Song · Biffy Clyro
“Black Chandelier” by Biffy Clyro
From the album Opposites (2013)
“Black Chandelier” by Biffy Clyro appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2013. It was first released in 2013 on the album Opposites. Its best result is #57 on the CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #285 alternative song of 2013.
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The Scottish band Biffy Clyro put out "Black Chandelier" in January 2013 as the first official single from Opposites, their sixth album, but Radio 1 listeners had already heard it back in November 2012, when Zane Lowe named it his Hottest Record in the World and it went up on YouTube the same day. Only the non-album track "Stingin' Belle" had come out ahead of it.
Simon Neil wrote the words, the band wrote the music together and produced it with Garth Richardson, and Ryan Williams mixed it. Alex Meehan of the University of Southampton's music magazine heard the whole album's gloomy, yearning mood boiled down into one song, laced with gallows humor and something menacing underneath. Big TV directed the video, which followed on 11 December.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 57 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2013 | 103 |
| 2013 | 82 | 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX | 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2013 | 94 |
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