The pair isn’t linked to a trendy sound like trop-house. The New York native duo offers something simultaneously fresh and familiar to contemporary dance-pop -crossover. The Chainsmokers: Photos From The Billboard Cover Shoot “He wanted to finish the song, and I was like, ‘So why don’t you just sing it?’ Drew’s like, ‘No way, I’ve never sung.’ But we set up a mic in the bus, cut it, and that’s the vocal we used.” “Closer” co-writer Shaun Frank says that in November 2015, after Taggart made the beat in a 30-minute session with Freddy Kennett of Louis the Child, they did the rest on a tour bus in an hour, peppering in lines about Taggart’s experience hooking up with an ex, then “realizing he actually still hates her,” as Frank explains. “Now we’re influencing the industry, putting out songs everyone copies.”Īnd with apparent ease. The Chainsmokers even unseated Calvin Harris as all-time champ of the Hot Dance Songs chart. “Only Justin Bieber and Drake can hold a candle to what we’ve done,” says Taggart, naming the two artists who banked more top 10s this year. “We’re literally going for our third double-platinum record this year.” Brian Bowen Smith “I don’t know what to say to people who think it’s a con,” says Pall (right). “Closer” will be their third title to go double-platinum in 2016, following “Roses” and the euphoric trap-pop gem “Don’t Let Me Down.” For hugely impressive, far less icky stats than what’s on their website, take a look at “Closer” as it rounds its fourth week atop the Billboard Hot 100: five weeks leading the Digital Songs chart with a peak of 208,000 downloads (best for a group since One Direction in August 2015), according to Nielsen Music four weeks dominating Streaming Songs with a 40.5 million-click peak (only the fifth track to reach 40 million in a week) and No. These good-time bros, whose website bio includes the words “17.34 combined inches”(Pall clarifies: “Oh, that’s our penises combined… tip to tip”), are also astoundingly good at making hits. Watch The Chainsmokers successfully (and hilariously) prank call Daya, Charlie Puth and their friend Dan Marcus: “But you’ll never see us getting carried out of a club. “It’s always ‘work hard, play hard,’ ” says Pall after a pull of vodka. Sitting on the black leather couch next to Taggart: Alex Pall, a 31-year-old with bedhead and neck scruff, whose role is a permutation of DJ, A&R rep (he books the collaborations), art director and bon vivant. He’s sitting in a massage chair in the venue’s greenroom, sipping tequila from a red cup and chewing on beef jerky. My mom’s going to hate reading that,” says Drew Taggart, 26, “but she already knows.” He’s the baby-faced half of the duo - the producer, songwriter and, increasingly, singer of The Chainsmokers. Here is a list of "Gerald Levert's Ten Greatest Hits.“We rage every night. His death was ruled accidental and was due to acute intoxication, caused by a combination of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Gerald Levert passed away Novemat the age of 40. He also recorded with Chaka Khan, Teena Marie, Yolanda Adams, and Miki Howard. Levert composed and produced songs for several artists including Barry White, Anita Baker, Teddy Pendergrass, Stephanie Mills, Freddie Jackson, James Ingram, The Winans, and The O'jays. Gerald released two duet albums with his Eddie Levert, and he also substituted for his dad when his father was ill and not able to tour with The O'Jays. Levert recorded eight number one hits on the Billboard R&B charts, including "Baby Hold On To Me" with his father. During his 31 year recording career, he performed as the lead singer of the group Levert (including his brother Sean Levert), as a member of the trio LSG (featuring Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill), and a solo artist. Born Jin Cleveland, Ohio, Gerald Levert followed in the footsteps of his father Eddie Levert, lead singer of The O'Jays.
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