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Marshmello and Kane Brown combine for a first on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and Hot Country Songs charts (dated May 18) with the arrival of their new collaboration, “Miles On It.”
The single becomes the first to hit the top five of both Hot Dance/Electronic Songs – where it soars in at No. 1 – and Hot Country Songs. (The surveys have coexisted since the former launched in January 2013; the latter list became country music’s all-encompassing genre songs chart in October 1958.)
“Miles On It,” released May 3, drew 11.3 million official streams and 7.6 million in radio airplay audience and sold 4,000 in the U.S. in the week ending May 9, according to Luminate. It also debuts at No. 30 on the Country Airplay chart – where Brown boasts 11 career No. 1s, while Marshmello makes his first appearance – and No. 40 on Pop Airplay.
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Marshmello earns his fourth Hot Dance/Electronic Songs No. 1, tying Calvin Harris and Zedd for the most in the chart’s decade-plus archives. Among all acts, only The Chainsmokers have more leaders (six). Marshmello previously reigned with “Happier,” with Bastille, for a record 69 weeks in 2018-20; “Silence,” featuring Khalid (one week, 2017); and “Wolves,” with Selena Gomez (11 weeks, 2017-18).
Brown leads with his first Hot Dance/Electronic Songs entry.
“Miles On It” is Marshmello and Brown’s second chart-topping team-up, as they become the only pair with a shared No. 1 on both Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and Hot Country Songs: they crowned Hot Country Songs with “One Thing Right” (which did not appear on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs) for a week in October 2019.
Harris Extends Dance/Mix Show Airplay Record
As for another notable No. 1 collaboration, also by acts known for different core styles and who previously recorded together, Calvin Harris and Rag‘n’Bone Man’s “Lovers in a Past Life” ascends to the top of the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart.
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Harris scores his record-padding 15th No. 1 on the tally (which began in 2003).
Most No. 1s on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart:
15, Calvin Harris
13, David Guetta
12, Rihanna
8, The Chainsmokers
7, Madonna
6, Anabel Englund
6, Ellie Goulding
Rag‘n’Bone Man rules Dance/Mix Show Airplay in his second visit to the chart, both made with Harris: their single “Giant” hit No. 17 in 2019. The former has reached multiple Billboard rock charts since breaking through with his worldwide hit “Human,” which marked his sole airplay No. 1 prior to “Lovers in a Past Life,” as it led Adult Alternative Airplay for five weeks in 2017.
San Francisco’s Portola festival is coming in hot with its year three lineup. On Monday (May 13), the fest has released a bill lead by Justice and Gesaffelstein — both coming off buzzy Coachella 2024 appearances — along with fellow big font names Disclosure, M.I.A., Rüfüs du Sol, Fisher, Four Tet and Jamie xx. The […]
This week in dance music: We shared images of the earliest days of The Chemical Brothers taken from the duo’s new retrospective book, Paused in Cosmic Reflection, Charli XCX spoke about writing music for Britney Spears and Hot Since 82 shared a terrifying story about being chased by gunmen in Brazil.
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And of course, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
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TroyBoi, “Híbrido”
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London’s TroyBoi has always been especially adept at fusing harder bass with the softer, more sensual side of low end, with that latter element arguably never stronger in his catalog than on his latest, “Híbrido.” Made for that cool down part of the night, the track brings together a hypnotic vocal sample, a sultry melody, spare, crisp percussion and a restrained, mature build and release. The track follows TroyBoi’s Coachella 2024 set at the Do Lab stage and comes from his 4 on the Floor EP coming in June.
“I love to combine different genres together into my work,” the producer born Troy Henry says. “After completing the song, I listened to it and realized I fused elements of baile funk, house, U.K. garage, R&B and funk all together. It truly sounded like a hybrid track and that’s how I came up with the name ‘Híbrido’.” Henry’s other summer dates include EDC Las Vegas, HARD Summer and Ubbi Dubbi.
Anna Lunoe & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, “Right Here”
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Two of the scene’s most cerebral producers unite for a predictably excellent house production, “Right Here.” Out through Nina Las Vegas’ NLV Records, the track is pure uplift, winding to a place of blissful abandon but maintaining heft and power through it’s acid-influenced bass and percussion. The track comes ten years after the duo’s first collaboration, “Feels Like,” with Lunoe calling this new one “a sassy anthem to remind you who the main character is in your life… (you!)”
