Please Don't Say You Love Me

"Please Don't Say You Love Me"
Single by Gabrielle Aplin
from the album English Rain
Released 10 February 2013
Format Digital download
Recorded 2012
Genre Folk pop
Length 3:01
Label EMI Records, Parlophone
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Mike Spencer
Gabrielle Aplin singles chronology
"The Power of Love"
(2012)		 "Please Don't Say You Love Me"
(2013)		 "Panic Cord"
(2013)

"Please Don't Say You Love Me" is a song by British singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin. It was released as the second single from her debut studio album, English Rain (2013). It was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2013.

Composition

"Please Don't Say You Love Me" was written and composed in 2012 by Aplin and Nicholas Atkinson. Sheet music shows that "Please Don't Say You Love Me" is set in the key of C Major. It is written in 2/2 time with a slow tempo of 86 beats per minute. Aplin's vocals span from A3 to C5.[1]

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "Please Don't Say You Love Me" was first released onto YouTube on 27 July 2012 at a total length of three minutes and twenty-eight seconds, starring The Fades's Iain de Caestecker and the actress Ophelia Lovibond.[2]

Usage

An acoustic version of "Please Don`t Say You Love Me" was featured in the closing episode of Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks on 19 April 2013 when it was used during the exit of popular character Jacqui McQueen.

Although it was released in 2013, "Please Don't Say You Love Me" debuted at number three on the ARIA Charts on 28 July 2014, after Rachael Thompson performed it in her audition for the The X Factor Australia.

Track listings

Digital download - EP
No. Title Length
1. "Please Don't Say You Love Me"   3:01
2. "Stranger Side"   3:04
3. "Rings Round Roses"   2:59
4. "Please Don't Say You Love Me" (piano version) 3:41

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2013–14) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[3] 3
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[4] 48
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 27
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[6] 5
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[7] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (2014) Position
Australia (ARIA)[8] 88

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[9] Platinum 70,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[10] Silver 200,000double-dagger

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format Label
United Kingdom 10 February 2013 Digital download EMI Records, Parlophone

References

  1. ↑ Please Don't Say You Love Me Sheet Music musicnotes.com.
  2. ↑ Gabrielle Aplin - Please Don't Say You Love Me on YouTube
  3. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Gabrielle Aplin – Please Don't Say You Love Me". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  4. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Gabrielle Aplin – Please Don't Say You Love Me" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  5. ↑ "Chart Track: Week 07, 2013". Irish Singles Chart.
  6. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2013-02-23". Scottish Singles Top 40.
  7. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2013-02-23" UK Singles Chart.
  8. ↑ "ARIA Top 100 Singles 2014". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2014 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "British single certifications – Gabrielle Aplin – Please Don't Say You Love Me". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Please Don't Say You Love Me in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select single in the field By Format. Select Silver in the field By Award. Click Search

External links

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