On 11 March 2016, "7 Years" spent its fifth consecutive week at number-one, becoming the longest-running number-one single by a Danish act. The song became the first number-one single by a Danish act since Aqua's " Turn Back Time" (1998). On 12 February 2016, "7 Years" peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, with combined weekly sales of 105,000 units (including 3.65 million streams). "7 Years" was biggest hit in the US by a foreign-born act since Gotye's " Somebody That I Used to Know" in 2012. During 2016, the song sold 2.089 million copies in the US, making it the fourth best-selling song of the year. "7 Years" also debuted at number 28 on the US Digital Songs chart with 26,000 digital copies sold. The song stayed there for four non-consecutive weeks, being held off of the top spot by Rihanna and Drake's " Work" and Desiigner's " Panda".
The song peaked at number two on the chart dated 9 April 2016, and became the highest-charting Danish act since " Apache" (1961) by Jørgen Ingmann. It became Lukas Graham's first single on the Hot 100. However, Time magazine named "7 Years" one of the Top 10 Worst Songs of 2016, saying, "Good luck explaining the meteoric popularity of this (yes, catchy) chewy contemporary pop-rock ballad, which makes a listener yearn for the artistic integrity of a band like Maroon 5." Chart performance įor the issue dated 6 February 2016, "7 Years" debuted at number 96 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Graham finds his own path between sweet sentimentality and heartbreaking empathy, and like a young McCartney, Graham also has a similar instinctive ability to craft superglue-sticking choruses." Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten critic Anders Houmøller Thomsen compared the song to the Beatles' " When I'm Sixty-Four": " '7 Years' bubbles with ignited storytelling about life's fast speed, when the daydreams of childhood and youth suddenly becomes replaced by retirement-melancholia. "7 Years" received mixed reviews from critics. It is accompanied by a midtempo piano line, a percussion backbeat, slideshow projector incorporations, and a synthesized string section. "7 Years" is a soul-pop song with hip hop influences, written in the key of G minor with a chord progression of Gm-Bb-Eb-F. I wouldn't have written '7 Years', which got us signed to a publisher in America and ultimately signed to Warner Bros." Regarding the band's prior failure to break into the international market Forchhammer stated, "It's like my father died at exactly the right moment – and I know that's something I shouldn't say, but I just did! If my dad hadn't died in 2012 I wouldn't have written our song 'Happy Home', which catapulted us into a Scandinavian success story. My biggest dream is not to be some negative old dude, but to have my kids' friends say, 'You're going to visit your dad? Say hi! He's awesome.' I had a perfect father." I'm also coming to a realisation that being a father is the most important thing. He continued: "It's a song about growing older. įrontman Lukas Forchhammer described "7 Years" as a song that summarises his life so far and what he hopes to achieve in the future. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), "7 Years" was the seventh best-selling song of 2016 worldwide with 10.4 million digital downloads and track-equivalent streams. On 12 February 2017, "7 Years" was nominated for three Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
The song was mixed by Delbert Bowers and Morten Pilegaard. The song was produced by Stefan Forrest and Morten Ristorp under their stage name Future Animals, and Pilegaard. The song was written by Lukas Forchhammer, Stefan Forrest, Morten Ristorp, and Morten "Pilo" Pilegaard. Outside Denmark, the singles topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom, while peaking within the top ten of the charts in many other European countries and the United States. It has since garnered over 1 billion views on YouTube.ĭespite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, "7 Years" topped the Danish Singles Chart. The lyric video was uploaded to YouTube on 17 November 2015, and the music video was uploaded on 15 December 2015.
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The song was released as a digital download on 18 September 2015 by Copenhagen Records. " 7 Years" is a song by Danish soul-pop band Lukas Graham from their second studio album, Lukas Graham.
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