Heavy Cross

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"Heavy Cross"
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Template:Infobox song/link by Gossip
from the album Music for Men
ReleasedApril 28, 2009
StudioShangri La Studios, Malibu
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[[Record producer|ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Rick Rubin
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"Heavy Cross" is a song by American band Gossip. It was released on April 28, 2009, as the first single from the band's fourth album Music for Men. The song was the first international hit for Gossip, reaching the top ten across Europe, with a massive commercial success in Germany. When writing it, the band was influenced by Donna Summer and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The band recorded a studio version of the song in early 2009, but they had already been playing it live for two years.

Background and writing

Singer Beth Ditto explained to the NME that the song is: "about recreation and my friends, who I feel like are the ultimate creative re-creators."[3] Composer and guitarist Nathan Howdeshell explained: "Heavy Cross' was an attempt to make my guitar sound like an Italo synth line. I had been listening to Charlie's 'Spacer Woman' and still can't get over the arpeggiated synth, so I detuned my strings to be the same notes and muted it and then came that song. Beth [Ditto] busted some Donna Summer elements, and since I have been listening to lots of darkwave, I put a bass synth on the track as opposed to a real bass: we wanted something steeped in '80s darkwave. I can't stop listening to 'Red Light' by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Hannah Blilie decided to stay on the drum rims for the majority of the track, making it more of a Creatures-type track (another Siouxsie Sioux reference)."[4] "Heavy Cross" was recorded in a studio in early 2009, although the band had already been playing the song live for two years. They had started their 2007 Glastonsbury concert at the John Peel stage, performing an early version of it which was broadcast on BBC television.[5] The song, especially the intro, has considerable similarities with the Knight Rider theme song.[6]

Commercial performance

The single was a commercial success. It reached the top 10 in Australia and on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart from mid- to late 2009. It peaked just outside the top 10 in New Zealand, and made the top 40 in Ireland and the UK; Gossip had already achieved two top 40 singles in the latter region, with "Standing in the Way of Control" and "Listen Up!" in 2006.

The single was especially successful in Germany, where it was certified triple gold for selling over 450,000 copies[7] and is, as of September 2010, the "most successful internationally produced single of all time".[8] As of April 2011, the single had spent 97 weeks on the German Singles Chart without ever reaching No. 1, staying for 27 weeks in that chart's top 10. In 2011, it was included in a J'Adore advert from Dior, making it rise to fame again.

Track listings

UK CD

  1. "Heavy Cross"
  2. "Heavy Cross" (Fred Falke Remix)

Australia CD

  1. "Heavy Cross" (radio edit)
  2. "Heavy Cross"
  3. "Heavy Cross" (Fred Falke Remix)
  4. "Heavy Cross" (Burns Remix)

Personnel

Charts

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Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[25] Platinum 70,000 
Austria (IFPI Austria)[26] Platinum 30,000 
Belgium (BRMA)[27] Platinum  
Germany (BVMI)[7] 3× Gold 450,000 
Italy (FIMI)[28] Platinum 0 
New Zealand (RMNZ)[29] Gold 0 
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[30] Platinum 30,000 
United Kingdom (BPI)[31] Silver 200,000 

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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