Chasing Pirates

"Chasing Pirates"
Single by Norah Jones
from the album The Fall
Released	October 13, 2009
Genre	Jazz, Soft Rock
Length	2:40
Label	Blue Note, EMI
Writer(s)	Norah Jones
Norah Jones singles chronology
"Until the End" (2007) "Chasing Pirates" (2009) "Young Blood" (2010)

"Chasing Pirates" is the first single by American singer Norah Jones from her fourth album, The Fall. It was released exclusively to iTunes on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. The song also had its North American radio station premiere on the defunct 97.3 EZ Rock from Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 9, 2009.

"Chasing Pirates" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, becoming Jones's third nominations, after "Don't Know Why" and "Sunrise". Jones lost this in this category for the first time.

Background

Norah Jones explained how "Chasing Pirates" came to be, "About a year ago, I did some demos in my home studio. I had some friends come in and we figured out a cool arrangement for 'Chasing Pirates,' with a cool drum part. It went somewhere I didn't expect it to go, and that became a direction to look in." ^[1]

Music video

October 27, 2009 VH1 aired the full version of Norah Jones's "Chasing Pirates" music video directed by Rich Lee. In the beginning of the video she finds a map of Manhattan in a bottle, then later steers a building from a roof made to look like a pirate ship as she tries to find what is marked on the map. The video also gained significant airplay on Australia's channel GO as filler time between programs in late 2009 and early 2010.

Performances

She performed the song live on ABC's Dancing with the Stars on October 20, as well as Late Show with David Letterman on November 11, 2009, Good Morning America on November 16, 2009, The View on November 23, 2009, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on December 15, 2009 and Jimmy Kimmel Live.^[2]

Chart positions

The song entered the Adult Album Alternative charts on October 21, 2009 at #13.^{[citation needed]} It became the highest entry by a female artist on that chart since Alanis Morissette's "Everything" in 2004.^{[citation needed]} The last single by a female artist to chart at a higher position was another single by Jones, "Sunrise."^[3] The song entered on the Irish Singles Chart for the first time on #39.^{[citation needed]}

Chart (2009–2010)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart	38[citation needed]
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)	21[citation needed]
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)	6[citation needed]
European Hot 100	84[citation needed]
German Singles Chart	66[citation needed]
Irish Singles Chart	39[4]
Italian Singles Chart	21[citation needed]
Norwegian Top Airplays (IFPI)	10[citation needed]
New Zealander Top Airplays	69[citation needed]
Japan Hot 100	4[5]
Swedish Singles Chart	26[citation needed]
Swiss Music Charts	23[6]
UK Singles Chart	87[7]
U.S. Billboard Digital Songs	100[citation needed]
U.S. Billboard Jazz Songs	7[8]
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	13[9]
U.S. Billboard Rock Songs	38[10]

References

1. ^ Chasing Pirates Songfacts
2. ^ http://norahjones.com
3. ^ Billboard Chart Beat
4. ^ ">> IRMA << Irish Charts - Singles, Albums & Compilations >>". Irma.ie. 2009-12-03. http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp#singles. Retrieved 2009-12-09. 
5. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/norah-jones/chart-history/466959?f=848&g=Singles
6. ^ Steffen Hung. "Norah Jones - Chasing Pirates". hitparade.ch. http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Norah+Jones&titel=Chasing+Pirates&cat=s. Retrieved 2009-12-09. 
7. ^ www.devstars.com. "The Official UK Charts Company : TOP 100 SINGLES CHART". Theofficialcharts.com. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/top40_singles.php. Retrieved 2009-12-09. ^{[dead link]}
8. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/song/norah-jones/chasing-pirates/14122553
9. ^ Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
10. ^ http://www.billboard.com/song/norah-jones/chasing-pirates/14122553#/song/norah-jones/chasing-pirates/14122553