Dancing on My Own

"Dancing on My Own" is a midtempo dance-pop and electropop ballad by Swedish singer Robyn, taken from both her fifth studio album Body Talk Pt. 1 (2010) and compilation of songs already released that year with new tracks, Body Talk (2010). Written and produced by Robyn and Patrik Berger, the song was inspired by disco anthems by Ultravox, Sylvester and Donna Summer. It depicts a female protagonist who's dancing on her own in a club while watching her ex-lover with another woman. Following the release of the album's promotional singles on April 13th, the song leaked to social media on approximately April 16th,[1] leading to its digital release being moved up to April 20th[2] to most markets and platforms. The music video was first posted to Robyn's Vimeo account on May 31st and the song was officially released to all markets and platforms on June 1st as Body Talk Pt. 1's lead single. The song's radio version was distributed for mainstream airplay in the United States on November 2nd.

This article is about the Robyn song. For the Pixie Lott song, see Young Foolish Happy. For the similarly-titled song by M.O., see Dance on My Own.
"Dancing on My Own"
Single cover
Single by Robyn
from the album Body Talk Pt. 1
Released20 April 2010 (2010-04-20)
Genre
Length4:39
LabelKonichiwa
Songwriter(s)
  • Robyn
  • Patrik Berger
Producer(s)
  • Patrik Berger
  • Robyn (co.)
Robyn singles chronology
"The Girl and the Robot"
(2009)		 "Dancing on My Own"
(2010)		 "Hang with Me"
(2010)
Music video
"Dancing on My Own" on YouTube

"Dancing on My Own" received glowing reviews from critics who compared its theme of loneliness to Robyn's previous singles "With Every Heartbeat" and "Be Mine!" With 2019 coming to a end, numerous outlets reassessed its influence as a 'sad banger'[3] on the poptimism[4][5] movement, going on to place the track atop their decade-end lists. Critic's aggregator Acclaimed Music went on to rank it as the greatest song of the 2010s.[6]

The song was premiered live at Swedish TV show Sommarkrysset on TV4 5 June 2010. The song peaked at the top of the Sverigetopplistan chart, becoming Robyn's first number one in her native country. The song also reached the top ten in Denmark, Norway, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, the song managed to reach number three on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. "Dancing on My Own" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.

The accompanying music video was directed by Max Vitali, showing Robyn walking and dancing alone on the outskirts of a club and then through the crowds, with cutscenes of her standing and dancing in front of a microphone pole in a stage-like rehearsal setting. Robyn has performed the song numerous times, notably on Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards with deadmau5, and the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Concert. "Dancing on My Own" was also used on television shows such as Gossip Girl, Orange is the New Black, Girls, and RuPaul's Drag Race.

Across genres and countries, several covers have been released. Robyn's own downtempo acoustic piano ballad version, which she performed for Capital FM,[7] Studio Brussel,[8] and BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge,[9] then released in October 2010 on Radio 1's Live Lounge - Volume 5, was covered in a rock version by band Kings of Leon also performed on (but not released via) BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge,[10] inspiring a pop rock release by singer/songwriter Calum Scott in August 2016 that became a hit throughout Europe - especially the UK, where it reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

Creation

In the middle of new sessions with prior collaborator Klas Åhlund in late 2009, strains were reportedly starting to show in Robyn's engagement to professional MMA fighter Olaf Inger.[11] 'Tired of a broken heart,' her 'love of inherently sad, gay disco anthems', such as Ultravox's "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" and songs by Sylvester and Donna Summer inspired the track's name and concept: "that god-awful feeling of a woman who is watching her ex get with someone new at a club."

Desperate to move on but stuck toying with the song, she reached out to another prior collaborator, Patrik Berger, for a different perspective. Berger's preparation for their session at his Stockholm studio with a "slew of his own electronic beats and tracks for her to write over" was for naught as the "...first thing she said was, ‘Can we sit down and write a song on an acoustic guitar today? I’m so tired of writing over electronic beats and tracks.'" Their first result was an "acoustic campfire" demo with "three chords resembling a country song." The chorus came first quickly, followed by the chords and then the melody. Then, after days of "fattening up" the demo, they realized "...they preferred the original and stripped it all back down again, swapping the acoustic guitar for synthesizers with frayed edges and a beat that aimed for a TKO."

