"Borrow My Heart" is the debut single by season five runner-up of ''

The X Factor Australia ''The X Factor'' is an Australian television reality music competition, based on the original UK series, to find new singing talent. The first season of the show premiered on Network Ten on 6 February 2005. Ten dropped ''The X Factor'' after ...

'',

Taylor Henderson Taylor James Henderson (born 23 March 1993) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Originating from Ceres, Victoria, Henderson rose to fame after placing third on the fourth series of '' Australia's Got Talent'' in 2010. Three years later, ...

. It was released digitally by

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on 1 November 2013, as the lead single from his self-titled debut album. "Borrow My Heart" debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified two times platinum by the

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for selling over 140,000 copies.

Background and release

"Borrow My Heart" was written by

Louis Schoorl Louis Schoorl (born 23 December 1976) is a Dutch-born Australian songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Career Based in Sydney, Australia, Schoorl has written or produced for 5 Seconds of Summer, Taylor Henderson, Jessica ...

Hayley Warner Hayley Warner (born 23 January 1992) is an Australian singer-songwriter. In 2009, she finished as runner-up in the seventh and final ''Australian Idol'', and was noted for her high-energy performances and vast vocal range. In 2013, ''The Dail ...

and Alex Hope, and produced by Schoorl. It would have been Henderson's winner's single for the fifth season of ''

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'', if he had won the show. However, Henderson finished in second place. On 1 November 2013, it was announced that Henderson signed a recording contract with

, and "Borrow My Heart" was released digitally as his debut single later that day. A

CD single A CD single (sometimes abbreviated to CDS) is a music single in the form of a compact disc. The standard in the Red Book for the term ''CD single'' is an 8 cm (3-inch) CD (or Mini CD). It now refers to any single recorded onto a CD of any si ...

was released on 8 November 2013.

Chart performance

"Borrow My Heart" debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart on 11 November 2013. It was certified two times platinum by the

for selling over 140,000 copies.

Live performances

Henderson performed "Borrow My Heart" live for the first time during ''The X Factor'' grand final performance show on 27 October 2013.

Track listing

*CD / digital download # "Borrow My Heart" – 3:32

Personnel

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

– Taylor Henderson *

Songwriting A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

– Alex Hope, Hayley Warner, Louis Schoorl *

Production Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a stati ...

– Louis Schoorl *

Mixing engineer A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"), whether in music, film, or any other content of a ...

– Louis Schoorl Source:

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certification

Release history

References

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