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We Are Young" topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart with 120 million impressions in seven weeks, becoming the first group since Destiny's Child's Survivor (2001). [32] The song was the first song in 2012 to be certified by the RIAA 3 times platinum with sales of 3 million, [ 32 ] and was later certified 5 times platinum on June 21, 2012.
Glee's cover of "We Are Young" was the show's highest selling debut single of their season and connected their listening audience to the band. [6] Even after being benefited by the high-profile cover, "We Are Young" became the soundtrack to a Chevrolet spot that aired during Super Bowl XLVI , which brought Fun to a type of exposure that ...
The group performed "Live While We're Young" and "Little Things" on the BBC's Children in Need 2012 telethon (16 November). [72] One Direction also performed the track at Germany's Bambi Awards (22 November). [73] "Live While We're Young" was included in the set list of the group's headlining sold-out show at Madison Square Garden (3 December ...
The song begins with Young singing the line "tonight's the night" eight times in a voice that music critic Nigel Williamson describes as sounding "fragile, vulnerable and close to panic." [4] At this point Young is accompanied by only guitar, bass, and piano. [5] Then Young sings that "Bruce Berry was a working man/He used to load that ...
Antonoff, 40, shared how Fun.’s “We Are Young” nearly ended up on Watch The Throne, the 2011 collaborative album from West and Jay-Z, while speaking with Nardwuar in an interview published ...
Young played the new album to a group of friends including members of The Band, and Tonight's the Night happened to be on the same reel. Young explains in Waging Heavy Peace : "Ben Keith and I played the tapes one midnight in what is now known as the Belushi bungalow of Hollywood's Chateau Marmont Hotel for Rick Danko of The Band and some other ...
Young's manager Elliot Mazer suggested adding three older songs to the album - "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown" as well as "Borrowed Tune" and "Lookout Joe." [5] [13] With those three songs added, Young eventually decided to release the Tonight's the Night album in 1975, instead of Homegrown, which he had recently recorded. [13] "Come On Baby ...
The whole [Tonight's the Night] album has pointed to ["Tired Eyes"], song after song building the tightness with the endless repetition of phrases—musical and lyric—until the rasp of the guitars on the rockers and the sweetness of the singing on the weepers begins to grate, aching for release. Young's whole career may have been spent in ...