Hard Rock Hallelujah
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| Single by Lordi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album The Arockalypse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 19 May 2006 (Finland) 5 June 2006 (UK) |
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| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:09 (album version) 3:01 (Eurovicious radio edit) |
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| Label | Drakkar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Miss Awa, Mr. Amen, Mr. Kalma, Mr Kita, Mr Lordi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Jyrki Tuovinen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Hard Rock Hallelujah" is a song by Finnish hard rock band Lordi. "Hard Rock Hallelujah" was released as a single in 2006, reaching the #1 spot in Finland and also peaking in the UK Top 40 at #25.
Lordi performed "Hard Rock Hallelujah" in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest and won the contest with 292 points. It was voted as the most popular Finnish Eurovision entry in the forty years the country had participated. It held the record for most points until it was beaten by "Fairytale" by Alexander Rybak of Norway with 387 points three years later. On 26 May 2009, the Finns broke a world record for karaoke songs, when about 80,000 people sang "Hard Rock Hallelujah" on Helsinki's Market Square.
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The song peaked at #1 in the Finland singles chart upon its release and in addition, released as a physical single during the week starting on 5 June 2006 in the United Kingdom, on the BMG label. Download sales for the previous week were therefore eligible to be counted for the 4 June 2006 Official UK Singles Chart, which led to the single to chart at #59. It made a small but significant impact in the Top 40, peaking at #25 in the 11 June 2006 chart as the band's only single so far to ever be released in that country. The single also starts off-beat.
The video starts with a shy female hard rock fan walking through the corridors of a school, singing softly along to the song playing on her headset. She reaches an entrance to the gym, where she stands watching the cheerleaders practice. Suddenly, the lights flicker and go out, and a wind starts to blow. As the chorus starts to play, the doors to the gym are blown off of their hinges by Mr. Lordi, who enters and crushes the now-screaming cheerleaders with a wave of his hands killing them. There is a fiery flash, and the entire band appears in the centre of the gym, playing the song.
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