Fool's Gold (Jack River song)

"Fool's Gold"
Single by Jack River
from the album Sugar Mountain
Released22 June 2017[1]
Length4:17
LabelI OH YOU
Songwriter(s)Holly Rankin
Jack River singles chronology
"Palo Alto"
(2016)
"Fool's Gold"
(2017)
"Fault Lines"
(2017)
Music video
"Fool's Gold" on YouTube

"Fool's Gold" is a song by Australian singer songwriter, Jack River. It was released in June 2017 as the lead single from River's debut studio album, Sugar Mountain. It was certified platinum in Australia in 2020.

Jack River said "I was alone in New York, chasing shiny things. The verses were spinning around my head. I was annoyed at myself for falling for the same things over again without them giving back. But I also knew how human it was to feel like that, and how I'd probably come up against this feeling again and again. I wanted to write a song for that emotion – the relentless humanity in thinking something is gold when it just isn't."[2]

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[3] Platinum 70,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ "Fool's Gold – Single by Jack River on Apple Music". Apple Music AU. Archived from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Jack River – "Fools Gold"". Music Feeds. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2020 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 2 July 2020.