"Live Tomorrow" is the third single by Swedish singer-songwriter
Laleh from her
self-titled debut album, released on 31 August 2005. She personally wrote and produced the song, which was nominated to "Song of the Year" at the "P3 Guld Awards" in 2005.
The song became a success in Sweden and Denmark when it came in first on the Swedish radio station
SR P3
Sveriges Radio P3 (P3) is a semi-mainstream CHR/CHR Alternative-formatted station operated by Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization Sveriges Radio. The P in P3 originally stood for Program (''Programme'') but today has ...
's radio show "
Tracks" ''(Trackslistan)'' where listeners vote for their favourite songs in a top 20 list. The first time the song came up on Tracks was on 27 August 2005. It was then on fifteenth place. The song kept on climbing up onto the list and was only a week later, on sixth place. On 1 October "Live Tomorrow" came in first place on "Tracks" and beat
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's song "
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In ...
" which had been in first place for three weeks. "Live Tomorrow" was in first place on "Tracks" for six weeks until "
Hung Up
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" with
Madonna
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took the place on 12 November. The original track and lyrics were written by herself while the production was carried out by Iron-Moose records and later handed off to
Warner Music Sweden
Warner Music Sweden AB (previously Metronome Records) is a Swedish record company and label, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. The Swedish division of WMG is a successor to Metronome Records, which was established in 1949 by Anders Burman, Lar ...
.
The song was used in the Swedish 2007 film
''Solstorm''.
Chart performance
In Sweden, "Live Tomorrow" entered the
Swedish Singles Chart
Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from IFPI Sverige. It was formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and has been known by its current name s ...
at fifty-two on 8 September 2005. Two weeks later, on 22 September, it climbed to thirty-one. The song peaked at number twenty on 13 October. It was kept on the list for twenty-two weeks and ended at fifty-five.
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In Denmark
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, "Live Tomorrow" debuted at fourteen on the Danish Singles Chart
Hitlisten (), formerly known as Tracklisten, is a Danish top 40 record chart that is updated every Wednesday at midnight on the website hitlisten.nu. The weekly Danish singles chart combines the 40 best-selling tracks from streaming and legal mus ...
on 24 February 2006. The song reached its peak position of number eleven, the last week in charts, on 28 April 2006.[Laleh – Live Tomorrow]
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Music video
The music video for "Live Tomorrow" was directed by Martin Fodor-Nilsson, who has directed several other music videos for Laleh including "Invisible (My Song)" and "Storebror". It was filmed on the island of Fårö
Fårö () or in Gutnish is a Baltic Sea island just north of the island of Gotland, itself off mainland Sweden's southeastern coast. It is the second-largest island in the county and it is a popular summer resort. It has its own language, Fårö ...
, Gotland
Gotland (; ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a Provinces of Sweden, province/Counties of Sweden, county (Swedish län), Municipalities of Sweden, municipality, a ...
in August 2004 and features Laleh singing on the deserted island.
Live performances
Laleh performed "Live Tomorrow" on several television shows in Sweden including ''Trackslistan
''Tracks'', or ''Trackslistan'', was a top-20 song list and a program on the Swedish radio channel SR P3. It premiered on 8 September 1984 and was broadcast on Saturday afternoons. The program had a listener vote-in format and was one of the ...
'', ''Faddergalan'' and ''Grammisgalan''. She performed the song on ''Trackslistan'' in October 2005, in connection with the first place of the song. Two months later, in December 2005, she performed the song on ''Faddergalan'' live from Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
to support poor African children. She also performed her song "Salvation" which is also from her debut album.
Track listing
# "Live Tomorrow" – 3:37
# "Live Tomorrow (Acoustic)" – 3:26
Charts
References
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Laleh (singer) songs
2005 singles
Number-one singles in Sweden
Warner Music Group singles
English-language Swedish songs
Songs written by Laleh (singer)
2004 songs