From there, a 'long time' was spent "...on the individual components of the song: the drums, the bass and the pounding staccato it starts with." Lyrically, Robyn and Patrik were "super picky" and took even longer. Obsessively trying to come up with the right words to not "sugar-coat the experience" of all of the "messy moments of rejection," they both wanted "uncomfortably honest" lines designed to have each phrase read like a "little poem." Weeks were spent on each 'stanza' that filled "several" notebooks by the end, as "every single word needed to feel right."[12]

Robyn was conflicted at the completion of the song's sessions, recalling the excitement at the end of its second demo but now debating even sending the final product to her collaborators and friends as the song's themes of "nostalgia and sentimentality" now came across like a "teenage version of herself" she was "relieved to let go of". After pushing ahead with its release, working through early promotion was "incredibly difficult" as these themes didn't "ring true to her any longer". Many years later, after "taking a step back from what she'd created", then "working on herself", she felt the song had "moved on from its beginnings" and was no longer conflicted about playing it live, seeing that it had "become something that took on meaning for a lot of people in different ways."[13][14][15]

Composition
"People have so many expectations when they go out, so many wishes about what their night is going to be: if they're going to meet that person, have a fun time with their friends, have a good high, hear good music. People get drunk and turn into themselves in a way, and they go to experience some kind of emotion. But it's not always about fun. There's a destructive side to it. But I'm more into the empowerment of going out, because it's always been the place where I could be myself and get inspired. Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out."

Robyn on the song's concept. Pitchfork. June 2010.[16]

"Dancing on My Own" was composed by Robyn and Patrik Berger. Incorporating elements of electro and disco, two versions of the midtempo dance-pop and electropop ballad[17] were released (neither to be confused with her downtempo piano version released later and apart from the Body Talk project). The stark, cinematic album version focuses on the baseline and hammerdrill throbbing synth undergirding the track, accented with twinkling effects and ringing bells. The blended, hyperactive radio version (used for the music video) sharply pulls back that focus to add several electronic synth and percussive lines, including chiming arpeggiated fourths a couple octaves above the main melody.[18] James Montgomery of MTV News described the song as "a computerized kaleidoscope of chippy, chiming blips and piston-like drums."[19]Robyn told BBC Newsbeat's Steve Holden that she's "proud" of the track as "it features elements of 'many different worlds' she loves, including 'Prince songs, 80s rock ballads and queer electronica.'"[20]

The song is performed in the key of G♭ major with a tempo of 117 beats per minute in common time, which NPR's Sam Sanders notes was "perfectly [and likely deliberately] situated pretty close to what scientists say is the preferred walking tempo for humans," following the "immediately familiar one-five-four" chord progression of G♭5–D♭5–C♭5, with Robyn's vocals spanning from D♭4 to E♭5.[21][22] USC musicologist Nate Sloan highlighted the "miraculously sparse" six seconds of silence between each line in the verses - "not a lot of time in the abstract" but "eons on a pop song" - as deliberate: "Robyn wants you to live in that space — to give you time to insert all of your emotions and stories and feelings into the seconds between the lines.[15][23]

"Dancing on My Own" has been described as a heartbreak anthem, with emotional lyrics compared to the themes of her previous singles, "With Every Heartbeat" and "Be Mine!"[19] As Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal described the single as sounding "...like what we've come to expect from a Robyn song," Robyn answered that she "felt like I really found my voice on the last album [...] I wrote 'With Every Heartbeat', so there's a reason why 'Dancing on My Own' sounds similar. For me, that's a good thing."[24] However, in contrast to "With Every Heartbeat" being "grimly optimistic", The Guardian's Peter Robinson noted "Dancing on My Own" offers "no hope that things may get better."[25] As Robyn shared with MTV News, "I mean, for me, of course it's a sad love song, but it's a strong song as well, or at least that's what I want people to feel when they listen to it."[19] "I'm a fan of light and dark at the same time," she explained to Kindness at Red Bull Music Academy: "When there's just happiness or just sadness, it just gets boring. That's so predictable. The magic to me is when there are lots of things going on at the same time. That's much more satisfying. That's what I'm drawn to when I make music."[26] The song conveys "not only darkness" but a sense of "empowerment" for a "new start," Berger detailed to Billboard's Christine Werthman: " 'I'm sad, but I'm alright somehow.' You've gotta cheer up a little bit and move on."[27]

