"Chandelier" is a song by Australian singer and songwriter Sia, from her sixth studio album, ''

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'' (2014). Written by Sia and

Jesse Shatkin Jesse Samuel Shatkin (born 1979) is an American songwriter, producer and engineer. He has worked with Sia, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Lopez, Fitz and the Tantrums, One Direction, and Miley Cyrus, among others. Shatkin was nominated in 2014 for G ...

and produced by Shatkin and

Greg Kurstin Gregory Allen Kurstin (born May 14, 1969) is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He has won nine Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2017 and 2018, and contributed to five songs that pe ...

, the song was released on 17 March 2014 as the

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from the album. It is an

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song, featuring

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, R&B and

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influences. Lyrically, the song has a melancholic theme, detailing the demoralisation and rationalisation of

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through the thought process of a "party girl". More broadly, the song speaks to the fleeting feelings of release and abandon that come with intoxication, as well as the pain, guilt and emptiness that accompany addiction, alcoholism and hedonistic excess. The single received critical acclaim and reached the top 5 on

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s in 20 countries including France, Italy, Poland, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. In the United States, the single peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Sia's first single as a lead artist to appear on the Hot 100, and has sold over 2 million copies in the country. The song received 4 nominations at the

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for Song of the Year,

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and

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, with its video receiving a nomination for

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. A music video for the song, directed by Sia and

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, and choreographed by

Ryan Heffington Ryan Heffington (born June 7, 1973) is an American dancer and choreographer based in Los Angeles. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards for choreographing the music videos for Arcade Fire's "We Exist" (2013) and Sia's "Chandelier (song), Chandel ...

, features American dancer

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. It has been viewed on YouTube more than 2.5 billion times. In support of the single and ''1000 Forms of Fear'', Sia, often with Ziegler, performed "Chandelier" on a number of US television shows, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and at the 57th Grammy Awards.

Background

In 2010, Sia released her fifth studio album ''

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'', which ended up at number two on the

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. Following the release, Sia took a hiatus from performing and co-wrote songs for other recording artists, including

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and

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. In 2013, Sia recorded the track "

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" for '' The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'' soundtrack. In May 2014, Sia announced her sixth studio album ''

'' and released "Chandelier" as its lead single. Sia revealed that she initially wrote the track for Rihanna or Beyoncé, but decided to record the song herself. The melody and chords were formed following a jam session in the studio featuring Sia on the piano and

playing a

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. In the United States, "Chandelier" was released for digital download onto iTunes Stores on 17 March 2014 through Monkey Puzzle, with distribution by

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. In the United Kingdom, "Chandelier" was released digitally on 29 June 2014. A day later, it was sent by RCA Records to US

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radio.

Composition

"Chandelier" was written by Sia and Shatkin and was produced by Kurstin and Shatkin. It was described as an

ballad, featuring "soaring"

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s, "militant"

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s, and

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beats with

, R&B, and

influences. The song features Sia's "jaw-dropping" vocal performance. The song is written in the key of

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and it follows the chord progression of Bbm–Gbmaj7–Ab–Fm in the verses, Gbmaj7–Bbm-Ab in the pre-chorus, and Gbmaj7–Ab–Db/F–Gbmaj7 in the chorus. The acoustic version is recorded in

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. The song's BPM is 90. Lyrically, "Chandelier" has a sad theme talking about "the glitter and fatigue of a party girl's life". John Walker from

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opined that the song has a dark theme, "toeing the line between celebration and self-destruction as it becomes increasingly more blurred". The song's opening lyrics, "Party girls don't get hurt, can't feel anything ... I push it down", are sung over a reggae-influenced background. Walker noted that during the

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, Sia sings, "I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier/ I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist, like it doesn't exist". A few critics, including Jeremy Gordon from

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, and Melinda Newman of

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, compared the song's musical style to works done by

Critical reception

"Chandelier" has received critical acclaim. Andrew Trendall from ''

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'' wrote that the song "springboards Sia from a behind-the-scenes genius into a superstar in her own right". Gordon from ''

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'' praised Sia's vocal performance on the track and commented that the track "is enough to make you want to swing from a chandelier". Bradley Stern from the website MuuMuse labelled "Chandelier" the best pop single of 2014, complimenting Sia's songwriting credits and her voice on the song. In a

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article, Emily Exton shared that thought, deeming it the best song Sia had ever written. Writing for ''

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'' magazine, Jamieson Cox deemed "Chandelier" a "disarming, unforgettable listen that'll make you glad Sia kept this one for herself."

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of ''

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'' wrote "Chandelier,” the opener of ''1000 Forms of Fear'', has a thudding beat similar to “

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” but more importantly Furler's voice curls around each syllable, rendering some of the lyrics nearly unrecognizable as discreet words." In a less enthusiastic review, Melinda Newman from

thought that Sia "can do a lot better than this". Hugh Montgomery of ''

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'' noticed the song's "segue from reggae verse to sockingly melodramatic, wind-machine-worthy chorus." ''

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'' listed "Chandelier" as the best song of 2014. The song received nominations at the

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for Song of the Year,

and

, with its video receiving a nomination for

Year-end lists

Commercial performance

In the United States, "Chandelier" debuted at number 75 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart dated 31 May 2014. It peaked at number eight on the chart, becoming the first top ten single by Sia to appear on the chart as a lead artist. The song reached one million units sold in the US in August 2014, and surpassed the 2 million mark in sales in January 2015. The song also reached number six on the

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. In June 2014, the single was certified platinum by

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. "Chandelier" was successful in Oceania and Europe, peaking in the top five on 20 national

s including: France, and Poland (number one); Australia, Italy and Norway (number two); New Zealand and Slovakia (number three); and Norway and Scotland (number five). The single was certified quadruple platinum by the

