispassionate tone;[1] The cover by Jeff Buckley, an American singer-songwriter, is more sorrowful and was described by Buckley as "a hallelujah to the orgasm";[1][3] Crowe interpreted the song as a "very sexual" composition that discussed relationships;[1] Wainwright offered a "purifying and almost liturgical" interpretation to the song;[1] and Guy Garvey of the British band Elbow anthropomorphised the hallelujah as a "stately creature" and incorporated his religious interpretation of the song into his band's recordings.[1]

Cover versions

In recent years "Hallelujah" has been performed by a large number and wide variety of artists. In addition to its first cover by Cale, the song has since been performed by almost 200 artists in various languages.[4] Statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); the Canadian Recording Industry Association; the Australian Recording Industry Association; and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry show that, prior to late 2008, more than five million copies of the song sold in compact-disc format.[citation needed] It has been the subject of a BBC Radio documentary and been featured in the soundtracks of numerous films and television programs.[5] It was covered as a duet by Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris, featuring Charlie Sexton on guitar, during an international telethon on 22 January 2010, to benefit relief efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Different interpretations of the song may include different verses, out of the 80 verses Cohen originally wrote.

In an April 2009 CBS Radio interview, Cohen said that he finds the number of covers of his song "ironic and amusing" given that when he first wrote the song, his record company wouldn't put it out. However, he now thinks the song could benefit from a break in exposure: "... I was just reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses it and the reviewer said - 'Can we please have a moratorium on Hallelujah in movies and television shows?' And I kind of feel the same way...I think it's a good song, but I think too many people sing it."[6][7]

John Cale

Cale's cover first appeared on I'm Your Fan (1991), a Leonard Cohen tribute album, and later on his live album Fragments of a Rainy Season (1992). Cale's version featured vocals, piano, and lyrics that Cohen had only performed live. Cale had watched Cohen perform the song and asked Cohen to send him the lyrics.[8] Cohen then sent Cale fifteen pages of lyrics. As Cohen described it, Cale then "went through and just picked out the cheeky verses."[9]

Cale's version forms the basis of most subsequent performances, including Cohen's performances during his 2008–2009 world tour. It was also the version used in the film Shrek (2001) (although it did not appear on the film's soundtrack album).[1][8]

"Hallelujah"
Song

Jeff Buckley

American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, inspired by Cale's earlier cover, recorded one of the best-known[10] versions of "Hallelujah" for his debut album Grace in 1994. Many consider this the definitive version of the song.[11] Buckley, not wholly satisfied with any one take, recorded more than twenty takes, three of which producer Andy Wallace took and mixed to create a single track.[citation needed]

In 2004, Buckley's version was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[1] The same year Time called Buckley's version "exquisitely sung", observing "Cohen murmured the original like a dirge, but ... Buckley treated the ... song like a tiny capsule of humanity, using his voice to careen between glory and sadness, beauty and pain.... It's one of the great songs."[12]

In September 2007, a poll of fifty songwriters conducted by the magazine Q listed "Hallelujah" among the all-time "Top 10 Greatest Tracks" with John Legend calling Buckley's version "as near perfect as you can get. The lyrics to Hallelujah are just incredible and the melody's gorgeous and then there's Jeff's interpretation of it. It's one of the most beautiful pieces of recorded music I’ve ever heard."[13] In July 2009, the Buckley track was ranked number three on the 2009 Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, a listener poll held every decade by the Australian [radio broadcasting|radio station]] Triple J."[14]

Still, Buckley's version was not an instant hit, nor did Buckley live to see the full measure of the reception his recording would ultimately have; he died in 1997. The album on which it appeared did not go Gold in the U.S. until 2002, nine years after its release. In fact, like Cohen's original, the Buckley version was never officially released as a single, and the singer's cover first charted posthumously in 2006. In March of that year, Buckley had his first national Top 10 bestseller when "Hallelujah" went to number seven in Norway. In 2007 it made the top 3 on the Swedish charts. In March 2008 it hit number one in France. In April 2008 it topped Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in the U.S., where the sudden resurgence of interest catapulted Buckley's version past both Gold and Platinum status, the RIAA certifying the digital track on April 22, 2008.[15]

