"Burn" is a song recorded by English singer Ellie Goulding for Halcyon Days (2013), the reissue of her second studio album, Halcyon (2012). The song was released as the lead single from the reissue on 5 July 2013. It was written by Ryan Tedder, Goulding, Greg Kurstin, Brent Kutzle and Noel Zancanella, while production was handled by Kurstin and vocal production was done by Tedder. The track received a mixed response from music critics, who praised it as "catchy" and noted it as one of Goulding's most "radio friendly" songs to date, while others felt it was not memorable. "Burn" earned Goulding her first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, selling 116,857 copies in its first week. Elsewhere, it reached the top ten in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and New Zealand. An accompanying music video for the song, which premiered on 8 July 2013, portrays Goulding performing on an air field, and later being joined by her friends with lights in the evening.