"Dead End Countdown" is the debut single by
Canadian
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band
The New Cities
The New Cities is a Canadian Juno Award and ADISQ Award nominated band originating from Trois-Rivières, Quebec, and currently based in Montreal, Quebec. The current members of The New Cities are David Brown, Christian Bergeron, Nicolas Denis, Fran ...
from their debut album, ''
Lost in City Lights
''Lost in City Lights'' is pop rock band The New Cities' debut album.
Track listing
The iTunes version of the album also includes an alternate version of "Low Radiation" as a bonus track. The album was mixed by Dave "Rave" Ogilvie
Dave "Rave" ...
''. It peaked at #16
on the
Canadian Hot 100 in July 2009 and a month later, the single was certified gold by the
CRIA
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Etymology
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with over 20,000 digital downloads.
The song won the
SOCAN
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"POP/ROCK music award"
and the music vide
directed by
Jonathan Desbiens, Jodeb, has been nominated at the
2009
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MuchMusic Video Awards
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Originally debuting in 1990 as the Canadian Music Video Awards, the awards were renamed in 1995 to the MuchMus ...
for "Post-Production of the Year".
References
2009 debut singles
2009 songs
Songs written by Greig Nori
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