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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for 'The Spectre'Ĭertifications Certifications and sales for 'The Spectre' US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs ( Billboard) Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for 'The Spectre'Ĭzech Republic ( Singles Digitál Top 100) In 2023, the song regained popularity due to a viral meme posted on media-sharing platforms, featuring what a Smurf Cat would supposedly look like, typically alongside the lyrics 'We live, we love, we lie' of Walker's song. In 2022, the official music video accomplished 1 billion streams on YouTube, making it Walker's 3rd single to accomplish this milestone. Comparing to 'Faded', they deemed it 'a sleeker, more refined record'. Your EDM felt the song 'contains all of the common Alan Walker elements that international EDM fans have come to find and love', including 'the sound design, faint dreamy vocals, the anthemic drop, and the patented Alan Walker lead'. It's a song that I specifically want to dedicate to my core fans who've been following me since the start.' Critical reception Walker said of the song in a press release: 'The reactions and feedback from people have been truly amazing, I'm very excited that's it's now being released officially. In an interview with Dance Music Northwest, Walker described the song as 'a newer version of my old song Spectre', similar to 'what I did with 'Fade' to ' Faded''. He has included the song in his live sets months ahead of the song's release, as well as playing a revised version of the song on the main stage at Tomorrowland Belgium 2017. On 22 December 2016, Walker debuted the song during the live show 'Alan Walker is Heading Home', in his hometown Bergen, Norway. 'The Spectre' is a vocal remake of Walker's 2015 single 'Spectre', which was released through NoCopyrightSounds on 6 January 2015. The song was released via Mer Musikk on 15 September 2017. 'The Spectre' has a tempo of 128 BPM, is in the key of C♯ minor, and lasts for 3 minutes and 13 seconds. It was composed by Jesper Borgen, Alan Walker, Marcus Arnbekk, Mood Melodies and Lars Kristian Rosness, with production handled by the latter four, and lyrics written by all composers as well as Tommy La Verdi and Gunnar Greve. The Spectre-apropos lyrics are at bottom.' The Spectre' is a song by Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker incorporating uncredited vocals provided by Norwegian songwriter and producer Jesper Borgen. That voice and sweeping strings! Brilliant! Sam Smith who? May the force be with you.”Ĭheck the “tune” out below.

As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. It didn’t work out…but became something of our own which we love very much. About the song, brilliant singer Thom Yorke tweeted: “Last year we were asked to write a tune for Bond movie Spectre. While we anxiously await the next Radiohead album, the band has (re?)-gifted the world its eponymously-titled theme song written for Bond’s film Spectre.

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