Seventeen Going Under (song)

"Seventeen Going Under"
Single by Sam Fender
from the album Seventeen Going Under
Released7 July 2021 (2021-07-07)
RecordedNorth Shields
Genre
Length
  • 5:02 (original)
  • 4:57 (explicit)
  • 3:57 (radio edit)
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)Sam Fender
Producer(s)Bramwell Bronte
Sam Fender singles chronology
"Winter Song"
(2020)
"Seventeen Going Under"
(2021)
"Get You Down"
(2021)
Music video
"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]

  1. ^ a b Catchpole, Chris (10 November 2022). "The Rolling Stone UK Awards 2022 winners in full". Rolling Stone. UK. Archived from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Sam (7 July 2021). "Sam Fender Details New Album 'Seventeen Going Under'". Udiscovermusic. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Sam Fender Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Sam Fender's Seventeen Going Under wins Radio 1s Hottest Record of the Year 2021". Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Sam Fender's 'Seventeen Going Under' wins Radio 1's Hottest Record of the Year 2021". Music News. 16 December 2021. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  6. ^ "And The Winner Of The Hottest 100 Is..." Junkee. 22 January 2022. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Sam Fender's Seventeen Going Under named Radio X Best Of British with Greggs". Radio X. 18 April 2022. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  8. ^ Daly, Rhian (19 May 2022). "Sam Fender, Dave, Little Simz and more win at The Ivors 2022". NME. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.