Alesso, Hypnotize
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You might call remixing Corona’s “The Rhythm of the Night” (which celebrates its 30-year anniversary this year), messing with perfection. But Alesso makes it work. His take on the classic turns up the gothic drama dial with a very Hans Zimmer Interstellar-style intro, before transitioning into a full on deep house production that still maintains the size and grandiosity that’s defined so much of the producer’s work over the last 10-plus years. “The Rhythm of the Night” comes from Alesso’s new three-track Hypnotize EP, with this project officially marking his transition into club-focused productions coming via his new label, Body Hi.
DJ Seinfeld, “If U Like Me”
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Coming off a pair of sets at Coachella last month, Sweden’s DJ Seinfeld drops his first new solo music since 2022 with “If U Like Me.” Out via Ninja Tune, the track is a 2-step club song that balances lyrics about club-style love (“yeah I can’t wait to find out if I’m leaving with you”) with a dash of woozy, minor key melancholy. Seinfeld upcoming dates include a flurry of European festivals and DC10 in Ibiza on May 20.
Hot Since 82 feat. Ron Carroll, “Preach”
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While Hot Since 82 hit a very rough patch last week with the aforementioned situation in Rio de Janeiro where he was pursued by a car full of gunmen, this week ends on a much brighter note with the release of “Preach.” Out as part of Defected Records’ Together series — which pairs talent from the past and present of the U.K. label — this song finds the English artist working with Chicago legend Ron Carroll on a soulful, slow-burn, big-build, huge-payoff house production. The track features a vocal sample from power-lunged Chicago house singer Shawn Christopher, who wails (quite appropriately in this case) that while everything in life has its ups downs “if you turn to the music, everything is going to be alright.”
Charli XCX confirmed longtime rumors that she worked on new music for Britney Spears. During a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live, the “Von Dutch” singer clarified that she did write music for the pop princess, but Spears never recorded the tracks. “It leaked to the press. Britney then did this post where she was like, […]
35 years ago, the trajectory of electronic music history shifted when Ed Simons met Tom Rowlands at the University of Manchester. Then students, the pair would go on to comprise one of the most celebrated electronic acts in the history of the then-nascent genre, after they united as The Chemical Brothers.
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The three and a half decades of shows, albums and block-rockin’ beats that have ensued since are under the microscope in the latest Chemical Brothers offering, Paused in Cosmic Reflection. Out today (May 7) via Mobius publishing, the retrospective book unpacks, in often granular detail, the Brothers’ mythology from the earliest days as students to rising U.K. stars to genre trendsetters and worldwide heroes.
Along with extensive interviews with the duo themselves, the book feature new interviews with friends and collaborators, including Noel Gallagher, Wayne Coyne, Beth Orton, Michel Gondry and Beck. The 300-plus-page Paused In Cosmic Reflection also includes many rare and and never-before-seen photographs. Assembled by Robin Turner, the book is dedicated to Stuart “Jammer” James, the group’s longtime tour manager, who died in 2015.
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Speaking to Billboard about the book last September, Simons offered, “I guess there’s no end date, but we are nearer to the end of The Chemical Brothers than we are the beginning… It has been good to reflect and remember some history. I guess you’ve got to do it before you start forgetting everything, and I’ve got a really good memory.”
“He remembers, like, every small gig above a barber shop we ever did,” added Rowlands. “Then someone would produce a photograph of it and I’d be like, ‘Oh, gotcha. Maybe we did do that…’ But one of the things about our band is, we don’t like stopping and reflecting. I always want to move on to the next thing. This book really felt like stopping and reflecting.”
See exclusive images from the book below.
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“Early on, Oasis was accepted as part of that culture,” Noel Gallagher says in the book. “Mixmag gave Definitely Maybe full marks and an incredible review when it came out. When I picked up the guitar and started to write again, the inclusiveness of the lyrics in house music showed up in my songs and became a big part of it. A song like ‘Live Forever’ would never have existed and wouldn’t have been called that before acid house. It would have been melancholy. The euphoria of acid house was so engrained in me, I was so into it and what I loved about it was the inclusivity. Songs were about us, they weren’t personal, they were about the collective. I adopted that and put it into my music.”
