Underwater (Mika song)

"Underwater"
Single by Mika
from the album The Origin of Love
Released 23 November 2012
Format Digital download, CD single
Recorded 2012
Genre Pop
Length 3:08
Label Barclay, Casablanca
Writer(s) Mika, Littlemore, Paul Steel
Producer(s) Greg Wells, Mika
Mika singles chronology
"Celebrate"
(2012)
"Underwater"
(2012)
"Origin of Love"
(2012)

"Underwater" is a song by singer-songwriter Mika, released as the album's third single in France, and the second single in Europe from his third studio album, The Origin of Love.

Background

The single peaked at #12 in France. The single will not be released in the United Kingdom, and instead, the single's artwork was adapted for the British equivalent single release, "Origin of Love".

The song was featured in a Swatch Scuba Libre Collection TV Commercial advert,[1] becoming one of the most successful singles.

Music Video

The music video for the track was released on YouTube on 21 November 2012. It was filmed in Los Angeles during the third week of October, and premiered on 21 November 2012, just two days' before the single's official release.[2]

The music video features Mika out in an ocean of cloth on a small makeshift boat, as he floats around as the waves slowly gets choppier over time, having a burlap sack filled with glowing orbs, however as the waves gets choppier, a rope snaps from the boat, forcing Mika to keep his mast up as it gets worse, some of his treasures fall into the ocean too, as the waves become unstable for the boat, the burlap sack and Mika fall into the ocean, as he then sees sea people who dance around him distracting him, however as they do, the ropes from the mast gets tangled around Mika's body as one of the sea people snatches the burlap sack from Mika, swimming away as Mika "drowns" from being underwater as he sinks downwards.

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[3] 68
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[4] 7
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[5] 27
France (SNEP)[6] 12
Germany (Official German Charts)[7] 46
Italy (FIMI)[8] 14
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] 25

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Italy (FIMI)[10] Gold 15,000*

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

References

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