Under the "big black sky over my town" (Robyn's favorite lyric and love letter to the weather in her home city of Stockholm[28]), the song depicts a woman who is dancing on her own in a crowded club while watching her ex-lover dancing with and embracing another woman, singing "I just wanna dance all night," which represents (as Robyn and Patrik explain) "the precise moment on the dancefloor you have to get your 'desperation, frustration and sadness out.' "[29] Eventually her attempts to have him notice her and/or muster the strength to interrupt the two of them fail when a small bell effect resembling last call rings at the climax of the song's bridge before the last chorus' refrain, indicating her time has run out.[25] Though her reps have described Robyn as "strictly" not discussing her personal life publicly, it has been speculated that the experience described in the club was in fact hers with her then ex-boyfriend Olof Inger.[30]

Montgomery noted that the "thoroughly sad song [talks] about Robyn losing her man to another woman, but also about the notion of feeling alone in a crowded room, of being lost and unloved and having no other choice but to be OK with those things,"[19] featuring lines such as, "I'm in the corner, watching you kiss her. I'm right over here, why can't you see me? I'm giving it my all, but I'm not the girl you're taking home."[25] "I know where you're at, I bet she's around," represents the 'self-destructive part of you, when we know we shouldn't go there....like scratching a wound,'" Berger unpacked with BBC Newsbeat and NPR: "One that gets at an extremely teenage feeling: "Yeah, I know it's stupid, I just gotta see it for myself" shows 'You're not being the smartest person on the planet. You're not being the nicest, you're not being the best. You're just a loser — and that's fine.'"[31][15] “We wanted to find that bittersweet emotion of actually making [it feel that] if you’re being left by somebody, [you're] not trying to act strong [with the] ‘I’m gonna move on and I’m too good for you’ kind of crap,” he elaborated to Billboard: “It was more about, ‘It feels like s--t and I’m not gonna be the best person now. I’m just gonna be miserable…’ You can’t stop yourself."

Reception

Critical
Robyn performing "Dancing on My Own" at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Concert

"Dancing on My Own" received widespread acclaim from music critics and publications. Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song five out of five stars and wrote that "'Dancing on My Own' is a misty-eyed electro-disco tune that's every bit as emotive as 'With Every Heartbeat' and 'Be Mine' [...] If your bottom lip's not quivering like the bassline by the time the second chorus hits, you've taken waaay too many mood stabilisers."[32] Luke Lewis of NME referred to the song as "a comet-trail of sadness and exhilaration that's easily the equal of Robyn's breakthrough hit, 'With Every Heartbeat'."[33] The Guardian's Michael Hann stated that song's "pulsing synths and electronic percussion manage to sound both jackbooted and ineffably melancholy."[34] Jer Fairall wrote for PopMatters that "[t]he aggressive stun-gun rhythm of 'Dancing on My Own' can't hide a classic drama-played-out-on-the-dancefloor scenario inherited from standard bearers like ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' and Madonna's 'Into the Groove', nor is it cold enough not to melt at the touch of Robyn's warm, yearning vocals or the song's shimmering keyboard chime."[35] Matthew Horton of BBC Music described "Dancing on My Own" – along with "Fembot" and "Cry When You Get Older" – as "scorchingly catchy, and laced with Robyn's familiar cordial of sparkling hook mixed with unutterable poignancy."[36]

Slant Magazine named "Dancing on My Own" the best song of 2010, writing: "Few artists risk Robyn's emotional nakedness, and with 'Dancing on My Own' she reveals the exquisite flipside to her more empowered 'With Every Heartbeat'".[37] The Guardian named it the best song of the year as well, writing: "'Dancing on My Own' is an extraordinary addition to Robyn's canon of skewed love songs; thoughtful and romantic enough for stuck-on-repeat listening, but with a pop sensibility that makes you want to head out in search of a dancefloor."[34] Pitchfork named it the fourth best of 2010, saying that it "demonstrate[s] that she is the Rocky Balboa of pop music."[38] Rolling Stone named it the twenty-sixth best song of 2010, writing: "The Swedish diva spots her beloved with another girl — then turns her sadness into sparkling pop, perfect for solo freakouts."[39] The song landed at number six on MTV's Best Songs of 2010, with James Montgomery writing: "as soon as 'Dancing' gets to that hair-raising build — a breathless rush of drums and adrenaline — you're no longer thinking about what Robyn's saying, really." In January 2011, the American music magazine The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop annual critics' poll ranked "Dancing on My Own" at number three to find the best music of 2010. The song was nominated at the 53rd Grammy Awards in the category Best Dance Recording,[40] but lost to "Only Girl (In the World)" by Rihanna.[41]

