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"Broken Strings"
Song
B-side"Say It All Over Again"

"Broken Strings" is the third single by James Morrison from his second studio album "Songs for You, Truths for Me". It was released on December 8. The song is a duet with Canadian pop/R&B singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado. The single became Morrison's most successful single to date, peaking in the top ten on many European charts, in the top three in the UK and Ireland and topped the charts in Germany.

Live performances

James Morrison performed the song during the BBC Radio 2 show Live in Brecon on November 27 2008. Nelly Furtardo could not perform at the concert so her place was taken by British backing singer Beverly Brown. Morrison also performed the song on Friday 14 November in the Children in Need concert. He performed the song with Sugababes singer Keisha Buchanan as Furtado was again unavailable. On December 1 2008, James performed the song on The Paul O'Grady Show with Beverly Brown once again as Nelly Furtado was unavailable. On December 10th, James and Keisha performed this at The O2's Jingle Bell Ball in London. On the 13th December he performed the song with Girls Aloud at the The Girls Aloud Party on ITV. On January 17 2009, James performed the song on Schlag den Raab with Gabriella Cilmi once again as Nelly Furtado was unavailable.

Chart performance

"Broken Strings" was released as the second single off Songs for You, Truths for Me. The track was released on the 15th of December 2008. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number seventy-three and slowly rose for four weeks before, following a performance of the song with Girls Aloud on The Girls Aloud Party, broke into the top ten at number six, giving Morrison his fourth top ten hit. The following week the song rose to a new high, rising to number four on the 2008 Christmas chart. This makes Broken Strings Morrison's most successful single by peak position to date in the UK as, on January 11th 2009 it climbed to number two. It currently sits at #4. In the week ending January 30th, it reached #1 in Germany marking his first #1 in the country and Nelly Furtado's second.

Music video

A music video in support of James Morrison's "Broken Strings" has made its world premiere on 17 November. The video features the English musician performing the new track with Nelly Furtado also appearing in the video. Micah Meisner directed the video. Parts of the video are inspired by the film "Paris, Texas", while the reversed explosion is inspired by the film "Insignificance". Nelly and James filmed their parts on different days. On the video, James is in a hotel room and Nelly is behind the glass of the room, James starts to sing the song and when Nelly starts to sing her part, behind the glass, things begin to break, such as the guitar, the television and more. When the video is ending, everything that is broken goes back to normal and Nelly disappears.

Formats and track listings

CD single[1]
  1. "Broken Strings" (featuring Nelly Furtado)
  2. "Say It All Over Again"
Maxi-CD single[citation needed]
  1. "Broken Strings" (featuring Nelly Furtado)
  2. "Say It All Over Again"
  3. "Broken Strings" (Live At Air Studios)
  4. "You Make It Real" (Live At Air Studios)
  5. "Broken Strings" (Video)
Promo CD single[2]
  1. "Broken Strings" (Remix) (featuring Nelly Furtado)
  2. "Broken Strings" (featuring Nelly Furtado)

Charts

Chart (2008/2009) [3] Peak
Position
Austria Singles Chart[4] 2
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders) 29
Czech Republic Airplay Chart[5] 13
Danish Singles Chart 13
Dutch Singles Chart 6
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles[6] 2
German Singles Chart 1
Ireland Singles Chart 2
Israeli Singles Chart[7] 15
Italian FIMI Singles Chart 10
New Zealand Singles Chart 10
Portugal Singles Chart[8] 3
Slovakia Airplay Chart[9] 4
Swedish Singles Chart 37
Swiss Singles Chart 2
Turkish Singles Chart[10] 18
UK Singles Chart 2
UK Airplay 1


Preceded by German Singles Chart number-one-single
January 30, 2009 		Succeeded by
incumbent

References

  1. ^ Broken Strings CD single
  2. ^ Broken Strings Promo CD single
  3. ^ "Broken Strings". aCharts. Retrieved 16 December 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ [2]
  6. ^ [3]
  7. ^ Israeli Singles Charts
  8. ^ [4]
  9. ^ [5]
  10. ^ Turkey Top 20 Chart Retrieved on 2009-01-19
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