New York (Paloma Faith song)

BBC chart blog gave the song a more positive review than her previous single and rewarded it with 4 stars.^[2] Digital Spy gave the song 3/5 stars and a less positive rating than "Stone Cold Sober": "New York", Faith's follow-up, is a rather more straightforward offering than its predecessor. The lyrics tell the tale of a girl who loses a guy to "another lady", but sadly for Paloma the lass in question isn't a flesh-and-blood adversary, but actually the Big Apple. It's a much bigger target of course, but one that's harder to hit with a swinging vintage handbag. Despite its sweeping strings and soaring vocals, "New York" is a shade unremarkable compared to her debut, but it still manages to whet the appetite for Faith's upcoming album.^[3]

"New York" is Faith's fourth most successful single to date, behind "Only Love Can Hurt Like This", "Picking Up the Pieces" and "Can't Rely on You" charting in the top forty in six different countries. It debuted on the UK Singles Chart at 21, the following week, it fell to 31, then rose 16 places to 15 on its third week, which became its peak position. "New York" stayed eleven weeks in the UK chart.^[4] The song also reached number 54 in Germany,^[5] 12 in Ireland,^[6] 13 in Switzerland,^[7] 8 in Finland,^[8] 29 in Denmark^[9] and number 28 in Sweden.^[10]

The music video was shot at a London bowling alley and features professional bowlers. The director was Vaughan Arnell, who also directed the video to Robbie Williams' song, Bodies.^[11] The video was released on 2 August 2009.^[12]