2016Released
3:24

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More than a decade after releasing her first album, Rachel Platten made her Hot 100 debut with this empowerment anthem. The Massachusetts singer's "Fight Song" was the fruit of 12 years hard graft. She told The Idolator: "I grinded and worked so hard for so long and got to the point of… I didn't think it was going to happen. I thought I might need to figure something else out. That moment bred 'Fight Song.' So that song came because I had to make a decision, 'Am I going to keep going or am I going to give up on myself?'" "I came up with the answer to the decision, I guess through writing the song," she added. "I didn't even realize it was happening, but through writing the song I made the decision to not give up on myself. Even if it's only getting to play to a handful of people a night, that's enough. At least I get to spread this message. Then funnily enough, by releasing the song, I got this amazing opportunity."

Platten was an unknown, unsigned artist when this song was first released in 2014. The song gained early exposure thanks to its placement in the December 9, 2014 Christmas-themed episode of ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars. It got more attention in January 2015 when the Baltimore radio station Mix 106.5 gave it some spins after a friend of Platten's played it for the station's program director, Dave Labrozzi. (Don't try this at home - asking a PD to play your friend's song is the longest of long shots). Many listeners Shazamed the song, trying to figure out who was singing it. This Shazam data demonstrated a great deal of interest in the song, and record companies took notice. Columbia Records signed Platten and released the song on their label in 2015. Now with major-label backing, the song, and Platten's career, took off, making it one of the first songs to break out because of Shazam.

Billboard magazine asked Rachel Platten if there was one specific experience that inspired the song. She replied: "You know, I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going. There were a lot of signs pointing to me needing to find something else. It was breaking my heart, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I really wasn't going to quit, that, it didn't matter." "Even if I was only going to reach a couple of people a night, I was still gonna do this, I was still gonna find a way to make music and create," Platten added. "I just needed it at the time, you know, I needed that reminder that I believed in myself no matter what."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Fight Song.
GKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
176BPM

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Released By

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Columbia
(P) 2015 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment

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