"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" | ||||
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Single by Manic Street Preachers | ||||
from the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours | ||||
Released | 24 August 1998 | |||
Studio | Rockfield (Wales) | |||
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Length | 4:51 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Composer(s) | ||||
Lyricist(s) | Nick Jones | |||
Producer(s) | Dave Eringa | |||
Manic Street Preachers singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" on YouTube |
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 24 August 1998, through Epic Records as the first single from their fifth studio album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998). The track sold 156,000 copies in its first week and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in August 1998. Outside the United Kingdom, the song reached number one in Iceland and the top 20 in Norway and Sweden. It became the band's only song to chart in North America,[1][2] peaking at number 19 on the Canadian RPM Alternative 30 chart.