Wisemen

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"Wisemen"

Single by James Blunt
from the album Back to Bedlam
Released	March 2005: Worldwide March 2006: Worldwide (Re-release)
Format	CD single: Worldwide Vinyl single: United Kingdom
Recorded	Los Angeles, California
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	3:42
Label	Atlantic Records/Custard Records
Writer(s)	J. Blunt J. Hogarth S. Skarbek
Producer(s)	Tom Rothrock Jimmy Hogarth
Chart positions
#11 (Australia) #21 (New Zealand) #23 (UK) #36 (Ireland)
James Blunt singles chronology
"High" (2004) "You're Beautiful" (2005)	"Wisemen" (2004) "Wisemen" (re-release) (2005)	"Goodbye My Lover" (2005) –
Alternate cover

Re-release single cover

"Wisemen" is a pop/rock song written by British singer James Blunt, Jimmy Hogarth and Sacha Skarbek for Blunt's debut album Back to Bedlam (2004). James Blunt took the opening of the song from "Perfectly," a song by the Kansas Band The Anniversary. The song was produced by Tom Rothrock and Jimmy Hogarth and received a mixed reception from music critics. The song was released as the second single in the first quarter of 2005 and reached the top fifty in the United Kingdom, peaking at number forty-four. Following the success of "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", "Wisemen" was re-released in the spring of 2006, and became a top forty hit worldwide, charting at number twenty-one in New Zealand and at number twenty-three in the UK.

1 Music Video
2 Formats and track listings
- 2.1 CD single
- 2.2 CD single (re-release)
3 Chart performance
- 3.1 Charts
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Music Video

The first music video, released in tandem with the first UK release of the single, has Blunt and his band performing in the Cafe de Paris for three middle-aged men who are being entertained by a young woman, before being kidnapped by three masked men and imprisoned in a hastily-constructed shack by the seaside.

The second version, which was released in tandem with the UK re-release of the single, has Blunt burning his personal papers and passport in a forest before slowly internally combusting. This video has been released to the U.S. market.

[edit] Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Wisemen".

[edit] CD single

"Wisemen" – 3:42
"No Bravery" (Live) – 3:25
"Out of my Mind (Live) 3:38

[edit] CD single (re-release)

"Wisemen" – 3:42
"Out of My Mind" (Live at Bowery Ballroom, NYC) – 3:33

[edit] Chart performance

On March 7, 2005, "Wisemen" was released in the United Kingdom. The song became Blunt's first single to chart within the top seventy-five on singles chart, peaking at number forty-four. It was re-released in the UK the following March and became his fourth top forty single when it peaked at number twenty-three on the singles chart, and spent a total of six weeks in the top seventy-five. Outside of the UK, the song was also successful.

It reached number eleven in Australia and became his third single to reach the top twenty. In Canada the song has become an airplay hit, reaching number three on the BDS Airplay chart.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
UK Top 75 Singles	44
Chart (2006)	Peak position
Czech IFPI Chart	1
Dutch Top 40	9
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	11
World Chart Show	14
New Zealand Singles Chart	21
United World Chart	22
Swiss Singles Chart	23
UK Top 75 Singles	23
Irish Singles Chart	36
Swedish Singles Chart	38
Canadian CHUM charts	3