"Heavy" is a song recorded by English singer

Anne-Marie Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1991) is an English singer. She has attained charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, including Clean Bandit's "Rockabye (song), Rockabye", which peaked at number one, as well as "Alarm (Anne-Marie song ...

. It was released on 22 September 2017 as the third single from her debut studio album, ''

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'' (2018). A lyric video was released the same day.

Composition

"Heavy" is a pop song that was compared to her previous single, "

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". The song contains tropical-influenced beats that are found in much of the singer's recent work. The song was produced by

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, Nana Rogues, Jonathan White, Team Salut, and

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Critical reception

Steph Evans of ''

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'' wrote that the song "follows the punchy pop of "Ciao Adios," with this single giving more life to Anne-Marie's vocal power."

Track listing

Taken from iTunes.

Personnel

Adapted from Tidal. * Anne-Marie Nicholson – lead vocals, songwriting *

– songwriting, production, keyboard, programmer * Tash Phillips – songwriting *

Iain James Iain James Farquharson, more commonly known as Iain James or Sparx, is a British singer, songwriter and vocal producer from Bristol, but based in London. He started as part of the British boyband Triple 8 in 2003 as their lead singer and known ...

– songwriting *

– production, engineering, programmer * Jonathan White – production, guitar, bass guitar, programmer * Team Salut – production, guitar * Nana Rogues – production, bass guitar, programmer * Cameron Gower Poole – backing vocals, production, engineering * Stuart Hawkes – mastering engineer * Dylan Cooper – programmer *

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– mixer

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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