Most festival IDs take the long route. A track premieres on a mainstage, clips circulate, and listeners wait months for a release. "Fireflies" moved much faster.
Martin Garrix premiered the track at Tomorrowland with U2's The Edge onstage. By July 24, it was an official release rather than another ripped festival clip.
Premiere to release, credits intact
Spotify credits "Fireflies" to Martin Garrix and U2, with rights text naming STMPD RCRDS B.V. and Darkroom Records. Garrix's label and U2's release channel both appear on the official catalog entry.
The Edge's Tomorrowland appearance supplied the clip people shared. The studio release gave that moment a durable home under both artists' names.
Festival season runs on unreleased music and guessing games, so a clean turnaround is unusual. Garrix has spent years operating STMPD as a working label. Here, that machinery turned a live collaboration into a properly credited release while the clips were still circulating.
Garrix's DJVibe profile at /djs/martin-garrix already connects 40 archive posts. "Fireflies" joins them as the Tomorrowland ID that became a release before the festival moment cooled off.
