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CELEBRATE THE ALBUM THAT BROUGHT US GLOBAL SMASH HIT ‘HEAT WAVES’ WITH SPECIAL ‘DREAMLAND: REAL LIFE EDITION’ OUT ON 5 AUGUST

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ANNOUNCE SPECIAL DREAMLAND.IRL CELEBRATION SHOW AT VILLAGE UNDERGROUND ON 25 AUGUST

 

COVER DESTINY'S CHILD “SAY MY NAME” ON TRIPLE J

 

BREAK RECORDS AS “HEAT WAVES” BECOMES THE THIRD-LONGEST CHARTING SONG IN HISTORY ON BILLBOARD HOT 100 AND IS THE LONGEST-LEADING #1 SONG ON BY A BRITISH GROUP IN 25 YEARS, SINCE SPICE GIRLS’ ‘WANNABE’

 

TOP 10 LONGEST EVER REIGN FOR SONGS BY BRITISH GROUPS, ALONGSIDE THE BEATLES AND WINGS

 

THIRD LONGEST CHARTING SONG ON BILLBOARD 100 OF ALL TIME, AFTER THE WEEKND’S “BLINDING LIGHTS” (90 WEEKS) AND IMAGINE DRAGONS “RADIOACTIVE” (87 WEEKS)

 

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05 AUGUST 2022 (Toronto, ON) — “Back in 2020 we had this delicately constructed, intricate plan to launch Dreamland with a bunch of special shows, signings and real-life events. Then… we got spanked by the pandemic and we had to tear our plan in half. I was pretty damn sad for a bit, but eventually the support from everyone on the web was so great that it pulled me out of my mind-hole and I realised we could make a new plan… One based on the magnificent wonder that is the internet. We did that and it was absolutely wicked, but I still feel like we missed out on the IRL stuff. So, we thought we’d just have another go of it. This is our chance to do some of the things that were in our original plan, for the fans who have been there with us every step of the way.” - Dave Bayley

 

On the two year anniversary of critically acclaimed third album ‘Dreamland’, record breaking BRIT and GRAMMY Award nominated, Billboard Award winning global sensations Glass Animals today release their special “Dreamland: Real Life Edition”, for fans who have been on this incredible journey with the British band who have taken world by storm. “Dreamland” is the album that brought us the global smash hit “Heat Waves”, which continues to break records by becoming the third-longest charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 of all time, spending 80 weeks in the charts, just after the Weeknd’s Blinding Lights (90 weeks) and Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” (87 weeks). The band now have over 5 Billion global streams and 38M monthly listeners, but it’s live where Glass Animals come alive, gaining critical acclaim globally for their high-octane colossal performances, having stormed their biggest ever stages at Glastonbury, Splendour in the Grass Festival, and Lollapalooza. To  celebrate “Dreamland: Real Life Edition” the band will play a special Dreamland.IRL intimate show at London’s Village Underground on 25 August, where the story of “Dreamland” began. In beautiful circularity, Village Underground was the last venue Glass Animals played before the pandemic hit, and they have since sold over 262k tickets in the USA last year alone, including their most iconic venue yet with two sold-out nights at Colorado's Red Rocks in June, where artists including Led Zeppelin and The Beatles have performed.

 

TICKETS FOR LIVE SHOWS HERE

 

Now honouring the Dreamland they have lived in ever since its release during the pandemic summer of 2020, Glass Animals’ “Dreamland: Real Life Edition”, is available in all formats with a limited edition glow in the dark vinyl featuring a new colourway artwork alongside a deluxe tracklist CD and cassette, and includes collaborations with Arlo Parks, Denzel Curry, Albert Hammond Jr, Bree Runway and Diplo.

 

DREAMLAND: REAL LIFE EDITION

 

Having topped triple j’s top 100 in 2020, Glass Animals recently performed a cover of Destiny's Childs’ iconic “Say My Name” for a triple j live session, which showcased their genre-bending musical arrangements and why Dave Bayley has become one of the most sought after producers in the world.

Glass Animals have come a long way since forming in Oxford in 2010 by childhood friends Dave Bayley, Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew MacFarlane. Now the biggest band in the world, Glass Animals’ rise to global #1 with “Heat Waves” has been a story of deep connection during unprecedented times, nostalgia and support for a band described as “underdogs”. “Dreamland” saw Glass Animals “craft a new geography of their own…and our musical landscape is plenty richer for it” (DIY) and allowed fans to escape into a virtual world through building community on OpenSource, the band’s file sharing site. “Heat Waves” started life with Dave dragging a boom box down his empty East London street in the summer of 2020 during peak lockdown, asking fans to be involved with the video creation by filming from their windows.

