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You're Not Alone (Tinchy Stryder song)

"You're Not Alone"
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Single by Tinchy Stryder
from the album Catch 22
B-side "Stryderman (Live)"
Released 26 October 2009 (Download)
2 November 2009 (CD)
Format CD single, digital download
Recorded 2009
Genre Electronic
Length 3:50
Label Takeover Entertainment Limited
Universal Island Records
Songwriter(s) Kwasi Danquah III (Composer)
Fraser T Smith (Co-Lyricist)
Tim Kellet (Co-Lyricist)
Robin Taylor-Firth (Co-Lyricist)
Patrick Okogwu Jr. (Co-Lyricist)
Producer(s) Fraser T Smith
Tinchy Stryder singles chronology
"I Got Soul"
(2009)
"You're Not Alone"
(2009)
"Gangsta?"
(2010)
"I Got Soul"
(2009)
"You're Not Alone"
(2009)
"Gangsta?"
(2010)
Music video
"You're Not Alone" on YouTube

"You're Not Alone" is a song composed by recording artist Tinchy Stryder. The song was released as the fifth and final single from Stryder's second studio album, Catch 22 on 2 November 2009. On the week of the album's release, the track charted at No. 50 in the UK, based mostly on hype around the track which had received its first play on the BBC Radio 1 chart show the previous week. Tinchy Stryder performed the song at the MOBO Awards 2009 on 30 September, it then entered the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart on 10 October 2009 at number 32, next week on 17 October it climbed to number 14 in the UK, it dropped to number 15 in its 3rd week in the UK top 40. The song interpolates "You're Not Alone", a hit in 1997 for the band Olive. Olive claimed in an interview they would hope Tinchy Stryder would return the favour and collaborate with them on a song for their upcoming album. The song samples Leona Lewis' Run which in turn is a cover of the original performed by Snow Patrol.

The song was praised by The Guardian for its "powerfully nagging hook" and "unshakeable chorus". Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song 4/5 stars and a positive review stating: "That whopping great chorus sounds as ace as ever, Stryder's rhymes are simple and good-natured, and Fraser T Smith's production gleams like the gold medallion Tinchy hangs round his neck."


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