"Perfect Replacement" is a song by British recording artist Example. It was released as the third single from his fourth studio album, '' The Evolution of Man'', on 24 February 2013 following his UK arena tour. The song was written by

Elliot Gleave Elliot John Gleave (born 20 June 1982), better known by his stage name Example, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer. His name arose due to his initials being E.G., which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ...

and Feed Me, the latter who also produced the song.

Background and release

"Perfect Replacement" received its live debut in August 2012 at the V Festival, and was played on 17 September 2012 at the iTunes Festival. The track received its radio debut on

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show on 15 November 2012, where Gleave announced it was to be released as a single. On 6 December 2012, the remixes on the EP were announced. The single was due to feature remixes from

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& Hard Rock Sofa, Danny Howard, Datsik, Route 94 and Toyboy & Robin. However, the Route 94 remix was not finished in time to be released. The

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and

& Hard Rock Sofa remixes were uploaded to the Ministry of Sound YouTube channel on 21 December 2012 and 2 January 2013 respectively, while the Datsik remix was uploaded on

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's channel UKFDubstep.

Music video

Gleave requested that members of the public applied to feature as ravers in the video, to be filmed on 10 December. The video shoot was finished on 11 December 2012. The video was released onto YouTube at 12:30 am on New Year's Day 2013, at a total length of four minutes and twenty-four seconds.

Track listing

Chart performance

Release history

References

{{Example singles 2013 singles Example (musician) songs Ministry of Sound singles