 

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Fast forward to 2022 and “Heat Waves’” rise has been a story that “could be the script for a feel good British indie film” (Times). With a historic climb to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, taking 59 weeks and breaking every record, the band remained in the top spot for 5 weeks in a row, #1 on the Billboard Global 200 Chart for 6 weeks in a row, and #1 on the Billboard Radio Songs Chart and Billboard Global Excl. US Chart for 5 weeks. Not to mention, “Heat Waves” was the longest-leading #1 song on Billboard Hot 100 by a British Group in over 25 years, breaking Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” record in 1997, and the longest-leading #1 song on Billboard Global 200. The song has also tied for the 6th-longest #1 run by British Groups in Hot 100’s history, alongside The Beatles’ “Can't Buy Me Love” & “Get Back” and Wings’ “Silly Love Songs.” Recently, frontman Dave Bayley hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songwriters Chart—a career first, and “Heat Waves” is the first #1 on the chart written by one writer since Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” in 2018 and first #1 written, produced, and performed by one artist since Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” in 2014.

 

Now one of the UK’s most sought after production and writing talents, Dave Bayley recently teamed up with Florence + The Machine to co-write and co-produce several songs on her new #1 album, Dance Fever, including her lead single “My Love” and tracks “Dream Girl Evil,” “Prayer Factory,” “Heaven Is Here,” “Daffodil,” “Restraint,” and “Morning Elvis,” with Dave’s production described as “Nick Cave at the Club”. In addition, Glass Animals released a remix of their latest single “I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)” with The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr.

 

Formats available: Limited edition glow in the dark vinyl, deluxe cd, deluxe cassette

 

Dreamland: Real Life Edition CD & Cassette Tracklisting

  1. Dreamland                                  
  2. Tangerine         
  3. ((Home Movie: 1994))  
  4. Hot Sugar         
  5. ((Home Movie: BTX))
  6. Space Ghost Coast to Coast                   
  7. Tokyo Drifting" (with Denzel Curry)       
  8. Melon and the Coconut                           
  9. Your Love (Déjà Vu)                  
  10. Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth                     
  11. It's All So Incredibly Loud                         
  12. ((Home Movie: Rockets))                                      
  13. Domestic Bliss                
  14. Heat Waves                    
  15. ((Home Movie: Shoes On))
  16. Helium
  17. Heat Waves (Stripped Back)
  18. Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Stripped Back)
  19. Your Love (Déjà Vu) (Stripped Back)
  20. I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) w. Albert Hammond Jr
  21. Tangerine w. Arlo Parks
  22. Space Ghost Coast to Coast w. Bree Runway
  23. Heat Waves (Shakur Ahmad Remix)
  24. Tokyo Drifting w. Denzel Curry (Oliver Malcom Remix)
  25. Heat Waves (Diplo Remix)

 

Dreamland: Real Life Edition Glow In The Dark Vinyl Tracklisting

  1. Dreamland                                  
  2. Tangerine         
  3. ((Home Movie: 1994))  
  4. Hot Sugar         
  5. ((Home Movie: BTX))
  6. Space Ghost Coast to Coast                   
  7. Tokyo Drifting" (with Denzel Curry)       
  8. Melon and the Coconut                           
  9. Your Love (Déjà Vu)                  
  10. Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth                     
  11. It's All So Incredibly Loud                         
  12. ((Home Movie: Rockets))                                      
  13. Domestic Bliss                
  14. Heat Waves                    
  15. ((Home Movie: Shoes On))
  16. Helium

 

 

Global Tour Dates (Bolded Headline tour dates)

 

- 05 August: Hinterland Festival (St. Charles, IA)

- 08 August: Dreamland.irl Re-Launch Show at Brooklyn Mirage in Brooklyn, NY

- 18 August: FM4 Frequency Festival (Austria)

- 20 August: Lowlands Festival, Netherlands

- 21 August: Pukkelpop Festival Belgium

- 23 August: Zurich Open Air Festival

- 25 August: Dreamland.irl Re-Launch Show at Village Underground

- 26 August: Reading Festival, UK

- 27 August: Leeds Festival, UK

- 02 September: Electric Picnic Festival (Ireland)

