Let Her Go

For other uses, see Let Her Go (disambiguation).
"Let Her Go"
Single by Passenger
from the album All the Little Lights
Released24 July 2012
Recorded2011
StudioLinear Recording, Sydney
GenreFolk rock, soft rock
Length
  • 4:12 (album version)
  • 3:37 (radio edit)
Label
  • Embassy of Music
  • Black Crow Records
  • Nettwerk
Songwriter(s)Michael Rosenberg
Producer(s)
  • Mike Rosenberg
  • Chris Vallejo
Passenger singles chronology
"The Wrong Direction"
(2012) 		"Let Her Go"
(2012) 		"Holes"
(2013)
Music video
"Let Her Go" on YouTube
Audio sample
18-second sample from Passenger's "Let Her Go"

"Let Her Go" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Passenger. It was recorded at Sydney's Linear Recording and co-produced by Passenger (as Mike Rosenberg) and Chris Vallejo. The recording features Australian musicians Stu Larsen, Georgia Mooney, Stu Hunter, Cameron Undy, and Glenn Wilson. "Let Her Go" was released on 24 July 2012 as the second single from Passenger's fourth album, All the Little Lights.

The song became a sleeper hit, achieving international success and topping the charts in many countries around the world. As of July 2014, it has sold over one million digital copies in the UK, and over four million in the US.[1][2] In 2014, the song was nominated for the Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and won Passenger the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work.[3][4]

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  3. ^ Pakinkis, Mike (22 May 2014). "Ivor Novello Awards 2014: All the winners". Music Week. London: Intent Media. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Brits 2014: Nominations in full". BBC News. Retrieved 9 January 2014