Wake Me Up (Avicii song)

"Wake Me Up!" redirects here. For the song by Speed, see Rise (Speed album).

"Wake Me Up"
Single by Avicii
from the album True
Released17 June 2013
Recorded2012–13
Genre
Length4:09
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Avicii singles chronology
"We Write the Story"
(2013) 		"Wake Me Up"
(2013) 		"You Make Me"
(2013)
Music video
"Wake Me Up" on YouTube

"Wake Me Up" is a song by Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii, released as the lead single from his debut studio album True, released on CD by PRMD Music, Lava Records and Columbia Records on 17 June 2013. It was written by Avicii, Annie actress Aileen Quinn, Melinda Marie Marantz, country singer Miranda Lambert, Mike Einziger, and American soul singer Aloe Blacc, who provides vocals for the track.[1][2] Mike Einziger of Incubus provides acoustic guitar, while Peter Dyer provides keyboard on the song.

Avicii introduced "Wake Me Up!" for the first time live on stage at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. The experimental rendering (it was accompanied by a live band with instruments and vocalists, including Blacc, Einziger and Incubus members Ben Kenney on bass and José Pasillas on drums)[3] reportedly confused and angered a section of the electronic dance festival community.[4][5] Subsequently, Avicii achieved critical and commercial success with the release of the single worldwide.

"Wake Me Up" has been named as the highest charting dance track of the 2010s,[6] sitting at No. 13 in the 100-strong list from the official UK Singles Chart. It is the only song to crack the Billboard Decade-End without making the top 3 during any week.[7] It also reached number one in much of Europe and charted well in various countries.

The song has been described as a "summer anthem"[8] by Variance Magazine and, throughout the 2013 festival season, Avicii included it as part of the opening or closing sequence of his sets at EDC Las Vegas, EDC London, Tomorrowland, Creamfields, Electric Zoo and the iTunes Festival.[9] Due to the success of the song, Blacc later released an acoustic version of "Wake Me Up" in his solo EP Wake Me Up. It was also released as a promotional stand-alone single on Interscope Records, made available online for downloads via iTunes. A separate music video was also made. The Blacc single charted on various charts.

  1. ^ "Wake Me Up". Second Hand Songs. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  2. ^ Rutherford, Kevin; Caulfield, Keith (25 November 2013). "Aloe Blacc on Having an Anonymous Hit With 'Wake Me Up!': 'I Like the Discovery'". Billboard. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  3. ^ Avicii live – Aloe Blacc, Joakin Berg, Audra Mae – Ultra 2013 W2. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2018 – via YouTube.
  4. ^ Sherburne, Philip (26 March 2013). "Avicii Unveils Bizarrely Twangy Mumford & Sons Reinvention During Ultra Set". SPIN magazine. Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Interview: Incubus' Mike Einziger on His 'Unexpected' Avicii Collaboration". KROQ. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  6. ^ Fielding, Amy (13 December 2019). "AVICII'S 'WAKE ME UP' IS THE HIGHEST CHARTING DANCE TRACK OF THE DECADE". DJ Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Hot 100 Songs - Decade-End". Billboard. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  8. ^ "LISTEN: Avicii and Aloe Blacc's Wake Me Up". Variance Magazine. 21 December 2015. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  9. ^ 1001Tracklists. "Avicii Tracklists Overview". 1001Tracklists. Archived from the original on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)