In the US, вЂњCounting StarsвЂќ reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, staying in that spot for two weeks, and it is One RepublicвЂ™s third US top ten song. The song was the first number one single in the UK for Ryan Tedder as a performer. вЂњCounting StarsвЂќ 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.вЂќ Release date And I just thought, I canвЂ™t wait until IвЂ™m counting stars and not counting dollars anymore. If everybody else sings about sex and love and lust and money, then somebodyвЂ™s gotta be singing about life and faith and hope and things of that nature.вЂќ Ryan told that: вЂњA lot of time I just lay in bed awake, stressing out. That ended up inspiring вЂCounting StarsвЂ™.вЂќ Ryan told Billboardthat: вЂњI 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 songвЂ¦I didnвЂ™t like the verses or the lyrics, but I loved the feel and the movement of it.

I was working in the largest house IвЂ™ve ever stepped foot in, which was being rented by Jay Z and BeyonceвЂ¦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, вЂњI had the idea for вЂCounting StarsвЂ™ originally in the summer of 2012 when I was in the Hamptons. The meaning behind вЂњCounting StarsвЂќ is basically that money canвЂ™t buy happiness.

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