Country House (song)

"Country House"
CD single cover
Single by Blur
from the album The Great Escape
B-side"One Born Every Minute"
Released14 August 1995 (1995-08-14)
GenreBritpop
Length3:57
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Stephen Street
Blur singles chronology
"End of a Century"
(1994)
"Country House"
(1995)
"The Universal"
(1995)
Music video
"Country House" on YouTube

"Country House" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur. It was released as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album, The Great Escape (1995), on 14 August 1995 by Food and Parlophone. Released on the same day as the Oasis single "Roll with It" – in a chart battle dubbed the "Battle of Britpop" – "Country House" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart (the first of two Blur singles to reach number one, the second being 1997's "Beetlebum").[1] The song is the band's best-selling single, with over 540,000 copies sold as of May 2014.[2] Its music video was directed by Damien Hirst and nominated for Best Video in the 1996 BRIT Awards.

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  2. ^ Myers, Justin (2 May 2014). "Official Charts Flashback 1994: Blur – Parklife". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 November 2018.