Crystallize (Lindsey Stirling song)

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"Crystallize"
Crystallize single cover.jpeg
Single by Lindsey Stirling
from the album Lindsey Stirling
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2012
Recorded2011–12
Genre
Length4:18(album version)
5:00 (YouTube version)
Label BridgeTone
Songwriter(s) Lindsey Stirling
Producer(s) Marko G.
Lindsey Stirling singles chronology
"Shadows"
(2012)		"Crystallize"
(2012)		"Beyond the Veil"
(2012)

"Crystallize" is a song by American violinist Lindsey Stirling from her self-titled studio album Lindsey Stirling . The song was released as a music video on YouTube on February 23, 2012. The video had more than 42 million views at the end of the year, and was the eighth-most watched video of 2012. The song became Stirling's album's lead single due to its success. The song appeared on three Billboard charts and, according to Nielsen SoundScan, by April 2013 it had reached 234,000 digital sales. On February 4, 2014, almost two years after the release of the video, "Crystallize" earned Stirling's first RIAA certified gold record by selling 500,000 copies in the United States. [1] At the end of 2013, "Crystallize" finished first on the year-end Billboard Classical Digital Songs chart. [2] On July 27, 2014, the official music video reached 100 million views, being Stirling's first YouTube video to do so. [3]

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Meaning

Speaking with Artistdirect, Stirling explained the background to the song: "It has a pretty deep meaning," she said. "Basically, it's about creating inner beauty in yourself first. It all comes back to research being done by a scientist (Dr. Masaru Emoto) who studied the crystallization of water."

"Basically, he'd test out water and look at it at a magnified level as it crystallized in different environments," Stirling continued. "If it was in positive environments where good things were being spoken to it, the crystals came out beautiful. Whereas if negative things were said to these little vials of water, these crystals were these jagged shapes that were meaningless."

"When we surround ourselves eternally with positivity and we create healthy and positive environments and we do good things for people and ourselves, we're made up of 70 percent water so the crystals in your body create actual literal inner beauty," Stirling added. "That's what 'Crystallize' is about. It's about taking control of your environment, creating beauty within yourself, and therefore creating beauty outside. I know that's pretty deep, but that's what it's about." [4]

Music video

The music video was filmed at the ice castles of Silverthorne, Colorado. It was co-directed by Lindsey Stirling herself and Devin Graham, with Graham as the videographer. It had over 42 million views at the end of 2012, and it reached number 8 on the list of the most-watched YouTube videos of that year. Since "Crystallize" was released, Stirling's popularity has increased considerably and it is the 2nd most-watched video on her YouTube channel with over 239 million views, behind Roundtable Rival which has more than 280 million views, both as of December 2020. [5]

Charts and certifications

The song was a success worldwide, especially in the United States; on the Classical Digital Songs chart it held the number one spot for 39 non-consecutive weeks and, until March 8, 2014, it had been on the chart for 75 weeks. [6] Crystallize was also a moderate hit in Europe as it entered the Top 40 category in four European countries: Germany, [7] Austria, [8] Switzerland [9] and Bulgaria. [10]

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  2. 1 2 "Classical Digital Songs : Mar 10, 2014 | Billboard Chart Archive". Billboard.com. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ Lindsey Stirling [@LindseyStirling] (July 27, 2014). "My 1st vid to hit the big 100,000,000 views. Wow. That's... A lot. Thanks to you guys for watching and sharing. ksll" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ↑ "Crystallize by Lindsey Stirling Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
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