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“There were a few electronic bands playing live in the early nineties,” Simons says of the group’s early days. “We’d gone to see Kraftwerk when we were at university in 1991 and Tom had been in [prior dance act] Ariel, so we knew it was something that could happen, but initially we just DJed. We got offered to do [the club night] Sabresonic very early on; we’d only done a handful of remixes and [Chemical Brothers EP] Fourteenth Century Sky was just out. From the very start, we knew we didn’t want to be in the spotlight on stage. We decided that we wanted to have visuals projected right on top of us. And lots of strobes. That ethos has been the same for every gig we’ve played in the 30-odd years since.”
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“Ultimately, I think The Chemical Brothers have a great predilection for exploration,” says Beck, who worked with the duo on 2015’s “Wide Open” and 2023’s “Skipping Like a Stone.” “Their records always seem to take you to different places. They kind of sit in an unusual place between different eras of electronic music and DJ culture. It’s like they have one foot in multiple decades at the same time in a way that is utterly unique among their peers.”
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“[1997 sophomore album] Dig Your Own Hole was us giving free rein to all of the different influences that were feeding into us from all around the world,” says Simons. “It was the most extreme expression of that, one where you could have a track like ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ sitting alongside ‘The Private Psychedelic Reel’. They’re completely different forms of music but they each evolved from everything that was channelled in, that fed into the making of Dig Your Own Hole. For us, our sound was entirely natural. It wasn’t something we sat down and pondered, tried to perfect. We had no intention of making a pure electronic dance record; we always wanted all of those external forces to be reflected.”
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From her evergreen “New Rules” to her endlessly danceable Barbie soundtrack smash, Dua Lipa has been the ultimate dancefloor soundtrack for nearly seven years and counting. With three Grammy wins from 10 career nominations and on-screen roles in both Barbie and Argylle under her belt, the pop princess is racking up impressive achievements and accolades across the entertainment scene.
Ahead of the release of her third studio album, Radical Optimism, Billboard explains the resounding chart success of the British dance-pop powerhouse.
Dua Lipa first debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 2016 with “Blow Your Mind (Mwah),” a track from her eponymous debut studio album that reached No. 72 on Billboard’s primary all-genre singles chart. That album also housed the singles “IDGAF” and “New Rules,” the latter of which became Lipa’s first Hot 100 top 10 hit, peaking at No. 6. Lipa has since collected 23 career Hot 100 entries, including top 10 hits such as “Don’t Start Now” (No. 2), “Levitating” (No. 2) and “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)” (No. 7, with Elton John).
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“Levitating,” which earned a remix with Hot 100-topping rapper DaBaby, ranked at No. 1 on the 2023 Year-End Hot 100. The irresistible nu-disco banger also stands as the longest charting song among women in Hot 100 history, with 77 total weeks. “Levitating” also boasts the most weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10 for a song by a woman (41 weeks).
Lipa’s success extends to the Pop Airplay chart, where she has notched 23 career entries. Five of those hits reached the ranking’s apex, including 2020’s “Break My Heart” (one week) and 2023’s “Dance the Night” (two weeks).
Over on the Billboard 200, both of Lipa’s studio LPs have reached the chart: 2017’s Dua Lipa (No. 27) and 2020’s Future Nostalgia (No. 3). She also reached No. 28 with Club Future Nostalgia, a remix album she released alongside The Blessed Madonna.
With Radical Optimism — which features the singles “Houdini,” “Training Season” and “Illusion” — on the way, Dua Lipa could very well add a slew of new Billboard chart achievements to her arsenal.
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Madison Beer ascends to No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart dated May 4 with “Make You Mine.”
The song marks her second leader on the list, after “All Day and Night,” with Jax Jones and Martin Solveig, reigned for two weeks in July 2019 – and becomes her first No. 1 on any Billboard chart on her own.
Beer also boasts two collaborative No. 1s on the World Digital Song Sales chart: “Pop / Stars,” credited to K/DA with Beer, (G)I-DLE and Jaira Burns, and “More,” by K/DA with Beer, (G)I-DLE, Lexie Liu, Jaira Burns and Seraphine.
“Words can’t express the excitement and honor it is to have a No. 1 hit on the Billboard dance chart,” Beer says. “Thank you to everyone that’s listening and enjoying this record. Being a lover of dance music for so many years, this is truly a dream come true. Can’t wait to create more!”