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(ARIA), and platinum by the

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(RMNZ). In the United Kingdom, "Chandelier" charted at number six on the UK Singles Chart. In France, the single was the third best-selling single of 2014, according to

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Music video

The music video for "Chandelier" was released on 6 May 2014, featuring then-11-year-old dancer

. In the video, Ziegler wears a medium-length blonde wig matching the one that Sia used to promote the album. Throughout the video, Ziegler performs an

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in a deserted, dirty apartment "while spinning, kicking, leaping, crawling, falling, twirling and hiding herself behind window drapes". An alternative

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version of the clip was released in June 2014. Sia had seen Ziegler on ''Dance Moms'' and asked her to appear in the video via

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. The video was directed by Sia and Daniel Askill, shot by cinematographer Sebastian Winterø and was choreographed by

. Ziegler shared her thoughts about the choreography with ''

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'' magazine:

I like the whole dance. It was really different and weird for me, because I usually don't, you know, be a crazy person every time. It was so fun to do and it was really out of the box and it expanded me a lot, because I'm used to competition dances where you're like, "Point your legs!" But this time it was like, you just need to let go and feel it.

The choreography was praised by media outlets; an editor from ''

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'' wrote that Ziegler "dances with such impressive flexibility". Nolan Feenay from ''

'' magazine commented that the dance moves in the video could be the best dance routine of 2014. "Chandelier" won the

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at the

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.ARIA Award previous winners. The song received nominations at the

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for Video of the Year and

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, and ultimately won the latter. It was also nominated for a 2015

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. The video went

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and became the seventh most-watched video on the video-sharing website of 2014. As of February 2025, it has received over 2.7 billion views and was, at one point, the 13th most viewed YouTube video ever. As of January 2015, ''

'' ranked the video at number 12 on the list of the 20 best of the 2010s (so far). Both ''

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'' magazine and ''

'' magazine named it the Best Music Video of 2014. ''VH1'' listed it first among the "most groundbreaking" videos of 2014. In 2016, several items related to the "Chandelier" video were introduced into the "Right Here, Right Now" exhibit of the

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. In 2018, ''Billboard'' ranked the video the 18th best music video of the 21st century.

Live performances

Sia performed "Chandelier" on ''

'' on 19 May 2014, with Ziegler recreating the choreography in the music video. Sia also performed the song on ''

'' on 9 June 2014, with ''

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'' star

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performing new choreography. In July 2014, Sia performed the song on ''

'', and Ziegler taught host

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and his sidekick

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some of the dance moves from the music video. In July 2014, Sia performed the song on VH1's show "SoundClash", along with her songs "

" and "Big Girls Cry" from the album. Sia sang the song on ''

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,'' with Ziegler dancing a duet with

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, and at the 2014 We Can Survive Concert at the

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. In February 2015, Sia sang the song in a cluttered apartment set for the

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telecast, with Ziegler dancing with actress

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. For all of these performances, Sia sang the track with her back to the camera. She performed the song on ''Saturday Night Live'' in January 2015, veiled, with a sad-looking mime who performed the lyrics in

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Notable covers

In July 2014,

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performed an acoustic version of "Chandelier" during her Little Black Dress Tour. Reut Odinak from the ''

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'' lauded Bareilles' vocals on the cover. Likewise,

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's Evan Desouza wrote that "The song sounds almost nrecognisablewith the stripped, acoustic cover. Of course no one can match Sia's insane voice, but Sara does a decent job. Her vocals sound amazing". The song was covered on

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in September 2014 by Irish band

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;

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praised the group's three-man harmonies.

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, a Belgian hopeful for the

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, released a cover of the song on

in November 2014, later praised by Sia on Twitter.

Track listing

Digital download #"Chandelier" – 3:36 Digital download – Remixes EP #"Chandelier" (Four Tet Remix) – 4:31 #"Chandelier" (Plastic Plates Remix) – 4:27 #"Chandelier" (Cutmore Club Remix) – 5:08 #"Chandelier" (Hector Fonseca Remix) – 6:27 #"Chandelier" (Liam Keegan Remix) – 5:16 #"Chandelier" (Dev Hynes Remix) – 3:44

Credits and personnel

Credits for "Chandelier" are adapted from CD single liner notes Recording locations *Vocals recorded at Hot Closet Studios,

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* Engineered at Echo Studios, Los Angeles, California * Mixed at

Larrabee Sound Studios Larrabee Sound Studios is a recording studio complex in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, California, originally established in 1969. Facilities Located at 4162 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, Larrabee has six studios, thre ...

North Hollywood, California North Hollywood is a neighborhood and district in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The neighborhood contains the NoHo Arts District, El Portal Theater, several art galleries, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Th ...

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Songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

, lead vocals – Sia Furler *Songwriter –

Producers Producer(s), The Producer(s), or co-producer(s) may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *Producer, a stakeholder of economic production * Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes t ...

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, Jesse Shatkin *

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a Capstan (tape recorder), capstan, which pulls i ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

– Greg Kurstin *Drums, keyboards – Jesse Shatkin *

Programming Program (American English; also Commonwealth English in terms of computer programming and related activities) or programme (Commonwealth English in all other meanings), programmer, or programming may refer to: Business and management * Program m ...

– Jesse Shatkin *

Engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

– Greg Kurstin, Jesse Shatkin *Additional engineering – Alex Pasco, Delbert Bowers * Mixing – Manny Marroquin *Assistant mixing – Chris Galland, Delbert Bowers

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Lyrics of Chandelier
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