![]() This is what he suggests in the first verse: let’s make only short-term plans, let’s get drunk tonight, and go on. Even if he can’t really understand what’s happening, he wants to live in the present without overthinking it. ![]() Who are we? Just a speck of dust within the galaxy Searching for meaning, but are we all lost stars That’s where the comparison with a lost star comes from: he feels just a little speck of dust in the immensity of the universe, dragged by the inexplicable way sometimes love fades out: a small entity trying to get an understanding about something much bigger than him. I’ll be damned, Cupid’s demandin’ back his arrow Take my hand, let’s see where we wake up tomorrowīest laid plans sometimes are just a one night stand Already the song’s beginning talks about Cupid “demandin’ back his arrow,” a symbol for the end of love. In the lyrics, Adam Levine reflects on how strange love is: you are in love, everything looks fine, but one day, suddenly, you realize that the feeling is no longer strong as it was. “Counting Stars” has also been covered on YouTube by Alex Goot, Kurt Schneider and Chrissy Costanza Cimorelli MattyBRaps Max Schneider (MAX) & Danny Padilla Shawn Mendes the Gardiner Sisters featuring Kuha’o Case Jannine Weigel Leroy Sanchez Rajiv Dhall & TwentyForSeven Jun Sung Ahn Violin Cover George Ezra Johnny Orlando BILLbilly01 featuring Myle Hannah Trigwell (acoustic) and “Post Hardcore” by Ghost Killer Entertainment (pop goes punk).Lost Stars is a song about our feelings when love is fading away. R5 covered the song at a concert in London. A cover of the song was also sang by Secondhand Serenade and included on the album The Cover Up by Brandon Metcalf. Cover VersionsĪ cover of the song was sang by Skylar Astin on the show “City of Angels” in 2014, and was a medley on the TV show “Glee” with the song “Mr. One Republic’s Ryan Tedder was 33 years old at the release of Counting Stars, Zack Filkins was 34, Eddie Fisher was 39, Brent Kutzle was 27, and Drew Brown was 28. “Counting Stars” also earned certifications for streaming with 3x Platinum in Denmark and 2x Platinum in Spain. The song was certified 8x Platinum in Canada, 6x Platinum in Australia, 5x Platinum in Sweden, 3x Platinum in Italy, 2x Platinum in Mexico, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, Platinum in Germany and Switzerland and Gold in Denmark, Belgium, and the United States. “Counting Stars” reached the top ten in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg Digital Songs, Mexico Anglo Chart, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, US Billboard Hot 100, and US Adult Alternative Songs. ![]() The song not only reached top ten in the UK, but also in Brazil’s Hot Pop Songs, Canada, Finland, Mexico Ingles Airplay, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, US Adult Contemporary, US Adult Top 40, and US Mainstream Top 40. In the US, “Counting Stars” reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, staying in that spot for two weeks, and it is One Republic’s third US top ten song. The song was the first number one single in the UK for Ryan Tedder as a performer. “Counting Stars” has become one of the most successful songs for One Republic, selling over 8 million copies worldwide, putting it at the status of one of the bestselling singles of all time. Things will be so much better.” Release date And I just thought, I can’t wait until I’m counting stars and not counting dollars anymore. If everybody else sings about sex and love and lust and money, then somebody’s gotta be singing about life and faith and hope and things of that nature.” Ryan told that: “A lot of time I just lay in bed awake, stressing out. That ended up inspiring ‘Counting Stars’.” Ryan told Billboardthat: “I felt a responsibility to actually write and sing about things that have a level of human gravity to them. I ended up coming across this weird song…I didn’t like the verses or the lyrics, but I loved the feel and the movement of it. I was working in the largest house I’ve ever stepped foot in, which was being rented by Jay Z and Beyonce…I started combing through the internet, searching for stuff that would inspire me for Beyonce. ![]() Ryan Tedder told Official Charts Company that when he was writing the song, “I had the idea for ‘Counting Stars’ originally in the summer of 2012 when I was in the Hamptons. The meaning behind “Counting Stars” is basically that money can’t buy happiness.
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