"Heart Vacancy" is a song by British-Irish

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from their self-titled debut album. It was released as the album's second single in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2010 through

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. The song was written by

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, Cutfather, Lucas Secon, and

Wayne Hector Wayne Anthony Hector is a British songwriter who is best known for his work with pop artists such as Nicki Minaj, One Direction, the Wanted, Toše Proeski and Olly Murs. He co-wrote seven of Westlife's number one singles, including " World ...

. "Heart Vacancy" was originally written for English singer

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, and was given to four different artists before being recorded by the Wanted. Four years after the band's hiatus in 2014, Tom Parker, Max George and Jay McGuiness performed the song as a three piece at Parker's wedding to his fiancé Kelsey in July 2018.

Critical reception

Robert Copsey of

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gave the song three out of five stars and described it as "a slushy, string-laden slowie about longing for a girl, but with the BPM turned up a notch and a stomping rhythm – too fast for waving lighters but slow enough for hands-in-the-air time – 'Heart Vacancy' treads on the slightly more manly side of sentimental."

Chart performance

"Heart Vacancy" debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart with first-week sales of 66,394, second only to the Bruno Mars song " Just the Way You Are". In Ireland, the song debuted at peaked at number eighteen. It was re-released as the band's second single in America in April 2012 but did not chart.

Track listing

*Digital download #"Heart Vacancy" – 3:42 #"Heart Vacancy" (Tonka's Daddycated Radio Edit) – 3:15 #"Heart Vacancy" (Tonka's Daddycated Remix) – 5:51 #"Heart Vacancy" ( DJs from Mars Remix) – 6:15 *CD single #"Heart Vacancy" – 3:42 #" Kickstarts" ( Elliot Gleave, Nicholas Douwma) – 2:58 *Promotional CD single #"Heart Vacancy" (Radio Edit) – 3:45 #"Heart Vacancy" (Instrumental) – 3:28

Personnel

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– Mich Hansen,

, Lucas Secon,

* Production – Jonas Jeberg, Cutfather * Mixing – Mads Nilsson * Keyboards and programming – Jonas Jeberg *

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s – Daniel Davidsen *

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– Mich Hansen *Vocals – Tom Parker, Nathan Sykes, Jay McGuiness, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran * Mastering – Dick Beetham Source:

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

"Heart Vacancy" Song Lyrics
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