
Pompeii
Lead vocals: Man
Taal: Engels
Pompeii is een nummer van de Britse band Bastille. Het nummer werd uitgegeven als een download op 24 februari 2013. Het heeft een tijd lang op nummer 2 gestaan in de hitlijsten van het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Ierland. De single is recordhouder van het langst op nummer 1 staan in de United Kingdom's Official Streaming Chart. Ook in België is het een grote hit geworden. Het nummer scoorde tevens in Nederland.
"Pompeii" is a song by British indie pop band Bastille. It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and was released on 11 January 2013. The song's title and lyrics refer to the Roman town of the same name that was destroyed and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
"Pompeii" became the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart and became the eleventh best-selling song that year and, until June 2014, was the country's most streamed single of all time. It was also successful worldwide, reaching the top ten in fifteen countries, including the United States where it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Bastille's most successful single to date, until "Happier" reached number two on both the UK and US charts in October 2018 and February 2019 respectively.
The song was nominated for British Single of the Year at the 2014 BRIT Awards. A mashup of the song with Rudimental and Ella Eyre's "Waiting All Night" was performed live by Rudimental, Eyre and Bastille at the aforementioned ceremony, which reached number 21 in the UK.
It was also performed at the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Awards, where it was nominated for Alternative Rock Song of the Year.