The song's success that year continued, reaching chart peaks in Finland and Ireland in November before closing out the year as the Christmas 2008 number-two single in the U.K., where it was held from the top spot by another version of "Hallelujah", by Alexandra Burke. The resurgence of interest in the Buckley track has lingered for months and even years in a number of countries. In Sweden, after reaching as high as number 5 in 2007, the song re-charted twice in 2008 and made it back into the Top 40 there in January 2009. It made the top 100 sales chart three years running in Switzerland as well, peaking at number 38 in August 2008, at number 67 in 2009, and re-entering the Top 40 in February 2010. In Austria it charted in October 2008, January and March 2009 and February 2010.

The Buckley version has been widely featured in film and television dramas, including the series The West Wing, Crossing Jordan, Without A Trace, The O.C., House M.D., Criminal Minds, ER, Third Watch and LAX, and the films Feast of Love, The Edukators, Vinterkyss and Lord of War.[16] "Hallelujah can be joyous or bittersweet, depending on what part of it you use", Time quoted the late Buckley's publisher as saying of the track, and the magazine opined that its liberal use in some cases was "a tacit admission that neither the writers nor the actors could convey their characters' emotions as well as Buckley."[12]

Rufus Wainwright

Canadian musician Rufus Wainwright had briefly met Jeff Buckley and was struck by the singer, recording a tribute to him after his 1997 death. That song, "Memphis Skyline", referenced Buckley's version of "Hallelujah", which Wainwright would later record, though using piano and a similar arrangement to Cale's. Wainwright's version was featured on the album Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture, although it was Cale's version that was used in the film itself.[8] The Shrek soundtrack, containing Wainwright's cover, was certified Double Platinum in the United States in 2003 as achieving sales of over two million copies.

k.d. lang

k.d. lang recorded a version of "Hallelujah" in 2004 on her album Hymns of the 49th Parallel. She has several times been chosen to sing the song at major events, such as at the Canadian Juno Awards of 2005,[17] where her rendition "brought the audience to its feet for a two-minute ovation."[18] Lang also sang it at the 2006 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on the occasion of Cohen's induction into the Hall of Fame.[19] Of that rendition, Cohen's partner, singer Anjani Thomas, said: "After hearing k.d. lang perform that song at the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2006 we looked at each other and said, 'well, I think we can lay that song to rest now! It's really been done to its ultimate blissful state of perfection'."[20] Lang also performed the song on 12 February 2010, as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia. It has so far peaked at number 2 on the Canadian Hot 100, debuted at 61 on the Hot 100 and peaked at number 19 in Australia.

"Hallelujah"
Song
A-side"Bad Boys (Germany)"
B-side"Candyman"
"Without You"

Alexandra Burke

Alexandra Burke, the winner of the fifth series of British reality television show The X Factor, released a condensed cover version of the song as a prize for her victory. It reached the Christmas Number One spot on UK charts on 21 December 2008. The music video features footage from The X Factor, connecting the lyrics to the story of Burke's victory.[21]

The release of Burke's cover created interest in the previous versions of the song, including a Buckley fan campaign to take Buckley's cover to the top of the Christmas chart in order to deny Burke the top spot.[22][23] The campaign was fuelled by Jeff Buckley fans' dislike of The X Factor's commercialism and the song's arrangement,[24][25] as well as a desire by this contingent to introduce younger music fans to Buckley's version.[26] Burke herself was not enamoured of the choice of song, remarking "It just didn’t do anything for me".[25]

File:Burke Hallelujah.png
Burke in the video of "Hallelujah"

Burke's version broke a European sales record after selling over 105,000 digital downloads in just one day, breaking the previous record set by Leona Lewis. It sold 576,000 copies in its first week, becoming the fastest selling single released by a woman in the UK and the 2008 Christmas number one, while Buckley's cover charted at #2 and Cohen's original version at #36. On 28 December 2008, the UK Singles Chart listed Burke's version as the biggest selling single of the year,[27][28] with NME announcing sales of over 1 million copies since its release.[29] Burke's version of the song is the #7 best-selling download of all time in the UK, where it has sold 1.2 million copies.[30] It was featured on Now That's What I Call Music! 72 and Now That's What I Call Christmas Tunes 2, as well as on her debut album, Overcome.

