Graduation (Friends Forever)
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| Single by Vitamin C | ||||||||
| from the album Vitamin C | ||||||||
| Released | April 4, 2000 | |||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||||||
| Genre | Pop, trip hop | |||||||
| Length | 5:39 (Album Version) 4:26 (Radio Edit) |
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| Label | Elektra | |||||||
| Producer(s) | Josh Deutsch and Garry Hughes | |||||||
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"Graduation (Friends Forever)" is a single by American pop singer Vitamin C released in 2000 through Elektra Entertainment. It was the third single from her debut studio album, Vitamin C. The song is well known for being played at high school graduations and at some middle school and elementary school promotions.
The opening lyrics of "Graduation (Friends Forever)" allude to "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople. The song is heavily based on Pachelbel's Canon in D, transposed to the key of C major, and also includes the opening of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30. Some radio stations played an alternate version, which features clips of students talking about graduation dispersed through the song. After the song became popular, the album was reissued in United States to include both versions, with the "Student Interview Mix" being a hidden track. Several years after the song's initial peak, Radio Disney made a new edit to cater to their younger demographic, in which the interviews of students graduating high school were replaced by interviews of students graduating elementary school and middle school.
The single reached number twelve on the Top 40 Mainstream, number twenty-three on the Rhythmic Top 40 and number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 30, 2000, after reaching the Top 40 on May 9, becoming her second single to reach the Top 40. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" reached number two on the Australian ARIA Charts, peaked at number twenty-one in New Zealand on the RIANZ Charts, reached number thirteen in the Swedish Singles Chart and number four on the Irish Singles Chart. The single was certified Platinum in Australia.
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