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"Some Nights" by Fun, and by New Directions Choir Group

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Some Nights was covered by the entire New Directions choir group in the Dynamic Duets episode of Glee. Some Nights is by American indie rock band Fun, and was released on June 4, 2012 in the second studio album with the same name. The album  Some Nights  topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and Alternative Songs for two weeks, with over six million digital downloads. We Are Young also caught attention through the Fox television series Glee covering Some Nights. The band was in shock at the news, with Dost saying that "that's just one of the coolest things that could possibly have happened." Glee's cover of "We Are Young" was the show's highest selling debut single of their season and connected their listening audience to the band. In the United States, Some Nights debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week as the album Some Nights debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200. The song remained in the lower region of the chart for a