"Somebody Special" is a song by the Scottish singer-songwriter

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. It was released on 11 January 2018 through

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as the third single from her second studio album ''

The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change ''The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change'' is the second studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt, released on 1 February 2019 through Cooking Vinyl. The standard edition of the album was supported by eight singles. "The Mom ...

''. The song was written by Nesbitt with

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, who also produced it, and Brianna Kennedy.

Background and release

Written in

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, "Somebody Special" was premiered on 8 January 2018 during

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's show on

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. The tracklist for Nina Nesbitt's second studio album ''

'' was unveiled in October 2018. The standard edition of the album was released on 1 February 2019 and the deluxe edition, ''The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change & The Flowers Will Fall'', was released in November 2019. It includes an acoustic version of every song from the standard edition, including "Somebody Special".

Music video

The script for the "Somebody Special" music video was co-written by Nina Nesbitt.

Commercial performance

"Somebody Special" peaked at 89 on the

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. As of March 2021, it had amassed 47.7 millions of streams on

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Charts

References

{{Nina Nesbitt 2018 singles 2018 songs Cooking Vinyl singles Nina Nesbitt songs Songs written by Dan Muckala Song recordings produced by Dan Muckala