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2014 single by Lorenzo Fragola From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Reason Why" is a song by Italian singer-songwriter Lorenzo Fragola, released as his debut single on 5 December 2014, during the week preceding the final of the eight season of Italian talent show X Factor, which was won by Fragola himself.
"The Reason Why" | ||||
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Single by Lorenzo Fragola | ||||
from the album Lorenzo Fragola | ||||
Released | 5 December 2014 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 3:02 | |||
Label | Sony Music Italy | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lorenzo Fragola, Michelle Lily Popovic, Fausto Cogliati | |||
Producer(s) | Fausto Cogliati | |||
Lorenzo Fragola singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"The Reason Why" on YouTube |
The song was written by Fragola with Michelle Lily Popovic and Fausto Cogliati. The latter also served as the song's producer.[1]
Fragola started composing the song a few years before it was completed, during a summer holiday when some friends asked him to write a song as a joke while they played the guitar together. He later continued to work on the track, and he chose to perform it during the auditions for the eighth series of X Factor.[2][3] On 4 December 2016, during the semi-final of the show, each contestant was required to perform a previously unreleased track, and Fragola chose to perform "The Reason Why".[4] The following day, the song was released as a single, together with the other contestant's entries.[1] "The Reason Why" later allowed Fragola to win the X Factor series, on 11 December 2014.[5]
Writing for Italian magazine Panorama, Gianni Poglio described "The Reason Why", as a "pop song written to receive airplay, incisive, immediate, without being trivial".[6] Critics including Alessandro Alicandri and la Repubblica's Anna Puricella also compared the song's sound to the work of British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.[7][8]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Italy (FIMI)[11] | 2× Platinum | 60,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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