"Hanging On" is a song by American singer and songwriter Active Child from his debut studio album, You Are All I See (2011).
[3] English singer Ellie Goulding covered "Hanging On" in 2012, while Australian alternative rock band Something for Kate included an acoustic cover of the song as a bonus track on the two-disc special edition of their 2012 album Leave Your Soul to Science.
[1] In 2012, "Hanging On" was covered by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding for her second studio album, Halcyon.
An alternative version featuring English rapper Tinie Tempah was released as a free download on 10 July 2012 via Goulding's SoundCloud page, serving as a promotional single for the album.
[9][10][11] In February 2013, the Living Phantoms remix of the song was used in the "From Ashes" live-action trailer for the PlayStation 3 video game God of War: Ascension.