Ready to Start
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"Ready to Start" is a single from Arcade Fire's third album The Suburbs. It was released as a single on October 3, 2010. The band performed "Ready to Start" as their second performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards, immediately following The Suburbs winning Album of the Year. The band also performed the song at the Brit Awards several days after the Grammy Awards.
Music video
A music video was made for the single and was uploaded to YouTube on August 26, 2010. The video shows the band performing the song in a concert event as part of their world tour.[2]
Credits and personnel
- Win Butler - lead vocals, guitar
- Régine Chassagne - backing vocals, drums
- Richard Reed Parry - guitar, string arrangements
- Tim Kingsbury - bass
- William Butler - keyboards, guitar
- Sarah Neufeld - violin, backing vocals, string arrangements
- Jeremy Gara - drums
- Owen Pallett - string arrangements
- Marika Anthony Shaw - string arrangements
- Arcade Fire and Markus Dravs - producers
- Craig Silvey and Nick Launay - mixing
Chart performance
"Ready to Start" peaked at #67 on the UK Singles Chart, the band's highest placement since "Keep the Car Running" peaked at #56 in 2007. The song also peaked at #16 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, the band's highest ever placement on that chart, surpassing the #32 placement of "Keep the Car Running" when the chart was known under its original name of Modern Rock Tracks. Additionally, the single peaked at #25 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart, and in the band's native Canada, at #49.
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[3] | 54 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[4] | 79 |
| Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[5] | 49 |
| UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[6] | 67 |
| US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[7] | 17 |
| US Alternative Songs (Billboard) | 16 |
| US Rock Songs (Billboard) | 25 |
References
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- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oI27uSzxNQ
- ↑ "Ultratop.be – Arcade Fire – Ready to Start" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ↑ "Ultratop.be – Arcade Fire – Ready to Start" (in French). Ultratop 50.
- ↑ "Arcade Fire – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Arcade Fire.
- ↑ http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/110122cluk.txt
- ↑ http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?p=5333547#5333547
- Pages with reference errors
- 2010 singles
- Arcade Fire songs
- Merge Records singles
- Song recordings produced by Markus Dravs
- 2010 songs
- Songs written by William Butler (musician)
- Songs written by Win Butler
- Songs written by Régine Chassagne
- Songs written by Jeremy Gara
- Songs written by Tim Kingsbury
- Songs written by Richard Reed Parry
