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"One"
Song

"One" is a song by Swedish house music group the Swedish House Mafia from their debut album Until One. It was released in the United States on 6 September 2010. A vocal version titled "One (Your Name)", featuring American singer Pharrell Williams was released in the United Kingdom on 22 March 2010.

The song debuted on BBC Radio 1 with Zane Lowe on 19 February 2010. A month later the vocal version featuring Pharrell Williams was played. "One" peaked at number two in Belgium (Flanders) and on the UK Dance Chart. It reached number one in the Netherlands, number seven in Ireland and in the United Kingdom on the UK Singles Chart. It also charted in Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria and Germany.

Writing and production

"One"
The Swedish House Mafia's first studio single "One", released in 2010.
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"One" was written and produced by Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso. The lyrics in "One (Your Name)" are written by Pharrell Williams. According to Angello the vocals were recorded in Australia over a year, prior to the release, and were initially intended for another song. He said, "We took that and tried it on One and it worked. Well, it worked after Axwell Melodyne'd the crap out of it! [...] it's kind of old skool, chopping up one vocal and turning it into a whole dance track.".[1]

According to an interview in Future Music magazine (issue 229), the track was composed in Logic using various plug-ins such as LennarDigital Sylenth, Sonic Charge Synplant and Native Instruments Kore (processed with iZotope Ozone). Pharrell's vocals were heavily processed in Melodyne and the final track was mixed and mastered at Metropolis Studios London on an SSL console.

Critical reception

Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars and wrote: "'One (Your Name)' is a booming Eurodance club banger boasting an ear-snaggingly simple synth line, trancey whooshes aplenty and cred-boosting vocals from Neptunes star Pharrell Williams [...] it's neither original nor refined, but boy does it hit the spot."[2]

Music video

Videos were made for both the Pharrell Williams and the instrumental Version with little changes made between them. The videos both start with someone setting up a Teenage Engineering OP-1 with visuals on the screen. It then cuts to an eye with some of the song lyrics in it (only in the remix version). A party then starts with different people dancing, with the camera angle changing. Fire breathers, dancers, bodybuilders and people with masks are all featured within the party scene as well. As the video comes to an end everyone at the party seems to go a bit crazy with one person spraying a fire extinguisher at everyone, it then cuts to quick shots of a lady having sex with someone, the Teenage Engineering OP-1 breaking up and someone dancing on the table. A masked man then seems to hit the lady behind the table and she then falls onto the table, however, the masked man can be somewhat identified to signify David Guetta, by the tattoo on his arm which reads "F*** ME, IM FAMOUS", being David Guetta's album title. This could be interpreted as a dig at David Guetta's song, "50 Degrees", which is claimed to be an imitation of the Swedish House Mafia hit, with an extremely similar beat, and synth line, the ending of the video in all suggesting that David Guetta "stole the song", signified by the man stealing the keyboard. At the end of the video you can see a blonde woman behind the table.[original research?] The video currently has over 40 million views on YouTube. This song samples in "All Star" by Tydolla$ign featuring Joe Moses and Swedish House Mafia.

The music video was directed by the Swedish directors Henrik Hanson and Christian Larson who both have worked for the renown Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund, Hanson who started his career for Åkerlund at only the age of 15, is now one of the most successfully established young Swedish directors. In 2009 Hanson and Larson directed the documentary film Take One about the Swedish House Mafia.

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Release history

"One"

Region Date Format Label
Sweden June 6, 2010[31] Digital download Polydor

"One (Your Name)"

Region Date Format Label
Sweden[32] June 27, 2010 Digital download Polydor
United Kingdom July 25, 2010[6] Digital download Polydor
July 26, 2010[4] CD single

See also

References

  1. ^ "Swedish House Mafia on using Pharrell's vocal for One (Your Name)". MusicRadar. 14 July 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Music - Singles Review - Swedish House Mafia: 'One (Your Name)'". Digital Spy. 26 July 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
  3. ^ a b "One - Track listing".
  4. ^ a b "One: Swedish House Mafia". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  5. ^ "One (Your Name) [Feat. Pharrell]: Swedish House Mafia: Amazon.co.uk: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  6. ^ a b "One (Your Name) by Swedish House Mafia - Download One (Your Name) on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2010-07-25. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  7. ^ "Swedish House Mafia – One" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  8. ^ "Swedish House Mafia – One" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  9. ^ "Swedish House Mafia – One" (in French). Ultratop 50.
  10. ^ "Swedish House Mafia Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  11. ^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select 41. týden 2010 in the date selector.
  12. ^ "Swedish House Mafia – One". Tracklisten.
  13. ^ "Swedish House Mafia Featuring Pharrell Album & Song Chart History". Billboard European Hot 100 Singles for Swedish House Mafia Featuring Pharrell. Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved 3 September 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  14. ^ "lescharts.com – Français" (in French). Les classement de telechargement single.
  15. ^ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Dance Top 40 lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége.
  16. ^ "Chart Track: Week 33, 2010". Irish Singles Chart.
  17. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Swedish House Mafia" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  18. ^ "Dance Chart :: Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video" (in Polish). Polish Music Charts. 2010-10-16. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
  19. ^ Romanian Top 100: April 3 - April 9, 2011
  20. ^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201043 into search.
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  22. ^ "Swedish House Mafia – One". Swiss Singles Chart.
  23. ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company.
  24. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  25. ^ "Swedish House Mafia Album & Song Chart History". Hot Dance Club Songs for Swedish House Mafia. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-12-29. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  26. ^ "dutchcharts.nl - Dutch charts portal". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
  27. ^ http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesSINGLEaccreds2012.htm
  28. ^ http://www.ultratop.be/nl/certifications.asp?year=2011
  29. ^ "Certificeringer | ifpi.dk" (in Danish). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
  30. ^ "Veckolista Singlar – Vecka 29, 22 juli 2011". Sverigetopplistan (in Swedish). GLF. July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
  31. ^ "CDON". Downloads.cdon.com. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  32. ^ "Ladda ner: Swedish House Mafia - One (Your Name) [feat. Pharrell] - Download - MP3 - On Demand - CDON.COM". Downloads.cdon.com. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
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