The song was certified Quadruple Platinum in New Zealand and Sweden, Double Platinum in Australia and Canada, and Platinum in Austria, Belgium and Italy. it reached the top 10 charts in several countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland. ‘I See Fire’ topped the charts in New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. In the UK, the song reached number 13 on the Official Charts Company and was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales over 600, 000 copies. That’s what the song needs to reflect.’ ‘Write a song that takes the audience by the hand and leads them from Middle Earth back into reality.’ So, yeah, I tried to do that.” Director Peter Jackson asked him to focus on the last 10 minutes of the movie.Ĭhart Rankings: In the US, the song topped the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts, reached number 36 on the Digital Songs charts and peaked at number 15 on the Hot Rock songs. Peter said, ‘Focus on the last ten minutes. In an interview with MTV News, he explained trying to get into the mindset to write this song, he said: “I’ve never been a dwarf, but I’ve wrote a song from the perspective of being a dwarf. The entire team down in New Zealand was out of this world.” Sheeran watched the movie, wrote the song, and recorded most of it in one day. I was allowed complete freedom to create what I thought was fitting for the film, which is very rare, and Peter, Fran and Philippa (Boyens, screenwriter) were always on hand to give notes and pointers. It’s so intense I felt I needed a way to ease people out of the theatres. The song has lilting, Celtic-influence to it, in an interview with Jam Music, Sheeran explained how it happened, he said: “The first idea I had for this song was something epic, but it seemed like, when I watched the film, my heart was pumping so much. Sheeran wrote this song as a soundtrack for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, on the request of Director Peter Jackson and his co-producer wife Fran Walsh, it was their daughter’s suggestion.
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