Wake Me Up (Avicii song)
June 17, 2013
Wake Me Up (also Wake Me Up, English for: wake me up ) is a song by Swedish DJ and music producer Avicii, who sang by the American soul singer Aloe Blacc and the accompaniment is played with acoustic guitar of Mike Einziger. The song was released in June 2013, first as a single and later as the first song of Avicii 's debut album, True, released in Germany on 13 September 2013.
Avicii led the song for the first time at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. The experiment, which was accompanied by a live band, among other things, Aloe Blacc, confused many viewers of the festival. After it Avicii reached great success with the worldwide release of the single. Wake Me Up! increased in many European and English-speaking countries No. 1 on the charts and was named as a " summer anthem" by Variance Magazine.
Beginning in March 2014 exceeded the song at the music streaming provider Spotify as the first title, the number of 200 million streaming calls
Background
In an interview with the British tabloid Daily Star Avicii, Wake Me Up said! had previously known in an interview with MTV UK as a " fun experiment" that he was still a singer and lyricist need, whereupon he Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda gave the advice to take Aloe Blacc, who immediately appealed and the very next day with the text was finished. He had previously developed in collaboration with Mike Einziger The melody.
Music Video
On June 27, 2013 released a lyric video and the next day the right music video, which was shot at the Santa Clara River and in the town of Piru, California.
Charts
In July 2013 reached Wake Me Up! # 1 in the German charts and held ten weeks there unchallenged. The song reached in numerous other countries the top spot in the singles charts, including Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary. In the U.S. dance charts, the song took on 21 September 2013, the peak position and remained there 26 weeks. This meant not only a record, but surpassed the hitherto successful song (Get Lucky by Daft Punk ) twice.