"I Follow Rivers" is a song by Swedish recording artist Lykke Li from her second studio album, Wounded Rhymes (2011). Produced by Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John, it was released on 21January 2011 as the album's second single.[4] The track premiered exclusively on SPIN.com on 10January 2011.[5]
Belgian DJ/producer The Magician remixed and reworked "I Follow Rivers" in 2011, peaking at number one in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Romania, number two in Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, and the Netherlands, and number four in France. The remix was deemed "'90s house".[6]
Belgian band Triggerfinger covered "I Follow Rivers" in 2012, peaking at number one in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Music video
The music video, directed by Tarik Saleh and filmed at Närsholmen on the Swedish island of Gotland,[7][8] features Li in a black robe and veil chasing a man (Swedish-Lebanese actor Fares Fares)[9] through a snowy landscape. An unofficial music video consisting of scenes from the French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour played with The Magician's remix was uploaded to YouTube by user Aldo Zuga on March 9, 2014, and has over 509 million views as of January 2024,[10] surpassing the original music video's 89 million views as of January 2024.[11]
Track listings
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish iTunes EP – Remixes[12][13][14][15]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. † Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.
Belgian band Triggerfinger covered "I Follow Rivers" during Giel Beelen's show on the Dutch radio station 3FM in what was called "a fragile version". They used glasses, cups, and knives to create a rhythmical background section.[95] Triggerfinger's version was released as a single on 24 February 2012,[96] topping the singles chart in Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands, while reaching number nine in Germany and number seventeen in Switzerland.
The song was covered in German by FC Bayern München ultras, as "I Follow FC Bayern" and was in this year, in the Lykke Li Version, the Song for Ran TV Intro.[114]
^"ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – RADIO – TOP 100 and insert 201243 into search. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
^"Media Forest – Weekly Charts. Media Forest. 14 November 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2018. Note: Romanian and international positions are rendered together by the number of plays before resulting an overall chart.
^"Media Forest – Weekly Charts. Media Forest. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2018. Note: Select 'Songs – TV'. Romanian and international positions are rendered together by the number of plays before resulting an overall chart.