"Boombox" is the debut single by American actress and singer

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. It was released on March 11, 2016, through

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as the lead single from her upcoming debut album. It was written by Joe Kirkland, Jason Dean, Rami Jrade and Asia Whiteacre. The song is a dance-pop song with elements of electropop. A music video for the song was released on April 4, 2016, and has more than 66 million views.

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makes an appearance in the music video.

Background

In March 2015, Laura Marano signed with

. In the summer of 2015, Marano began speaking publicly about her debut single, aiming for a summer 2015 release. However, towards the end of the summer, Marano confirmed that the single would be released in 2016. Radio Disney premiered the song during Marano's radio show "For the Record" on March 8 and the song was released on March 11, 2016, worldwide.

Music video

A music video directed by

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for the song was released on April 4, 2016. The video has a video-within-a-video format and features comedian

, playing the director of the video, along with his daughter Zooey Jeong. In the video Ken Jeong is showing Laura Marano how to do the choreography, as she is having trouble performing it. The video has amassed over 65 million views on

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. "Boombox" has also been nominated for a Streamy Award.

Live performances

Laura Marano performed the song live at the

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on May 1, 2016. She then performed the song on the ''

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'' show on May 31, 2016.

Charts

Release history

Notes

References

{{authority control 2015 songs American pop songs 2016 debut singles Songs written by Asia Whiteacre