Lighthouse (Nina Kraljić song)

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"Lighthouse"
Single by Nina Kraljić
from the album Samo
Released9 March 2016 (2016-03-09)
Recorded2016
Genre
Length3:00
LabelUniversal Music Group
Songwriter(s)
  • Andreas Grass
  • Nikola Paryla
Producer(s)Thorsten Brötzmann
Nina Kraljić singles chronology
"Zaljuljali smo svijet"
(2015) 		"Lighthouse"
(2016) 		"Samo"
(2016)
Music video
"Lighthouse" on
◄ "Mižerja" (2013)
"My Friend" (2017) ►

"Lighthouse" is a song by Croatian singer Nina Kraljić released on March 9, 2016. It represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.[1]

Eurovision Song Contest

Main article: Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016

On 24 February 2016, the Croatian national broadcaster HRT announced that it had internally selected

MTV Adria; Kraljić also performed "Lighthouse" live for the first time during the RTS morning programme. On 9 April, Kraljić performed during the Eurovision in Concert event which was held at the Melkweg venue in Amsterdam, Netherlands and hosted by Cornald Maas and Hera Björk
.

Commercial performance

"Lighthouse" debuted at number 18 on the Croatian HR Top 40 singles chart, marking her first entrance on the chart since her lead single "Zaljuljali smo svijet" failed to enter the HR Top 40 chart. On the Croatian airplay chart "Lighthouse" was the third highest debuting single for the week-ending March 17, 2016.[4] By May 2016, it had reached number 4 on the HR Top 40 chart, becoming Kraljić's first Top 5 hit in her career.[5]

Music video

On March 9, 2016, the official audio video for the song was released.[1] The preview video was released on March 21, 2016.[6] In the preview video materials from the short film "Hvar - Into the Storm" which were filmed by Mario Romulić and Dražen Stojčić while on a two-year stay on the island of Hvar were used. The video shows mostly thunderstorms, clouds and the island's fauna in slow motion and time lapse techniques. While the filming took exclusively place on the island of Hvar itself, there are also scenes from the mountain of Biokovo and the nearby island Brač.[7]

The official music video was released on 11 April 2016.

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Track listing

Digital download[10]
No.TitleLength
1."Lighthouse"3:00

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Croatia (HR Top 40)[5] 4

Release history

Region Date Format Label Ref.
Croatia 9 March 2016
Radio premiere
 Universal Music Croatia [11]
Worldwide 11 March 2016 Digital download [10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ovo je pjesma s kojom Nina Kraljić ide na Eurosong". Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ^ Brey, Marco (24 February 2016). "Nina Kraljić to represent Croatia". eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  3. ^ Brey, Marco (9 March 2016). "Croatia: Nina Kraljić will sing "Lighthouse"". eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ^ "HRTop40, Issue Date: March 11, 2016 - March 17, 2016". Hrvatska Diskografska Udruga (in Croatian). 18 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  5. ^ a b "HRTop40, Issue Date: May 5, 2016 - May 11, 2016". Hrvatska Diskografska Udruga (in Croatian). 12 May 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  6. EBU
    . Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Olujno nebo iznad Hvara u promotivnom spotu za "Lighthouse"". Croatian Radiotelevision (in Croatian). Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Nina Kraljić o pripremama za Eurosong i još ponekom detalju". Radio Rijeka (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Esckaz - Nina Kraljić - Eurovision 2016". ESCKAZ.com (Eurovision Song Contest Knowledge from A to Z). Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  10. ^ a b "Lighthouse - Single by Nina Kraljic on iTunes". iTunes. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  11. ^ "Predstavljena pjesma Lighthouse s kojom Nina Kraljić nastupa na Eurosongu". Croatian Radiotelevision (in Croatian). Retrieved 9 March 2016.

External links

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