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Vorlage:Use mdy dates Vorlage:For Vorlage:Infobox single "Selfie" stylized as #SELFIE is a song by American DJ duo, The Chainsmokers. It was released on January 28, 2014, by Dim Mak Records.

Background and promotion

American DJ duo The Chainsmokers had noticed how the word selfie had become a trend and they wanted to capitalize on it. The duo, composed of Drew Taggart and Alex Pall, made a demo of the song with a monologue from a female clubber about taking good selfies.[1] They were inspired by the regular club going girls that they see on their night outs in New York City. So when they were composing the track, they wanted to incorporate the "let's take a selfie" line in it somehow. Later, they wanted to include a full monologue of what people, especially girls say when they go out, and The Chainsmokers wanted to make it relatable. The Chainsmokers described in an interview with The Phoenix New Times,

Honestly, "Selfie" is kind of a phenomenon for us. We made it and thought it was funny and put it out as an edit. Then Dim Mak wanted to buy it, and they bought it from us and put it our officially and we made a video for it. This was all just because we thought it was fun. And then the song just kind of took on a life of its own. Which is honestly really great because it's brought in a new audience of people that listen to music that we've made that we're more passionate about.[2]

The duo released the track to their SoundCloud account and became popular with continuous plays and went viral. The duo also posted snippets of the song to their SoundCloud account along with other posts in Vine and Instagram. A music video for the song was also released and features actual selfies from Steve Aoki, founder of Dim Mak, Snoop Dogg and David Hasselhoff, among others. The video has been viewed more than twenty million times on YouTube.[3] Oliver Luckett, CEO of social media marketing firm TheAudience, said that the song is "so on point – it's shit-white-girls-say-meets-a-club-remix". TheAudience introduced The Chainsmokers to Aoki, helped create the "Selfie" video and released it on January 29, 2014, on YouTube, and utilized the network of celebrities to promote it.[1][4][5][6] According to Pall, "the video inherently had this viral concept built into it, which certainly helped get it off the ground", with total views standing at 17 million and rising at 1.5 million per day.[7]

Composition

"Selfie" is a dance-pop, EDM song that is mostly instrumental though it features spoken word verses; the uncredited talking female vocals in the song is by Alexis Killacam.[2][3][8] The song details a young woman at a club, presumably speaking to friends, as she is concerned about taking selfies and uploading them to her Instagram account, while she criticizes other people at the club, including their outfits, while also dealing with a guy named Jason, that she has a love/hate relationship with though she also might have a crush on him as well. At the end of each spoken verse, she says "Let me take a selfie".[9] The song has been compared to the viral impact of "Harlem Shake" by Baauer. The Chainsmokers explained that one of their initial intention with "Selfie" was to re-create the viral impact that "Harlem Shake" had, with the general public taking the song and maybe including their own interpretations along with the beat. The structure of it has drawn comparisons to the 1982 hit "Valley Girl" by Frank Zappa and his daughter, Moon Unit Zappa.[10][11][12]

Critical response

Miles Raymar from the Chicago Reader gave the song a negative review, stating referring to the album as "garbage, paint-by-numbers EDM with all the artistic flavor of an audio software preset that makes "Harlem Shake" sound like Selected Ambient Works Volume II. But the song's only there to deliver the meme, and if the song had any personality it might distract from the hashtag-packed spoken-word bit that's the real focus here."[8]

Commercial performance

"Selfie" debuted on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart at number 19, with first week sales of 9,000 digital downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan.[3] The next week, "Selfie" sold another 53,000 digital downloads and debuted at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest debut of the week.[12] The sales drove the song to number six on the Dance/Electronic Songs and number three on the Dance/Electronic Digital Songs charts. "Selfie" additionally debuted at number seven on Dance/Mix Show Airplay, becoming only the sixth song in the chart's 11-year history to debut as high or above and the first since Lady Gaga entered at number six with "Alejandro" in May 2010.[13] In its third week of release, the song sold another 88,000 downloads (up by 64%) to move into the top ten of the Hot Digital Songs chart. It also reached a peak of number 27 on the Pop Songs chart.[14] On the Hot 100, the song consecutively jumped to number 28.[15] It also started on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart at number 33.[16] The song has sold a total of 180,000 digital downloads as of March 2014.[7] The fourth week saw the song sell a further 111,000 digital downloads and moved to number 18 on the Hot 100.[17] It reached the top of the Dance/Electronic Songs, and also moved up the other component charts like Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs (16–7; 1.4 million US streams, according to Nielsen BDS), Dance/Mix Show Airplay (4–2) and Hot Dance Club Songs (33–19).[18]

In the United Kingdom, "Selfie" debuted at number 115 on the UK Singles Chart and moved to number 42 the next week.[19] The song has so far peaked at number 17 in the UK and at number 11 in Scotland.[20][21] In Australia "Selfie" debuted at number 98 on the ARIA Charts, and moved to a peak of number 30.[22][23]

