"Extraordinary" is a song by British electronic group

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, featuring vocals from

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. It was written by Jack Patterson, Jimmy Napes, Grace Chatto and Gustave Rudman. The song was issued as the fifth single from Clean Bandit's debut studio album, ''

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'' (2014). The single and its remix EP were first released in Ireland on 16 May 2014, and was released in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2014.

Music video

The music video was filmed in

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. It was released onto

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on 2 April 2014 at a total length of four minutes and seventeen seconds.Clean Bandit - Extraordinary feat. Sharna Bass

The video was made by the group and features Sharna Bass, who provides vocals for the track. As of April 2018, the video has received more than 34 million views.

Critical reception

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'' said that "there's a lot going on in the recent single Extraordinary – steel drums, pizzicato strings, rumbling timpani, cut-up vocal samples, chattering electronics – but you'd never notice, partly because the production is so polite and anaemic that it saps the constant musical shifts of their power, and partly because it's all buried underneath another rotten song, this time a kind of uplifting Emile Sandé-esque ballad: the result is about as extraordinary as branch of

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Track listing

Charts and certifications

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

{{authority control 2014 songs Warner Music Group singles 2014 singles Clean Bandit songs Songs written by Jimmy Napes Songs written by Jack Patterson (Clean Bandit) Songs written by Grace Chatto Song recordings produced by Mark Ralph (record producer)