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Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall is a Rap act. Their sound grew out of Chocolate and Kraftwerk. Those roots explain a lot about how Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as California King Bed, A Sky Full Of Stars, Something Just Like This, Set Fire to the Rain and Clocks, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Swedish House Mafia, Avicii and Robyn, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, reaching back through Chocolate and forward to Swedish House Mafia. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" is a song by British rock band Coldplay. It was released as the lead single for their fifth studio album Mylo Xyloto on 3 June 2011. An exclusive digital EP version of it, with the B-sides "Major Minus" and "Moving to Mars", came out in the following weeks; the release is considered the band's eighth extended play. The track contains elements of the 1976 song "I Go to Rio" written by Peter Allen and Adrienne Anderson. It debuted at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, selling 85,000 copies in its first week before climbing to its peak of number 14. On the UK Singles Chart, the song peaked at number 6.
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Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall grew out of Chocolate and Kraftwerk, shares an orbit with California King Bed, A Sky Full Of Stars, Something Just Like This and Set Fire to the Rain, went on to shape Swedish House Mafia, Avicii and Robyn. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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