“Happier” by Bastille featuring Marshmello

"Happier" teamed Bastille with the American DJ Marshmello in August 2018, with the band's frontman Dan Smith carrying the vocal over Marshmello's dance-pop sheen. Smith wrote it with Marshmello and Steve Mac, Marshmello produced, and Manny Marroquin and Chris Galland mixed, and the whole thing gleams like it was built for festival fields.

It was a monster. The song reached number two in both the UK and on the Billboard Hot 100, the best either act had managed in America, finally beating the number five that "Pompeii" hit in 2013, and it spent 27 weeks in the Hot 100's top ten. On the US Dance/Electronic Songs chart it sat on top for a record 69 weeks, a mark it still held in January 2020, and it finished the 2010s at number 33 on the Hot 100's decade-end list, higher than any song that never topped the weekly chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.