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“Make You Mine,” on Sing It Loud/Epic Records, concurrently holds at its No. 30 high on the Pop Airplay chart, up 8% in plays April 19-25, according to Luminate. It’s Beer’s fourth entry on the survey, following “Reckless” (No. 38, 2021), “Hurts Like Hell,” featuring Offset (No. 26, 2019), and “Home With You” (No. 22, 2018).
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“Make You Mine” is currently a stand-alone single, with its official Jennifer’s Body-themed video having premiered April 24. It has also hit No. 8 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart (dated April 20). Beer’s most recent LP, Silence Between Songs, debuted a career-best No. 16 on the Top Album Sales chart last September and received a nomination for best immersive audio album at this year’s Grammy Awards.
The Jericho, N.Y., native first broke through in 2012 after Justin Bieber posted a link to her music (to which Beer replied). She initially reached Billboard’s charts in 2015, debuted on Emerging Artists in 2018 and hit a No. 3 high on the ranking in September. She’s currently on her The Spinnin Tour, which runs through June.
It looks like Calvin Harris is getting ready to drop a potential song of the summer — and if fans are correct, it might feature Miley Cyrus. The DJ shared a 50-second video on social media Wednesday (May 1) featuring a snippet of an unreleased beach-themed track with lead vocals by someone who sounds a […]
Thirty-eight years after it first became a hit, The Outfield’s “Your Love” is back on Billboard’s charts.
Originally a No. 6-peaking single on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1986, the pop-rock classic climbs from No. 199 to No. 189 in its second week on the Billboard Global 200, dated May 4. It gained by 6% to 13.4 million official streams worldwide April 19-25, according to Luminate. (At the beginning of February, the song was drawing over 8 million weekly streams globally.)
Meanwhile, a new version debuts on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs: “Your Love (Remix),” by The Outfield and Diplo, enters at No. 48. It also opens at No. 6 on the Dance/Electronic Song Sales chart.
Thanks to the song’s reimagination, The Outfield charts a newly-released entry on Billboard’s surveys for the first time since 1992, when “Closer to Me” became the band’s eighth Hot 100 hit. The group logged five top 40 Hot 100 titles in 1986-91, with “Your Love” followed by “All the Love in the World” (No. 19, August 1986), “Since You’ve Been Gone” (No. 31, August 1987), “Voices of Babylon” (No. 25, May 1989) and “For You” (No. 21, January 1991).
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“Your Love (Remix)” is from Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley: The Mixtape, released April 26.
The original was released on The Outfield’s debut LP Play Deep, which rose to No. 9 on the Billboard 200 in June 1986. (The mid-‘80s were teeming with baseball-themed chart hits, with “Your Love” among a lineup of songs also including John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days.”)
Meanwhile, other favorites are enjoying new lives via dance makeovers. Here’s a rundown of six such tracks on the latest Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart:
No. 10, “Whatever,” Kygo with Ava Max / reworks “Wherever, Whenever” by Shakira (No. 9 peak in 2001 on the Hot 100)
No. 19, “Thank You (Not So Bad),” Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike x Tiesto x W&W & Dido / “Thank You,” Dido (No. 3, 2001, Hot 100)
No. 21, “The Sound of Silence (CYRIL Remix),” Disturbed / “The Sound of Silence,” Disturbed (No. 3, 2016, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs; Simon & Garfunkel’s original hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 for two weeks in 1966)
No. 27, “Somebody (2024),” Gotye, Kimbra, Fisher, Chris Lake & Sante Sansone / “Somebody That I Used To Know,” Gotye feat. Kimbra (No. 1, eight weeks, 2012, Hot 100)
No. 42, “It’s Not Right (But It’s Ok),” Mr. Belt & Wezol / “It’s Not Right But It’s Ok,” Whitney Houston (No. 4, 1999, Hot 100)
No. 48, “Your Love (Remix),” The Outfield & Diplo / “Your Love,” The Outfield (No. 6, 1986, Hot 100)
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The Outfield formed in London and comprised guitarist John Spinks, vocalist/bassist Tony Lewis and drummer Alan Jackman. After Spinks died in 2014, the group disbanded. Lewis passed in 2020.
