"Landed" was the first single from

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' 2005 album ''

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''. It reached number 77 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and number 40 on the ''Billboard'' Adult Top 40 chart, making it one of Folds' biggest hits. Per Folds, "'Landed' is about a friend of mine who was in a bad relationship. I just wrote a song about it." String arranger

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had done arrangement, but Folds left it out on the initial release. Said Folds, "he'd weighed in strong, almost intrusively I thought. ..I regretted it before it hit the stores and made sure all subsequent versions of the song were released with strings."

Chart history

Other notable performances

* "Landed - University A Cappella Version" was first performed by The University of Colorado Buffoons in 2009 for Ben Folds' University A Capella Album. * "Landed" was covered by The Yale Spizzwinks on their 2009 album ''Cause for Alarm''. * Folds played "Landed" with

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on his show Live from Daryl's House on June 12, 2015 ( Episode 70). * Folds guest-starred on a second season episode of the

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series '' Billions'' in April 2017, playing the song.

References

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