Music by Ólafur Arnalds featured in new Apple Music ad 157

Apple Music has a new ad that features a song by Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds. The ad stars Kenny Chesney, an American country music singer and songwriter, and was released in the U.S. on Wednesday. Ólafur admits that the end-result was somewhat different to what he’d anticipated.

“When they told me they wanted to use my song for the new Apple commercial, this was not what I had in mind,” the musician tweeted on Wednesday.

Ólafur has garnered attention following his 2014 BAFTA-win and his music has been featured in films such as Hunger Games and Another Happy Day. Ólafur won a BAFTA Television Craft Awards in the category Best Original Music for his work on the soundtrack of ITV’s hugely popular series “Broadchurch”. 

 

So happy about the Broadchurch finale last night. It's been am honor to be a part of this – thanks to all involved! Especially the lovely people who worked with me on the score: Bergur, Snorri, Viktor and Tóti. I couldn't have done it without them. Here is a picture of Andy, Olivia, Arnór Dan and me after the show in London.

A photo posted by Ólafur Arnalds (@olafurarnalds) on

Feb 24, 2015 at 5:00am PST

Apple Music has a new ad that features a song by Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds. The ad stars Kenny Chesney, an American country music singer and songwriter, and was released in the U.S. on Wednesday. Ólafur admits that the end-result was somewhat different to what he’d anticipated.

“When they told me they wanted to use my song for the new Apple commercial, this was not what I had in mind,” the musician tweeted on Wednesday.

Ólafur has garnered attention following his 2014 BAFTA-win and his music has been featured in films such as Hunger Games and Another Happy Day. Ólafur won a BAFTA Television Craft Awards in the category Best Original Music for his work on the soundtrack of ITV’s hugely popular series “Broadchurch”. 

 

So happy about the Broadchurch finale last night. It's been am honor to be a part of this – thanks to all involved! Especially the lovely people who worked with me on the score: Bergur, Snorri, Viktor and Tóti. I couldn't have done it without them. Here is a picture of Andy, Olivia, Arnór Dan and me after the show in London.

A photo posted by Ólafur Arnalds (@olafurarnalds) on

Feb 24, 2015 at 5:00am PST