The track was one of the EDM era's first big crossover anthems, hitting No. While at the time Harris had indeed still recently been working at his local grocery store, when 'Feel So Close'started gaining traction in the States in 2012, the song not only made it so he'd never have to stock shelves again, but established him as one of the marquee artists of the dance music revolution of the early 2010s.
Number 2 in UK was still enough to keep me in a record deal, which at the time was my top priority, my years in dead end jobs were still very fresh in my head.'
As was familiar to me, most other countries didn't pay any attention to it at all.
Demonstrating the creative potency of having something to prove, the song almost rocketed to the top of the chart in Harris' native UK, with the producer noting that 'it came out August 19th 2011 and reached *2* in the UK, my second in a run of too many numbers 2s.
