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"Wake Me Up" (sometimes listed as "Wake Me Up!") is a song by Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii, released as the lead single from his debut studio album True by PRMD Music and Island Records on 17 June 2013. It was written by Avicii, Mike Einziger of Incubus and American soul singer Aloe Blacc, who provides vocals for the track.
On 21 May 2018, during the first night of the finale of the fourteenth season of reality television singing competition show The Voice, coach Alicia Keys performed Avicii's "Wake Me Up" as part of her coach duet with the last remaining artist on her team, Britton Buchanan. During the performance, Keys made a verbal tribute to Avicii.
Avicii continued to produce chart-topping hits — like his 2013 single “Wake Me Up,” which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 100 — and work at an exhausting pace, embarking on three ...
In April 2013, Avicii released a 60-minute promotional mix of new album material on the online audio distribution platform SoundCloud.The mix featured several unreleased tracks from the album like "Wake Me Up" and songs featuring Dan Reynolds and Mac Davis, and has been played over three million times. [12]
On 1 November 2013, the lyric video for "Hey Brother" was released onto YouTube by AviciiOfficialVEVO. The video is an assortment of stock footage clips in slow motion that depict everyday moments such as popcorn popping, a woman having a snack, and people playing basketball, accompanied by an animated text representation of the lyrics.
Wake Me Up may refer to: "Wake Me Up!", a song by Speed from Rise, 1998 "Wake Me Up" (Girls Aloud song), 2005 "Wake Me Up", a song by Ed Sheeran from the 2011 album +; Wake Me Up, or the title track, by Aloe Blacc, 2013
Aloe Blacc was introduced to Swedish DJ Avicii by Linkin Park's co-vocalist Mike Shinoda. As a result, in 2013, Aloe Blacc co-wrote the song "Wake Me Up" with Avicii. [2] With Aloe Blacc on vocals, the song reached #1 in 103 countries and became the fastest-selling single in the UK, with 267,000 copies sold in its first week. [26]
It was produced for Avicii's debut studio album, True and appears as the second track on the album. The song was released as the second single from True on 30 August 2013 as a follow-up to "Wake Me Up". The single made its worldwide debut on BBC Radio 1's The Pete Tong Show on 16 August. [1]