"Seven Days"
Single by Sting
from the album Ten Summoner's Tales
B-side"January Stars"
Released12 April 1993 (1993-04-12)[1]
Length4:40 (full album version)
4:13 (radio edit)
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Sting
Producer(s)
  • Sting
  • Hugh Padgham
Sting singles chronology
"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You"
(1993)		 "Seven Days"
(1993)		 "Fields of Gold"
(1993)

"Seven Days" is a song by English singer-songwriter Sting, released on 12 April 1993 as the second single from his fourth studio album, Ten Summoner's Tales (1993). It reached the top 30 in both the UK and Italy.

Background

The song was recorded in quintuple (5
4) meter. Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta played a two bar repeating figure on the hi-hat to smoothen out the odd time signature and also overdubbed some brush work during the middle of one of the verses so that the song would "chug a little more and differently".[2]

When asked about the decision to release "Seven Days" as a single, Sting explained that "My philosophy's always been to have a hit that's against the odds rather than designed to be a hit: something that sticks out like a sore thumb on the radio and is a hit because of that, rather than because it just obeyed all the rules. When I've had hits like that - "Russians" was a case in point - it's very satisfying."[3]

With the exception of the UK CD Digipak edition, all versions of the "Seven Days" single featured "January Stars" as a B-side. The song recycled the instrumentation of another track from Ten Summoner's Tales titled "Everybody Laughed But You", but features different lyrics. A live cover of "Ain't No Sunshine", originally recorded by Bill Withers, was taken from an April 1991 acoustic show at the Buddle Arts Centre in Wallsend and included on the UK CD Digipak single.[4]

Track listing

7" single[5]
  1. Seven Days (Radio edit) — 4:13
  2. January Stars — 3:50
CD single[6]
  1. Seven Days (Radio edit) — 4:13
  2. January Stars — 3:50
  3. Mad About You (live) — 5:31
  4. Ain't No Sunshine (live) — 5:06
UK CD Digipak single[4]
  1. Seven Days (Radio edit) — 4:13
  2. Islands of Souls (live) — 8:27
  3. The Wild Wild Sea (live) — 6:02
  4. The Soul Cages (live) — 6:17

Charts

Chart performance for "Seven Days"
Chart (1993) Peak
position
Italy (FIMI)[7] 22
UK Singles (OCC)[8] 25

References

  1. ↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 10 April 1993. p. 23. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  2. ↑ "Modern Drummer 1993 - Vinnie Colaiuta". www.vinniecolaiuta.com. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Sting Interview: The Independent on Sunday (1994)". Sting.com. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Sting Discography - Seven Days, CD digipak". Sting.com. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Sting Discography - Seven Days, 7". Sting.com. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "Sting Discography - Seven Days, CD". Sting.com. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  7. ↑ "Italian Charts". Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  8. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
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