In July 2018, the Seattle Police Department created a music video set to 'Downtown' as part of a lip-sync video competition between police departments across the United States that was popular at the time. 'Downtown' was used in the movie trailers for Dirty Grandpa, along with the trailers for The Secret Life of Pets. As of March 2022, it has over 228,000,000 views on YouTube. It was directed by Macklemore, Lewis, and Jason Koenig, and was filmed in Spokane, Washington. The official music video for the song, lasting five minutes and 22 seconds, was uploaded on August 27, 2015, to Ryan Lewis' YouTube channel. It has since been certified triple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). On the week commencing October 5, 2015, 'Downtown' replaced Justin Bieber's ' What Do You Mean?' at number one after being blocked from the position for three weeks, becoming Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' fourth number one single in the country. The song rose to number two on the week commencing September 14, 2015. In Australia, 'Downtown' entered the Australian Singles Chart at number nine as the second highest debut on the week commencing September 7, 2015. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis also performed the song live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on September 9, 2015. As of November 2015, 'Downtown' has sold 772,000 copies domestically. The next week, following its first full week of availability and a performance at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, the song jumped to number 18 with the week's largest gain in digital download sales, having sold 95,000 copies and logged 5.7 million streams for the week. Its chart debut was fueled by sales of 11,000 digital downloads in its first two days, along with 886,000 domestic streams during the same period, nearly all from views of the song's music video. In the United States, 'Downtown' debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Septemat number 94. However, Time named 'Downtown' the sixth-worst song of 2015. On the song Macklemore said, 'Ryan made a beat on the road called 'moping around,' I got the beat, I thought it said moped.' 'Coincidentally we had both purchased mopeds for being on the road so we could go around, leave the venues that we were performing at, and I wrote a song about mopeds, which now a year and a half later is out in the world.' Critical reception ĪXS described the song as a sequel to the duo's successful single ' Thrift Shop', while USA Today called it 'a hip hop recreation of Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's ' Uptown Funk'.' It came at #18 on the annual Triple J Hottest 1.

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