Burke's version reached #5 on the Biggest Selling Singles of the Decade from 2000–2009, beating every past X Factor contestant, including Leona Lewis and Shayne Ward. It was also the 6th biggest selling single of the decade in Ireland.[citation needed]

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
European Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[31] 6
YEAR AND WEEK MANDATORY FIELDS FOR IRISH CHARTS 1
UK Singles (OCC)[32] 1
Czech Republic (Rádio – Top 100)[33] 27
Chart (2000–2009) Position
UK Singles Chart 5[34]

Other cover versions

Bob Dylan was among the first to perform Cohen's song in concert with his earliest noted performance being in Montreal on 8 July 1988.[35] Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Crowe recorded a critically-praised version of "Hallelujah" in a single take for her album Tidings (2003). Crowe also performed the song for a national television special broadcast annually across Canada each year from 2003 through 2008.[36] Other notable artists who have covered "Hallelujah" include Brandi Carlile, Willie Nelson, Alter Bridge (Myles Kennedy) and Bono. Bono's version, which is mostly performed as spoken-word, was included in Tower of Song, an all-star tribute to Cohen in 1995. Bon Jovi has covered the song several times in concert, including on their 2008 Live at Madison Square Garden DVD, and Cohen rates their version as his favorite.[37]

English singer Kathryn Williams interpreted the song on her 2004 album Relations.[38] Acclaimed English songwriter and singer Imogen Heap covered the song as well.[39] Progressive rock singer/songwriter Kevin Max covered the song on his album Between the Fence & the Universe (2004). In 2005 the blues singer and guitarist Popa Chubby released an album entitled Big Man Big Guitar containing a live version of "Hallelujah". Rea Garvey sang on the Soundtrack of the Romantic Comedy film Barfuss his version of Hallelujah.[40]

In 2006 the Norwegian quartet of Askil Holm, Espen Lind, Alejandro Fuentes, and Kurt Nilsen, released a cover of the song which became the fastest-selling hit ever in Norway, reaching double platinum (100K+ sales) in two weeks and eventually selling over 250,000 units (8x platinum). The YouTube clip of them performing this song is the most viewed cover of "Hallelujah" ever as of December 2009, with almost 18 million views.[41] Also in 2006, Tony Award nominee Euan Morton (Boy George's Taboo) recorded the song for his first solo album NewClear.

The band Fall Out Boy also incorporated the tune into their song "Hum Hallelujah" in their 2007 album Infinity on High. Swedish progressive metal band Pain Of Salvation played the song in concert in Amsterdam on 2 March 2007. The concert has been later released in the DVD Ending Themes (On the Two Deaths of Pain of Salvation). Keren Ann also covered the song in a limited, holiday 2007 edition of her self-titled album Keren Ann.

The international group Il Divo released a Spanish-language adaptation on their album The Promise (2008), which topped the charts in the UK. The song was performed by singer/songwriter Damien Rice at the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions when Cohen was inducted. That same year Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins recorded a classical-crossover version for her album Sacred Arias (2008).[35] Kate Voegele performed her recording of the song in character as Mia Catalano in the U.S. teen drama One Tree Hill. Also appearing on an album, her version made the top 100 Billboard charts and reached number 53 in the UK shortly after airing of the episode there.[42]

In 2009 the French rock artist Nicolas Duhamel released a Heavy Metal version of the song.

