"All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day" is a song by British musical duo
Hurts. In the first week of its release, the song was made as a free download on
iTunes
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in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and was "Single of the Week". The single charted at number 67 in
Austria
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.
Background
Regarding the release of the song, Hurts declared in an interview that, "
's about the worst
Christmas
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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."
Critical reception
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'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."
Digital Spy
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reviewer Robert Copsey rated "
e Christmas tearjerker" five stars, maintaining that it "blossoms into an uplifting anthem".
Music video
The
music video
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takes place in a
graveyard, where the band members and other people (characters from the music videos for "
Better Than Love
"Better Than Love" is the debut single by British musical duo Hurts (duo), Hurts from their debut album, ''Happiness (Hurts album), Happiness''. It was released on 23 May 2010 in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 50 on the UK Single ...
", "
Wonderful Life" and "
Stay") gather around a grave, out of which a
Christmas tree
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emerges.
Track listing
;Digital download
#"All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day" – 4:34
Charts
References
External links
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2010 singles
Hurts songs
British Christmas songs
New Year songs
2010 songs