"Firestone" is a song by Norwegian DJ and record producer

Kygo Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born 11 September 1991), known professionally as Kygo (), is a Norwegian DJ and music producer. He garnered international attention with his December 2013 remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran and his December 201 ...

, featuring vocals from Australian singer

Conrad Sewell Conrad Ignatius Mario Maximilian Sewell (born 31 March 1988) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Sewell is best known for his vocals on Kygo's single " Firestone" and his number-one single " Start Again". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015, ...

. It was released on 1 December 2014 and reached number one on the

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and became a big international hit for Kygo on many other charts. Birdy performed a cover of the song on

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Music video

The music video was released on Kygo's official

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channel on 9 March 2015, where it had gained over 750 million views as of January 2021. The video starts with a young woman (played by Rachel Echelberger, contestant of ''

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'' cycle 13) bumping into a guy, who pulls him in and seems about to kiss him before walking off with a suggestive display. He is entranced and follows her through a series of doors that open up into different scenes, such as a forest, parties (where

is seen playing music), a pool, and the dry riverbed in

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. They briefly reconnect at one of the parties before she leaves again. As he steps up the chase, she continues running, and when he appears to have lost her for good, he loses his temper. However, after he sees her walking casually by in a rugged warehouse loft, the chase continues. At the end of the video, he ends up at the same location where they first met, but on exiting the next door, he finds her standing alone on a building rooftop in the city, where he meets her as the video fades.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Special acoustic release featuring Conrad Sewell

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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