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[9] [10] [11] The Chainsmokers performed “Closer” for the second time at Coachella on Sunday, April 17, 2016. Halsey and the Chainsmokers performed the track live at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards as well as a remix of the song at the 2016 American Music Awards. Its music video was released on October 24, 2016. [12]
In the second verse of "Closer", the 2016 song by the Chainsmokers, featured singer Halsey mentioned a Blink-182 track that was later revealed to be "I Miss You" and also sang "Play that Blink-182 song/That we beat to death in Tucson." [1] [2] On January 16, 2019, the duo tweeted, "Just did a session with blink-182 and wrote an amazing song. We ...
It became the Chainsmokers' first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, staying at number one for 12 consecutive weeks, [2] and in the top five for 26 consecutive weeks. [3] They released their second EP, Collage , in November 2016.
The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number nine; it became the Chainsmokers' third top ten single. Two weeks later, the song peaked atop the chart. It was both the Chainsmokers' and Halsey's first number one single, topping the chart for twelve consecutive weeks, becoming the longest-running number-one single in 2016 in the US. [3] [4]
The song was certified 2× platinum in Canada [98] and platinum in the US and is the most successful single from the Chainsmokers' third album, World War Joy. [99] They also announced a 41-city North American tour with 5 Seconds of Summer , taking place September 2019 through December 2019. [ 100 ]
The song is written in the key of C major with a common time tempo of 90 beats per minute with a chord progression of C – Fsus2 – Am. The vocals span from G 3 to A 4 in the song. [ 4 ] The lyrics were written by Taggart and Swedish songwriting duo SHY—made up of Sara Hjellström and Nirob Islam (better known as Shy Martin and Shy Nodi ...
Nolan Feeney of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B rating, saying "The track itself makes similar alterations to the band's sound without straying too far from the formula: You'll find the familiar chilled-out keyboards of 'Closer', a guitar loop like the one in 'Don't Let Me Down', and more lyrics about nostalgia and youth and living wild and free, but there's no real drop, and the synths that ...
It also became the Chainsmokers' second consecutive top 10 entry after "Roses", which peaked at number six. It reached the top 10 in several countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. A set of remixes for the song, was released on April 15, 2016.