One Day Like This
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"One Day Like This" is the second single from Elbow
's fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid
, released on 2 June 2008 on two 7" vinyl records and one CD single. "One Day Like This" debuted at #39 in the UK Singles Chart
on 8 June 2008, marking Elbow's seventh UK Top 40 single. After 14 weeks, the single finally peaked at #35 on 14 September 2008. Although it peaked considerably lower than its predecessor "Grounds for Divorce
" (which peaked at #19), the band's increasing popularity in the UK after winning their 2009 BRIT Award
for Best British band meant that "One Day Like This" has spent more weeks in the UK Top 100 than any of Elbow's other singles, spending 35 weeks there; unlike its predecessor, which spent 11 weeks in the UK Top 100. The song peaked at #35 again on 22 February 2009 and was still on the charts at #95 as of 21 June 2009. On 21 May 2009, the song won the Ivor Novello award for Best Song. In October 2011, NME
placed it at number 41 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
7" vinyl #1
7" vinyl #2
made use of the song in its daily highlights package of the 2008 Summer Olympics
from Beijing - in addition, the music's instrumental version was used whilst the medal table was shown. "One Day Like This" was used on Sky
UK's Earth Day 2009 advert, as well as TV spots for the 2009 Robert Downey Jr.
/Jamie Foxx
film The Soloist
and used during "the best bits" for Big Brother 9
in the UK. The song was also used in a montage scene from the fourth episode of the 2008 series Hollyoaks Later. In July 2009, it was featured in "Day Three" of Torchwood: Children of Earth, an episode from the third season of the UK series Torchwood
. It was also used in the tribute video montage done by the British Soap Awards
for the 50th anniversary of Coronation Street
. Charlie Brooker
used it in an episode of Screenwipe concerning paruresis
. It was also used in England's 2018 bid presentation video.
It was used in the Series 4 finale of Waterloo Road
. The song has also been used in Australia, by Channel 9
during their coverage of the NRL (National Rugby League), and the Special Broadcasting Service
(SBS) during the closing montage of the 2008 Tour de France. It was also used for a dance on Season 3 of So You Think You Can Dance Canada, and on the eleventh episode of series 13 of Holby City
on 28 December 2010. The song is used as an intro during the U2 360° Tour
, before the band appears on stage.
covered "One Day Like This" on Jo Whiley
's "Live Lounge
on Tour", and was released as a limited edition b-side of "Crack the Shutters
".
An excerpt from the song is included in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
, a charity single performed by The Peter Kay
Animated All Stars, released on 21 November 2009.
An instrumental version of the song was also used by Apple in its 2010 video introducing the refreshed MacBook Air
product line.
Elbow (band)
Elbow are an English rock band. They have played together since 1990 and recorded five studio albums, the most recent of which is Build a Rocket Boys!, released in March 2011...
's fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid
The Seldom Seen Kid
The Seldom Seen Kid is the fourth studio album by the progressive rock/alternative rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on 17 March 2008 in the United Kingdom and was released by Geffen Records on 22 April 2008 in the United States...
, released on 2 June 2008 on two 7" vinyl records and one CD single. "One Day Like This" debuted at #39 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
on 8 June 2008, marking Elbow's seventh UK Top 40 single. After 14 weeks, the single finally peaked at #35 on 14 September 2008. Although it peaked considerably lower than its predecessor "Grounds for Divorce
Grounds for Divorce (song)
"Grounds for Divorce" is the first single from Elbow's fourth studio album The Seldom Seen Kid.-Background:The single was released on 10 March 2008 as the band's first release on Fiction Records across two 7" vinyl records and one CD single...
" (which peaked at #19), the band's increasing popularity in the UK after winning their 2009 BRIT Award
2009 BRIT Awards
The 2009 BRIT Awards ceremony took place on Wednesday 18 February 2009. It was the 29th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The awards ceremony was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, and was broadcast live on ITV1 on 18 February at 8pm...
for Best British band meant that "One Day Like This" has spent more weeks in the UK Top 100 than any of Elbow's other singles, spending 35 weeks there; unlike its predecessor, which spent 11 weeks in the UK Top 100. The song peaked at #35 again on 22 February 2009 and was still on the charts at #95 as of 21 June 2009. On 21 May 2009, the song won the Ivor Novello award for Best Song. In October 2011, NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
placed it at number 41 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Music video
The promotional video for the song features a man approaching a busy road junction, holding a red sign in the shape of a pointing arrow, containing the words "Condos - Now Selling". He stands at the junction, and turns the sign around many times, pointing it in all directions, including flipping it in the air and spinning it on his head, whilst the motorists, pedestrians and skateboarders pass by, presumably all the more confused as to where the Condos are in fact being sold.Track listing
CD single- "One Day Like This" – 6:33
- "Lullaby" – 3:13
7" vinyl #1
- "One Day Like This" – 6:34
- "Every Bit the Little Girl" – 4:32
7" vinyl #2
- "One Day Like This" – 6:34
- "Li'l Pissed Charmin' Tune" – 3:44
Use in television
BBC SportBBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC. It became a fully dedicated division of the BBC in 2000. It incorporates programmes such as Match of the Day, Grandstand , Test Match Special, Ski Sunday, Rugby Special and coverage of Formula One motor racing, MotoGP and the Wimbledon Tennis...
made use of the song in its daily highlights package of the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
from Beijing - in addition, the music's instrumental version was used whilst the medal table was shown. "One Day Like This" was used on Sky
British Sky Broadcasting
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc is a satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and the Ireland....
