Artist:Florence + The Machine
Song:Dog Days Are Over
Album:Lungs
The 2010 single Dog Days Are Over is the biggest international hit for the British group Florence + The Machine. They have had greater success in England because the BBC got behind them. Florence Welch and Isabella Summers started performing together as teens. Isabella's nickname is Machine so that's where the band name is from. Florence is lead singer and main songwriter. Isabella plays keyboards and produces. Other members were Robert Ackroyd on guitar, Tom Monger on harp and xylophone and Christopher Lloyd Hayden on drums. Bassist Mark Saunders was added in 2009. Florence + The Machine signed with Island and released the album Lungs in 2008. They were on Universal Republic in the US. Dog Days Are Over was the second single. Universal promoted the single by placing it in the TV series Gossip Girl. The song charted in England. Universal re-released Dog Days Are Over in 2010 with a new video. After MTV played the video and Florence + The Machine performed Dog Days Are Over on the MTV Music Video Awards, the single reached #21 on the Billboard Hot 100. Lungs sold over three million copies worldwide. It is their best selling album to date. The band continues to have chart success in England. Florence + The Machine's first three albums topped the British charts. And the 2012 single Spectrum (Say My Name) topped the British singles chart. Lungs is available as a budget CD. After three albums for Island, the 2018 album High as Hope was released on Virgin EMI. Saunders and Hayden were replaced by Cyrus Bayandor and Loren Humphrey. Though Florence + The Machine plan to tour and released a single Call Me Cruella from last summer's film Cruella, there is no news on a new album though one is expected. Here's the video for Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine.
No comments:
Post a Comment