"Let Her Go" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Passenger. It was recorded at Sydney's Linear Recording and co-produced by Mike Rosenberg (a.k.a. Passenger) and Chris Vallejo. The recording features Australian musicians Stu Larsen, Georgia Mooney, Stu Hunter, Cameron Undy, and Glenn Wilson. "Let Her Go" was released in July 2012 as the second single from Passenger's fourth album, All the Little Lights.
The song became a sleeper hit, achieving international success and topping the charts in many countries around the world. As of July 2014, it has sold over one million digital copies in the UK, and over four million in the US.[1][2] In 2014, the song was nominated for the Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and won Passenger the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work.[3][4]
Background
The lyrics of the song are poetic and melancholic, describing the regrets associated with ending a relationship. The chorus describes situations in which one does not appreciate what he/she has until it is gone, and relates this to love. The verses give detailed scenes involving a heartbroken man dealing with his breakup.
"Let Her Go" is driven by a chorus which is repeated five times throughout the song. The second half of the final chorus is performed a cappella. Including acoustic guitar and vocals from Rosenberg, backing vocals, piano, drums, bass, and strings, the song is instrumentally diverse. The song is performed in the key of G major, played with a capo on the seventh fret of the guitar. Rosenberg's vocals span from D4 to the high note of E5.[5]
Commercial performance
Passenger performing "Let Her Go" live in Bogotá, Colombia during his Runaway Tour.
"Let Her Go" was released in July 2012 as the second single from Passenger's third album All the Little Lights. The song became a hit first in the Netherlands after Dave, a Dutch fan, e-mailed Passenger expressing his wish to introduce the song to some Dutch radio stations, claiming it could be a hit there.[6] This resulted in the song trending on Dutch stations and finding enormous commercial success with the Dutch public. The song became a hit first in the Netherlands, reaching number two in the Dutch Top 40 in November 2012 and spending a total of four non-consecutive weeks at that position. The next month that year, it topped at number one.[7]
Since 2013, and after initial success in the Netherlands, "Let Her Go" has reached number one in Australia,[8] Austria,[9] Belgium,[10] Czech Republic,[11] Denmark,[12] Finland,[13] Germany,[14] Greece,[15]Ireland,[16] Israel,[17] Italy,[18] Luxembourg,[19] Mexico,[20] New Zealand,[21] Norway,[22] Slovakia,[23] Sweden[24] and Switzerland,[25] number two in the UK Singles Chart,[26] number five in the US on the Billboard Hot 100[27] and number one on Billboard Hot Rock Songs,[28] making it his first international success. The song has sold over 1 million digital copies in the UK,[1] and over 4 million in the US as of July 2014.[2] In October 2019, "Let Her Go" surpassed one billion streams on the music service Spotify, one of the most played songs on the service.[29]
Music video
The music video was uploaded on July 25, 2012, directed and produced by the Australian video artist Dave Jensen and Tavic.[30] It shows the stage being prepared for a Passenger concert, with footage of Passenger performance with his backing band and shots of the audience present reacting.
As of September 2022, the video has received over 3.3 billion views on the video-sharing website YouTube, making it the 24th most viewed video of all time on the site.[31]
British singer Birdy recorded a cover version called "Let Him Go" in 2013 on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.[32]
An unreleased acoustic version of the song was donated to support college radio in the USA on the 2013 College Radio Day Vol. 2 album. The song was limited to being on only the CD version of the album (only 1,500 copies have been pressed).[33]
Italian pianist Costantino Carrara published a piano arrangement of this song on December 6, 2013, that quickly became the most popular Let Her Go piano cover with more than 20 million views.[34]
In August 2014, Glen Templeton made a country cover of the song.[35]
In popular culture
"Let Her Go" was used in a Budweiser commercial shown during Super Bowl XLVIII.[36] It was used also in the season 7 finale of the Canadian Show Heartland as the send-off song and in "500 Years of Solitude",the 100th episode of The Vampire Diaries.
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* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.
See also
List of best-selling singles in Australia
List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 2014
Passenger live at Pinkpop 2013 - FULL SHOW - Passenger says during the Pinkpop concert in Holland after singing "Let Her Go": "You know, I wrote that song two-and-a-half years ago and put it on an album and we released the album, and for nine months, nothing happened. No one gave a shit. It's funny, we were kind of working on the next record, I'm thinking "okay cool, no problem". And this guy called Dave from Holland gave us an e-mail and he said: Look, I've heard this song "Let Her Go" and I want to take it to radio here because I think here in the Netherlands it could really work and could do something. So we're like "okay mate, cool, do your thing, knock yourself out". Within two weeks, I think it got to number one and that's kind of what started this whole crazy fucking thing. Firstly, I'd like to thank Dave because without Dave I don't think I'd be here at all. And secondly, I want to thank you guys just for supporting me and my music before anybody else did really. So a massive, massive thank you. "Let Her Go" is your song, thank you very very much". [from 27:50 to 28:50 on the tape]
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"Media Forest – Weekly Charts. Media Forest. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2018. Note: Romanian and international positions are rendered together by the number of plays before resulting an overall chart.
"Media Forest – Weekly Charts. Media Forest. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2018. Note: Select 'Songs – TV'. Romanian and international positions are rendered together by the number of plays before resulting an overall chart.
"ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201428 into search. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
"Italian single certifications – Passenger – Let Her Go" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 30 July 2018. Select "2018" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Let Her Go" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
"Dutch single certifications – Passenger – Let Her Go" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers. Retrieved October 14, 2021. Enter Let Her Go in the "Artiest of titel" box.
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