Who: Owl City, the solo electro-pop project of Minnesotan daydreamer Adam Young began three years ago, when he began recording warm, shimmering tunes in his parents’ basement in off-hours from his job at a soda warehouse. His songs quickly became a MySpace phenomenon and his devoted online following helped Owl City score a deal with Universal Republic Records, who released Young’s major label debut, Ocean Eyes.

Sounds Like: Owl City’s sound is often compared to the Postal Service thanks to his combination of hushed, lovelorn vocals and chirping synthesizers (and Young’s uncanny vocal similarity to Ben Gibbard). But for Young, Owl City owes its sound to a combination of extremes, describing his music as a mix of the pure pop of Taylor Swift and the lush ambient techno of the German electronic label Kompakt…

Owl City Takes Off and Sells 20,000 Albums and 60,000 Singles in First Week!

Scores All Time #2 iTunes Single of the Week with More Than 650,000 Downloads of “Fireflies”

Collects 150,000 Views in 3 days of MySpace Video Premiere for “Fireflies”

Is Owl City on your radar? If not, then you need to pay attention! This band is hott (yes, two ‘Ts’) and you have to be when you’re from Minnesota.

Here’s how it goes down…iTunes offers exclusive digital purchase of the full-length Ocean Eyes a couple weeks before it hits stores. And bam, one week and almost 20,000 albums later, here we are.

Owl City excitedly announces that “Fireflies,” has been chosen as the iTunes Single of the Week and will be exclusively available as a free download beginning Tuesday, July 14th.

The highly coveted iTunes feature is the first to reveal a new song from the highly anticipated and long awaited physical release debut Ocean Eyes, out July 28th and available for digital purchase via iTunes on July 14th. 
 
This special announcement comes on the heels of what has already been an extremely successful summer for Owl City.

The band continues to dominate the charts at iTunes and expand upon the impressive online presence that is growing exponentially.