Although Alexandra Burke won the fifth series of X Factor resulting in the release of her version, unreleased versions of "Hallelujah" sung by other of the show's finalists, Diana Vickers, Eoghan Quigg, and JLS, have since leaked on the Internet. Paramore covers the song as an introduction to their own song by the same title, "Hallelujah", in their live album The Final Riot! Lisa Hordijk, the winner of the 2009 Dutch X-Factor series released a version of "Hallelujah" as her debut single. The song went double platinum and remained at the top of the Dutch charts for ten weeks.[43]

On January 22, 2010, Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris performed a duet of "Hallelujah" with Charlie Sexton on guitar in a live performance broadcast worldwide during the Hope for Haiti Now charity telethon. The song has been released as part of an album on iTunes, the proceeds from which are donated to the charity. The song charted number one in iTunes top singles. Belgian singers Natalia Druyts and Gabriel Ríos also released a cover of the song for Haiti earthquake victims.

On American Idol season 9, Tim Urban performed this song in the last week of the semi finals. With it, he managed to get enough votes to make to the finals where he would sing Under My Thumb in The Rolling Stones's week

In March 2010, the Maccabeats of Yeshiva University released an album entitled "Voices from the Heights" which features an acapella version of the song, to the words of the Jewish liturgy "Lecha Dodi".

On April 16, 2010, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Richard Eaton Singers conducted by Jack Everly premiered a new version of the song arranged for orchestra and chorus by Claude Lapalme.[44]

Accolades and achievements

  • In 2005, "Hallelujah" was named the tenth-greatest Canadian song of all time in Chart magazine's annual readers' poll.
  • The BBC commemorated the 25th anniversary of the first recording with an hour-long radio documentary, The Fourth, The Fifth, The Minor Fall, in which the song's history and numerous cover versions were presented and discussed.[36]
  • Jon Wilde of The Guardian has noted of the song, "it's rapidly on its way to becoming the most discussed and debated song of all time."[45]
  • On 21 December 2008, "Hallelujah" became the first song in 51 years[9] to occupy the first and second positions on the UK Singles Chart; The X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke's and American singer Jeff Buckley's covers were the two highest-selling songs in the week beginning 15 December 2008.[46]
  • In the February 2009 issue of Blender, "Hallelujah" was featured as that month's "Greatest Song Ever" (a monthly feature).

Chart positions

Year Artist Peak
UK Finland Sweden Ireland France Norway Netherlands New Zealand Europe Canada USA
Canadian Hot 100 Hot Canadian Digital Singles Billboard Hot 100 Hot Digital Songs
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Jeff Buckley 2 [47] 9 [48] 3 [49] 8 1 [50] 7 [51] 3 [52] 22 [53] 10 [54] – 2 [55] – 1 [56]
2007 Lind, Nilsen, Fuentes and Holm – – – – – 1 – – – – – – –
2008 Alexandra Burke 1 [47] – – 1 [57] – – – – – – – – –
Leonard Cohen 36 [47] – – – – – – – – – – – –
2010 Justin Timberlake & Matt Morris – – 10 46 – – – – – 5 – 13 5
k.d. lang – - – 12 - – 23 [58] – – 2 - 61 -

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Preceded by Norwegian VG-lista number-one single (Performed by Lind, Nilsen, Fuentes and Holm)
10–17 January 2007 		Succeeded by
"Smack That" by Akon featuring Eminem
Preceded by French number-one single (Jeff Buckley version)
15 March 2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. number-one single (Jeff Buckley version)
22 March 2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Top selling single of the year (UK)
(Alexandra Burke version)
2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Run" by Leona Lewis
 UK Singles Chart number-one single (Alexandra Burke version)
21 December 2008 - 10 January 2009 		Succeeded by
Irish Singles Chart number-one single
(Alexandra Burke version)
19 December 2008 - 9 January 2009
Preceded by The X Factor winner's single (Alexandra Burke version)
2008 		Succeeded by
United Kingdom Christmas number-one single (Alexandra Burke version)
2008 		Succeeded by
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