Everything Is Awesome
| Company type | Record label |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Products | Music recordings, soundtracks |
| Parent | Warner Bros. Entertainment |
Everything Is Awesome (presented as Everything Is AWESOME!!!) is a track by Canadian indie pop pair Tegan and Sara featuring the American comedy group The Lonely Island. It acts as the official theme for the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures release The Lego Movie. The songwriters include Shawn Patterson, Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton, and The Lonely Island. The single version, which appears during the film's closing credits, was produced by Mark Mothersbaugh.
The rendition featured within the movie and its promotional campaigns was produced by Joshua Bartholomew and performed by Bartholomew alongside Lisa Harriton.
On January 26, 2014, "Everything Is Awesome" made its radio debut in the United States on Anything Anything with Rich Russo, airing on stations such as WXPK, WRAT, and WDHA.
Music video
The accompanying music video showcases Lego-animated versions of Tegan and Sara together with The Lonely Island members Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone. Certain segments of the video were crafted using brickfilming techniques.
Commercial performance
Upon release, "Everything Is Awesome" entered the Dance/Electronic Songs chart at number 11, selling 34,000 downloads in its initial week. It also attained the 11th spot on the Irish charts and climbed to number 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, the track remained on the Singles Chart for six weeks, peaking at number 17, and sustained a thirty-one-week presence on the UK Indie chart, reaching as high as number 2. On the US Billboard Hot 100, it reached a peak position of number 57. By June 2014, US sales had totaled 418,000 copies, earning a Gold certification by year-end. As of July 2017, it had been certified Platinum, surpassing one million units sold.
Oscars performance
At the 2015 Oscars ceremony, "Everything Is Awesome," which was nominated for Best Original Song, was performed by Tegan and Sara alongside The Lonely Island, musician Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo (sporting a LEGO Devo energy dome), DJ Questlove from The Roots, and actor Will Arnett dressed as Batman in the costume from Batman Forever (1995). Arnett, who provided Batman’s voice in the film, also delivered a segment of the heavy metal track "Untitled Self Portrait," incorporated into this Oscar performance.
Awards and nominations
- Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards
- Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media
- Critics' Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Song
- Winner of the 2014 Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Song
- Nominee for the 2014 Georgia Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Song
- Recipient of the 2014 Hollywood Music In Media Award for Best Original Song in an Animated Film
- Winner of the 2014 Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Song
- Awarded the 2015 Talk Film Society Award for Best Original Song
- Winner of the 2014 Iowa Film Critics Award for Best Original Song
- Recipient of the 2014 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Song
- Satellite Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 19th Satellite Awards
- Honored with the Variety Artisans Award
Weekly charts
Template:Single chartTemplate:Single chartTemplate:Single chartTemplate:Single chartTemplate:Single chartTemplate:Single chartTemplate:Single chart| Chart (2014) | Highest position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Digital Track Chart | 23 |
| US Comedy Digital Tracks (Billboard) | 2 |
| US Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard) | 7 |
| US Heatseeker Songs (Billboard) | 2 |
Year-end
| Chart (2014) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard) | 28 |
Legacy
- The track has appeared across various Lego franchise productions:
- A rendition is featured in The Lego Batman Movie, performed by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine.
- In January 2019, the song was repurposed for a promotional music video for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, highlighting both original and new characters dancing; a 360-degree version was also created.
- The Lego Movie 2 includes a ukulele-based "tween remix" with fresh verses by Garfunkel and Oates.
- The film contains a more somber reprise entitled "Everything's Not Awesome."
- The Forza Horizon 4 expansion pack Lego Speed Champions introduced an exclusive in-game radio station named Radio Awesome, which plays the song.
- Greenpeace utilized the track in July 2014 within a video urging The Lego Group to discontinue its collaboration with Shell.
- In 2021, Lego released the Everyone Is Awesome set—the company’s first to honor the LGBT community—incorporating colors from the rainbow flag, trans pride flag, along with black and brown stripes representing LGBT individuals of color.
- The 2024 Lego set Retro Radio featured a sound brick containing an acoustic, country-style re-recording of "Everything Is Awesome."