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Glass Animals have become the first UK band to reach the top of Spotify‘s global singles chart.The Oxford four-piece have hit the heights through the continued success of their 2020 single ‘Heat Waves’, which originally featured on their third studio album ‘Dreamland’.The track, which has been streamed over 1.1billion times on Spotify, has now hit the top of Spotify’s Global Top 50 Chart, making Glass Animals the first British band to reach the top spot.‘Heat Waves’, which is solely credited to Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley, is currently amassing over 4.26million streams a day on Spotify.The song has been nominated for a BRIT Award for ‘Song Of The Year’, while Glass Animals are up for both Best Band In The World and Best Band From The UK: Supported by Pizza Express at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.‘Heat Waves’, which was re-released in March 2021 featuring a new verse by Iann Dior, helped Glass Animals make US chart history back in November.The song reached number 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 for the first time that month, having already spent 42 weeks on the chart.It was the longest climb to the top 10 in US chart history: beating American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, whose 2006 single ‘Before He Cheats’ took 38 weeks to reach the same position.

Charlie Amter For a band from England, Glass Animals, Variety’s Group of the Year, has spent so much time touring the United States, it may as well be American.“I feel comfortable here, and I get to eat all the food I grew up with, like Hot Pockets,” says Dave Bayley, the quartet’s ringleader and songwriter-­producer, on a Zoom call during a break between two sold-out shows in Santa Barbara in late October.Bayley did grow up in America, partly in Texas, where he says he was “very much exposed to U.S. culture,” including a hip-hop radio station that he loved as a preteen.But it’s not Bayley’s upbringing in the Lone Star State that has endeared American fans to Glass Animals.

London Grammar have shared a powerful downbeat live cover of Glass Animals‘ 2020 single ‘Heat Waves‘.The track was performed on a rooftop as part of a Deezer was session.

Glass Animals have shared their brand new single ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)’ – you can hear the track below.The song marks the Oxford band’s first new release since the arrival last summer of their third album ‘Dreamland’.Speaking about ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)’, which you can hear in the below Drew Kirsch-directed video, Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley said: “Talking is great, don’t get me wrong. But this pandemic has made so many of us look inwards in a way we maybe haven’t before.“The uncertainty in the world and the inability to go out and create new memories makes you dig deep into the past.

Glass Animals have announced the release of their new single I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance), coming tomorrow (September 10).

The Sims 4 is due to host its own music festival next week, with headliners Bebe Rexha, Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley, and Joy Oladokun.The festival, titled The Sims Sessions, is the first of its kind to feature in the game, with “Simlish” songs debuting in a virtual event.

Dave Bayley, the frontman of the band Glass Animals, is opening up about the super cool thing that the group did for fans during the pandemic.

Glass Animals have been announced as patrons of the Music Venue Trust. Their first act in the role? Selling peanut butter.

Glass Animals have shared a new version of their track ‘Space Ghost Coast To Coast’ featuring Bree Runway – you can listen to it below.Premiering on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show tonight (May 20), the reworking of the Oxford band’s ‘Dreamland’ song finds Runway on backing vocals.As Mac explained while introducing the collaboration, Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley experienced a “This is it!” moment when he heard the rising London artist’s voice. “This is the voice that can do that timeless R&B thing,” he said.“We heard @breerunway a while back, and thought to ourselves ‘you know what, bree + space ghost would be something wouldn’t it?’” the band wrote on Twitter.

Glass Animals have shared a new video for ‘Space Ghost Coast To Coast’ – check it out below.The surreal new visual is the latest video to land from the Oxford quartet’s 2020 album ‘Dreamland’.“‘Space Ghost’ is about someone I knew growing up in Texas…” frontman Dave Bayley explained of the track in a statement. “We drifted apart when I moved away at 13, but I found out a few years later he did something truly awful.“The lyrics of the track are just wondering what makes someone change so much from being an innocent kid to someone who can even consider doing what he did.

