"Last Night" is a song by English musician

Lucy Spraggan Lucy Honour Ruby Spraggan (born 21 July 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. She auditioned for ''The X Factor (UK series 9), The X Factor'' in 2012, performing her own composition, "Last Night (Lucy Spraggan song), Last Night". On 3 November ...

, from her self-released album ''

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'' (2011). The song entered the

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at number 70 after performing the song at ''

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'' auditions which was shown on 25 August 2012. Following a rule change regarding ''X Factor'' contestants, it was pulled from

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but early sales enabled it to finish at number 11 for the week. A new version of the song "Last Night (Beer Fear)" was released in the

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on 29 September 2013 as the second single from her debut studio album ''

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'' (2013)

Background

Spraggan performed the song at

auditions; she was put through to bootcamp after performing the track. Judge

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suggested that the song could go to number one in the charts. Shortly after the audition was screened, the song entered the

at number 70. The song then peaked to number 2 on iTunes. However, it was soon removed from iTunes by request of ''The X Factor'' producers due to an ''X Factor'' rule change. She was told to take down her album and informed that all other X Factor contestants this year have also been banned until the show is over, in order to give them the same level of exposure. Steve Anderson of ''

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'' suggested that it was removed because it was challenging the 2011 X Factor victors,

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, for the number one spot.

Chart performance

On 26 August 2012 "Last Night" entered the

at number 70 after Spraggan performed the song at ''

'' auditions, which was shown in the episode broadcast on 25 August 2012. On 29 August 2012, "Last Night" was at number 5 on the Official Chart Update before being removed from iTunes later that day. It finished in the week end charts in the UK at number 11. On 30 August 2012, the song entered the

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at number 16.

Music video

A music video for the song was uploaded to

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on 24 August 2012 at a total length of two minutes and fourteen seconds. The video was directed by Damien Reeves and produced by Melmo Films and funded by

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as one part of Lucy's prize for becoming the runner up of Live and Unsigned 2011.

Track listing

Last Night

Last Night (Beer Fear)

Release history

References

{{authority control 2011 songs Lucy Spraggan songs Songs written by James Flannigan (songwriter)