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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 28 February 2014, Wake Me Up became the first song in history to surpass 200 million listeners on Spotify, making it the platform's most-streamed track at the time. The song held the top spot as the most-played track on the platform for 506 days until it was overtaken by Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud in May 2015. [78]
Carl Lamarre of Billboard ranked "Wake Me Up" as the twelfth best song on the album as he acknowledged the Weeknd's love for Michael Jackson's music and the "Thriller" sample, describing the song as "a five-minute exhibition of [the] Weeknd’s exploration of legacy, reality, and disillusionment" and "[The] Weeknd's deftly executes on the pop ...
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 912 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 151 have surpassed two billion, 18 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
True is the debut studio album by Swedish electronic music producer Avicii, released on 13 September 2013 by PRMD Music, Lava Records and Sony Music Entertainment's Columbia Records. Avicii said that sonically, the album would move away from his earlier house music sound on previous records by incorporating elements of other genres such as ...
Spotify's top songs for 2023 Interestingly, Peso Pluma was the only top 5 artist to also have a top 5 song on the list. "Ella Baila Sola" by Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma came in at No. 5.
Wake Me Up is an EP by American singer Aloe Blacc. After the big success of " Wake Me Up! " by Avicii , Blacc recorded a solo acoustic version of the song, and released it on this similarly-titled EP (without the exclamation mark).
Spotify users who don't enjoy Christmas music can always rely on classics like "Livin' on a Prayer" (1.4 billion streams) and "You Give Love a Bad Name" (971 million) for their fix of the group.