“Can I Call You Tonight?” by Dayglow

Sloan Struble, the American singer-songwriter and producer who records as Dayglow, did every job on "Can I Call You Tonight?" alone: he wrote it, sang it, played it, and produced, recorded and mixed it. Fuzzybrain, the debut album, supplied it as its third single on 26 January 2018, and then it waited.

It was a true sleeper, only reaching the charts in 2020. Once Emma Chamberlain used it in an Instagram reel, its streams jumped from 10 million to 100 million within a year, and the song's life on TikTok, Spotify and Instagram carried it to a Gold certification from the RIAA, Dayglow's first real commercial success. One early review praised its echoey vocals, bright synths and a bittersweet story that manages to sound wistful and hopeful at once. Struble later played it on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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