Crystallize (Lindsey Stirling song)

"Crystallize"
Single by Lindsey Stirling
from the album Lindsey Stirling
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2012
Recorded2011–12
Genre
Length4:18 (album version)
5:00 (YouTube version)
LabelBridgeTone
Songwriter(s)Lindsey Stirling
Producer(s)Marko G.
Lindsey Stirling singles chronology
"Shadows"
(2012)
"Crystallize"
(2012)
"Beyond the Veil"
(2012)

"Crystallize" is a song by American violinist Lindsey Stirling from her self-titled studio album Lindsey Stirling. The song was released as a music video on YouTube on February 23, 2012. The video had more than 42 million views at the end of the year, and was the eighth-most watched video of 2012. The song became Stirling's album's lead single due to its success. The song appeared on three Billboard charts and, according to Nielsen SoundScan, by April 2013 it had reached 234,000 digital sales. On February 4, 2014, almost two years after the release of the video, "Crystallize" earned Stirling's first RIAA certified gold record by selling 500,000 copies in the United States.[1] At the end of 2013, "Crystallize" finished first on the year-end Billboard Classical Digital Songs chart.[2] On July 27, 2014, the official music video reached 100 million views, being Stirling's first YouTube video to do so.[3]

  1. ^ "Gold & Platinum Searchable Database - March 10, 2014". RIAA. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  2. ^ "Classical Digital Songs : Mar 10, 2014 | Billboard Chart Archive". Billboard.com. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  3. ^ Lindsey Stirling [@LindseyStirling] (July 27, 2014). "My 1st vid to hit the big 100,000,000 views. Wow. That's... A lot. Thanks to you guys for watching and sharing. ksll" (Tweet) – via Twitter.