"Seventeen Going Under" | ||||
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Single by Sam Fender | ||||
from the album Seventeen Going Under | ||||
Released | 7 July 2021 | |||
Recorded | North Shields | |||
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Label | Polydor | |||
Songwriter(s) | Sam Fender | |||
Producer(s) | Bramwell Bronte | |||
Sam Fender singles chronology | ||||
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"Seventeen Going Under" on YouTube |
"Seventeen Going Under" is a song by English singer-songwriter Sam Fender. It was released on 7 July 2021 as the lead single from his second studio album of the same name.[2] The song was written by Fender, and produced by Bramwell Bronte. It was a sleeper hit, peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart on 7 January 2022, becoming Fender's highest-charting career single to date.[3]
"Seventeen Going Under" was named Hottest Record of the Year 2021 by BBC Radio 1 listeners[4][5] and was voted number sixteen by Australian radio Triple J listeners on the Triple J Hottest 100 chart.[6] It was also voted number one by more than 14,000 Radio X listeners for the Best of British 2022.[7] In May 2022, the song won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors.[8] It received the 2022 Rolling Stone UK Award for Song of the Year Award.[1]