“White Flag”
Single by Dido from the album Life for Rent
Released	September 1, 2003
Format	CD single
Genre	Pop
Length	4:01 (Album version) 3:40 (Radio edit)
Label	BMG
Writer(s)	Dido Armstrong, Rollo Armstrong, Rick Nowels
Producer	Dido Armstrong
Dido singles chronology
"Feels Like Fire" (2003) "White Flag" (2003) "Life for Rent" (2003)

"White Flag" was the lead single from Dido's follow-up album, Life for Rent.

The single fared very well, peaking at number one in Australia, Germany and the United World Chart, number two in the UK, number five in France, and became Dido's second top twenty single in the U.S., peaking at number eighteen.

"White Flag" is the biggest hit of Dido's career. It is considered one of her signature songs, and helped Life for Rent sell over ten million copies worldwide. The song is at 21 on the United World Chart's Top Achiever's Top 50, with 6,676,000 sold.

The song was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance on the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, losing to "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera.

The video for the song features an appearance by actor David Boreanaz.

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Charts

Charts (2003)[1]	Peak Position
United World Chart	1
Argentinian Airplay Chart	1
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	1
Austrian Singles Chart	1
Belgium Singles Chart	3
Canadian Singles Chart	30
Danish Singles Chart	2
Dutch Singles Chart	4
European Singles Chart	1
Finnish Singles Chart	1
French Singles Chart	5
German Singles Chart	1
Irish Singles Chart	2
Italian Singles Chart	1
Italian Singles Chart	1
Norwegian Singles Chart	1
Spain Singles Top 100	11
Swedish Singles Chart	2
Swiss Singles Chart	2
Russian Singles Chart	1
Russian Airplay	1
UK Singles Chart	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	18
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	4
U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Sales	5
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Tracks	5

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Popular culture

White Flag was featured in the second episode of Smallville's third season, "Phoenix".

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References

Preceded by "Where Is the Love?" by The Black Eyed Peas	ARIA (Australia) number one single September 28, 2003 - October 5, 2003	Succeeded by "Not Me, Not I" by Delta Goodrem
Preceded by "Where Is the Love?" by The Black Eyed Peas	United World Chart number one single November 1, 2003 - December 6, 2003	Succeeded by "Me Against The Music" by Britney Spears featuring Madonna

v • d • e Dido Studio albums No Angel • Life for Rent Singles "Here with Me" • "Thank You" • "Hunter" • "All You Want" • "White Flag" • "Life for Rent" • "Don't Leave Home" • "Sand in My Shoes" Guest singles "Stan" • "Feels Like Fire" • "One Step Too Far"

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