Sail (song)

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" Sailing " is a song from American rock band Awolnation. The album was released as a single on November 8, 2010. The song was first shown on the band's long debut, Back from Earth (2010), and later featured on their debut album, Megalithic Symphony (2011). The song was written and produced in Venice, California by group member Aaron Bruno, with Kenny Carkeet performing audio engineering.

"Sail" is the band's most commercially successful song to date. It debuted at number 89 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 2011, spending 20 weeks on the chart before breaking up. The single goes back to Hot 100 a year later, becoming a big hit and reaching a new top of number 17. "Sail" is the first song to climb to its peak after a year on Hot 100. It has spent the second longest time inside Billboard. i> Hot 100 chart, with 79 weeks, only surpassed by Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive".

Video Sail (song)

Background and composition

"Sail" is an electronic rock and alternative rock song. It has also been noted as featuring "industrial-tinged electropop". While the band's frontman Aaron Bruno never came out and spoke directly about what "Sail" was about, in a 2016 interview, he remembered contemplating that perhaps people needed a different kind, darker than some of the happier songs on the radio, stated "I remember playing a song for a friend of my producer, and he told me everything was good, but I need a choir." Bruno then tried to write a chorus, but failed to achieve what he thought the song needed. He finally left the chorus. An interesting note about "Sail" is that it can be played side by side with the instrumental song "Promontory" composed by Trevor Jones for the soundtrack of Micheal Mann's The Last of the Mohicans movie starring Daniel Day Lewis. Both songs feature the same sequence of bass chords and similar melodies.

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Music video

The video for "Sail" opened with lead singer Aaron Bruno running to a house. He entered the house with relief had escaped the threat outside. She closed the curtains. Bruno then found a tape recorder, and started singing inside. She went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror, still singing. Green light broke into the house and moved past it, scanning the aerial helmet and military flight suits. As the light climbs the stairs towards him, Bruno hides in the full bathtub. The light scanned him in the bathroom. Bruno was then pictured drawn on the floor by an unknown force; he tried to stick to the door frame, but lost his grip. The scene was interspersed with Bruno's shot closing the door and playing the piano part of the song. When the last chorus of the song begins, the house vibrates. Lights and lights turn on and off when the wind blows. Bruno is pulled by a mysterious force outside the house, and he is then lifted up into the sky as a set of flashing flashing lights on him. He dropped the tape recorder.

A video recorded by YouTuber Nanalew two years before the Awolnation video itself has nearly 250 million views, compared to the group's own video which has just over 77 million. On January 28, 2015, Nanalew's video was blocked from YouTube due to copyright issues, but returned a few days later. A few months later, Nanalew took the video again. He stated:

Over the past few years, Red Bull Records has claimed all earnings for the video. They agreed to work with me in a mutually beneficial partnership (including possible compensation for my video), but nothing worked.

He then asks his fans to tweet to the record label if they want to see the video back again. As of June 2018, Nanalew's video has over 290 million views.

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Cover, remix, and media view

Online

• "Sail" was used as the soundtrack for a YouTube video of the proximity wing of "Grinding the Crack" by the extreme athlete Jeb Corliss, uploaded in August 2011, which became viral, received over 30 million views.

Movies

• "Sail" is featured in the 2012 film Disconnect , 2012 horror movies Playback , and sports dram 2014 When the High Stand Game " Sail "is also featured in the 2016 horror movie Incarnation .

TV

• A BMW ad that aired during the 2012 Summer Olympics included "Sail".
• In 2013, the song was used by the History TV channel in the trailer for the Vikings event and in the trailer for The Counselor (2013).
• "Sail" is featured in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot", the third ninth season episode of The Good Wife .
• So You Think You Can Dance participated in May 2012.
• "Sail" is featured in "The Walking Dead", episode twenty-two season four of The Vampire Diaries .
• "Sail" was played during the last scene of "Dog Soldier", the fifth episode (season one) crime drama A & amp; E Longmire .
• "Sail" is the soundtrack for the season's highlights video of the club's premiere rugby emu victory in 2016.
• A short excerpt "Sail," used in the BBC comedy and drama program, Fleabag, episode two, in 2016.
• "Sail" is used in the ninth episode of the fourth season of Pretty Little Liars , in 2014.

Music

• Rapper Machine Gun Kelly takes samples of songs to create his own single, "Sail".
• The heavy metal band DevilDriver covers the song in 2013 for their album Winter Kills .

Video games

• Video game game Developer Corporation Counter-Strike: Global Offensive lets you buy "Music Kit" containing Awolnation music parts, including "Sail".

Remix

• "Sail" has been remixed by Jon Gooch also known as Feed Me, Borgore, Gravity Unlimited, Mongoose, B. Earnd, and the Automator, LED, Innerpartysystem, MisZap, and Leeroy Thornhill.

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Format and list track

• Digital download (United States)

1. "Display" - 4:19
2. "Sail" (Innerpartysystem Remix) - 5:26
3. "Sail" (And Automator Remix) - 4:34
4. "Sail" (Unlimited Gravity Remix) - 5:49

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Graphics and certification

Commercial performance

In July 2010, Austin DJ Toby Ryan premiered the song at KROX-FM and the response of the positive audience.

"Sail" debuted at number 89 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on the 3rd week of September 2011. The single spent 20 weeks on the chart before it came out after the issuance date of January 14, 2012. It was finally put back in mid 2013; its use in various television shows and advertisements exposed the song to a wider audience. Following his appearance in the History Channel trailer promoting Vikings , weekly downloads "more than tripled". The song has spent over a year on the chart and peaked at number 17 on Hot 100 at the fifty-sixth week on the chart, two years after its initial debut. "Sail" is certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in June 2013, and by May 2017, it has sold over 6.1 million copies in the US.

"Sail" also peaked at number five on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in 2011. The song is featured in the 2012 film introduction Disconnect . Due to its extremely unusual longevity, it has become the only song in Hot 100 history that spent a year on the chart without entering the top 20 first.

In Australia and New Zealand, the song peaked in September 2013, reaching number 27 on the Australian Music Chart, and number 33 on the New Zealand Music Chart. In the UK, the song peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart in January 2014.

On April 22, 2016, it was announced by the band that "Sail" has sold 10 million copies worldwide.

In an interview at the end of 2016, Aaron mentioned that he was used to the fact that "Sail" was able to sell many copies, but for a while he felt like he did not deserve it. "Finally at some point you realize 'well I do write songs', and I'm used to a certain level, but more than anything I feel like some sort of messenger from some larger method that is meant to be heard by people on generally. "

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Releasing history

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References

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External links

• Music videos
• Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics

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