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"Pumped Up Kicks" is a song by American indie pop band Foster the People. It was released as the band's debut single in September 2010, and the following year was included on their EP Foster the People and their debut album, Torches. "Pumped Up Kicks" became the group's breakthrough hit and was one of the most popular songs of 2011.
He wrote “Pumped Up Kicks.” Foster—who happens to be the frontman of indie pop group Foster the People—is responsible for the 2011 hit, “Pumped Up Kicks.”
Torches is the debut studio album by American indietronica band Foster the People, released on May 23, 2011, by Startime International and Columbia Records.In 2010, the group parlayed the popularity of frontman Mark Foster's song "Pumped Up Kicks" into a record deal with Startime International, and wrote the album to back the song's popularity.
Pumped Up Kicks" finished 2011 as the sixth-best-selling digital song of the year, with 3.84 million copies sold. [33] The band was named in a lawsuit filed by Brandon Dorsky on May 24, 2011, alleging a breach of an oral contract between him and Foster, and that Dorsky had named the band. [5] The case was settled for an undisclosed amount in ...
He wrote and recorded the song in five hours using Logic Pro software, originally intending the first version to be only the demo. [30] The demo ended up becoming the full version of the song and "Pumped Up Kicks" was released by Foster online in early 2010.
After Foster's song "Pumped Up Kicks" became a viral success in 2010, the group was signed to Columbia Records imprint Startime International and gained a fanbase through small club shows and appearances at the music festivals Coachella and South by Southwest.
"Pumped Up Kicks" was officially re-released as the band's first single on September 14, 2010; [9] it was labeled as a "sleeper hit" and eventually peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 starting with the week of September 10, 2011. [10] It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in February 2012. [11]
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