Electronic dance music has become so popular over the past decade that its influence can be felt across all of music, sweeping up once tight-knit genres like country, Latin, and hip-hop with a festival-sized gust of bleep-bloops and oontz-oontz-oontzes. These days, almost all mainstream pop songs sound like they’ve been mixed with an EDM producer in the booth (and in all likelihood, they were). Tiësto’s ascent predates all this by many, many years. The Dutch DJ-producer (real name: Tijs Michiel Verwest) started making music in the mid-’90s and released his first album in 2001, earning DJ Mag’s “Best DJ in the World” title the next year. The pool was relatively small then, but it isn’t now, yet Verwest has remained one of dance music’s most influential DJ-producers, continuing to tour extensively and cross genre lines even as he entered his fifties. Then, in late 2020, after lockdown had shut down live music entirely, with a particularly detrimental effect on festivals and nightclubs, he released a track titled “The Business” which became his biggest hit yet. The smooth deep house track was initially released with an unattributed pitched-down vocal, but in January, Verwest released a new version featuring R&B singer Ty Dolla $ign which soared up the Apple Music charts. This summer, it became an unofficial soundtrack to the joyous but measured return of festivals and clubs as electronic music fans made their way back onto the dance floor. But unlike the majority of Tiësto’s big, clubby back catalogue, “The Business” has a decidedly pop sensibility: It’s sexy, simple, and irresistibly singable, with the sort of sticky melody that lingers long after the track has faded.