Falling Slowly

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“Falling Slowly”

Song by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
Genre	Indie pop
Length	4:04
Writer	Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová

"Falling Slowly" is an Academy Award-winning song, written and performed by personal and professional partners Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. It appeared in the couple's 2007 film Once. The song was given the Academy Award for Best Original Song over the choral gospel song "Raise It Up" from August Rush and three songs from the modern Disney musical Enchanted. The song's win marks the fourth year in a row that the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song wasn't nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

For some time, the song's eligibility for an Oscar was in dispute, as it had appeared in 2006 on a CD issued by Hansard's band, The Frames as well as in the movie Beauty in Trouble and it had been performed by the couple in various European venues. The Academy ruled that because the song had been composed for the movie, and the prior public exposure during the long period that the movie took to produce had been minimal, it remained eligible.^[1]

A digital copy of the song was provided on the film's DVD. On March 31, 2008, BBC Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman made the song her record of the week. The song also appears on the Feast of Love soundtrack.

[edit] Charts

The song charted at #16 in the Irish Singles Chart when it was first released by The Frames. The Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová version charted at #28 in December 2007, before peaking at #2 in March 2008, following the song's Oscar win.