Glass Animals

It's official: Glass Animals' 'Heat Waves' has peaked at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 after no less than 59 weeks in the charts.

‘Heat Waves’ has had a multi-format appeal. Released in 2020, the hit single has spent no less than 59 weeks on the chart, a record-breaking feat and one of the longest runs in chart history. It’s official: the new Glass Animals song, ‘Heat Waves’, has landed the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100.

The British indie band's hypnotic track Heat Waves first came out in June 2020 but it took more than six months for the track to even feature on Billboard's ...

'I was kind of like, 'We don't know what to do. And in a way, it kind of made us really open-minded. They launched an open source website where fans could download each section of the songs and artwork. 'I would wake up every morning and be excited to look at what was coming in. You're looking for comfort in the past. Some of them are really uncomfortable.'

Heat Waves is the band's first chart-topping hit on the other side of the Atlantic, and managed to reach the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 after 59 weeks.

there were many moments when I thought this album wasn’t going to see the light of day. [...] This belongs to everyone." This actually sets a record for the longest-climb to Number 1 in US chart history.

After a record 59-week climb, Glass Animals have finally topped the Billboard Hot 100 with their song "Heat Waves." So how did they celebrate?

“And then we woke up the whole bus, and everyone had a bit of a hug in our pajamas.” “I jumped out of bed…and we were in our underpants, and we gave each other a hug. “We were all in the bus, and our bass player has the bunk above me.

After a record 59 weeks, Glass Animals' "Heat Waves" has finally topped the Billboard Hot 100, and it's perfect timing, considering the band is about to ...

“Sometimes going on stage, it’s the end of…two years of touring…and it’s like a hundred and five degrees outside and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be so difficult,'” Bayley notes. He adds, “I try to remember how I felt when I went to see my first show and I was, like, buzzing. After a record 59 weeks, Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” has finally topped the Billboard Hot 100, and it’s perfect timing, considering the band is about to officially launch their U.S. tour tonight.

The British band is made up of singer, songwriter, and producer Dave Bayley, along with Drew MacFarlane, Joe Seaward and Ed Irwin-Singer.

The indie group's single "Heat Waves" has hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, climbing to the top during 59 weeks on the chart. "Heat Waves" is their most successful single so far and is featured in their third studio album, "Dreamland," which was released in June 2020.

Glass Animals' "Heat Waves" hits No. 1 in its 59th frame on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, blazing past the previous record-holder.

I definitely noticed in the middle of [last] June, the number of Instagram captions that had that lyric in was quite overwhelming. So we put all the stems for the song for free on our website, and we put all the pieces of the artwork – like Photoshop files and things – on the website for people to kinda keep creating with it. [Laughs.] Sorry. It feels like we’re kind of still doing the thing that we set out to do, and we’re gonna keep doing that. you’re never gonna repeat [that sort of success]. You’re gonna try and point in a slightly different direction, and take a different risk with the next one. We could only really do that on the internet [with this one]. So we’ve still got all of that to do with this album. People were writing stories based on the song, people were making entire cities in Minecraft based on the song, people were making soccer memes to the song. Even before the song came out, I thought, “This is gonna be a tricky ride.” The song was gonna come out, and we had the date penciled — and then the pandemic hit. So that happened, and when people listened to that Hottest 100 countdown on the radio, they’re all filming themselves out in the beach with portable speakers and things like that, waiting for this countdown, waiting for this No. 1. And really, from the beginning, I didn’t think the song was gonna… “And I think maybe with [‘Heat Waves’] — the song is about nostalgia and the past, and remembering people and missing people. “I think people do like a bit of familiarity when there’s a bit of like, discomfort in the world,” Bayley says of the song’s success. A solid 14 months later, with the world (maybe) on the brink of fully reopening, “Heat Waves” is still adding No. 1s to its resume — with perhaps the biggest one of all coming this week in the form of a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1.