When was ellie goulding lights released

The music video for "Lights" was filmed by Sophie Muller in late September before the lead single from the Bright Lights re-release was changed to "Your Song". The video shows Goulding dancing, playing the drums and the tambourine whilst different lighting effects including lasers surround her as she sings.

It also shows her in numerous scenes swinging different hand-held lights and torches around giving the impression of a light painting, whilst the camera produces a bullet time effect like those used in The Matrix. The lighting rig in the video was created by a small group of students from Middlesex University. The song was also a commercial success, reaching the top ten and top twenty in several countries.

In the United States, "Lights" was a sleeper hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot after thirty-three weeks on the chart, and becoming one of the few songs to have spent more than a year on the Hot The song has sold over four million copies in the US.

In late , "Lights" was ranked number five on the Hot year-end chart, while topping the Pop Songs year-end chart.

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