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We're All Going to Die

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"We're All Going to Die"
Single by Malcolm Middleton
from the album A Brighter Beat
Released10 & 17 December 2007
Recorded2007
Length2:49
LabelFull Time Hobby
Songwriter(s)Malcolm Middleton
Producer(s)Tony Doogan
Malcolm Middleton singles chronology
"Fight Like the Night"
(2007)
"We're All Going to Die"
(2007)

"We're All Going to Die" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Malcolm Middleton, and the fourth single released from A Brighter Beat. The song was released on 10 December 2007. A limited-edition seven-inch record was also released at a later date.[1]

Championed by Colin Murray and other BBC Radio 1 DJs, there was a campaign to make the song the Christmas number-one in the UK singles chart.[2] The song was originally given odds of 1000/1 to reach the top spot by bookmakers William Hill, the longest odds they have ever given.[3] The odds were later cut to 9/1,[1] but in the event the song reached only number 31.[4][5]

Regarding the song, Middleton notes that the song has "nothing whatsoever" to do with Christmas and that it is about "general life worries."[6]

Track listing

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  1. "We're All Going to Die"
  2. "We're All Going to Die (Sportsday Megaphone Remix)"
  3. "We're All Going to Die (The LK Remix)"

References

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  1. ^ a b "Malcolm Middleton "We're All Going To Die"". Full Time Hobby. 2 November 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2007.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 1 DJs back Malcolm Middleton's Xmas Number One bid". NME. Retrieved 5 December 2007.
  3. ^ Swash, Rosie (1 November 2007). "Miserable Christmas! Malcolm Middleton targets yuletide charts". Guardian Unlimited. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 5 December 2007.
  4. ^ "Festive double for X Factor stars". BBC News. 2 December 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  5. ^ "Malcolm Middleton". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  6. ^ The Skinny: Issue 39, 8 Dec pg.39
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