Commercial

"Dancing on My Own" debuted at number two on the Sverigetopplistan chart on the issue dated 11 June 2010. The following weeks, the song ascended and descended between number two and number three, before reaching the top position on the issue dated 30 July 2010.[42] The song became Robyn's first number one on the chart, as well as her seventh top-ten hit.[42] In Denmark, "Dancing on My Own" debuted at number thirty-three on the issue dated 18 June 2010. After steadily ascending on the chart for several weeks, the song reached its peak of number two on the issue dated 6 August 2010. It has since then been certified platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in Denmark for selling over 30,000 units.[43] In Norway, the song debuted at number six, which became its peak.[44]

The song peaked at number twenty-two on the European Hot 100 Singles chart, becoming her highest peaking song on the chart. On the UK Singles Chart, it debuted and peaked at number eight on the issue dated 26 June 2010,[45] immediately becoming Robyn's best charting single in the country since "With Every Heartbeat" in 2007.[45] "Dancing on My Own" also reached number three on the UK Dance Chart.[46] In the United States, "Dancing on My Own" debuted at number forty on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. On the issue dated 17 July 2010, it reached its peak of number three and stayed on that position for two weeks.[47]

Legacy

Compiling over 35 global outlets' countdowns and 550 tracks, critics' algorithmic aggregator Acclaimed Music went on to rank "Dancing on My Own" as the greatest song of the 2010s.[6] Ranking it at number 1, Rolling Stone, NME, Stereogum, Slant Magazine, Consequence of Sound, The Associated Press, Insider, Esquire, iNews, Vanyaland and Audiofemme called it "a primer on subdued defiance," "Europe's signal flare heralding the end of "The Club" era of songwriting (ironically, just as brainless EDM started taking off in the US), changing the trajectory of pop, indie, and dance," "the zeitgeist's last gasp of collective solace and visceral catharsis before the world crashed around us," "a pop anthem in the classical vein and a universal scream into the void, burning an effigy of loss and betrayal before scattering the ashes under a disco ball," the "killer single that elevated her to something approaching voice-of-a-generation status among America's burned-out youth," an "alt-pop masterpiece that set the tone for the decade's greatest passions: A lifestyle of voyeurism and a desire for what isn't ours" and "a timeless encapsulation of heartbreak and self-sabotage...In a nutshell: it's perfection".[48] In other ranked lists, Paste and Good Housekeeping named it second,[49] Pitchfork third,[50] Elle fourth,[51] USA Today ninth,[52] Gorilla vs. Bear twelfth,[53] Crack Magazine thirteenth,[54] and Uproxx eighteenth.[55]

Several columnists thought that it took the span of a decade for the breadth of the song's influence to be appreciated critically due to the sharp contrast with its initial global reception commercially. Signaling larger sea changes in the industry, Slant Magazines Sal Cinquemani was among them, feeling the track "epitomized the increasing irrelevance of radio, the term 'single', and even the charts themselves." Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal saw it as "cosmic justice for a song that never touched the Billboard Hot 100 but still served as a lodestar for so much of this decade’s pop" that "a month after an impromptu post-concert dance party to the song in a filthy Manhattan subway in March 2019," the song was "finally certified platinum in America."[56]

Praising the single as an "exultant epiphany reminding you just how alive you are," Insider recounted the dawn of the decade when the song was released as a time "when pop music was still comfortably discredited," seeing her legacy as an artist as not only "emerging unbothered" by the time the decade ended but with the best work of countless female pop stars (Charli XCX, Lorde, Janelle Monáe, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Ariana Grande) that followed "bearing the mark of her signature poptimism," with 'Dancing on My Own' being the "ultimate example." Seeing the domination over the music landscape as the decade closed of the 'sad banger: a song whose instrumental sets you up for good times, only to sucker punch your heart with lyrics of Biblical sadness,'[3] the BBC's Mark Savage solely credited Robyn and the single, observing that it clearly 'influenced an entire generation of songwriters.'

