5 Years Time

Infobox Single
Name = 5 Years Time


Artist = Noah and the Whale
from Album = Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
B-side =
Released = flagicon|UK 2007 (First Release)
flagicon|UK August 4, 2008 (Re-Release)
Format = CD single, digital download
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative
Anti folk
Length = 4:02 (Music Video Edit)
Label = Mercury
Writer =
Producer =
Certification =
Last single =
This single = "5 Years Time"
(2007)
Next single = "2 Bodies 1 Heart"
(2008)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Last single = "Shape of My Heart"
(2008)
This single = "5 Years Time "(Re-Release)"
(2008)
Next single = "Shape of My Heart" "Re-Release"
(2008)"5 Years Time" was the first single released by English folk rock band Noah and the Whale. It was originally released in 2007, but was re-released on August 4, 2008, and became their first top 10 hit.

Music video

The music video features the band performing in a bar, and dancing/playing in the park. During the video, Laura Marling who provides backing vocals for the group is seen playing a tin whistle and also giving the camera the two-fingers. The video was directed by James Copeman.

The music video was added to YouTube on June 13 2008, and has received almost one million views.

Tracklisting

This is the tracklisting for 5 Years Time:

#5 Years Time
#If I Die Tonight
#Girlfriend In A Coma

Mainstream Popularity

The song was featured in a Saturn Corporation commercial for their Outlook SUV.

Orange Austria when renamed from the previous name "one" used the song as jingle in the commercials during the renaming phase. [cite web
title=Wie heißt das Lied aus der One Werbung
url=http://www.musik4fun.com/thread,threadid-20910.html
year=2008]

The song was featured on Match Of The Day 2 at the start of the 2008-2009 premier league season

Chart performance

5 Years Time did not chart upon its first release.

In the UK it debuted at 24, the following week it rose 10 places to 14, making it their first top 20 hit, the next week it rose 4 places to 10, making it their first top 10 single, the following week it rose 3 places to 7, the next week it dropped 2 places to 9, the following week it rose 1 place to 8, the next week it dropped 2 places to 10, it then droped 1 place to 10 in the following week, it has so far spent 8 weeks in the chart.

In Ireland it debuted at 47, the next week it rose 19 places to 28, the following week it rose 9 places to 19, the next week it rose 8 places to 11, it then rose 1 place to 10, this became the peak position and also their first song to enter the top 10, it then dropped 1 place to 11, it has so far spent 6 weeks in the chart.

In popular culture

The song was used in russian TV commercial for Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) mobile operator (on air September 2008 - till now).

References