For a track many individuals both disliked or misunderstood upon its launch, Avicii‘s “Wake Me Up” continues chugging alongside in historic trend.
On Friday (June 16), the monitor — launched 10 years in the past on June 17 — has earned RIAA Diamond Certification, signifying 10 million licensed items bought. This distinction makes it the tune — which has now reached platinum standing 11 instances — the best licensed dance/digital track in RIAA historical past.
The bluegrass/EDM hybrid after all has a virtually mythological standing in dance music historical past, getting booed when Avicii debuted it at Extremely Music Pageant in Miami in 2013, earlier than it went on to turn out to be an era-defining world sensation and the most important hit of the producer’s profession. (New footage from this Extremely 2013 set was launched in March.)
“Wake Me Up” spent 54 weeks on the Billboard Scorching 100, the place it peaked at No. 4 in October of 2013, marking Avicii’s greatest success on that chart. The track spent 26 weeks at No. 1 on Scorching Dance/Digital Songs. The tune turned Spotify’s most streamed monitor of all time on the time of its launch.
The dance/digital songs simply behind “Wake Me Up” on the RIAA certification chart are, predictably, all-time dance/digital hits, with the No. 2 spot occupied by Main Lazer and DJ Snake’s “Lean On”; which is adopted by “Fireflies” by Owl Metropolis; Daft Punk’s “Get Fortunate”; then Marshmello’s “Happier”; Mike Posner’s “I Took a Tablet In Ibiza”; Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey’s “The Center”; David Guetta’s “Titanium”; Jack Ü’s “The place Are U Now” and Swedish Home Mafia’s “Don’t You Fear Little one.”
