"Hallelujah" is the second single from rock

Rock music

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 band Paramore

Paramore

Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York...

's second album Riot!

Riot!

Riot! is the second studio album by American rock band Paramore, succeeding their debut album All We Know Is Falling, and was released in the United States on June 12, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2007...

. The single peaked at #139 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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. The song is not to be confused with the Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

 song of the same name, although on the Final Riot! summer 2008 tour, lead singer Hayley Williams

Hayley Williams

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 performs an extract, accompanied by lead guitarist, Josh Farro.

This song has two versions; the first one is the demo which got filtered and by that reason Hayley put all of her effort to make the new song better.

Music video

The video, directed by Big TV!, was officially released on July 30, 2007. The video appears as a photo montage of backstage and live performance photos, with the lyrics of the song written in the spaces between the photos. The video will zoom in and out on some of the photos. When the photo fills the entire screen, the photo will be revealed to actually be a short video clip, and the video clip will play. The video was shot at Rocketown

Rocketown

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 in Nashville, USA when the band were playing their Riot! tour, even though the music is playing over the concert performance.

Single release

A CD single and two 7" vinyls were released in the UK on 10 September.

In other media

The song was featured in an episode of the British

United Kingdom

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 television soap opera

Soap opera

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 Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks

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in October 2008 ("Misery Business

Misery Business

"Misery Business" is a song by American rock band Paramore, and is the lead single from their second studio album, Riot!. "Misery Business" was the third Paramore video to be directed by Shane Drake, and was nominated for the "Best Video" award at the Kerrang! Awards 2007, but lost to Fall Out...

" was also used in another episode in March 2008 and then later "Born for This" in September 2008). The song was also featured twice (once as a string quartet version) on the fourth season

So You Think You Can Dance (Season 4)

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 of So You Think You Can Dance

So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. TV series)

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Cover versions

The Rusty Pipes covered an a cappella version of the song (including Leonard Cohen's song of the same name) at their 13th Annual Pipe-A-Thon on December 12, 2009, and posted it on their YouTube channel on January 24, 2010.

The Vitamin String Quartet covered this song along with other Paramore songs, which were released as a downloadable album.

Release history

Country	Date
Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	September 10, 2007
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...