Holly Humberstone has joined Glass Animals for a new acoustic performance of the band’s recent single ‘Heat Waves’ – watch the collaboration below.Humberstone and the band’s singer Dave Bayley performed the song for the La Blogotheque series while strolling through Hackney in London.The new video is the latest alternate take on ‘Heat Waves’, which topped Australia’s coveted triple j Hottest 100 list for 2020, after Bayley turned the track into a sea shanty back in January following the TikTok-fuelled trend.Watch Glass Animals and Holly Humberstone’s new collaboration below.Glass Animals released their third album ‘Dreamland’ last year, and recent performed a livestreamed event entitled ‘Live In The Internet’.

London Grammar have shared a new remix of their recent single ‘Lose Your Head’ by Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley – you can hear the reworking below.Originally released in January, ‘Lose Your Head’ will feature on the trio’s upcoming third album ‘Californian Soil’, which is set for release on April 9.Speaking about ‘Lose Your Head’, London Grammar singer Hannah Reid said: “‘Lose Your Head’ is about power and control in relationships.

Glass Animals and Arlo Parks have teamed up on a new version of ‘Tangerine’ – scroll down to hear it now.The track originally appeared without Parks on Glass Animals’ latest album ‘Dreamland’, which was released in August.This new take on the song premiered last night (October 15) during the Oxford band’s ‘Live In The Internet’ livestream gig, where Parks joined them on stage. The studio version was officially released shortly after the show.“I used to know the way you smiled and how you like your tea,” the London solo artist sings on her verse on ‘Tangerine’.

Glass Animals have announced a special live-streamed performance for next month, Live In The Internet.The Oxford outfit will showcase their latest album ‘Dreamland’ as a full band on October 15, with the online broadcast set to feature special guests, set design and creative fan interaction.According to a press release, the band plan to “reimagine their globally renowned live show to create a one time only virtual gig/experience” with the broadcast, which will be filmed within a “striking virtual space”.“I think 90 percent of a live concert’s atmosphere comes from the crowd. It’s about that togetherness and everyone getting on the same level and everyone in the room being part of the same thing,” explained frontman Dave Bayley.

It was the spring of 2018, and Glass Animals had big plans. They were about to cap off two years of nonstop touring by supporting Beck that summer at a few massive shows, including one at Madison Square Garden. Then, frontman Dave Bayley was intending to begin work on the followup to their critically-acclaimed album How to Be a Human Being in the fall.

Glass Animals’ frontman Dave Bayley explained of their third album ‘Dreamland’ in their recent NME cover feature. Having created two albums that largely explored the lives of others (2014 debut ‘Zaba’ and its follow 2016 follow-up ‘How to Be a Human Being’, the latter of which based each of the 11 songs on a different character), their latest release marks a stark change in how the Oxfordian quartet construct an album.

Glass Animals have shared a brand new single – watch the video for ‘It’s All So Incredibly Loud’ below.The track lands ahead of the band’s third album ‘Dreamland’, which is out next Friday (August 7).Frontman Dave Bayley says of the track: “The entire song is about three seconds of time. The time between you saying something devastating and then seeing the reaction.

Glass Animals have shared a video of them performing ‘Heat Waves’ on the streets of Hackney.The spontaneous gig takes place in front of a billboard advertising their upcoming third studio album, ‘Dreamland’. Take a look below.thank you ppl of hackney, that was weird.thank you ppl of hackney, that was weird.Posted by Glass Animals on Saturday, July 25, 2020The footage of the pop-up event includes a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the start that sees lead singer Dave Bayley confess his nerves over performing, presumably for the first time since pre-global pandemic.“You know what, I thought I was going to be a bit nervous because this, this is tour for me right now,” he’s shown saying.

Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley has shared a stripped-back solo rendition of the band’s latest single ‘Heat Waves’.In contrast to the bass-heavy psych-pop of the original, the clip sees Bayley performing the track with just guitar and voice in the empty concert hall of London venue Hackney Earth, where the band shot the video for ‘Heat Waves’.Watch Bayley perform the song below: In a caption accompanying the video, Bayley encouraged fans to donate to Crew Nation, an organisation which aids live performance industry workers who have experienced financial loss as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.Earlier this week, the band shared the stems and MIDI files for ‘Heat Waves’ on the band’s Open Source website for fans to remix and cover the

"It’s supposed to make people who are struggling feel less isolated."

Frontman Dave Bayley took to Reddit to tease the 17-song release