According to Dan Smith, the song is written as a conversation between two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, stating in an interview, "I was reading a book that had some picture of the people who got caught up in the volcanic eruption. The song has a tempo of 127.5 beats per minute and is written in the key of A major with a chord progression of D-A-F#m-E. It was also performed at the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Awards, where it was nominated for Alternative Rock Song of the Year.
A mashup of the song with Rudimental and Ella Eyre's " Waiting All Night" was performed live by Rudimental, Eyre and Bastille at the aforementioned ceremony, which reached number 21 in the UK. The song was nominated for British Single of the Year at the 2014 BRIT Awards. It was also successful worldwide, reaching the top ten in fifteen countries, including the United States where it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Bastille's most successful single to date, until " Happier" reached number two on both the UK and US charts in October 2018 and February 2019 respectively. "Pompeii" became the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart and became the eleventh best-selling song that year and, until June 2014, was the country's most streamed single of all time. The song's title and lyrics refer to the Roman town of the same name that was destroyed and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and was released on 11 January 2013. " Pompeii" is a song by British pop rock band Bastille.
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