Glass Animals first released Heat Waves into the pandemic-riddled world of 2020.
The incredible 59-week journey to the top of the US’ Billboard Hot 100 has been completed by Glass Animals’ single Heat Waves.
From TikTok to FIFA, the track has been gradually but unmistakably taking hold in the States, now eventually beating the previous record of longest time spent to reach number one after release which was held by Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You.
“I absolutely can’t believe it,” Dave Bayley has responded. “For it to do this means the absolute world.”
“This song came out at the beginning of the pandemic and we didn’t think it would really go anywhere because of that, and it has because you guys have embraced it so much.”
In our 2020 review of its parent LP Dreamland, Live4ever praised Heat Waves as one of the tracks which left the listener, ‘simply too filled with the need to dance versus decoding everything’.