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{{Infobox song
| name       = Cigarette Daydreams
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Cage the Elephant]]
| album      = [[Melophobia]]
| released   = {{Start date|2014|08|26}}
| format     =
| recorded   = 2012–2013 at St. Charles, [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Indie rock]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=3|s=28}}
| label      = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
| writer     = [[Matthew Shultz]], Lincoln Parish, Brad Shultz, Daniel Tichenor, [[Jared Champion]]
| producer   = [[Jay Joyce]]
| prev_title = [[Take It or Leave It (Cage the Elephant song)|Take It or Leave It]]
| prev_year  = 2014
| next_title = [[Mess Around (Cage the Elephant song)|Mess Around]]
| next_year  = 2015
| misc       = {{External music video|type=single|{{YouTube|opeETnB8m8w|"Cigarette Daydream"}}}}
}}

"'''Cigarette Daydreams'''" is a song by American [[alternative rock]] band [[Cage the Elephant]]. Produced by [[Jay Joyce]], it was released as the third single from the band's third studio album ''[[Melophobia]]'' on August 26, 2014. It topped the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Alternative Songs]] chart in the United States, becoming the second number-one single from ''Melophobia'', following the album's single "[[Come a Little Closer (Cage the Elephant song)|Come a Little Closer]]", and the band's fifth overall chart-topper.

==Writing==
Singer [[Matt Shultz]] has stated that the song is inspired by a "Personal experience" and that the words came to him naturally.<ref name=ArtistDirect/> After he began writing Shultz phoned the album's producer who stated "Matt, finish the song right now! Just do it."<ref name=ArtistDirect>{{cite web|title=Matt Shultz of Cage The Elephant Talks "Melophobia"|website=ArtistDirect}}</ref> Shultz also noted that the song came from a desire "to be transparent and speak from naked honesty" <ref name=ArtistDirect/>

==Music video==
The official music video for "Cigarette Daydreams" was directed by [[Mark Pellington]] and released on September 5, 2014.<ref name="COS">{{cite magazine |url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/watch-cage-the-elephants-video-for-cigarette-daydreams/ |title=Watch: Cage The Elephant's video for 'Cigarette Daydreams' |magazine=[[Consequence of Sound]] |date=September 5, 2014 |accessdate=March 4, 2015 |author=Geslani, Michelle}}</ref> The video stars actress Juliette Buchs – who is also the former wife of Cage the Elephant frontman Matthew Shultz – as a woman struggling to find peace in her life, interspersed with various scenes of her running away from an unknown entity.<ref name="COS"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.videostatic.com/watch-it/2014/09/04/cage-elephant-cigarette-daydreams-mark-pellington-dir |title=Cage The Elephant 'Cigarette Daydreams' (Mark Pellington, dir.) |publisher=Video Static |date=September 5, 2014 |accessdate=March 4, 2015 |author=Gottliev, Steven}}</ref>

==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Chart (2015)
! Peak<br />position
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcanadarock|6|artist=Cage the Elephant|rowheader=true|access-date=August 17, 2021}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardbubbling100|2|artist=Cage the Elephant|rowheader=true|access-date=March 4, 2015}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardadultpopsongs|40|artist=Cage the Elephant|rowheader=true|access-date=March 4, 2015}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardrocksongs|9|artist=Cage the Elephant|rowheader=true|access-date=March 4, 2015}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardrockairplay|2|artist=Cage the Elephant|rowheader=true|access-date=March 4, 2015}}
|-
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2015)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| US Hot Rock Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2015/hot-rock-songs|title=Hot Rock Songs – Year-End 2015|magazine=Billboard|date=January 2, 2013|accessdate=September 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 39
|-
! scope="row"| US Rock Airplay Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2015/rock-airplay-songs|title=Rock Airplay Songs – Year-End 2015|magazine=Billboard|date=December 13, 2013|accessdate=September 6, 2018}}</ref>
| 18
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|relyear=2013|certyear=2022|title=Cigarette Daydreams|artist=Cage the Elephant|type=single|award=Gold|id=17173-3373-1|access-date=September 23, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=Cigarette Daydreams|artist=Cage the Elephant|type=single|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=2013|certyear=2022|access-date=November 22, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}

==Release history==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Region
! Date
! Format
! Label
|-
! scope="row"| United States<ref name="ModernRock">{{cite web|url=http://www.allaccess.com/alternative/future-releases |title=Alternative > Future Releases |publisher=All Access Music Group |accessdate=March 4, 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002212004/http://www.allaccess.com/alternative/future-releases |archivedate=October 2, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
| August 26, 2014
| [[Modern rock]] radio
| [[RCA Records]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{YouTube|opeETnB8m8w|"Cigarette Daydreams" Music video}}

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[[Category:Songs about tobacco]]
[[Category:2013 songs]]
[[Category:2014 singles]]
[[Category:Cage the Elephant songs]]
[[Category:RCA Records singles]]
[[Category:Music videos directed by Mark Pellington]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Jay Joyce]]
[[Category:Songs written by Matt Shultz (singer)]]


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