Unsteady (song)

"Unsteady"
Single by X Ambassadors
from the album VHS
Released October 13, 2015
Recorded 2014
Genre
Length 3:13
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
X Ambassadors singles chronology
"Cannonball"
(2015)
"Unsteady"
(2015)
"American Oxygen"
(2015)
Music video
"Unsteady" on YouTube

"Unsteady" is a song by American rock band X Ambassadors. It was originally part of the band's second EP The Reason and was later released as the third single from the band's debut studio album, VHS, on October 13, 2015. The song has a remix version entitled "Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)", a single for the motion picture soundtrack for the film Me Before You.

Composition

According to the sheet music published at MusicNotes.com, the song is written in the key of B minor, with a tempo of 58 beats per minute.

Accolades

"Unsteady" was nominated for Top Rock Song at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards.

Music video

Influenced by the song’s theme of divorce, the music video follows a couple at two points in their relationship: the moment they fell in love, and the moment they knew their relationship was over. The song shows how habits that may have been "fun and spontaneous" when young can turn into serious problems when they begin to affect an adult family life where children can be influenced by those choices.

The video was directed by ENDS (Zack Sekuler and Daniel Iglesias Jr.)[1] Archived 2023-04-19 at the Wayback Machine

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) Platinum 70,000
Canada (Music Canada) 5× Platinum 400,000
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) Gold 45,000
Germany (BVMI) Gold 200,000
Italy (FIMI) Gold 25,000
United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum 600,000
United States (RIAA) 5× Platinum 717,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.