Chasing Pirates

"Chasing Pirates" is the first single by American singer Norah Jones from her fourth album, The Fall. It was released exclusively to iTunes on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. The song also had its North American radio station premiere on the defunct 97.3 EZ Rock, now CHBM, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 9, 2009. The song went top ten in Japan, The Netherlands and Belgium. In the US, "Chasing Pirates" peaked at No. 13 on Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and No. 7 on Jazz Songs.

"Chasing Pirates"
Single by Norah Jones
from the album The Fall
Released	October 13, 2009
Studio	The Coop, New York City Magic Shop, New York City Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California House of David, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Rock[1]
Length	2:40
Label	Blue Note
Songwriter(s)	Norah Jones
Producer(s)	Jacquire King
Norah Jones singles chronology
"Until the End" (2007) "Chasing Pirates" (2009) "Young Blood" (2010)
Music video
"Chasing Pirates" on YouTube

"Chasing Pirates" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, becoming Jones's third nomination, after "Don't Know Why" and "Sunrise".

Background

Norah Jones explained how "Chasing Pirates" came to be, "About a year ago, I did some demos in my home studio. I had some friends come in and we figured out a cool arrangement for 'Chasing Pirates,' with a cool drum part. It went somewhere I didn't expect it to go, and that became a direction to look in."^[2]

Music video

October 27, 2009 VH1 aired the full version of Norah Jones's "Chasing Pirates" music video directed by Rich Lee. In the beginning of the music video, she finds a map of Manhattan in a bottle while sitting on the couch in an apartment complex. In the next scene of the music video, she steers a building from a roof made to look like a pirate ship as she tries to find what is marked on the map. She also sits on deck before the roof transforms into a pirate ship. The music video also gained significant airplay on Australia's channel GO as filler time between programs in late 2009 and early 2010.

Performances

She performed the song live on ABC's Dancing with the Stars on October 20, as well as Late Show with David Letterman on November 11, 2009, Good Morning America on November 16, 2009, The View on November 23, 2009, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on December 15, 2009 and Jimmy Kimmel Live!^[3]

Chart positions

The song entered the Adult Album Alternative charts on October 21, 2009 at #13.^{[citation needed]} It became the highest entry by a female artist on that chart since Alanis Morissette's "Everything" in 2004.^{[citation needed]} The last single by a female artist to chart at a higher position was another single by Jones, "Sunrise."^[4] The song entered on the Irish Singles Chart for the first time on #39.^{[citation needed]}

Weekly charts Chart (2009–2010) Peak position Austrian Singles Chart 38 Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders) 21 Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia) 6 European Hot 100 84 German Singles Chart 66 Irish Singles Chart 39[5] Italian Singles Chart 21 Norwegian Top Airplays (IFPI) 10 New Zealander Top Airplays 69 Japan Hot 100 4[6] Swedish Singles Chart 26 Swiss Music Charts 23[7] UK Singles Chart 87[8] U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 10 U.S. Billboard Digital Songs 100 U.S. Billboard Jazz Songs 7[9] U.S. Billboard Adult Alternative Songs 1[10] U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 13[11] U.S. Billboard Rock Songs 38[12]

Year-end charts Chart (2010) Position Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia)[13] 90 US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[14] 36