“Let Her Go” by Passenger

Passenger's fourth album, All the Little Lights, gave up "Let Her Go" as its second single in July 2012. The English singer-songwriter wrote it alone and co-produced it, credited as Mike Rosenberg, with Chris Vallejo at Linear Recording in Sydney, where a crew of Australian musicians (Stu Larsen, Georgia Mooney, Stu Hunter, Cameron Undy and Glenn Wilson) played on the session.

It was a slow burner that caught fire, eventually topping the charts in country after country. By July 2014 it had moved more than a million downloads in Britain and more than four million in America, and that year it was up for British Single of the Year at the Brits and won him the Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work. For its 10th anniversary in 2023 he released a remix with Ed Sheeran.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.