The great success of Glass Animals “Heat waves” has reached a new peak in the UK in a week where it also reached 1 billion global streams across all platforms and entered Spotify’s global Top 10.
According to data from Official Charts Company, the track, first released in June last year, rose 18-10 on the UK singles chart thanks to 25,206 sales, including 24,676 stream sales and 530 downloads. It was streamed 2,814,809 times on audio platforms and 257,783 times on video. To date, it has sold 663,485 copies in the UK.
The song’s title album, Dreamland, peaked at # 2 and has sold 36,191 to date. The song has also entered Spotify’s US chart at number 10. So far, it has 545,696,050 global streams on the platform.
Data reveals that Glass Animals has now become the first UK band to break into Spotify’s global Top 10 since Clean Bandit in 2018. “Heat Waves” is the top song on Spotify of 2021 by a current British group. . The track has double platinum status in the US and was crowned # 1 on Triple J’s Hot 100 in Australia.
“Heat Waves” has been an incredible ride, it’s a very modern hit, “Polydor co-president Tom March told Music Week. «[Singer] Dave Bayley told me that he knew he had something special, but if he had told me how far it would go, I would never have believed him. From the moment the album was released, it reacted, and nine months after its release it continues to grow. It has reacted through the roof in every environment, so we were able to read the data and use it to help bring it to a wider audience. ”
Manager Amy Morgan added: “Every time the song is given a platform, it seems to react and the key moments of the campaign have given it that platform. Some were more traditional, like radio playlists or FIFA syncing, and some were unexpected, like a piece of Minecraft fan fiction that went viral.
The song has recently been boosted by TikTok, as creator Juliette Cullen chose it as an endorsement of a video about the lack of curly fries at certain McDonalds locations that went viral on the platform. In the Sept. 3 chart, a nearly 200% rise in consumption saw it reach the peak of number 18. This week, it rose even higher.
Elsewhere in the Glass Animals news, the band plays London’s Alexandra Palace in November, while his new single “I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)” was released last week.
Listen to the best of Glass Animals on Apple Music and Spotify.
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