Omen (The Prodigy song) track was The Prodigy's tenth top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart. The single has yet to receive a physical release outside Europe. The song won the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. It came in at #68 in the 2009 Triple J Hottest 100: the fifth track by The Prodigy to chart in the annual countdown, following "Voodoo People" in 1994, "Breathe" and "Firestarter" in 1996, and "Funky Shit" in 1997. The song itself is featured in the movie "Kick-Ass" and also on the respectively. The official music video was uploaded to YouTube on 19 January 2009. The video
Firestarter (The Prodigy song) and Paul Morley also receive songwriting credits. The "Empirion Mix," which does not include these samples, is credited solely to Howlett and Flint. In October 2011, "NME" placed it at number 52 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". Writing for pitchfork.com in 2005, Jess Harvell said, "'Firestarter' sounds like Trent Reznor in one of his all-too-rare moments of self-aware humor, like the Bomb Squad at +5 with a pink-haired British bulldog bellowing about how tuff he is." "Weird Al" Yankovic created a loose parody of "Firestarter", titled "Lousy Haircut", for an episode of "The Weird