| "Do I Wanna Know?" | ||||
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| Single by Arctic Monkeys | ||||
| from the album AM | ||||
| B-side | "2013" | |||
| Released | 19 June 2013 | |||
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| Length | 4:33 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
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| Lyricist(s) | Alex Turner | |||
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| "Do I Wanna Know?" on YouTube | ||||
"Do I Wanna Know?" is a song by English rock band Arctic Monkeys, with lyrics written by frontman Alex Turner. It was released on 19 June 2013 by Domino Recording Company as the second single from their fifth studio album, AM (2013). It received a digital download release through iTunes as well as an accompanying music video. Before its release as a single, the song was premiered by the band live in May 2013 on the AM Tour, where it was often played as the opening number. It is an indie rock, psychedelic rock, stoner rock, blues rock and alternative rock song, and is built around a stomping guitar riff.
"Do I Wanna Know?" peaked at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart, charted in several other countries and was the first Arctic Monkeys song to have ever entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, peaking at number 70 in March 2014 and also serving as their "big breakthrough moment" in the US. The song was nominated for Best Rock Performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in 2015. In December 2019, the song was ranked number three on Guitar World's list of the 20 best guitar riffs of the decade. The song has accumulated about two billion streams on Spotify and ranks in the 100 most-streamed songs in the streaming platform's history, and its music video has earned 1.6 billion views on YouTube.