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"Homecoming"
Song
B-side"Stronger" (AD remix)

"Homecoming" is the twelfth track and the fifth single taken from Kanye West's album Graduation. The song was released in the United Kingdom as the fourth single, instead of "Flashing Lights" which served as the fourth single in the rest of the world. The song was released as the fifth single in the U.S. on May 13, 2008. It has been released in the UK as a download release and was due to be released as a physical single on 4 February, 2008.[1]. However, the CD single was cancelled due to downloads starting to decline before the release. It was, however, released on vinyl single on 18 February. "Homecoming" reached Number 9 on the UK Singles Chart on download sales.[2] The song also features vocals by lead singer Chris Martin from Coldplay and is no longer on the[3] A-List on the BBC Radio 1 Playlist. Some of the lyrics were taken from Common's "I Used to Love H.E.R. (Hip Hop in its Essence and Real)."

The song's lyrics were originally recorded by West with John Legend singing a different hook with the song called "Home" (which was circulated on the mixtape Freshmen Adjustment). However, the Legend version was cut in favour of Martin's, which West and he worked on together at Abbey Road Studios in 2006.

Music video

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West standing in front of Cloud Gate.

Screen shots of the music video for "Homecoming" were posted by Kanye on his official blog on March 6, 2008.[4]

The official music video for "Homecoming" was released on April 1, 2008 by Kanye West on his official Vimeo account.[5] Kanye later posted the video on his official blog.[6]

The entire video is in black and white. The video features a montage of Kanye walking through many different areas his home city of Chicago. Common, Kanye's label mate makes an appearance in the video. Chris Martin is featured in the video playing the piano and singing the chorus of the song.

The video was directed by Hype Williams.

Although the song had already entered the UK Singles Chart and dropped back out the video is still receiving airplay on UK music channels.

Track listing

UK:

  1. "Homecoming"
  2. "Stronger" (AD remix)

Chart positions

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Canadian Hot 100 89
Chilean Singles Chart[7] 62
Dutch Top 40 26[8]
European Single Top100 24[9]
Finnish Single Top20 17[10]
Irish Singles Chart 1
Latvian Airplay Chart 18[11]
Lithuanian Airplay Chart 15[12]
Norway Singles Chart 11
Swedish Singles Chart 19
UK Singles Chart 9
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 96[13]
World Top 100 Singles Chart[14] 55

References

  1. ^ HMV.com: Music CDs, DVDs, Games & More
  2. ^ UK Music Charts | The Official UK Top 75 Singles: Week of Mon 24 Mar - Yahoo! Music UK
  3. ^ BBC - Radio 1 - Playlist
  4. ^ http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=192769_-1__0_~0_-1_3_2008_0_0
  5. ^ http://www.vimeo.com/846356
  6. ^ http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=193092_-1__0_~0_-1_4_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=
  7. ^ Chilean Singles Chart
  8. ^ Radio 538 = 102 FM - Top 40
  9. ^ apcchart.com
  10. ^ finnishcharts.com - Finnish charts portal
  11. ^ Latvian Airplay Top 50, 2008.03.23
  12. ^ Lithuanian Airplay Chart
  13. ^ [1]
  14. ^ World chart
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