To that end, Lorde told Vice in a piece describing her 'friendly fixation' with Robyn (including keeping a framed portrait of her on the piano during her performance of 'Liability' on Saturday Night Live and in the studio as a 'patron saint' to watch over the Melodrama sessions)[57][58] that she credited the track as her inspiration for continuing to do music, naming it among the songs suggested by friends in the studio (Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' and The Beach Boys' 'God Only Knows') as the song she wished could remain 'immortal'. The manager of Robyn's longtime friend, pop industry titan Max Martin (the producer behind many of those stars' hits including Robyn's from her mid-90's teen-pop era, Show Me Love, and Do You Know What It Takes) went on to tell her Max thought it was "one of the best pop songs ever made." Years later Max would go on to tell her at a dinner that he continued to have a "lot" of female artists come into his studio, "...put your album on the table," and say, "I wanna make this!" Robyn described his response as "Well, fuck you, go work with her then!" which she found "very sweet."[59][5] One of Martin's biggest collaborators, singer/songwriter Taylor Swift, after being introduced by and handed the award for "Best Solo Act" from Robyn at the 2020 NME Awards, thanked her (among others) for it, saying "You inspire every single artist doing pop music right now. Honestly, you really do."[60] At the same ceremony Héloïse Letissier of Christine & The Queens, who would present her with the award for 'Songwriter of the Decade', said "As a songwriter I can only marvel at a song like Dancing On My Own...it's a gem of pop. I watched her gig in Oslo last year and it was the most cathartic thing I ever saw."[61]

Assessing the ironic full circle Robyn took from acrimonious split with Max Martin (who, slighted from her rejection of his vision went on to mold it to a little known Britney Spears) to inspiring most of his collaborators, music critic Sasha Geffen told NPR's Sam Sanders she saw the track (and accompanying album) as the ultimate payoff for the enormous risks Robyn took with the last things she would try before "quitting music": leaving the machine behind, making her own label, and doing a 180 on her image in less than a decade: "She succeeded because she still has teen pop in her heart, even if she broke up with that part of the industry. It's important to see her as a teenager who survived. She's learned to carry the intensity of teenage emotion into perfectly adult pop songs ... which I think is incredible.[15]" Billboard's Christine Werthman saw this track, her "crowning dancefloor elegy"[62], as indicative of a successful pivot from early-career chart success to a template that balanced critical appraisal and a new audience that "several pop stars [...] including Carly Rae Jepsen" would later follow. Becoming what NMEs Eli Hunt described[63] as the "queen of the misfits," Robyn described this 'new audience' to Spin's Caryn Ganz[64] as consisting of mostly, but not exclusively "35-year-old white males, hipsters, badonkadonk girls from Brooklyn, goths, and nerdy kids." Out singer/songwriter Sam Smith "...observed that [the track] made Robyn "a huge part of the LGBTQ community because we get to dance our pain away."[3] Rolling Stone's Justin Ravitz on its list of their '25 Essential LGBTQ Pride Songs' concurred, finding the tale of its "heartbroken heroine" at her "most rejected, lonely and isolated dancing alone and for herself" rather than "going home or making a scene" while trying "not to feel like a freak eyeing an ex with his (or her) new piece at a club [...] deeply resonant to queer, marginalized people."

Music video
Robyn standing in front a microphone stand in the music video

The music video for "Dancing on My Own" was filmed in a studio in Stockholm, Sweden. It was directed by Max Vitali, who previously worked with Robyn on the second music video for her 2005 single "Be Mine!",[65] styled and choreographed by Maria "Decida" Wahlberg[66] and produced by Nils Ljunggren. Visually, Vitali wanted the video to be simple, resembling Robyn's live performances and her then-upcoming tour.[65] In a behind-the-scenes video, Robyn said, "It's going to be looking a little bit like what I'm going to bring on tour. So it's a performance video but it's also going to be in I guess something like a rave or like a club or somewhere where people are dancing, "[67] explaining that the video is about being sad on the dance floor.[67]

The video features a darkened club setting, where Robyn is walking and dancing amongst the edge of the crowd then through the crowd, occasionally watching her ex with another woman and trying to get his attention - though there is no overt reference as to who they are among the many club goers depicted.[68] In cutscenes, Robyn is standing in a "harshly lit rehearsal space" with an elaborate stage-like contraption wall of spotlights, sound and lighting equipment, fog machines and mirrors behind her whist singing while standing in front of an empty microphone stand.

