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"Sail" is a song by American electronic rock band Awolnation. It was written and produced in Venice, California by group member Aaron Bruno, with Kenny Carkeet performing the audio engineering. The song was first featured on the band's debut extended play ''Back from Earth'' (2010) and was later featured on their debut album ''Megalithic Symphony'' (2011). Released as a single on January 4, 2011, "Sail" is the band's most commercially successful song to date. It debuted at number 89 on the United States ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in September 2011, spending 20 weeks on the chart before dropping out. The single re-entered the Hot 100 a year later, becoming a massive sleeper hit and reaching a new peak of number 17. It has spent the second longest time inside the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, with 79 weeks, only surpassed by Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive". ==Commercial performance== In July 2010, Austin DJ Toby Ryan premiered the song on KROX-FM and the response from the listeners was positive. "Sail" debuted at number 89 on the United States ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart on the week of September 3, 2011. The single spent twenty weeks on the chart before dropping out following the issue date of January 14, 2012. It eventually re-entered in mid-2013; its use in various television shows and advertisements exposed the song to a wider audience. Following its appearance in a History trailer promoting ''Vikings'', weekly downloads "more than tripled". The song has since spent more than a year on the chart and peaked at number 17 on the Hot 100 in its 56th week on the chart, two years after its initial debut.〔 "Sail" was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in June 2013,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=AWOLNATION's Sail goes triple platinum )〕 and as of January 2015, it has sold over 5.5 million copies in the US. "Sail" also peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' Alternative Songs chart in 2011. The song was featured in the introduction of the 2012 film ''Disconnect''. Due to its extremely unusual longevity, it has become the only song in the history of the Hot 100 to spend 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=AWOLNATION - SAIL (SONG) )〕 and number 33 on the New Zealand Music Chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=AWOLNATION - SAIL (SONG) )〕 In the United Kingdom the song peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart in January 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Top 40 Official Singles Chart UK (Week-ending 18th January 2014) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sail (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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