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"Firestarter" is een nummer van de Britse dancegroep The Prodigy. Het is de eerste single van het album The Fat of the Land uit 1997, en de tiende single van de band in totaal. Op 18 maart 1996 werd het nummer eerst in Europa, de VS en Canada op single uitgebracht en op 31 maart volgden Australië, Nieuw-Zeeland en Japan.

"Firestarter" is a song by British electronic dance music band the Prodigy, released on 18 March 1996 by XL Recordings as the first single from their third album, The Fat of the Land (1997). It was co-written and produced by Liam Howlett and features vocals by Keith Flint. It also was the group's first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, staying on top for three weeks, and their first big international hit, topping the charts in the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, and Norway. The music video was directed by Walter Stern and filmed in the London Underground, in black-and-white. Melody Maker ranked the song number two in their list of "Singles of the Year" in 1996. 24 years later, The Guardian ranked it number eight in their list of "The 100 Greatest UK No 1 Singles".