- 04 September: Superbloom Festival (Munich, Germany)

- 05 September: Berlin, Germany

- 07 September: Paris, FR

- 09 September: Andalucia Big Festival - Malaga, Spain

- 10 September: Mad Cool Sunset, Madrid, Spain

 

Longest-Leading Hot 100 No. 1s by British Groups - Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1:

  • 9, “Hey Jude,” The Beatles, Sept. 28, 1968
  • 8, “Every Breath You Take,” The Police, July 9, 1983
  • 8, “Night Fever,” Bee Gees, March 18, 1978
  • 7, “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” UB40, July 24, 1993
  • 7, “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” The Beatles, Feb. 1, 1964
  • 5, “Heat Waves,” Glass Animals, March 12, 2022
  • 5, “Silly Love Songs,” Wings, May 22, 1976
  • 5, “Get Back,” The Beatles (with Billy Preston), May 24, 1969
  • 5, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” The Beatles, April 4, 1964

See all the incredible record breaking stats below:

 

“HEAT WAVES” HISTORIC #1’s:

  • RIAA Triple Platinum in the US
  • Over 3.1 billion streams globally
  • Over 1.4 billion streams on Spotify alone
  • #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart for 5 weeks
  • #1 on Billboard’s Global 200 Chart for 6 weeks
  • #1 on Billboard’s Radio Songs Chart for 4 weeks
  • #1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart for 28 weeks
  • #1 on Billboard’s Global Excl. U.S. Chart for 3 weeks
  • #1 on Top 40 Radio Chart
  • #1 on Alternative Radio Chart
  • #1 on Hot AC Radio Chart
  • #1 on Spotify’s US Top 50 Chart for 30 days
  • #1 on Spotify’s Global Top 50 Chart for 61 days
  • #1 on Spotify’s Today’s Top Hits Playlist
  • #1 on Apple Music US Alternative Genre Top Songs Chart

 

HISTORIC STATS ON “HEAT WAVES”: As reported via Billboard HERE & HERE

  • “Heat Waves” is the first song by a British group to have topped the Hot 100 for 5 or more weeks in 29 years, since UB40’’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” in 1993.
  • “Heat Waves” has broken the record for the most weeks at #1 for a song by a group on the Billboard 200 Global Chart (leading for 6 weeks in a row).
  • “Heat Waves” hits #1 after 59 weeks on the Hot 100 Chart (and has now led for 5 weeks in a row) - breaking the previous 35-week record set by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” in December 2019.
  • “Heat Waves” is the first song to have hit #1 on both Hot 100 and Alternative Airplay since Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” in 2019. It is 1 of only 10 songs ever to top both the Hot 100 and Alternative Airplay Chart in the 33 years that the charts have co-existed.
  • “Heat Waves” is the 15th Alternative Airplay #1 to have led the all-genre Radio Songs Chart over the 31 years that the charts have coexisted, a feat that just 4% of all Alternative Airplay leaders have achieved.
  • “Heat Waves,” written and produced by Dave Bayley, has made Glass Animals the first group to hit #1 on Hot 100 with a song solely written and produced by one of its members since Boston’s “Amanda” in 1986, written and produced by Tom Scholz. The song is the first #1 on the Top 40 Chart written by one writer since Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect”.
  • “Heat Waves” is one of only 13 titles to have ever spent 63 or more weeks on the Hot 100 overall, regardless of peak position - out of around 30,000 entries in the chart’s archives.
  • “Heat Waves” is the first song to debut at 100 on Hot 100 and climb to #1 on the chart since “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth in 2015.
  • Glass Animals is the only British alternative band unaccompanied by another act to hit #1 on Global 200 Chart.
  • “Heat Waves” is the first Hot 100 #1 from a British group unaccompanied by another act since Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” in 2008.
  • “Heat Waves” completed the longest rise to #1 on the Hot 100 for as a British act since Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” hit #1 after 24 weeks in 2019.
  • Glass Animals is the second artist with the word “Glass” in their name to hit #1 on Hot 100 since Looking Glass’ “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” in 1972.
  • “Heat Waves” is the first song with the word “Heat” in its title to hit #1 on Hot 100. Mims previously had the word “Hot” in the #1 “This is Why I’m Hot” in 2007.

 

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