Shape of My Heart (Sting song)

"Shape of My Heart"
Single by Sting
from the album Ten Summoner's Tales
Released23 August 1993 (1993-08-23)[1]
Length4:41
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Sting singles chronology
"Fields of Gold"
(1993) 		"Shape of My Heart"
(1993) 		"Nothing 'Bout Me"
(1993)
Music video
"Sting - Shape of My Heart (Official Music Video)" on YouTube

"Shape of My Heart" is a song by British musician Sting, released in August 1993 as the fifth single from his fourth solo album, Ten Summoner's Tales (1993). The song was co-written by guitarist Dominic Miller and features harmonica played by Larry Adler. It was used for the end credits of the 1994 film Léon[2] and within the 1993 film Three of Hearts.[3] Despite failing to reach the top 50 in the UK upon its release, it has become a pop classic and one of Sting's works most closely associated with his solo career. It has since been sampled in many tracks since its release, including "Shape" (2003) by Sugababes and "Rise & Fall" (2003) by Craig David (with Sting credited as a featured artist). Ann-Margret sang a cover over the opening credits of her 1996 movie Blue Rodeo. [4]

The song's guitar riff was also sampled by Nas for his track "The Message" in 1996 and Monica on her 1998 song "Take Him Back". It was also sampled by Avicii, for his track "Forever Yours". The song was released after his death, with Sumner and Miller credited as songwriters.[5] It was also interpolated on Hikaru Utada's debut album First Love,[6] the best-selling Japanese album of all time; Juice WRLD on the worldwide hit "Lucid Dreams" (2018); on "You’re Mines Still" (2020) by rapper BLEU and in "Parkstone Drive" by Russ.[7]

  1. ^ "Single Releases". Music Week. 21 August 1993. p. 23.
  2. ^ Besson, Luc (18 November 1994), Léon (Action, Crime, Drama), Gaumont, Les Films du Dauphin, Columbia Pictures, retrieved 6 August 2022
  3. ^ "Three of Hearts (1993)". IMDb.
  4. ^ "Blue Rodeo (TV Movie 1996) - Soundtracks - IMDb". IMDb.
  5. ^ "Hit En Origineel". Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  6. ^ "アルバム「First Love」収録曲「Never Let Go」の著作権に関して" (in Japanese). utadahikaru.jp. 4 April 1999. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Sting Owns 85 Percent of Juice WRLD's "Lucid Dreams"... But He's Not Mad About it". 19 November 2018.