Charts

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Charts (2014) Peak
position
Australia Dance (ARIA)[24] 8
Belgium Dance (Ultratop Flanders)[25] 33
Netherlands (Mega Dance Top 30)[26] 9
Sweden Dance (Sverigetopplistan)[27] 13
US Dance/Mix Show Airplay (Billboard)[28] 2

References

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  1. ↑ a b Dan Hyman: 'Harlem Shake' 2.0? '#Selfie' Is Going Viral With Slick Marketing. In: Billboard. 4. März 2014, abgerufen am 15. März 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Amanda Savage: The Chainsmokers: "We Just Try to Mix What's Fun" In: The Phoenix New Times, February 27, 2014. Abgerufen im March 10, 2014 „" It shouldn't come as any surprise, given that the recently released track is not only an addicting four minutes of electro-filled dance-pop ear candy, it's also one of those song that both pokes fun at an Internet subculture (in this case, the vapidity of selfies) while simultaneously celebrating the practice."“ 
  3. ↑ a b c Billboard Staff: Bubbling Under: Chainsmokers Get Their Shot With '#Selfie'. In: Billboard. 2. Juli 2013, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
  4. ↑ Canoe inc.: Is '#Selfie' set to become the new 'Harlem Shake'? Technology.canoe.ca, 6. März 2014, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
  5. ↑ The Chainsmokers Video '#SELFIE' Taking The UK By Storm – Watch - Music News. Capital FM, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
  6. ↑ San Francisco Edges Top ‘Selfies’ List « CBS San Francisco. Sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Brian Mansfield: Chainsmokers' '#SELFIE' goes viral In: USA Today, March 16, 2014. Abgerufen im March 17, 2014 
  8. ↑ a b Miles Raymar: The Chainsmokers' paint-by-numbers virality In: Chicago Reader, March 11, 2014. Abgerufen im March 18, 2014 
  9. ↑ Pollo Del Mar: The Chainsmokers' Bring Cheeky Smash "#Selfie" to SF March 8. In: The Huffington Post. 6. März 2014, abgerufen am 10. März 2014.
  10. ↑ Gary Trust: Chart Moves: Avicii, The Chainsmokers Burn Up Dance Charts; Coldplay Makes 'Magic' On Hot 100, Hot Rock Songs; The Pretty Reckless Rules Mainstream Rock. In: Billboard. 11. März 2014, abgerufen am 15. März 2014.
  11. ↑ Marisa Okano: #SELFIE: The Chainsmokers’ 7 Tips For Taking The Perfect One. Yahoo!, 11. März 2014, abgerufen am 15. März 2014.
  12. ↑ a b Melinda Newman: 5 things you need to know right now about The Chainsmokers’ “#Selfie”. Hitfix.com, 6. März 2014, abgerufen am 10. März 2014.
  13. ↑ Gordon Murray: Chainsmokers' '#SELFIE' Blasts Up Dance Charts, Enters Hot 100. In: Billboard. Prometheus Global Media, 6. März 2014, abgerufen am 10. März 2014.
  14. ↑ Rick Ross Rules With Fifth No. 1 Album On Billboard 200. Billboard, 18. August 2013, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
  15. ↑ Idina Menzel's Frozen song 'Let It Go' enters US singles top ten - Music News. Digital Spy, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
  16. ↑ Dance Club Songs : Mar 22, 2014 (Biggest Jump). In: Billboard. 11. März 2014, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
  17. ↑ Paul Grein: Chart Watch: “#Selfie” Is A #Smash. Yahoo!, 19. März 2014, abgerufen am 19. März 2014.
  18. ↑ Gordon Murray: The Chainsmokers Take '#SELFIE' to No. 1 on Dance Chart. In: Billboard. Prometheus Global Media, 20. März 2014, abgerufen am 20. März 2014.
  19. ↑ Official Singles Chart UK Top 100 - 15th March 2014. 15. März 2013, archiviert vom Original am 11. März 2014;.
  20. ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen uk.
  21. ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen scot.
  22. ↑ Chartifacts – Tuesday 4th March 2014. ARIA Charts, abgerufen am 11. März 2014.
  23. ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen aus.
  24. ↑ ARIA Dance Singles Chart: 10/03/2014. ARIA Charts, archiviert vom Original am 17. März 2014;.
  25. ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen Flanders.
  26. ↑ Dance Top 30 : 08/03/2014. dutchcharts.nl, abgerufen am 11. März 2014 (niederländisch).
  27. ↑ Veckolista Dance – Vecka 10, 7 mars 2014. hitlistan.se, abgerufen am 11. März 2014 (schwedisch).
  28. ↑ Dance/Mix Show Airplay : Mar 29, 2014. In: Billboard. 11. März 2014, abgerufen am 14. März 2014.
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