![]() ![]() "Heat Waves" is an example of Dreamland 's incorporation of hip hop and electropop elements into Glass Animals' sound. He wrote the lyrics in just an hour, prompted by the death of a close friend whose birthday was in June. Bayley came up with the chords one day while playing around on the guitar. ![]() "Heat Waves" starts on a high and then drops into despair before rising again for a cheerful, optimistic finale, much like the crests and troughs of a real wave. Maybe that's part of the reason this song's hung around for so bloody long – everyone's locked inside and trapped in their own thoughts." He said that "Also, this song is about memories and it's very nostalgic, and sometimes people feel more of that in the winter. Composition and other versions īayley stated that "Heat Waves" "is about loss and longing, and ultimately realising you are unable to save something". At the 2022 Brit Awards, "Heat Waves" was nominated for Best British Single. By September 2022, the song had accumulated more than two billion streams on Spotify. At 91 weeks, it is the longest charting song on the Hot 100 of all time, surpassing " Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd. In addition to reaching number five on the UK Singles Chart and being a top-five hit in several other European countries, it reached number one in Australia, Canada, Lithuania, Switzerland and the United States, where it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in early 2022 after a record-breaking 59-week climb to number one. A sleeper hit, it is the band's signature song and biggest hit single to date. ![]() " Heat Waves" is a song by British experimental rock band Glass Animals, released as a single from their third studio album Dreamland on 29 June 2020. 2020 single by Glass Animals "Heat Waves" ![]()
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