This Is Your Land

{{Infobox song

| name = This Is Your Land

| cover = Simple Minds This Is Your Land single cover.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Simple Minds

| album = Street Fighting Years

| B-side = {{ubl|"Saturday Girl"|"Year of the Dragon"}}

| released = {{Start date|1989|4|10|df=yes}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Pop, rock, electronic

| length = 6:18

| label = Virgin

| writer = Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil

| producer = Trevor Horn
Stephen Lipson

| prev_title = Belfast Child

| prev_year = 1989

| next_title = Take a Step Back

| next_year = 1989

}}

"This Is Your Land" is a song by Scottish rock band Simple Minds from their album Street Fighting Years, released as the second single on 10 April 1989. The song features Lou Reed as guest vocalist. The single reached #13 on the UK singles chart.{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/A%20Bit%20Of%20U2 |title=The Official Charts Company - Simple Minds - This Is Your Land |website=Official Charts |accessdate=24 July 2009}} The music video was shot in Spain.

The song was praised by David Sinclair of Q magazine as part of a five-star album review given to Street Fighting Years. Sinclair wrote: "The utterly beguiling melody of 'This Is Your Land', featuring a deadpan Lou Reed, cloaks a stinging rebuke on the issue of the environment while gently leading the listener up towards the panoramic splendour of the instrumental coda."{{cite web |url=http://www.simpleminds.org.uk/streetfightingreviews2.html |title=Simple Minds 'Street Fighting Years' Reviews & Articles |accessdate=2014-02-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301063614/http://www.simpleminds.org.uk/streetfightingreviews2.html |archivedate=2014-03-01 }}

Track listings

; 7" Single

  1. "This Is Your Land" - 6:22
  2. "Saturday Girl" - 6:09

; 12", Cassette & CD Singles

  1. This Is Your Land" - 6:22
  2. Saturday Girl" - 6:09
  3. "Year Of The Dragon" - 3:06

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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scope="col"| Chart (1989)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

{{single chart|Australia|38|artist=Simple Minds|song=This Is Your Land|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|refname=}}
{{single chart|Flanders|7|artist=Simple Minds|song=This Is Your Land|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|refname=}}
scope="row"| Canada (RPM){{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.6367.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - June 26, 1989}}

| 40

scope="row"| Ireland (IRMA){{cite web |url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |title=irishcharts.ie search results |accessdate=24 July 2009}}

| 6

{{single chart|Dutch40|6|year=1989|week=19|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|artist=|song=|refname=}}
{{single chart|Dutch100|7|artist=Simple Minds|song=This Is Your Land|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|refname=}}
{{single chart|New Zealand|26|artist=Simple Minds|song=This Is Your Land|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|refname=}}
{{single chart|Sweden|18|artist=Simple Minds|song=This Is Your Land|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|refname=}}
{{single chart|Switzerland|10|artist=Simple Minds|song=This Is Your Land|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|refname=}}
{{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|13|artist=Simple Minds|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|song=|refname=}}
{{single chart|Billboardalternativesongs|12|artist=Simple Minds|rowheader=true|access-date=20 April 2022|refname="usmrt"|song=This Is Your Land}}
{{single chart|Billboardmainstreamrock|37|artist=Simple Minds|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|song=|refname=}}
{{single chart|West Germany|25|songid=1956|artist=Simple Minds|song=This Is Your Land|rowheader=true|accessdate=12 November 2020|refname=}}

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=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
scope="col"| Chart (1989)

! scope="col"| Position

scope="row"| Belgium (Ultratop Flanders){{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=1989|title=Jaaroverzichten 1989|publisher=Ultratop|accessdate=12 November 2020}}

| 78

scope="row"| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40){{cite web|url=https://www.top40.nl/bijzondere-lijsten/top-100-jaaroverzichten/1989|title=Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1989|publisher=Dutch Top 40|accessdate=12 November 2020}}

| 74

scope="row"| Netherlands (Single Top 100){{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1989&cat=s|title=Jaaroverzichten – Single 1989|website=dutchcharts.nl|accessdate=12 November 2020}}

| 83

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References

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