"Some Say" is a song by Swedish singer Nea and was released as her debut single on 6 September 2019. Following the song's success in Europe in late 2019 and early 2020, the song was remixed by German DJ Felix Jaehn. The remix was released on 10 January 2020.
The song has since reached number one in Belgium (Wallonia), Slovakia and Poland, the top ten in Austria, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania and Switzerland, as well as the top 20 in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), France, Germany and Sweden. The song interpolates Eiffel 65's 1998 song, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".
Lyrically, it sees Nea singing about an unrequited love and is inspired by events experienced by a friend of hers. Nea describes that "the song is about love that you can't attain but that you can't give up on". On Genius, she explained that the opening lyrics of the song describe the moment "when you love someone so completely and the other person doesn’t feel the same thing, you just wanna put the blame on something else… The time, the timing, anything but unreturned love."
Credits and personnel Credits adapted from Tidal.
Linnéa Södahl – vocals, songwriting, composer Bryn Christopher – songwriting, composer Vincent Kottkamp – production, composer, guitar, mixing engineering Hitimpulse – production, mixing engineering Alexsej Vlasenko – composer, synthesizer Jonas Kalisch – composer, bass Henrik Meinke – composer, drums Jeremy Chacon – composer, keyboards Lex Barkey – master engineering Jeffrey Jey (Eiffel 65) – songwriter Maurizio Lobina (Eiffel 65) – songwriter/producer Gabry Ponte (Eiffel 65) – producer
Charts
Weekly charts +Weekly chart performance for "Some Say" Chart (2019–2020) Peakposition Global Excl. US (Billboard)74 Iceland (Tónlistinn) 9 New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) 33 Romania Airplay (Media Forest) 2 Slovenia Airplay (SloTop50) 9 + Chart (2023) Peakposition Kazakhstan Airplay (TopHit) 154 Ukraine Airplay (TopHit) 156 + Chart (2025) Peakposition Belarus Airplay (TopHit) 131 Moldova Airplay (TopHit) 110 + Chart (2026) Peakposition
Year-end charts +2019 year-end chart performance for "Some Say" Chart (2019) Position Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100) 48 +2020 year-end chart performance for "Some Say" Chart (2020) Position Australia (ARIA) 56 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 10 Belgium (Ultratop Flanders) 8 Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia) 3 Denmark (Tracklisten) 12 France (SNEP) 19 Germany (Official German Charts) 11 Hungary (Dance Top 40) 89 Hungary (Rádiós Top 40) 10 Hungary (Single Top 40) 13 Hungary (Stream Top 40) 11 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) 26 Netherlands (Single Top 100) 47 Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100) 42 Romania (Airplay 100) 17 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) 30 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 12 +2021 year-end chart performance for "Some Say" Chart (2021) Position Hungary (Rádiós Top 40) 38 Hungary (Stream Top 40) 66
Certifications
See also "I'm Good (Blue)" – by David Guetta and Bebe Rexha
References