White Flag (Dido song)

"White Flag"
Single by Dido
from the album Life for Rent
B-side	"Paris" "Don't Leave Home"
Released	7 July 2003 (2003-07-07)
Studio	The Church (London, England)
Genre	Pop
Length	4:01 (album version) 3:40 (radio edit)
Label	Arista Cheeky
Songwriter(s)	Dido Armstrong Rick Nowels Rollo Armstrong
Producer(s)	Dido Rollo
Dido singles chronology
"Feels Like Fire" (2003) "White Flag" (2003) "Life for Rent" (2003)
Music video
"White Flag" on YouTube

"White Flag" is a song by English singer-songwriter Dido, released as the lead single from her second studio album, Life for Rent (2003). The song was first released to US radio on 7 July 2003 and was issued in the United Kingdom as a physical single on 1 September 2003. The song performed well on record charts around the world, peaking at number one in Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Portugal. In Dido's native UK, it reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, and in the United States, it climbed to number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song's music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, features actor David Boreanaz as Dido's love interest. "White Flag" was nominated for the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards but lost to Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful". It won the Best British Single at the 2004 Brit Awards. "White Flag" ranked at number 317 on Blender's list "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".^[1]