Miracle (Hurts song)

"Miracle"
Single by Hurts
from the album Exile
Released	11 January 2013 (2013-01-11)
Recorded	2012; Pellerin Studios (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Length	3:45
Label	Major Label Sony RCA
Songwriter(s)	Hurts
Producer(s)	Hurts
Hurts singles chronology
"Blood, Tears & Gold" (2011) "Miracle" (2013) "Blind" (2013)
Alternative Single Cover
Music video
"Hurts - Miracle" on YouTube

"Miracle" is the lead single by British duo Hurts taken off their second studio album Exile, which was released on 10 March 2013, exactly a day before the album release. The song premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 4 January 2013. In Germany, the "Robots Don't Sleep Remix" was released instead. A remix EP was released on 1 March.

Two versions of the music video exist. The first video was filmed in Colindale (London). The video was released on 4 February 2013.

Black colour dominates the video. Black marries the band's widescreen synthpop with this dark and dramatic journey through a post-apocalyptic shopping centre, peppered with religious imagery and fearless half-clad dancers, ending on a rooftop with the Hurts hashtag-like logo in flames.^[1] This version of the video was leaked and then deleted. The official music video was posted on Hurts official Vevo account on 28 February, giving a very different concept from the first version released.^[2]

First version was directed by Chris Turner^[3] and the second one by Frank Borin.^[4]

Hurts performed the single live at The Jonathan Ross Show on 9 February 2013, which was their first performance of the song on a television programme.^[5]

• iTunes single

1. "Miracle" – 3:44

• Miracle (Robots Don't Sleep Remix) – iTunes single

1. "Miracle (Robots Don't Sleep Remix)" – 3:41

• Miracle (Remixes) – iTunes EP^[6]

1. "Miracle" – 3:44
2. "Miracle (BURNS 50Hz Version)" – 4:47
3. "Miracle (Breakage's an Inferior Titles Moment Remix)" – 5:06
4. "Miracle (Russ Chimes Remix)" – 4:32
5. "Miracle (ATATIKA's 'Miraculous' Remix)" – 5:44

• Miracle (UK Remixes) – iTunes EP^[7]

1. "Miracle" – 3:44
2. "Miracle (BURNS 50Hz Version)" – 4:47
3. "Miracle (Breakage's an Inferior Titles Moment Remix)" – 5:06
4. "Miracle (Russ Chimes Remix)" – 4:32
5. "Miracle (Kill FM Remix)" – 5:11
6. "Miracle (∆T∆TIK∆'s 'Miraculous' Remix)" – 5:44

• Hurts — keyboards, lyrics, music, programming, production, singer
• Pete Watson – piano, bass guitar
• Paul Walsham – drums
• Wil Malone – conductor, performance arranger
• Dan Grech-Marguerat – engineer, producer
• John Barclay, Tom Rees-Roberts – trumpet
• Duncan Fuller – assistant engineer
• Laurence Davis, Richard Watkins, Simon Rayner – horn
• Andy Wood, Richard Edwards – trombone
• Jakob Hermann – engineer, guitar
• Spike Stent – mixing engineer
• David Emery – assistant engineer
• Ted Jensen – mastering engineer^[8]

• Hurts - Miracle (Audio) on YouTube