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Better (Mallrat song)

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"Better"
Single by Mallrat
from the album In the Sky
Released13 October 2017 (2017-10-13)
Length3:13
LabelDew Process
Producer(s)Konstantin Kersting
Mallrat singles chronology
"For Real"
(2016)
"Better"
(2017)
"UFO"
(2018)
Music video
"Better" on YouTube

"Better" is a song by Australian musician Mallrat. It was released in October 2017[1] as the lead single from Mallrat's second EP In the Sky.

In May 2018, the song won Best Unpublished Work in the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition.[2][3]

The song was certified gold in Australia in 2019.

Background

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Mallrat said she wrote the songs in July 2016 saying "the lyrics were very easy to write but it took about a year to get the instrumentation sounding exactly like it did in my brain."[4][5]

Reception

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Thomas Smith from NME called the song a "youthful, joyous uplifting banger."[4]

Track listing

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Digital download

  1. "Better" – 3:13

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[6] Platinum 70,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ "Better - single". iTunes Australia. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Past Winners". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Native Tongue Signs Brisbane Producer & Writer Konstantin Kersting". The Music AU. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Australian pop wunderkind Mallrat shares uplifting banger 'Better'". NME. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Mallrat sounding fresh with new single 'Better'". Secret Sounds. October 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  6. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2021 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.