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Free the Universe by Major Lazer
Free the Universe is an album by Major Lazer, released in 2013. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Get Free”, on 3 lists with a best position of #2.
Free the Universe, Major Lazer's second album, came out on Secretly Canadian on April 16, 2013, four years after the 2009 debut Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do. Diplo produced it with Ariel Rechtshaid under the Major Lazer banner, and by now the crew around him was Jillionaire and Walshy Fire, with Switch gone.
It's a sound-system party with a guest list to match: Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman, Santigold, Peaches, Tyga, Flux Pavilion, Bruno Mars, Wyclef Jean and Shaggy all drop in, riding a restless mash of reggae, dancehall and club bass that never sits still long enough to get boring. "Get Free" was already on the countdowns before the album landed, and "Jessica" followed. The album itself stalled at number 34 in both the US and the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Free the Universe on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.