Speaking to Billboard Dance on the phone from his home studio in Finland, Darude laughs when asked if he was aware of the milestone. Its early lifespan was buoyed by a series of syncs and artist-sanctioned availability on the nascent music file-sharing site mp3. College football fans from Michigan to South Carolina embraced the track as their unofficial anthem, while a cappella groups covered it and at least one youth orchestra performed an arrangement of it.
To date, it has over million plays on YouTube and over million combined plays on Spotify, and has been certified Gold in the U. A genre often maligned or misunderstood in the American music industry, trance originated in Europe, though its lineage as a descendant genre of American house music is often contested. In the late '90s, while electronic music was already somewhat mainstream in the U.
Darude was hardly alone on his island of trance, however. Despite its relative acclaim, Paul van Dyk would have loved to have seen some of the song's widespread popularity with Out There and Back , the trance-pop album intended to be his mainstream breakthrough that same year.
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Mmkrishna Cherla. Science undergraduate by Day and a DJ by night. Fell in love with Trance music at the age of 10, I started experimenting with harder genres. My mission is to reach the masses with what electronic music has to offer and how it is different from all the other forms of music. With ambitions to lead an all-electronic orchestra one day, here I am, a resident DJ, writing about the community I care about.
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