“We are astounded with the recent 10.4 million monthly Spotify listener milestone and wanted to say thank you for rocking with us in 2024,” a March post on the group’s official site reads; the band now boasts over 15 million listeners on the platform. “We will always have music as a safe place. All the love in the world.”
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This week in dance music: We talked to current Billboard cover star Peggy Gou about her ascent and forthcoming debut album, we talked numbers with Steve Aoki, we learned the value of the global dance music industry in 2023 amid IMS Ibiza and we saw Dua Lipa make history over on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.
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And of course, we heard fresh music. These are the best new dance projects of the week.
HYPERBEAM, “Okay Fine”
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Hyperbeam, the collaborative project from Australian producer Odd Mob and L.A.-based artist Omnom, releases its debut EP today via Insomniac Records. The Unexplained is a four-track amalgamation of tech house and bass house that’s steeped in a generally ravey late night vibe, which will surely work wel during the duo’s upcoming sets at festival’s including EDC Las Vegas, Hangout Fest, Ubbi Dubbi, The Concourse Project and Electric Forest. The previously released “All Day, All Night” and “Mind Awake, Body Asleep” have both become scene hits, with the equally hypnotic “Okay Fine” likely to become the same.
Justice, Hyperdrama
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After months of hype, along with debut of a new live show at Coachella earlier this month and a Billboard cover story preceding it, the fourth studio album from Justice has arrived via the duo’s longtime label, Ed Banger Records. The French duo’s first studio album since 2016 — “Because the album cycle is so long every time, we’re both like, ‘OK, is there going to be anybody that’s still interested?’” the pair’s Augé jokingly told us — Hyperdrama is an often intense, sometimes lightly psychedelic and altogether satisfying 13 track collection that contains elements of classic Justice while also pushing their catalog forward into a kaleidoscopic future.
The album includes high-caliber collaborators like Miguel, Thundercat, Conan Moccasin and Kevin Parker, with the latter artist appearing on the album’s lead single “One Night/All Night” and the just-out “Neverender” — a gliding, punchy, lightly psychedelic melody-forward production on which the Australian singer-producer’s voice takes on the same string quality as the disco stabs the track is structured from.
salute & Rina Sawayama, “saving flowers”
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Vienna-born, Manchester-based house producer salute — a 2023 Billboard artist to watch — sets the stage for their debut album, True Magic, with the project’s lead single, “Saving Flowers,” a lush jacking house production outfitted with silky vocals from Rina Sawayama. Coming in July via Ninja Tune, salute’s forthcoming album also features Disclosure, Empress Of, Karma Kid, Sam Gellaitry, piri, Léa Sen, LEILAH and Nakamura Minami, with the producer posting up at a house in the English countryside to work with this crew. “In dance music there always seems to be this focus on doing everything yourself,” they say, “but I wanted to get a team around me to develop the ideas I had. One thing I’m really proud of is how organic the work with the collaborators is.”
Chris Lake & Sammy Virji, “Summertime Blues”
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It’s only April, but Chris Lake, British producer Sammy Virji and The Boxer Rebellion vocalist Nathan Nicholson already have the summertime blues. A subtly bumping ode to letting go of the kind of memories that haunt, the track makes an interesting key change in its final phase, like when the summer sun finally burns away everything that’s been bumming you out. “We wanted a drop that felt like the warmth of sunshine and that’s how it makes me feel,” Lake says of the track, which is out via Astralwerks and his own Black Book Records.
Kasbo, “Resenären”
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In our hyperspeed era, seven minutes can feel like an eternity. We suggest that you stop what you’re doing, close your eyes and devote that amount of time to the latest from Swedish producer Kasbo, who on “Resenären” delivers an emotive and ever-lusher production that doesn’t have vocals but still easily transmits a message of cerebral bliss.
“The goal of this track was to take the listener on a journey and take time doing it,” the producer says. “The name ‘Resenären,’ which means ‘the traveler’ in Swedish, sort of speaks to that. With my album theme being centered around slowing down in an ever-accelerating world, I wanted to push that concept and take my time leading up to the final climax with this song. In 7 minutes, it’s the longest one I’ve ever made.” Kasbo’s album, The Learning Of Urgency, is out June 7 via Odesza’s Foreign Family Collective.