"Wonderful" is a song by

Annie Lennox Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the New wave music, new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician D ...

, released as the third and last single from her album '' Bare'' in 2004. It was released as a

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and 12 inch single in the

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and only as a promotional single elsewhere. The single topped the ''

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chart for a week and became her fifth number one on that chart. No music video was made for this song.

Track listing

UK CD single

1. "Wonderful" (Album Version) – 4:16
2. "Pavement Cracks" (Goldtrix Full Vocal Mix) – 6:34
3. "A Thousand Beautiful Things" (Gabriel & Dresden Tech Funk Mix) – 9:03

Critical reception

The song had mixed critical reception. Thom Jurek of

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made the song a "Track Pick" off ''Bare'', called it "one of Lennox's trademark ballads", and praised the song's lyrics and its "

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-styled

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refrain". Meanwhile,

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's Anthony Decurtis wrote that "the thumping funk chorus of 'Wonderful,' for example, sounds forced" and called it a "misstep".Annie Lennox: Bare: Music Reviews: Rolling Stone
by Anthony Decurtis

Remake

The song was covered by recording artist

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on his album Moment Of Love , which reached #2 on

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Electronic Dance Chart in the United States. A music video was released to accompany the track.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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