"Wonderful"
Single by Annie Lennox
from the album Bare
Released2004
GenrePop, Soul
LabelJ Records
Songwriter(s)Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox singles chronology
"A Thousand Beautiful Things"
(2004)		 "Wonderful"
(2004)		 "Dark Road"
(2007)

"Wonderful" is a song by Annie Lennox, released as the third and last single from her album Bare in 2004. It was released as a CD single and 12 inch single in the United States and only as a promotional single elsewhere. The single topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart for a week and became her fifth number one on that chart. No music video was made for this song.

Track listing

UK CD single

1. "Wonderful" (Album Version) – 4:16
2. "Pavement Cracks" (Goldtrix Full Vocal Mix) – 6:34
3. "A Thousand Beautiful Things" (Gabriel & Dresden Tech Funk Mix) – 9:03

Critical reception

The song had mixed critical reception. Thom Jurek of AllMusic made the song a "Track Pick" off Bare, called it "one of Lennox's trademark ballads", and praised the song's lyrics and its "Hall & Oates-styled Philly soul refrain".[1] Meanwhile, Rolling Stone's Anthony Decurtis wrote that "the thumping funk chorus of 'Wonderful,' for example, sounds forced" and called it a "misstep".[2]

Remake

The song was covered by recording artist Lovari on his album Moment Of Love [6] , which reached #2 on iTunes Electronic Dance Chart in the United States. A music video [6] was released to accompany the track.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2003) Peak
position
CIS (TopHit)[3] 116
Chart (2004) Peak
position
U.S. Hot Dance Club Play[4] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2003) Position
CIS (Tophit)[5] 176

See also

References

  1. ↑ allmusic: Bare – Overview by Thom Jurek
  2. ↑ Annie Lennox: Bare: Music Reviews: Rolling Stone by Anthony Decurtis
  3. ↑ Annie Lennox — Wonderful. TopHit. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "Hot Dance Club Songs". Billboard. 31 January 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "CIS Year-End Radio Hits (2003)". Tophit. Retrieved 11 August 2019.

6. https://choiceradio.co.uk/lovari-wonderful/ Retrieved 15 May 2020


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