"Shooting Star" is a single by English indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band Air Traffic

Air Traffic

Air Traffic was a British alternative rock band from Bournemouth. Formed in 2003, the band consists of Chris Wall , David Ryan Jordan , Tom Pritchard and Jim Maddock ....

. It was the second single to be released from the band's debut album, Fractured Life

Fractured Life

Fractured Life is the debut album by English alternative rock band Air Traffic. It was released on 2 July 2007 on the Tiny Consumer label, an imprint of EMI. The album contains UK Top 40 hit "Charlotte" as well as other singles "Just Abuse Me", "Never Even Told Me Her Name", "Shooting Star" and,...

. It was released on 18 June 2007 and reached a peak position of #30 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 ...

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The track was also used in the opening credits of MTV

MTV

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 reality show Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge (TV series)

Living On The Edge was a British reality television show that first aired on 14 October 2007 on MTV UK. It documented the lives of several teenagers in Alderley Edge in Cheshire, a wealthy village in the North West of England. It is noted for attempting, but often failing, to purvey 'drama all the...

, the UK advert for Davidoff

Davidoff

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 Cool Water and YouTube

YouTube

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 reality show The Suburbs. It has also been used in an introduction movie for the Phantom Coupe on the Rolls Royce Motorcars website http://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/hi-band/swf/index.html.

Charts

Chart	Peak position
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 ...	30
Belgium Singles Chart	36

Track listing

CD

1. "Shooting Star" (4:08)
2. "This Old Town" (3:38)
3. "Left Out In the Rain" (2:54)
4. "Shooting Star" (4:08)