UK's Earth Day 2009 advert, as well as TV spots for the 2009 Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert John Downey, Jr. is an American actor. Downey made his screen debut in 1970 at the age of five when he appeared in his father's film Pound, and has worked consistently in film and television ever since. During the 1980s he had roles in a series of coming of age films associated with the...
/Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop , professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a...
film The Soloist
The Soloist
The Soloist is a 2009 American/French/British drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez...
and used during "the best bits" for Big Brother 9
Big Brother 2008 (UK)
Big Brother 2008 was the ninth series of the British reality television series Big Brother, that aired on Channel 4 and E4. The series was launched on 5 June 2008, and ran for 13 weeks until 5 September 2008. The winner of Big Brother 2008 was Rachel Rice who beat bookies' favourite Michael Hughes...
in the UK. The song was also used in a montage scene from the fourth episode of the 2008 series Hollyoaks Later. In July 2009, it was featured in "Day Three" of Torchwood: Children of Earth, an episode from the third season of the UK series Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
. It was also used in the tribute video montage done by the British Soap Awards
British Soap Awards
The British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honour the best of British soap operas.The first event took place in 1999 and takes place in May each year. Although it is an ITV production, the events were held at the BBC Television Centre, in London until 2010. The 2011 awards relocated to...
for the 50th anniversary of Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
. Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker
Charlton "Charlie" Brooker is a British journalist, comic writer and broadcaster. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism...
used it in an episode of Screenwipe concerning paruresis
Paruresis
Paruresis is a type of phobia in which the sufferer is unable to urinate in the presence of others, such as in a public restroom. It most commonly affects males, though there are female sufferers too...
. It was also used in England's 2018 bid presentation video.
It was used in the Series 4 finale of Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
. The song has also been used in Australia, by Channel 9
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
during their coverage of the NRL (National Rugby League), and the Special Broadcasting Service
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
(SBS) during the closing montage of the 2008 Tour de France. It was also used for a dance on Season 3 of So You Think You Can Dance Canada, and on the eleventh episode of series 13 of Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
on 28 December 2010. The song is used as an intro during the U2 360° Tour
U2 360° Tour
The U2 360° Tour was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2. Launched in support of the group's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon, the tour visited stadiums from 2009 through 2011. It was named for a stage configuration that allowed the audience to almost completely surround the stage...
, before the band appears on stage.
Cover versions
Snow PatrolSnow Patrol
Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994 as an indie rock band, the band is now based in Glasgow...
covered "One Day Like This" on Jo Whiley
Jo Whiley
Johanne "Jo" Whiley is a British radio disc jockey and television presenter. She was the host of the long running weekday Jo Whiley Show on Radio 1.-Early life and education:...
's "Live Lounge
Live Lounge
The Live Lounge is a segment on the British radio station BBC Radio 1. Originally hosted by Jo Whiley on her mid-morning radio show and now hosted by Fearne Cotton, it exhibits well-known artists usually performing one song of their own and one by another artist, in an acoustic format...
on Tour", and was released as a limited edition b-side of "Crack the Shutters
Crack the Shutters
"Crack the Shutters" is a song from alternative rock band Snow Patrol's fifth album A Hundred Million Suns. It was released as the follow-up single to "Take Back the City" on different dates in December 2008 depending on the region, and was the second single taken from the album. The lyrics were...
".
An excerpt from the song is included in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
"The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" is a cross-over single by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. It is the official Children in Need Single for 2009, and was released on 21 November 2009. The song was shown for the first time on Children in Need 2009. The cover art is a parody of the cover...
, a charity single performed by The Peter Kay
Peter Kay
Peter John Kay is an English comedian, writer, actor, director and producer. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing , Phoenix Nights , Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and other independent productions which have included two sell out tours.-Early career:Peter Kay...
Animated All Stars, released on 21 November 2009.
An instrumental version of the song was also used by Apple in its 2010 video introducing the refreshed MacBook Air
MacBook Air
The MacBook Air family is a line of Apple ultraportable Macintosh notebook computers.The first-generation MacBook Air was a 13.3"-only model, previously promoted as the World's Thinnest Notebook, introduced at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 15, 2008. It featured a custom Intel Merom CPU...
product line.