Fireflies

Fireflies' is a synthpop song and the debut single from Owl City's album Ocean Eyes''. Relient K vocalist Matt Thiessen is eatured as a guest vocalist in the song. Adam Young described the song as "a little song about bugs and not being able to fall asleep at night."[3]  The song is built around a "bleepy" 1980s-influenced synthline and includes lyrics about insomnia, fireflies and summer.'''

The single attained worldwide success in late 2009-early 2010, topping the charts in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands. "Fireflies" was Owl City's only hit in the US Top 40 until three years later when "Good Time", a duet with Canadian recording artist Carly Rae Jepsen, charted at No. 8.[4]

Fireflies was used in the promotional video for Sony's EyePet video game. It is also featured in Disney Sing It: Party Hits.[5]  It is also a downloadable content for both Guitar Hero 5 and Rock Band 3.[6] [7]

Music Video
The music video for "Fireflies" was directed by Steve Hoover. [8]  It features Adam Young playing the song on a  Lowrey spinet organ in a toy-filled bedroom, where most of the toys (including an astronaut, a  Tyrannosaurus rex, a  Speak & Spell, toy cars, and a blimp) come to life. Most of the toys are older model toys, with most of them from the 1970s and 1980s (the exceptions being a  Robosapien and a  Roboraptor). There are also vintage household devices such as a  black and white television<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> and a  record player<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. The video had an exclusive premiere on  MySpace<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, but was leaked onto Dailymotion<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> some time before and  YouTube<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> soon after. As of July 3, 2013 <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, the video has received nearly 100,000,000 views. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-youtube_9-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">[9]

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">Track listings

 * Europe CD single
 * 1) "Fireflies" – 3:48
 * 2) "Hot Air Balloon" – 3:35<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]
 * US CD promo
 * 1) "Fireflies" – 3:48<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]

Chart performance
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in early-September at No. 97, and it reached No. 1 in its tenth week, becoming Owl City's first No. 1 single.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  The song stayed at No. 1 for two non-consecutive weeks, in the top ten for fifteen weeks and on the Hot 100 for thirty-one weeks.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-aCHARTS_14-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  "Fireflies" contributed to sales of the album Ocean Eyes, and was credited as being responsible for its entry to the top ten on the U.S. Billboard 200.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  On the Billboard Hot 100 2009 year-end chart, it was ranked sixtieth.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Best_of_2009_.E2.80.93_Hot_100_Songs_16-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  On the Billboard Hot 100 2010 year-end chart, it was ranked thirtieth.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  The RIAA certified "Fireflies" triple-platinum in June 2010. By November 2012, the song had shifted 4,648,000 downloads in the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In the United Kingdom, the song entered at No. 50 due to early download sales from a fake version that was leaked onto iTunes. The song would go on to make a forty-eight place jump to No. 2 the following week, beaten only to the top by "Replay" by Iyaz. The following week, it rose to No. 1, and topped the chart for three consecutive weeks, the song has sold 639,587 copies to date.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  The BPI certified "Fireflies" silver in February 2010. On January 2, 2011 it was revealed that "Fireflies" is the twentieth most downloaded song of all time in Great Britain.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In Australia, the song entered at No. 38 and on the week of January 10, 2010, it topped the chart with 37,354 copies sold, having the biggest sales for a song in one week.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In Japan, the song peaked at No. 3 and was ranked sixteenth on the 2010 year-end chart, the highest ranking for an international song for 2010.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song has attained success worldwide. It has reached No. 1 in Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands (for 10 weeks) and the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Poland, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. The song has reached over 90 million views on YouTube<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-youtube_9-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] and was ranked 89th on VH1's 'Top 100 songs of the new millennium'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-VH1.27s_Top_100_Songs_of_the_New_Millenium_21-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]

Covers
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song is featured in "Weird Al" Yankovic's polka medley "Polka Face", from his album Alpocalypse. Sam Tsui covered the song for his album. Cheryl Cole covered the song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. Popular YouTube drummer Cobus Potgieter did a drum cover over the song. He posted it to his YouTube account on March 30, 2011 and it has since been watched over 3.1 million times.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Ben Bennett with Jesse and Ashleigh performed the song for their battle round on Season 1 of The Voice Australia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  Universal Music has since released Ben Bennett's cover on iTunes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Mac Miller also samples the melody in his song "Don't Mind if I Do" from his 2010 mixtape, K.I.D.S..