This Is Home
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| Single by Switchfoot | ||||
| from the album The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (soundtrack) and The Best Yet | ||||
| Released | April 25, 2008 (to radio) October 21, 2008 (radio re-ship) |
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| Format |
Radio single Digital download Compact disc |
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| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length |
3:54 (radio edit/soundtrack version) 4:01 (Music Video) |
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| Label |
Walt Disney Records Lowercase People Records Columbia(Legacy)/Sony Music Entertainment (For "The Best Yet") |
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| Writer(s) |
Jon Foreman Adam Watts Andy Dodd |
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| Producer(s) | Switchfoot | |||
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"This is Home" is a song written and recorded by the alternative rock band Switchfoot, and is featured on the soundtrack for the 2008 film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The song was featured during the end credits of the film. It was the 17th most-played song on U.S. Contemporary Christian music radio stations for 2008 according to R&R magazine's Christian CHR chart.
Jon Foreman posted in a March 17, 2008 MySpace blog that "I’m a big fan of CS Lewis so a movie made by the mouse, (Mickey) for the lion (Aslan) seemed like a good idea. So I’m up here (near Disneyland incidentally), tracking a song that may or may not be used for the next Narnia movie."
On a March 22, 2008 blog, Foreman announced that the song's name would be "This Is Home". It was confirmed on April 2, 2008 by the Narnia Insider.
The song was performed for the first time live at University of Iowa's Iowa Memorial Union on Wednesday night, April 16, 2008.
Foreman said, "I'm a huge C.S. Lewis fan and one of the big reasons I love his writing is because there's a longing in every page of his fiction and non-fiction... He doesn't create worlds that are picture perfect, but they feel real, they feel like they could exist, and thats because it feels like this world here where we're all longing for things to be set right."
"‘This Is Home’ was inspired by the book after re-reading it for the opportunity to write for the film. I am always taken by [C. S.] Lewis' ability to write about the bittersweet beauty in this world; this home we aren’t really made for but is the place we work out our humanity in the midst of our longing for our true home."
The song was also featured on ESPN SportsCenter's "Titletown" segment which ran throughout July 2008.
There are five different versions/mixes of the song.
The single impacted to radio on April 25, 2008.
Partnering with Walt Disney Records and in addition to local marketing surrounding the film, the band's Christian-side distributor, Sparrow Records under EMI CMG Label Group released "This Is Home" to AC and CHR Christian radio. The band's management team, Red Light Management/Entertainment, partnering with the Disney-owned Hollywood Records put the single out at mainstream AC and Triple A radio formats.
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