Released 7 May 2010 Release date 7 May 2010 | Artist Angus & Julia Stone | |
 | ||
Genres Acoustic music, Folk music | ||
Angus and julia stone big jet plane official music video
"Big Jet Plane" is a song written by Australian singer/songwriter Angus Stone, and originally recorded by Stone, under the name "Lady of the Sunshine", on his 2009 album Smoking Gun. It was then re-recorded by Stone and his sister Julia, as the duo Angus & Julia Stone, and released on their 2010 album Down the Way, as well as their 2010 EP Big Jet Plane.
Contents
- Angus and julia stone big jet plane official music video
- Angus julia stone big jet plane milk live at the chapel
- Big Jet Plane EP
- Track listing
- Chart performance
- Cover versions
- Appearances in media
- Songs
- References
"Big Jet Plane" was named Australian Recording Industry Association's Single of the Year for 2010 at the ARIA Music Awards of 2010, while Down the Way was named Album of the Year. The song featured on both Nova 100 and Triple J radio playlists and after winning Single of the Year was added to the playlists of stations such as Fox FM in Melbourne. On 26 January 2011, the song was voted number 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2010.
The song has received a gold accreditation, having sold over 35,000 copies in Australia.
It gained additional success, especially in Europe, when it was remixed in 2011 as a house track by Australian DJs Goodwill and Hook N Sling, under the title "Take You Higher".
Angus julia stone big jet plane milk live at the chapel
Big Jet Plane EP
"Big Jet Plane" was recorded by Angus & Julia Stone and released by the duo in 2010 as part of an EP, also titled Big Jet Plane. The EP includes four tracks.
The album cover photography features a Trans Australian Airlines Convair CV-240 piston-powered airplane, as established from the identification characters "VH-TAP" located on the empennage's vertical stabilizer; this aircraft is itself not a jet plane.
Track listing
- "Big Jet Plane" – 3:42 (on album Down the Way)
- "Living On a Rainbow" – 4:48
- "My Malakai" – 3:05 (on album Memories of an Old Friend)
- "You're the One That I Want" – 3:14 (cover from the film 'Grease')
Chart performance
The week following the ARIA Music Awards of 2010, the song made a massive leap from #47 to #21 on the ARIA Chart, giving the song its peak position in its 22nd week of release. In total the song has spent 33 weeks in Australia's ARIA Charts. After the song was voted number 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2010, the song reached #6 on Australia's iTunes songs chart, and re-entered the ARIA Charts at #32.
Cover versions
Papa vs Pretty covered the song at the 2011 Apra Music Awards. Goodwill and Hook N Sling remixed the song and renamed it "Take You Higher".
In November 2015, Australian rapper Tuka and Thelma Plum covered the song for Triple J Like a Version, modifying the song with substantial additional verse lyrics. Tuka's cover was voted at 81 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2015.
Appearances in media
The song can be heard in TV series such as 90210, One Tree Hill, Parenthood, and Suits.[9] It also appears on the soundtrack of French film Romantics Anonymous. A music video featuring scenes from the film was released on 9 November 2010. The song is featured in the film The Edge of Seventeen.
The duo performed the song on French television show Taratata on 19 May 2010.
The song is heard in a Maybelline Fit Me commercial.
Songs
1Big Jet Plane - Radio Edit3:40
2Living On a Rainbow4:48
3My Malakai3:06