
The Chainsmokers became the first act to have four songs ("Closer" being the fourth) that top the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, passing Calvin Harris, who held the previous record with three.
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This is the highest EDM song that cracked the Billboard Decade-End in the 2010s according to Billboard. The song stayed at the top spot for 12 consecutive weeks. In the United States, "Closer" became both the Chainsmokers' and Halsey's first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. Musically, it is a future bass and pop song with a " retro" style synthesizer in the chorus. The song was written by Taggart, Halsey, Shaun Frank, Freddy Kennett, Isaac Slade and Joe King, while the production was handled by the Chainsmokers. It was released on July 29, 2016, through Disruptor Records and Columbia Records. Andrew Taggart (one half of the Chainsmokers) also provides his vocals in the song. “‘Closer’ was so simple in its execution, and for some reason it hit people in a very emotional place." Closer" is a song by American DJ duo the Chainsmokers featuring American singer Halsey. “So much of electronic music just isn’t palatable for a huge audience,” Frank says. The bubble was about to burst, and less than two years after the song’s world-beating peak, EDM had almost completely receded from the charts, Top 40 radio and many festival toplines. “Closer” was EDM’s pop pinnacle, but it also marked the beginning of the end for the genre’s moment as a standalone mainstream phenomenon. 1 album, 2017’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, and cementing her status as an A-lister. In July 2019, The Chainsmokers were named the world’s highest-paid DJs by Forbes, surpassing Calvin Harris for the first time.The song boosted Halsey, too, fueling the excitement for her first No. “Closer” promoted The Chainsmokers from pop-EDM hitmakers to bonafide superstars, headlining arenas around the world and leading to more high-profile collaborations: Coldplay, 5 Seconds of Summer and Bebe Rexha.
The Chainsmokers' 'Closer' Breaks Record for Most Weeks in Hot 100's Top Five And I was just like, ‘Dude, you should sing the song, you sound great right now.’” The twist: neither Taggart, who sings the croony lead verse, nor then-mainstream newcomer Halsey, who seals the song with a cutting alt-pop edge, were ever supposed to sing on “Closer.” “ said ‘I can’t wait to get someone to sing this thing.

“We were just picking from some weird things that had happened in life, trying to create these run-on sentences that were awkward and weird but still rhymed.” “ had a couple of the first lines figured out and we just went from there,” Frank says.

The next day, The Chainsmokers’ tour opener, Canadian DJ and producer Shaun Frank, sat in to help pen the lyrics. Kennett and Taggart wrote the hypnotic hook melody in a night. The track’s construction was simple enough while on tour in support of their first Top 10 hit, “Roses,” Taggart invited Freddy Kennett of the Chicago-based DJ duo Louis The Child on the bus to flesh out some new ideas. Not too shabby for a song born in the back of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart’s tour bus in late 2015. 1 on the Hot 100 in late 2016, and earned a Diamond certification from the RIAA in 2018. The song stamped the pop consciousness for 12 weeks at No. But no EDM track this decade was as inescapable as “Closer,” The Chainsmokers’ future bass earworm.
