"The Ocean" is a song by
Swedish
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DJ and music producer
Mike Perry,
featuring vocals from
Shy Martin
Sara Hjellström (born 5 November 1993), known professionally as Shy Martin (stylized as shy martin) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. As a songwriter her compositions have been streamed over 3 billion times on Spotify alone, while her songs a ...
.
It was released as a digital download in Sweden on 15 April 2016.
The song peaked at number 1 in
Sweden
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,
and reached the top 20 in
Australia
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,
Austria,
Denmark,
Finland,
Germany, the
Netherlands,
Norway and
Switzerland
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. The song has additionally peaked at number 39 in the UK.
The song was performed by Perry during the Summerburst Festival at
Ullevi in
Gothenburg
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, Sweden.
Background
Mike Perry, whose real name is Mikael Persson, only produces music alongside his regular job, which is servicing
Volvo diesel car engines in
Skövde, Sweden.
Although he had played "some gigs" before the song, he began receiving more offers after the song became a viral hit on
Spotify,
later playing the Summerburst Festival and a festival in
Gärdet.
Perry credited the song's "simple" and "no frills" nature as well as its "timely" sound as the reason for its success, saying that he prefers not to complicate the sound of songs he creates.
The song was later placed in the Chill Hits playlist on Spotify, which helped it achieve chart success.
The vocalist and co-writer of the song, 23-year-old Sara Hjellström,
who records under the alias Shy Martin, said she "did not think it would be a hit".
Hjellström, originally part of the band Browsing Collection, co-wrote the song with her bandmate Nirob Islam from her current group, Södra Station.
They also co-wrote the song "Summer Love" for the boy band
FO&O.
As of November 2020, the music video, aired 2016-07-20, has been viewed 154 million times on
YouTube, and the audio-only version published on 2016-06-03 on the promotion channel ''Tropical House Records'' additional 100 million times.
Track listing
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
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References
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Songs about oceans and seas
2016 singles
2016 songs
Number-one singles in Sweden
Tropical house songs
Songs written by Shy Martin