"Heavenly Hosts" is a song performed by an Australian

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duo For King & Country. The song impacted

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in the United States on 3 November 2021, becoming the third single from ''

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'' (2020). The song was written by Benjamin Backus,

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, Luke Smallbone,

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jornhom, and Tony Wood. "Heavenly Hosts" peaked at No. 16 on the US

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chart.

Background

On 16 October 2020, For King & Country released "Heavenly Hosts" as the second and final promotional single from ''A Drummer Boy Christmas'' (2020), accompanied with a lyric video. For King & Country shared the story behind the song, saying:

Composition

"Heavenly Hosts" composed in the key of A with a tempo of 109

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and a musical time signature of .

Commercial performance

"Heavenly Hosts" debuted at number 48 on the US

dated 12 December 2020. The song peaked at number 16 spent a total of six non-consecutive weeks on the chart.

Music videos

The official lyric video of the song was released on 16 October 2020, also on For King & Country's YouTube channel. The music video of "Heavenly Hosts" was released by For King & Country via YouTube on 27 November 2020. On 17 December 2020, For King & Country released the acoustic performance video of the song through YouTube.

Charts

Release history

References

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