Song · Youssou N'dour/Neneh Cherry
“Seconds” by Youssou N'dour/Neneh Cherry
“Seconds” by Youssou N'dour/Neneh Cherry appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1994. Its best result is #26 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #134 alternative song of 1994.
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"7 Seconds" (logged on the countdown simply as "Seconds") put Senegal's Youssou N'Dour and Sweden's Neneh Cherry on the same record, and Columbia sent it out as a single on 7 June 1994. The two singers wrote it with Cameron McVey and Jonny Dollar, who also produced, with Christian Falk on the production credits too. N'Dour put it on his seventh album, The Guide (Wommat), that same year, while Cherry saved it for her 1996 album Man.
It went top 10 in country after country, and in France it held number one for 16 weeks, a record back then. Stéphane Sednaoui shot the black-and-white video in New York City, the song won Best Song at the 1994 MTV Europe Music Awards, and NME ranked it 40th among 1994's 50 best songs.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 26 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994 | 100 |
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