A Sky Full of Stars
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| Single by Coldplay | |||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Ghost Stories | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Released | 2 May 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Recorded | The Bakery and The Beehive (London, England) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Label | Parlophone | ||||||||||||||||||
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"A Sky Full of Stars" is a song recorded by British alternative rock band Coldplay, it was released on 2 May 2014 as the third single from their sixth studio album, Ghost Stories (2014). The band co-wrote and co-produced the song with Avicii, and received production assistance from Paul Epworth, Daniel Green, and Rik Simpson. It was recorded at The Bakery and The Beehive in North London, England.
Upon its release, "A Sky Full of Stars" garnered mostly positive reviews from music critics, and charted inside the top 10 in over 16 countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States. A music video for the song was directed by Mat Whitecross and was released on 19 June 2014. The single peaked at number one in a small number of territories: Italy, Israel, Luxembourg, Portugal, Lebanon, and Wallonia. It also topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. It was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 57th Grammy Awards.
"A Sky Full of Stars" marks the band's first dance track, being outlined as an EDM track with house influences. A piano-centric song which is written in the key of E♭ minor, the track opens as a piano ballad, with progressive house-influenced electronic music that plays out in between verses. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, the song follows a chord progression of E♭m7– Bmaj9 –G♭–B♭m(♭6) with a tempo of 125 beats per minute, and the vocals span from A♭3 to G♭5. The track has been described as "[falling] in line with the synth-heavy soundscapes of 'Midnight', but with more danceable flavor". The song's repeating chord sequence was inspired by the work of American pop singer Katy Perry.
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