Skinny Love

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"Skinny Love"
Single by Bon Iver
from the album For Emma, Forever Ago
Released 28 April 2008 (2008-04-28)
Format Digital download
Recorded November 2006 – February 2007
Genre Indie folk
Length 3:58
Label
Writer(s) Justin Vernon
Bon Iver singles chronology
"Skinny Love"
(2008)		 "Monster"
(2010)

"Skinny Love" is a song by American indie folk band Bon Iver.

Background

"Skinny Love" was the first single released from Bon Iver's 2007 début album For Emma, Forever Ago in America. The song was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2008. While "Skinny Love" has been considered a reference to his relationship with former girlfriend Christy Smith,[1] Vernon countered this as "not entirely accurate [...] it's about that time in a relationship that I was going through; you're in a relationship because you need help, but that's not necessarily why you should be in a relationship. And that's skinny."[2]

The song was used in the first episode of Grey's Anatomy's fifth season. The digital download track "Skinny Love" was selected to be iTunes (UK) single of the week and was available for free during that time, as well as being featured as the track of the day on National Public Radio. On 6 October 2008, "Skinny Love" was featured in the NBC series Chuck (season 2, episode 3).[3][4] On 11 December 2008, Bon Iver performed "Skinny Love" on the Late Show with David Letterman.[5] On 26 January 2009, "Skinny Love" was announced at #21 by the Australian national radio station Triple J in the annual Hottest 100 countdown of the previous year's best songs.[6] In July 2009, "Skinny Love" was announced at #92 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of All Time countdown.[7] In June 2013, "Skinny Love" was announced at #16 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of the Last 20 Years countdown.[8]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Skinny Love"   3:59

Chart performance

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Denmark (Tracklisten)[9] 32
UK Official Streaming Chart Top 100[10] 88

Birdy version

"Skinny Love"
File:SkinnyLove.jpg
Single by Birdy
from the album Birdy
Released 30 January 2011 (2011-01-30)
Format Digital download
Recorded 2010
Genre Indie folk
Length 3:22
Label
Writer(s) Justin Vernon
Producer(s) Alex H. N. Gilbert
Birdy singles chronology
"Skinny Love"
(2011)		 "Shelter"
(2011)

English musician Birdy released a cover version of the song on 30 January 2011 as her debut single. The single has been B-listed on Xfm and is a particular favourite with listeners of Shak's overnight show. The song was also chosen as "Record of The Week"[11] by UK radio DJ Fearne Cotton. This version was used in Season 2 Episode 21 of The Vampire Diaries and in Season 1 Episode 1 of Prisoners' Wives.

The song also skyrocketed in Australian popularity within the ARIA Charts' top ten, partly because of Bella Ferraro, an X Factor 2012 Top Four contestant, who performed the song at the X Factor auditions aired in Australia in August 2012. A similar thing took place in New Zealand in May 2013 after X Factor winner Jackie Thomas performed the song at her audition. The song entered the top 40 for the first time and reached #2 on the RIANZ charts following the broadcast.[12]

In 2011, "Skinny Love" sold 259,000 copies in the UK, becoming the third biggest selling rock single of that year.[13] As of February 2012, the song had sold 320,475 copies in the UK.[14]

Birdy's version of the song was serviced to U.S. contemporary hit radio on 11 February 2014.[15]

Music videos

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Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Skinny Love"   3:22
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  20. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Birdy – Skinny Love" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
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  29. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Birdy – Skinny Love". Swiss Singles Chart.
  30. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2011-05-14" UK Singles Chart.
  31. ↑ "Birdy – Chart history" Billboard Hot Rock Songs for Birdy. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  32. ↑ "Birdy – Chart history" Billboard Adult Pop Songs for Birdy. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  33. ↑ "Birdy – Chart history" Billboard Alternative Songs for Birdy. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
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