All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day

"All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day"
Single by Hurts
from the album Happiness (Deluxe Edition)
Released	13 December 2010 (2010-12-13)
Format	Digital download
Genre	Synthpop, Christmas
Length	4:34
Label	Major Label, Sony, RCA
Writer(s)	Hurts
Producer(s)	Hurts
Hurts singles chronology
"Stay" (2010) "All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day" (2010) "Sunday" (2011)

"All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day" is a song by British synthpop duo Hurts. In the first week of its release, the song was made as a free download on iTunes in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and was "Single of the Week".^[1] The single charted at number 67 in Austria.

Background

Regarding the release of the song, Hurts declared in an interview that, "[i]t's about the worst Christmas of our lives, which we're releasing on the best Christmas of our lives. Also, we used previous cast members for the video, so it's like a Hurts Christmas party... in a cemetery."^[2]

Critical reception

Fraser McAlpine wrote for BBC's Chart Blog that the song was "mournful" and "dignified", complimenting the "amazing" chorus and "the tubular bells, the sleighbells, the twinkling piano and the booming drums, and all of that mournful huffing, and it sounds both magical and deep."^[3] Digital Spy reviewer Robert Copsey rated "[t]he Christmas tearjerker" five stars, maintaining that it "blossoms into an uplifting anthem".^[4]

Music video

The music video takes place in a grave yard, where the band members and other people (characters from the music videos for "Better Than Love", "Wonderful Life" and "Stay") gather around a grave, out of which a Christmas tree emerges.

Track listing

Digital download

1. "All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day" – 4:34

Charts

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