Everything Is Awesome

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"Everything Is Awesome"
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Single by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island
from the album The Lego Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2014
Recorded2013
Genre
Length2:43
Label WaterTower
Songwriter(s) Shawn Patterson, JoLi, the Lonely Island
Producer(s) Shawn Patterson, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bartholomew
Tegan and Sara singles chronology
"Goodbye, Goodbye"
(2013)		"Everything Is Awesome"
(2014)		"Boyfriend"
(2016)
The Lonely Island singles chronology
"Spell It Out"
(2013)		"Everything Is Awesome"
(2014)		"When Will the Bass Drop"
(2014)

"Everything Is Awesome" (stylized as "Everything Is AWESOME!!!") is a song by Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara featuring American comedy trio the Lonely Island. The theme song to the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures film The Lego Movie , it was written by Shawn Patterson, [1] Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton, [2] [3] and the Lonely Island. The single and pop version featured in the end credits of the movie were produced by Mark Mothersbaugh. [4]

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The version of "Everything Is Awesome" featured in The Lego Movie and promotional material for the movie was produced by Joshua Bartholomew and performed by Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton. [5]

On January 26, 2014, the song received its first US radio airplay via Anything Anything with Rich Russo on the WXPK, WRAT and WDHA radio stations. [6]

Music video

The music video features Lego versions of Tegan and Sara as well as the Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone. Parts of the video were made using brickfilming. [7]

Reception

Commercial performance

"Everything Is Awesome" debuted at No. 11 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with 34,000 downloads in its first week. [8] It also charted at No. 11 on the Irish charts,[ citation needed ] and peaked at No. 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. [9] The song spent six consecutive weeks on the UK Singles and thirty-one on the UK Indie, peaking on both charts in early March at No. 17 and No. 2, respectively. [10] [11] In the US Billboard Hot 100, the song charted No. 57. [12] The single had sold 418,000 copies in the United States by the end of June, 2014, [13] and became Gold certified at the end of that year. On July 14, 2017, it was certified Platinum, having sold more than 1,000,000 units since its release. [14]

Oscars performance

As one of the songs nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, a large-scale musical performance of "Everything Is Awesome" took place at the 2015 awards ceremony. Tegan and Sara performed the song with the Lonely Island, musician and singer Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo (wearing a LEGO version of the Devo energy dome), DJ and drummer Questlove of The Roots, and actor Will Arnett, dressed as Batman, wearing the costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film Batman Forever . [15] In the film, Arnett provides the voice of Batman and sings the mocking heavy metal composition "Untitled Self Portrait", an excerpt of which was incorporated into the performance of "Everything Is Awesome" at the Academy Awards. [16]

Awards and nominations

Charts and certifications

Legacy

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