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| "Chasing Pirates" | ||||
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| Single byNorah Jones | ||||
| from the albumThe Fall | ||||
| Released | October 13, 2009 | |||
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| Genre | Rock[1] | |||
| Length | 2:40 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Songwriter | Norah Jones | |||
| Producer | Jacquire King | |||
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| "Chasing Pirates" onYouTube | ||||
"Chasing Pirates" is the first single by American singerNorah Jones from her fourth album,The Fall. It was released exclusively toiTunes on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. The song also had itsNorth American radio station premiere on the defunct97.3 EZ Rock, now CHBM, inToronto,Ontario,Canada on October 9,2009. The song went top ten inJapan,The Netherlands andBelgium. In the US, "Chasing Pirates" peaked at No. 13 onHot Adult Contemporary Tracks and No. 7 onJazz Songs.
"Chasing Pirates" was nominated for theGrammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the53rd Annual Grammy Awards, becoming Jones's third nomination, after "Don't Know Why" and "Sunrise".
Norah Jones explained how "Chasing Pirates" came to be, "About a year ago, I did some demos in my home studio. I had some friends come in and we figured out a cool arrangement for 'Chasing Pirates,' with a cool drum part. It went somewhere I didn't expect it to go, and that became a direction to look in."[2]
October 27, 2009 VH1 aired the full version of Norah Jones's "Chasing Pirates" music video directed byRich Lee.In the beginning of the music video, she finds a map of Manhattan in a bottle while sitting on the couch in an apartment complex. In the next scene of the music video, she steers a building from a roof made to look like a pirate ship as she tries to find what is marked on the map. She also sits on deck before the roof transforms into a pirate ship. The music video also gained significant airplay on Australia's channel GO as filler time between programs in late 2009 and early 2010.
She performed the song live onABC'sDancing with the Stars on October 20, as well asLate Show with David Letterman on November 11, 2009,Good Morning America on November 16, 2009,The View on November 23, 2009,The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on December 15, 2009 andJimmy Kimmel Live![3]
The song entered theAdult Album Alternative charts on October 21, 2009 at #13.[citation needed] It became the highest entry by a female artist on that chart sinceAlanis Morissette's "Everything" in 2004.[citation needed] The last single by a female artist to chart at a higher position was another single by Jones, "Sunrise."[4] The song entered on theIrish Singles Chart for the first time on #39.[citation needed]
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