"Everything Is Awesome" debuted at No. 11 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with 34,000 downloads in its first week. It also charted at No. 11 on the Irish charts, and peaked at No. 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. The song spent six consecutive weeks on the UK Singles and thirty-one on the UK Indie, peaking on both charts in early March at No. 17 and No. 2, respectively. In the US Billboard Hot 100, the song charted No. 57. The single had sold 418,000 copies in the United States by the end of June, 2014, and became Gold certified at the end of that year., it was certified Platinum, having sold more than units since its release.
Critical reception
International Business Times described the song as a parody of creeping fascism, saying that the song "seems little more than an infectiously catchy parody of watered-down radio pop, right down to the faux-dubstep breakdown. There's a lot more happening under the surface, however."
Oscars performance
As one of the songs nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars, "Everything Is Awesome" was performed as a large-scale musical number featuring not only Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island, but also on-stage appearances by Mothersbaugh, DJ Questlove, and comic actorWill Arnett dressed as Batman. According to LEGO Movie co-director Christopher Miller, for this on-stage appearance, Arnett wore the Batman costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 filmBatman Forever. Arnett also lip-synced to the song on the Reality TV Show Lip Sync Battle, while dressed as Emmet, the character voiced by Chris Pratt in The Lego Movie.
* In January 2019, the song was re-used in a music video to promote The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, whereas original characters and new characters were shown dancing to the song. A 360 degree version was also made.
* A ukulele-driven "tween remix" with new verses by Garfunkel and Oates is featured in .
* Also in The Lego Movie 2, the characters sing a rather sad reprise of the song entitled "Everything's Not Awesome" /"Everything is Awful" at the falling point of the film.
* The Forza Horizon 4 expansion Lego Speed Champions added an in-game radio station called Radio Awesome, which has "Everything Is Awesome" as its only song.
In July 2014, the song was re-used in a video of Greenpeace to promote their petition calling on The Lego Group to drop its partnership with Shell.
