In its ninth week on the chart, the song climbed to number one with sales of 63,298 units, including 5,057 CD single copies which accounted for a 25.5% increase in its weekly sales. In August 2021, 'Cold Heart (Pnau remix)' debuted at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart, selling in 11,557 units in its first week. Billboard included 'Cold Heart (Pnau remix)' in its list of the best songs of 2021 at number 44. Terry Staunton of Record Collector was less impressed, deriding it as 'awkward' and 'a little out of step'. In The Independent, Helen Brown wrote that it 'does a terrific job of mashing up old songs 'Sacrifice' and 'Rocket Man', giving both a tendon-twanging freshness.' Barry Divola of The Sydney Morning Herald deemed the song a 'hand-waver' which suited the objective of The Lockdown Sessions, while The Arts Desk 's Liz Thomson cited 'Cold Heart (Pnau remix)' as among the album's two most memorable tracks. Similarly, Annie Zaleski of Variety regarded it as 'chic' and 'a seamless (and savvy) mashup of eras'. The song is in the key of B-flat minor.Įvening Standard reviewer David Smyth described 'Cold Heart (Pnau remix)' as 'a particularly slick updating of classic Elton'.

The 'Where's the Shoorah?' sample comes 3 minutes into 'Cold Heart (Pnau remix)', with a slowed-down tempo and a key shifted from an E-flat major. In 'Cold Heart (Pnau remix)', Pnau mashes up John's singles ' Rocket Man' from 1972, ' Sacrifice' from 1989, ' Kiss the Bride' from 1983 and the album track 'Where's the Shoorah?' taken from 1976's Blue Moves. įollowing remixes by Claptone and the Blessed Madonna, an acoustic version of the single was released digitally worldwide on 12 October 2021. The song was released through Virgin EMI and Mercury Records on 13 August 2021, alongside an animated music video that's been called 'wildly trippy'. It showed a snippet of the song, including Lipa singing John's 1972 single ' Rocket Man'. The following day, John and Lipa formally announced the single and its release date.

Pnau and Elton John had previously collaborated in 2012. At the same day, Pnau confirmed they wrote a song with 'the biggest pop star of yesterday' and 'the biggest pop star of today' and that it would premiere the following Friday via their Essentials Playlist. Both tagged Pnau and Lipa using the hashtags '#coldheart', '#justpassingthrough' and '#newmusic'. On 10 August 2021, the two singers began teasing the collaboration by posting cartoon versions of themselves dancing to a disco melody, to their social medias. John also commented on Lipa's Instagram that he was excited for something happening between them the following week, in which Lipa responded that she was excited too. Rumours of a possible collaboration between Elton John and Dua Lipa began in August 2021 following news from insiders. It won Top Dance/Electronic Song at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the 42nd Brit Awards, but lost to ' Easy on Me' by Adele. The song became John's first UK number-one single in 16 years. ' Cold Heart (Pnau remix)' is a song by English singers Elton John and Dua Lipa, produced by Australian trio Pnau, and released through EMI and Mercury Records on 13 August 2021 as the lead single from John's collaborative album, The Lockdown Sessions.

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