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Life For Rent by Dido
7,447,090 plays (672,637 listeners)
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 |
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White Flag | 4:00 | 426,648 | ||
| 2 | Life for Rent (Skinny 4 Rent remix) | 0:00 | 6 | |||
| 2 |
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Stoned | 5:55 | 151,621 | ||
| 3 |
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Life For Rent | 3:41 | 299,566 | ||
| 3 | Stoned (Spirit Chaser remix) | 0:00 | 164 | |||
| 4 |
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Mary's In India | 3:41 | 143,261 | ||
| 5 |
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See You When You're 40 | 5:20 | 129,532 | ||
| 6 |
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Don't Leave Home | 3:47 | 177,322 | ||
| 7 |
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Who Makes You Feel | 4:20 | 140,534 | ||
| 8 |
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Sand In My Shoes | 4:59 | 208,170 | ||
| 9 |
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Do You Have A Little Time | 3:55 | 137,315 | ||
| 10 |
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This Land Is Mine | 3:46 | 119,282 | ||
| 11 |
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See The Sun | 10:35 | 92,461 | ||
| 12 |
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Closer | 3:29 | 20,655 | ||
| 12 |
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Paris | 3:22 | 20,579 |
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About this album
Life for Rent is the second album by Dido, released in 2003.
Song backgrounds
“White Flag” – about a past relationship. Dido “regretted writing it” to begin with because of the further problems it caused with that person, but now enjoys performing the song.
“Life for Rent” – written to reflect how she saw her life at the time.
“Mary’s in India” – a joke for childhood best friend Mary who now lives in India, originally not intended to be on the album.
“See You When You’re 40” – about a past boyfriend who “wanted to be different more than anything in the world.”
“Don’t Leave Home” – written about the difficulties of drug addiction and made as a demo during the creation of her previous album.
Reception
Critical
Life for Rent was nominated for “Best British Album” at the 2004 BRIT Awards along with Daniel Bedingfield’s Gotta Get Thru This, Blur’s Think Tank and The Coral’s Magic and Medicine, but they were all beaten by The Darkness’s Permission to Land. “White Flag” was awarded the 2004 Ivor Novello Award in the category “International Hit of the Year”.
Commercial
Life for Rent spent ten weeks at the top of the UK albums chart.[1] It remained in the chart for 52 weeks.[2] The Life for Rent Tour was taken around the world in 2004.
In Australia the album debuted at number one on the ARIA albums chart, was one of the biggest selling albums of 2003 and went on to be certified six times platinum for sales of over 420,000. With this, Dido was able to match the huge success of her previous effort, No Angel.
Song backgrounds
“White Flag” – about a past relationship. Dido “regretted writing it” to begin with because of the further problems it caused with that person, but now enjoys performing the song.
“Life for Rent” – written to reflect how she saw her life at the time.
“Mary’s in India” – a joke for childhood best friend Mary who now lives in India, originally not intended to be on the album.
“See You When You’re 40” – about a past boyfriend who “wanted to be different more than anything in the world.”
“Don’t Leave Home” – written about the difficulties of drug addiction and made as a demo during the creation of her previous album.
Reception
Critical
Life for Rent was nominated for “Best British Album” at the 2004 BRIT Awards along with Daniel Bedingfield’s Gotta Get Thru This, Blur’s Think Tank and The Coral’s Magic and Medicine, but they were all beaten by The Darkness’s Permission to Land. “White Flag” was awarded the 2004 Ivor Novello Award in the category “International Hit of the Year”.
Commercial
Life for Rent spent ten weeks at the top of the UK albums chart.[1] It remained in the chart for 52 weeks.[2] The Life for Rent Tour was taken around the world in 2004.
In Australia the album debuted at number one on the ARIA albums chart, was one of the biggest selling albums of 2003 and went on to be certified six times platinum for sales of over 420,000. With this, Dido was able to match the huge success of her previous effort, No Angel.
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Shouts
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simpleasbreathe wrote:
an amazing album.
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Miss-Kei wrote:
I gotta have this album! *squeals*
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brendasoto wrote:
Love this album! So calm and relaxing! I love Dido!!! *-*
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ryanrayens wrote:
her best album :D
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Cherissh wrote:
Her best album
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justandrian wrote:
"White Flag" is the best song in this album. Love it
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victorvlf wrote:
PERFEITO.
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rkat wrote:
I used to love this album so much. Still a nice listen occasionally.
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ely78befree wrote:
GREAT ALBUM! :)
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vladotheimpaler wrote:
<3
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FuckinName wrote:
nearly all the songs from this album are great. Love it.
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digitalndizko wrote:
it is obvious that Dido KNOWS love AND.. in that...i groove
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Cleonina wrote:
I love Dido... "White flag" is great song. :D
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strom-z wrote:
a very good pop album. and i totally agree it woud be even without "white flag"
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Secret_m wrote:
This album brings so many memories [4] :$
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gauchoberek wrote:
White Flag is amazing!!!
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Jorgenint19 wrote:
I lOVE DIDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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tinymami wrote:
GREAT CD !!! SHE IS SO AWESOME!!
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Crowe09 wrote:
This album brings so many memories [3] :D
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lyrrre wrote:
This album brings so many memories [2] true
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