You Raise Me Up
| Chart | Peak position |
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| European Airplay Chart | 37 |
| Australian Singles Chart | 3 |
| German Singles Chart | 11 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 1 |
| Norwegian singles chart | 3 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 7 |
| UK Singles Chart | 1 |
Note: The song also peaked at #4 at MYX.
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Popularity
In 2004, the song was played more than 500,000 times on American radio. In late 2005, there were over 80 versions available in USA alone, and it has become nominated for Gospel Music Awards four times, including "Song of the Year". This version by Christian group Selah (with both verses included, as originally written) also went to No. 1 on Billboard's Christian Charts.
On 21 September 2006, You Raise Me Up became the first song to have sold over 20,000 copies of the score on the popular sheet music website musicnotes.com[3].
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Use in popular culture
Shizuka Arakawa, the 2006 Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, used the piece as an exhibition number for many shows and professional competitions from 2005-2006. Michelle Kwan skated to the song during the 2004 Champion On Ice Tour and other competitions in 2005. Caroline Zhang skated this song in her exhibitions in the 2006 - 2007 and 2007-2008 skating season.
In 2004, Australian Idol Top 12 contestant Daniel Belle sang the song for his "Pop" song selection, and it has become one of the most performed songs on similar shows across the world.
RTE, (Ireland's national television station), screened a Roy Esmonde produced documentary titled You Raise Me Up on New Year's Day 2006. First screened a year earlier, this updated edition included the most recent successes for the song, as well as the story of how the song first came to be written by Løvland and Graham.
I.K. Start, a Norwegian football club, uses this song as a club anthem.
On April 4th, 2007, a Japanese version of the song was used for the theme tune to the anime series Romeo x Juliet, titled "Inori ~You Raise Me Up~". the song is performed by artist Lena Park.
On April 25th, 2007, Josh Groban performed the song with the African Children's Choir on American Idol, Idol Gives Back episode.
On May 8th, 2007, the song was played at the historic opening of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
On May 26th, 2007, Josh Groban appeared on BBC's talent show Any Dream Will Do and selected one of the remaining contestants (or Joseph's) to perform the song with him. He chose show favourite, Lee Mead.
On July 26th, 2007, the song was performed on 6th International Competition Of Young Singers of Popular Music the "New Wave" (Jurmala, Latvia) by Andris Ērglis representing Latvia on this contest. Song accompaniment recorded by Swedish producers from "Sunday Music" for Latvian music company "Microphone Records".
On August 10th, 2007 Josh Groban performed it with the African Children's Choir on The Ellen DeGeneres Show show.
American Idol judge Simon Cowell has called 'You Raise Me Up' one of his favourite songs.
On November 10th, 2007 the song was performed live in series 4 of UK show, The X Factor by contestant, Rhydian Roberts. The performance received highly positive praise from all four judges, Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh and Dannii Minogue.
On December 5th, 2007, Terry Wogan gave the song an airing on the breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom.
On February 18th, 2008, You Raise Me Up was released as the title of an album with '40 uplifting songs' including Elton John, Russell Watson, Girls Aloud and Shane Hampsheir.
On March 28th, 2008, runner-up, Laura, performed the song live in the final of the danish X Factor.
On May 10th, 2008, Austin Blackburn performed the song as part of his Britain's Got Talent audition using a common hardware saw as his instrument of choice.
On May 6th, 2008, Manu Castellano performed the Spanish version (Por Ti Seré) in Operación Triunfo
| Preceded by "Push the Button" by the Sugababes |
Irish Singles Chart number-one single October 27, 2005 - December 1, 2005 |
Succeeded by "My Humps" by The Black Eyed Peas |
| Preceded by "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" by Arctic Monkeys |
UK Singles Chart number-one single (Westlife version) October 30, 2005 - November 6, 2005 |
Succeeded by "Hung Up" by Madonna |
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References
- ^ http://www.peermusic.com/artistpage/Brendan_Graham.html, paragraph 5
- ^ Untitled Document
- ^ Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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