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Latest Release
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- 9 AUG 2024
- 1 Song
- I'm Good (Blue) - Single · 2022
- I Don't Wanna Wait - Single · 2024
- Nothing But the Beat Ultimate · 2011
- Memories (feat. Kid Cudi) · 2009
- One More Love · 2009
- Listen · 2014
- When We Were Young (The Logical Song) - Single · 2023
- Baby Don't Hurt Me - Single · 2023
- Who's That Chick (feat. Rihanna) - EP · 2009
- Nothing But the Beat Ultimate · 2011
Essential Albums
- David Guetta’s third studio album, Pop Life, found him in a state of transition. Prior to its 2007 release, the Frenchman had spent the past two decades growing his profile in Europe. He came up first as a DJ playing EDM, New Wave and house music across Paris’ nightclubs before expanding into production and throwing his own events. After releasing his first two full lengths, 2002’s Just a Little More Love and 2004’s Guetta Blaster, Guetta entered his third-album era with momentum on his side, having secured his first Top 10 single on this side of the Channel with the 2006 cut “Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)” and his first Grammy nomination—a big initial step toward overseas success. Vestiges of early Guetta appear throughout Pop Life. Two of his go-to vocalists, Chris Willis and JD Davis, feature on most of its songs, while French producer Joachim Garraud (with whom Guetta made Just a Little More Love) returns for album-wide co-production duties. Most notably, the production still largely reflects his electro-house roots: “You’re Not Alone” evokes riotous dance floors with its stuttering synths and glitched-out vocal fragments, while thumping kick drums and charged electric guitar plucks drive “Winner of the Game”. Even among the hard-edged sounds, the album reveals Guetta’s pop ambition. On “Baby When the Light” and “Everytime We Touch” (co-produced by Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso), he trades in the club’s sweat-slicked walls and cigarette-smoke clouds for more radio-friendly fare with impassioned hooks and a softer, more polished approach. But it was the wailing heartbreak anthem “Love Is Gone” that ultimately crossed over, topping the UK Dance Singles Chart and breaching the Billboard Hot 100 (his first appearance of many). By showing the potential of combining heavy dance beats and pop-structured songwriting, Pop Life served as the prototype for Guetta’s star-studded, breakthrough fourth album and planted the seeds for EDM’s global phenomenon.
Artist Playlists
- A club kingpin transforms the landscape of EDM and contemporary pop.
- The globe-trotting DJ's clips are as well-traveled as he is.
Compilations
- Galantis, 5 Seconds of Summer & Misha K
More To Hear
- David Guetta and Bebe Rexha talk “I’m Good (Blue)."
- Shouse & David Guetta
- Interviews with Joel Corry & RAYE, Lauren Daigle and Jhené Aiko.
- David Guetta on "Let's Love" plus Alicia Keys, Marilyn Manson.
- Der Künstler über seine neueste Kollaboration mit Sia.
- David talks work with Morten, plus i_o talks the ACID444 EP.
- The singer-songwriter breaks down her biggest collaborations.
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About David Guetta
From his early days playing Chicago house in French discotheques to his long reign atop the pop charts, David Guetta has revolutionised dance music multiple times. Born in Paris in 1967, Guetta began DJing in the late ’80s, when the shimmery sound known as the “French touch” was taking shape. By the early 2000s, at his F*** Me I’m Famous parties in Ibiza, he had translated that melodic style into a clever merger of pop sass and club swagger. He parlayed that mix into pure platinum with hits like 2003’s “Just for One Day”, an energy-stoking rework of David Bowie’s “Heroes”, and 2002’s “Just a Little More Love”, a sultry bump-and-grind featuring R&B singer Chris Willis. That versatility—along with a knack for killer hooks—would become one of Guetta’s principal calling cards, and as EDM exploded across pop culture at the end of the 2000s, Guetta’s shapeshifting style led the way, yielding ecstatic affirmations (“When Love Takes Over”), feisty come-ons (“Sexy Bitch”) and unstoppable singalongs (The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling”, which Guetta produced). Since then, his collaborations (Sia, Nicki Minaj) have kept listeners guessing even as his choruses—triumphant as a bottle of bubbly blowing its top—have proven one of pop’s most dependable pleasures.
- HOMETOWN
- Paris, France
- BORN
- 7 November 1967
- GENRE
- Dance