"Sitting Down Here" is a pop

Popular music

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 song written by Norwegian singer-songwriter Lene Marlin

Lene Marlin

Lene Marlin is a Norwegian musician.-Playing My Game :Marlin made her Norwegian debut on 12 October 1998, with the single "Unforgivable Sinner", which proved to be a hit as it reached number one and kept that position for eight weeks...

 for Marlin's 1999 debut album Playing My Game

Playing My Game

Playing My Game is the first album by Norwegian musician Lene Marlin. It was released on 27 April 1999.-Track listing:#"Sitting Down Here" – 3:55#"Playing My Game" – 5:34#"Unforgivable Sinner" – 4:00#"Flown Away" – 4:08#"The Way We Are" – 4:00...

. The song is the album's opening track, and was released as its second single, peaking at #5 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 (see 2000 in British music

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Song information

"Sitting Down Here" is a pop song composed in common time

Common Time

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 and has the standard verse-chorus form

Verse-chorus form

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. Its instrumentation comes mainly from the guitar

Guitar

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Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Sitting Down Here".

• CD single (1999)

1. "Sitting Down Here"
2. "The Way We Are" (live acoustic version)

• CD single Maxi (1999)

1. "Sitting Down Here" (original version)
2. "Playing My Game" (acoustic version)
3. "I Know" (2:23)

• French CD single

1. "Sitting Down Here" (original version)
2. "Sitting Down Here" (Tin Tin Out
   Tin Tin Out
   Tin Tin Out is a UK electronic dance music duo comprising Darren Stokes and Lindsay Edwards.-Career:They are well known as active remixers, working on increasingly higher-profile songs as the 1990s progressed, however also have their own recording careers...
   
    mix)

• UK CD single Maxi (2000)

1. "Sitting Down Here" (original version)
2. "Sitting Down Here" (Tin Tin Out
   Tin Tin Out
   Tin Tin Out is a UK electronic dance music duo comprising Darren Stokes and Lindsay Edwards.-Career:They are well known as active remixers, working on increasingly higher-profile songs as the 1990s progressed, however also have their own recording careers...
   
    mix)
3. "Playing My Game" (acoustic version)
4. Sitting Down Here (Video)

• UK cassette (2000)

1. "Sitting Down Here" (original version)
2. "Sitting Down Here" (Tin Tin Out
   Tin Tin Out
   Tin Tin Out is a UK electronic dance music duo comprising Darren Stokes and Lindsay Edwards.-Career:They are well known as active remixers, working on increasingly higher-profile songs as the 1990s progressed, however also have their own recording careers...
   
    mix)
3. "Playing My Game" (acoustic version)

Credits and personnel

• Lead vocals: Lene Marlin
  Lene Marlin
  Lene Marlin is a Norwegian musician.-Playing My Game :Marlin made her Norwegian debut on 12 October 1998, with the single "Unforgivable Sinner", which proved to be a hit as it reached number one and kept that position for eight weeks...
  
  
• Producer
  Record producer
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  s: Hans G, Jorn Dahl
• Audio mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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  : Richard Lowe

• Guitar: Stray
• Programmer
  Programming (music)
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  : Jorn Dahl
• Audio mixing assistant: Dab Bierton

Charts

Chart (1999/2000)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart	38
Belgium Singles Chart (Vl)	44
Belgium Singles Chart (Wa)	31
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	7
Finnish Singles Chart	4
French Singles Chart	48
Italian Singles Chart	5
Norwegian Singles Chart	2
New Zealand Singles Chart	4
Swedish Singles Chart	18
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	5