High Hopes (Kodaline song)

"High Hopes"
Single by Kodaline
from the album In a Perfect World
Released 15 March 2013
Format Digital download
Recorded 2012
Length 3:51
Label B-Unique
Writer(s)
  • Steve Garrigan
  • Mark Prendergrast
  • Vincent May
Kodaline singles chronology
"Give Me a Minute"
(2007)		 "High Hopes"
(2013)		 "Love like This"
(2013)

"High Hopes" is a song by Dublin-based alternative rock quartet Kodaline. The song was released as a digital download on 15 March 2013, as the lead single from their debut studio album In a Perfect World (2013). The song reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart, their second overall number one single in Ireland after "Give Me a Minute" in 2007 as 21 Demands. It was featured in a trailer for the film Love, Rosie.[1]

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "High Hopes" was first released onto YouTube on 23 January 2013 at a total length of four minutes and ten seconds and stars Irish actor Liam Cunningham.[2]

The video starts off with a man in his car ready to gas himself to death. As he sits inside his car, a woman with a wedding dress runs down a hill being chased by a man she has presumably just left at the altar. As the suicidal man watches, he gets out and lets the woman escape in his car. He drives away with the woman and they successfully escape, with the depressed man driving the bride to his house. They become closer to each other and over time eventually fall in love. During a walk, the man she presumably left at the altar spots them and he shoots them. Both bleeding, the man crawls to his lover and holds her hand, the screen then fading to black. The man wakes up in hospital, and it appears that he is the only one that had survived the shooting. However, at the end of the video the man is sitting in the hospital looking out of the window when his love comes up behind him and hugs him.

Track listing

Digital download - EP
No. Title Length
1. "High Hopes"   3:51
2. "The Answer"   3:41
3. "All My Friends"   5:26
4. "All I Want" (Everything Everything Remix) 4:57

Chart performance

On 21 March 2013 the song entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 1. On 24 March 2013 the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 16, their first top 20 UK single. The song has also peaked to number 13 on the Scottish Singles Chart.

Weekly charts

Chart (2013) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[3] 23
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[4] 78
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[6] 86
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[7] 13
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 38
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[9] 16

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Ireland[10] 15 March 2013 Digital download B-Unique
United Kingdom[11]

References