In addition to the Hot 100, it was also placed at the top of Billboard's year-end Adult Pop Songs and Alternative Songs charts and many other charts around the world.
The song has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling digital singles of all time. It is certified Multiplatinum in ten countries, including Diamond in Australia. It was the most commercially successful song of 2011 in Flanders (Belgium), the most successful song of 2012 in Wallonia (Belgium), Canada, Israel, the UK, and the US, and the most successful song of the 2010s decade by an Australian artist in Australia. It has topped charts in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand, as well as 22 other national charts, and reached the top 10 in more than 30 countries around the world. In 2013, the song won two Grammy Awards for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Record of the Year.Ĭommercially, "Somebody That I Used to Know" is Gotye's most successful and signature song. The song came ninth in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013. In Australia, the song won the Triple J Hottest 100 poll at the end of 2011, as well as ARIA Awards for song of the year and best video, while Kimbra was voted best female artist and Gotye was named best male artist and producer of the year. The song received a positive reception from critics, who noted the similarities between the song and works by Sting, Peter Gabriel, and American folk band Bon Iver. It also incorporates the first nine notes of the popular nursery rhyme, 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', played on a xylophone, as an opening refrain and sparsely recurring motif in other parts of the song. It samples Luiz Bonfá's instrumental "Seville" from his 1967 album Luiz Bonfa Plays Great Songs. "Somebody That I Used to Know" is a mid-tempo ballad.
"Somebody That I Used to Know" was written and recorded by Gotye at his parents' house on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, and is lyrically related to the experiences he has had with relationships. It was later released by Universal Music in December 2011 in the United Kingdom, and 20 January 2012 in the United States and Ireland. The song was released in Australia and New Zealand by Eleven Music on 5 July 2011 as the second single from Gotye's third studio album, Making Mirrors (2011). " Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song written by Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter Gotye, featuring New Zealand singer Kimbra. Universal Music (United Kingdom, United States, & Ireland).
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