| Extraordinary | |
| Cover: | Extraordinary Clean Bandit.png |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Clean Bandit featuring Sharna Bass |
| Album: | New Eyes |
| Released: | 16 May 2014 |
| Recorded: | 2013 |
| Genre: | Tropical house, dance-pop |
| Length: | 4:16 |
| Chronology: | Clean Bandit |
| Prev Title: | Rather Be |
| Prev Year: | 2014 |
| Next Title: | Come Over |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
"Extraordinary" is a song by British electronic group Clean Bandit, featuring vocals from Sharna Bass. It was written by Jack Patterson, Jimmy Napes, Grace Chatto and Gustave Rudman.[1]
The song was issued as the fifth single from Clean Bandit's debut studio album, New Eyes (2014).[2] The single and its remix EP were first released in Ireland on 16 May 2014, and was released in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2014.
The music video was filmed in Cuba. Cellist Grace Chatto told Capital FM: "[Cuba's] an incredible country – unlike anywhere else we have ever been to. We wanted to capture the euphoric feeling of the music in sunshine and dancing. We made the video ourselves… with help from two Russian friends and some wonderful people we met out in Havana."[2]
The video was released onto YouTube on 2 April 2014 at a total length of four minutes and seventeen seconds.[3] The video was made by the group and features Sharna Bass, who provides vocals for the track. As of April 2018, the video has received more than 34 million views.
The Guardian said that "there's a lot going on in the recent single Extraordinary – steel drums, pizzicato strings, rumbling timpani, cut-up vocal samples, chattering electronics – but you'd never notice, partly because the production is so polite and anaemic that it saps the constant musical shifts of their power, and partly because it's all buried underneath another rotten song, this time a kind of uplifting Emile Sandé-esque ballad: the result is about as extraordinary as branch of Tesco Express".[4]
| Chart (2014) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgium Dance Bubbling Under (Ultratop Flanders) | 1 |
| Belgium Dance Bubbling Under (Ultratop Wallonia) | 3 |
| Europe (Euro Digital Songs)[5] | 12 |
| Italy (FIMI)[6] | 17 |
| Slovakia (IFPI)[7] | 81 |
| Country | Date | Format | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 16 May 2014 | Digital download[8] | |
| Digital download – remixes[9] | |||
| United Kingdom | 18 May 2014 | Digital download[10] | |
| Digital download – remixes[11] |