Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding have just released “Miracle,” closing a trilogy of successful collaborations. This is a perfect example that in the music industry, the union of two talents is not only the sum of their followers but a new musical concept that can reach a much wider audience.
The two British soloists, who are both DJs and pop stars, are not the only artists to have shown that they have maintained an undeniable chemistry over not just years but decades. Nothing guaranteed their success, but beyond the sales lists, their feelings of work made the final result a winning bet for them.
This situation often happens and is repeated in electronic music (as we have already seen with the Harris-Goulding duo, and we will see with the case of David Guetta), but it is becoming more frequent on the urban scene and even in pop.
There seemed to be a taboo when it came to rehearsing, but little by little, that myth is falling, and we are enjoying the results.
Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding
It had been almost a decade since the two had worked together on creating new compositions until the release of Miracle on March 10. Their first collaboration dates back to 2012 when they published I need your love, one of the best songs of this year and one of the greatest exponents of the collaborative era of EDM and pop.
Their good chemistry and good results led them to publish a few years later. Out another authentic bomb of the genre that has had millions of people dancing on dance floors around the world.
Nine years later, the two returned to work together as they themselves confirmed: “Back in the studio with Ellie Goulding”. None of them seem to need the success of their partner separately, and yet their joint work is able to cross any boundary.
The Weeknd and Ariana Grande
If Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding have brought three songs to life together, the next couple has up to 4 songs as a collaboration. The latest and most recent took them to number 1 on the US chart. Almost nothing! in regards to The weekend there Ariana Grande it is worth studying.
And all this despite being a song from 7 years ago created by Abel Tesfaye that the Canadian has now re-recorded with the soloist from Boca Raton (Florida, USA). The remix of Die for you clearly indicated that when they collaborate, the sum of 1+1 is not equal to 2 but to 7 or more as Los Serrano said.
There are artists in the music industry who have a special chemistry with other performers and whose collaborations become a real pleasure for their millions of followers around the world. This is the case with The Weeknd and Ariana Grande. Their history, both solo and together, is full of world-class success. Four of them bear his double signature: Love me harder and Off the table by Ariana and the remix of Save your tears y Die for You by Abel.
David Guetta and Sia
We said at the beginning of this report that repetitive collaborations between artists were more frequent among electronic music artists and David Guetta is the clearest example of this. During the first years of his career, the voice of his songs was (almost) always Chris Willis.
To avoid being pigeonholed, the French dj has changed over the years, giving way to his songs by great voices in music from around the world, including some of the best contemporary female voices such as East. With the Australian, Guetta was able to create a huge catalog of hits that go from Titanium to She Wolf via Flames, Let’s love…
But this is not the exception but the norm because David Guetta is one of those artists capable of generating a brutal chemistry with all his collaborators. And if not, ask Bebe Rexha, who in just 4 years has been able to sign hits like Say my name or Blue (I’m fine) with the Frenchman.
Alejandro Sanz and Shakira
We did not want to end this first (or brief) review of the most complicit musical couples of recent years without adding a little Latin touch to the observation. And it is that for many years we have been waiting Shakira there Alexander Sanz complete the trilogy of duets (which they owe us).
Because in the current scenario of domination of Latin urban sounds, that of Barranquilla and that of Madrid have a lot to say. They were the first two artists to sign one of the first major reggaeton collaborations in Spanish and Spain.
Torture marked a before and after in the international projection of the two performers who managed to cross all the borders of all the music markets. They would just repeat a year later with Thank You, but no. How to forget this dance? Maximum complicity since but without new collaborations. And we only forget this absence..