Decida's choreography for Robyn to turn her back to the camera and feign intimacy with another person by wrapping her arms around herself was designed as a "moment of levity" from her "serious" attempts to get her ex's attention, while her punching gyrations were inspired by the "angry energy" of Rosie Perez's famous opening sequence in Spike Lee's seminal 1989 film Do The Right Thing. Robyn would continue to use both moves in subsequent live performances of the song.[69]

The video premiered via Robyn's official Vimeo account on 21 May 2010.[70] One day earlier, a behind-the-scenes video was uploaded to her official website.[71] Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork wrote of the video, "When you're a star, sometimes all you need to do is put on a casually stylish outfit, gaze into a lens, move your limbs around in a rhythmic manner, and-- just like that-- a high-quality music video is born. Robyn is a star. And that's exactly what happens in this video."[72] Leslie Simon of MTV Buzzworthy named it a "Video You Need To Know" and wrote, "Amid a sea of strobe lights and PDA-stricken couples, Robyn seems cautiously fed up with dancing solo. Sad. We'll dance with you, lady!"[73]

Live performances

Robyn performed the song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on 16 June 2010.[74] She also performed the song on Capital 95.8 FM during a live session on 23 June 2010.[75] The first live performance on US television was on the Late Show with David Letterman on 19 July 2010.[76] Robyn performed the song on the All Hearts joint tour with American singer Kelis.[77] On 30 July 2010, she took a break from the tour to appear on iHeartRadio in New York City, where she performed "Dancing on My Own" and a cover of Alicia Keys' "Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart".[78] On 12 September 2010, Robyn performed a remixed version of the song with in-house DJ deadmau5 at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.[79] The two did not rehearse the performance until the morning of the show, and Robyn said, "I met him for, like, five minutes, and then we were playing."[80] A few days later, Robyn spoke to MTV News about the performance, saying, "usually, awards shows can be so strange, but [the VMAs] felt really real. There were so many stars there and so many expectations, so I wanted to make sure I went up onstage and did something that felt real, and I got all this love from all the people at MTV. I felt really wanted. It was really amazing."[80]

The song was featured on 1 November 2010 episode of the teen drama Gossip Girl, titled "War at the Roses", where Robyn also performed an acoustic rendition of "Hang with Me". On 11 November 2010, she performed the song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.[81] On 24 November 2010, she performed it on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[82] On 11 December 2010, she performed it alongside "Indestructible" and "Jag vet en dejlig rosa" at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway.[83] She also performed the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 13 April 2011,[84] followed by a performance on the outdoor stage on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the next day.[85] She also performed the song during the Body Talk Tour.[86] On 10 December 2011, Robyn performed the song on Saturday Night Live.[87]

Formats and track listings

Credits and personnel

Source[96]

Charts and certifications

Radio dates and release history
List of release dates, showing country, formats released, and record label
Country Release date Format(s) Label
Sweden[92] 1 June 2010 Digital download Konichiwa Records
United States[116] Interscope Records
Germany, Austria, Switzerland[89][90] 11 June 2010
  • CD
  • digital download
 Ministry of Sound
United Kingdom[117] 13 June 2010 Digital download Universal Music
20 July 2010 CD single
United States[118] 2 November 2010 Mainstream airplay Interscope Records

Other versions

Belgian singer Kato Callebaut performed Robyn's acoustic version as part of her audition on Idool 2011 then released her studio cover, receiving a gold certification for 10,000+ copies sold.[119] A cappella group Pentatonix released a cover in 2017 with a music video, their first track as a quartet instead of a quintet.[120] Actress Elle Fanning performed the midtempo electropop version for the 2018 movie Teen Spirit and it was subsequently released as part of the soundtrack with a promotional music video depicting her role, aiming for pop stardom.[121]

