Better Than Love

"Better Than Love"
Single by Hurts
from the album Happiness
B-side "Mother Nature"
Released 23 May 2010 (2010-05-23)
Format CD single, vinyl, digital download
Genre Synthpop, electropop
Length 3:32
Label Major Label, Sony, RCA
Writer(s) Hurts, Joseph Cross
Producer Hurts, Joseph Cross, Jonas Quant
Hurts singles chronology
"Better Than Love"
(2010)		 "Wonderful Life"
(2010)
"Sunday"
(2011)
"Illuminated / Better Than Love"
(2011)

"Better Than Love" is a song by British synthpop duo Hurts from their debut album, Happiness. It was released as their debut single on 23 May 2010 in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number fifty on the UK Singles Chart. It also charted in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The song was re-released as a Double A-Side with 'Illuminated' on May 1 2011.

Contents

Music video

The music video was uploaded onto Hurts' official YouTube channel on 28 April 2010[1], following a trailer uploaded the day before.[2] Their first professionally made music video, it features Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson in an audition hall surrounded by women dressed in similar attire to themselves. As Anderson plays piano, Hutchcraft watches the auditions in the reflection of the hall's mirror. The video was filmed in Bucharest, Romania, in Buftea studio along with Romanian actresses Laura Cosoi, Mădălina Ghiţescu, and others. Cosoi also starred in the video for their later song "Sunday".

Track listings

  1. "Better Than Love" (Radio Edit) – 3:32
  2. "Mother Nature" – 2:50
  1. "Better Than Love" (Radio Edit) – 3:32
  2. "Mother Nature" – 2:50
  1. "Better Than Love" (Radio Edit) – 3:32
  2. "Better Than Love" (Jamaica Remix) – 4:19
  1. "Better Than Love" (Radio Edit) – 3:32
  2. "Better Than Love" (Tiefschwarz Mix) – 8:48
  1. "Better Than Love" (Album Version) - 3:33
  2. "Better Than Love" (Live & Unplugged From BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge)
  3. "Better Than Love" (Tiefschwarz Remix) - 8:48
  4. "Better Than Love" (Burns European Sex Remix) - 5:06
  5. "Better Than Love" (Freemasons Pegasus Mix [Radio Edit]) - 3:36
  6. "Better Than Love" (Jamaica Remix) - 4:19
  7. "Better Than Love" (Death In Vegas Acid Remix) – 8:14
  1. "Better Than Love" – 3:32
  2. "Better Than Love" (Italoconnection Remix) – 5:14
  1. "Better Than Love" (Freemasons Pegasus Club Mix) - 9:19

Personnel

Source: [3]

Charts

Chart (2010/2011) Peak
Position
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[4] 12
Czech Republic (IFPI)[5] 54
German Airplay Chart[6] 96
German Youth Airplay Chart[7] 29
Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100)[8] 88
UK Dance (The Official Charts Company)[9] 6
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[10] 50

References

  1. ^ "YouTube – HURTS - Better Than Love". YouTube. 28 April 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn8tBgI1BVQ. Retrieved 25 May 2010. 
  2. ^ "YouTube – HURTS - Better Than Love (Theatrical Trailer)". YouTube. 27 April 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGp-0TYEe9s. Retrieved 25 May 2010. 
  3. ^ (2010) Release notes for "Better Than Love" by Hurts (liner notes). Sony.
  4. ^ "Ultratop.be – Hurts – Better Than Love" (in Dutch). Ultratip. ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
  5. ^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201033 into search.
  6. ^ German Airplay Chart, Retrieved on 2011-06-10
  7. ^ German Airplay Chart, Retrieved on 2011-06-10
  8. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Hurts – Better Than Love" (in Dutch). Mega Single Top 100. Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
  9. ^ "Archive Chart" UK Dance Chart. The Official Charts Company.
  10. ^ "Chart Stats – Hurts – Better Than Love" UK Singles Chart. Chart Stats.

External links

Hurts
Theo Hutchcraft · Adam Anderson
Studio albums
EPs
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