"Setting Fires" is a song by American DJ duo

the Chainsmokers The Chainsmokers are an American electronic DJ and production duo consisting of Alexander "Alex" Pall and Andrew "Drew" Taggart. They started out by releasing remixes of songs by indie artists. The EDM- pop duo achieved a breakthrough with the ...

, released as the final single from the duo's second extended play, ''

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'' (2016). It features the vocal collaboration of American

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duo Xylø. The song was written by

Melanie Fontana Melanie Joy Fontana (born October 3, 1986)Joyce Cohen''New York Times'', December 26, 2004. is an American singer, composer and songwriter signed to Universal Music Group. Early life Fontana was born in Newington, Connecticut. She moved to New Y ...

, Jon Asher and

Andrew Taggart The Chainsmokers are an American electronic DJ and production duo consisting of Alexander "Alex" Pall and Andrew "Drew" Taggart. They started out by releasing remixes of songs by indie artists. The EDM- pop duo achieved a breakthrough with the ...

. "Setting Fires" was released on November 4, 2016, through

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and

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...

Composition

The song is written in the key of

G♯ minor G-sharp minor is a minor scale based on G♯ (musical note), G, consisting of the pitches G, A♯ (musical note), A, B (musical note), B, C♯ (musical note), C, D♯ (musical note), D, E (musical note), E, and F♯ (musical note), F. Its key sig ...

with a

common time The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are contained in each measure (bar), and which note value ...

tempo of 105

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. Xylø's vocals span from F♯₃ to A♯₅ in the song.

Chart performance

"Setting Fires" debuted and peaked at number 71 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 issued for November 26, 2016. The

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(RIAA) certified the song

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, which denotes 500,000 units based on sales and track-equivalent on-demand streams. On the

Hot Dance/Electronic Songs The Dance/Electronic Songs chart has been published weekly by ''Billboard'' since January 2013. It is the first chart to be published that ranks the most popular dance and electronic songs according to audience impressions, digital downloads, s ...

chart, it entered at number eight and spent 20 weeks in total. "Setting Fires" peaked at number 35 on the

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and was certified Gold by

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. The song reached number 50 in Australia and was certified Platinum. It charted within the top 40 of national record charts, at number 26 in Scotland, and number 31 in Czech Republic.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the EP liner notes, ''

'' (2016). * Jordan "DJ Swivel" Young

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, mixing engineer, recording engineer * The Chainsmokersproducer, associated performer * Xyløassociated performer *

background vocals *

Chris Gehringer Chris Gehringer (born May 27, 1962) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered recordings such as Gwen Stefani's '' Love. Angel. Music. Baby.'' (2004), Rihanna's '' Loud'' (2010), Lady Gaga's '' Born This Way'' (2011) and Drake' ...

mastering engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 2016 songs 2016 singles The Chainsmokers songs Columbia Records singles Songs written by Melanie Fontana Songs written by Andrew Taggart Disruptor Records singles Songs written by Jon Asher American dance-pop songs