Singer/songwriter Kelly Clarkson covered the downtempo acoustic version on February 28, 2019 in Dallas, Texas on her Meaning of Life Tour.[122] Years later, Robyn told BBC Newsbeat she "really liked" her version, noting "she has a really powerful voice. She recorded one of my favorite Max Martin songs, Since U Been Gone, which I covered in the Radio 1 Live Lounge. So that's funny."[123]

American folk singer Willie Watson, former founding member of Americana and bluegrass band Old Crow Medicine Show released a folk version of the song in May 2020.[124] Alternative rock band Grouplove released an indie pop cover of the midtempo version, promoting it on Cover Nation,[125] Sirius XM[126] and ALT 98.7.[127]

Calum Scott version
"Dancing on My Own"
Single by Calum Scott
from the album Only Human
Released15 April 2016 (2016-04-15)
Recorded2016
GenrePop rock
Length4:20
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)
  • Robyn
  • Patrik Berger
Producer(s)John McIntyre
Calum Scott singles chronology
"Dancing on My Own"
(2016)		 "Rhythm Inside"
(2016)
Music video
"Dancing on My Own" on YouTube

Inspired by Kings of Leon's own rock cover of Robyn's downtempo ballad version, which they also performed on (but did not release via) BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge,[10] British singer Calum Scott performed a transposed arrangement of Robyn's acoustic take for his audition on Britain's Got Talent.

He subsequently released his cover as a pop rock song for his debut solo single on Independent label Instrumental, who are part-owned by Warner Music Group. It was released with Capitol Records on 3 June 2016.

Despite little radio airplay, apart from on West Hull FM, it climbed into the top 40 and slowly reached number 4 in July. It was then added to BBC Radio 2's C List playlist and peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart on 5 August. In October, a remix was released by Tiësto.[128]

As of April 2020, the original audition video has been viewed over 280 million times on YouTube,[129] while the music video has been viewed over 390 million times.[130]

Critical reception

Reception to the cover varied widely, with Metro Weekly lauding the "stellar and powerful confessional"[131] and Pitchfork lambasting the "dubious" soft-focus cover as "weepy."[132]

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 40 on the UK Singles Chart, before reaching number 2 after spending several weeks climbing. On 1 September 2016, it was revealed that "Dancing on My Own" was the most bought song of the Summer in the UK. Scott told the Official Charts Company: "I am absolutely over the moon at this news".[133] This song has sold over 1,000,000 copies in the UK.

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Result
2017 Brit Awards British Single of the Year Nominated

Weekly charts
Chart (2016–2017) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[134] 2
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[135] 32
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[136] 19
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[137] 30
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[138] 41
Denmark (Tracklisten)[139] 8
France (SNEP)[140] 58
Germany (Official German Charts)[141] 61
Ireland (IRMA)[142] 4
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[143] 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[144] 14
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[145] 5
Philippines (Philippine Hot 100)[146] 88
Portugal (AFP)[147] 5
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[148] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[149] 4
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[150] 81
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[151] 2
UK Indie (Official Charts Company)[152] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[153] 93
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[154] 15
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[155] 25
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[156] 14
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[157] 35

Year-end charts
Chart (2016) Position
Australia (ARIA)[158] 21
Denmark (Tracklisten)[159] 87
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[160] 84
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[161] 59
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[162] 12
Chart (2017) Position
Denmark (Tracklisten)[163] 88
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[164] 67
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[165] 92
Portugal Full Track Download (AFP)[166] 40
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[167] 42
Chart (2018) Position
Portugal Full Track Download (AFP)[168] 182
Chart (2019) Position
Portugal (AFP)[169] 351

Decade-end charts
Chart (2010–2019) Position
Australia (ARIA)[170] 66
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[171] 54

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[172] 9× Platinum 630,000
Belgium (BEA)[173] Gold 15,000*
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[174] 2× Platinum 180,000
France (SNEP)[175] Gold 100,000
Germany (BVMI)[176] Platinum 400,000
Italy (FIMI)[177] Platinum 50,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)[178] Gold 30,000*
Netherlands (NVPI)[179] Gold 20,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[180] Platinum 15,000*
Norway (IFPI Norway)[181] 2× Platinum 20,000
Portugal (AFP)[182] Platinum 10,000^
Sweden (GLF)[183] 3× Platinum 120,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[184] 3× Platinum 1,800,000
United States (RIAA)[185] 2× Platinum 2,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

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