Sail (song)

"Sail"
Single by Awolnation
from the album Megalithic Symphony
Released	November 8, 2010 (2010-11-08)
Recorded	2010
Studio	Red Bull (Los Angeles)
Genre	Electronic rock alternative rock industrial rock electropop
Length	4:19 (album version) 3:56 (radio edit)
Label	Red Bull
Songwriter(s)	Aaron Bruno
Producer(s)	Aaron Bruno
Awolnation singles chronology
"Burn It Down" (2010) "Sail" (2010) "Not Your Fault" (2011)

"Sail" is a song by the American rock band Awolnation. It was released as a single on November 8, 2010, first featured on the band's debut extended play, Back from Earth (2010), and later on their debut album, Megalithic Symphony (2011). The song was written and produced in Venice, California by group member Aaron Bruno, with Kenny Carkeet as audio engineer.

"Sail" is the band's most commercially successful song to date, debuting at number 89 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 2011 and spending 20 weeks there before dropping out. The single re-entered the Hot 100 a year later, becoming a massive sleeper hit and reaching a new peak of number 17. "Sail" is the first song to climb to its peak after a year on the Hot 100.^[1] It spent the fourth-longest amount of time on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 79 weeks, behind Glass Animals' "Heat Waves" (91 weeks), The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" (90 weeks), and Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" (87 weeks). As of May 2024, the song has accumulated more than 810 million streams on Spotify.^[2]