The success of the track was enormous. It reached No. 1 in many countries, among them Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, and became the second best selling single of 2011 in Australia. In the United States, Gotye made his American television debut on February 1, 2012 on Jimmy Kimmel Live, performing exactly this song. The track then took off even further and conquered No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, which made him the first Belgian born artist to achieve it since the era of the Singing Nun and “Dominique” in 1963. At the same time he became the first artist raised in Australia to reach the American No. 1 spot since Savage Garden in 2000 with “I Knew I Loved You.”