Latest Release
- NOV 29, 2024
- 1 Song
- I'm Good (Blue) - Single · 2022
- One Love (Deluxe) · 2009
- Nothing But the Beat 2.0 · 2012
- Memories (feat. Kid Cudi) · 2009
- Nothing But the Beat · 2011
- Nothing But the Beat · 2011
- I Don't Wanna Wait - Single · 2024
- The Pinkprint (Tenth Anniversary Edition) · 2024
- Nothing But the Beat · 2011
- One More Love · 2010
Essential Albums
- By the release of 2011's Nothing but the Beat, David Guetta had essentially remade pop in his own image; his brand of exuberant dance music had become the de facto template for chart success. Hence this album's list of guests, which reads like a GRAMMY® red carpet: Lil Wayne, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Snoop Dogg, etc. Featuring vocals from Nicki Minaj, "Turn Me On" is one of EDM's most enduring anthems, while the majestic "Titanium," with vocals from cowriter Sia, reflects Guetta's growing interest in anthemic rock tropes. "Without You" marries Usher's indelibly earnest crooning with Guetta's Ibiza-inspired pop-timism, and somehow even the typically laid-back Snoop Dogg sounds at home amid the churning beats of "Sweat."
- 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 UK Top 10 with the 2006 single “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 U.S. Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, breaching the Billboard Hot 100 (his first appearance of many), and sliding into U.S. Top 40 radio rotation. 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.
Albums
Artist Playlists
- He has helped to popularize EDM globally—and then some.
- The globe-trotting DJ's clips are as well-traveled as he is.
- Oliver Heldens, FAST BOY & Charlotte Haining
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 revolutionized dance music multiple times. Born in Paris in 1967, he 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 2002’s “Just a Little More Love”—a sultry bump-and-grind featuring R&B singer Chris Willis—and 2003’s “Just for One Day,” an energy-stoking rework of David Bowie’s “Heroes.” Along with a knack for killer hooks, that versatility would become one of Guetta’s principal calling cards. As EDM exploded across pop culture at the end of the 2000s, his shape-shifting style led the way, yielding ecstatic affirmations (“When Love Takes Over,” featuring Kelly Rowland), feisty come-ons (“Sexy Bitch,” guest-starring Akon), and unstoppable sing-alongs (Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling,” which he produced). Since then, his collaborations with the likes of Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, and Justin Bieber have kept listeners guessing even as his choruses—as triumphant as a bottle of bubbly blowing its top—have proven one of pop’s most dependable pleasures. He has always thrived when working with the chandelier-shaking voice of Australian pop star Sia, scoring a long run of hits that includes 2018’s simmering ballad “Flames.” As a highly selective hired gun, meanwhile, his exploits include elevating Céline Dion’s peerless voice to new heights on 2019’s “Lying Down,” a bold co-write with Sia and co-producer Giorgio Tuinfort. And if you think his long-cemented superstar status would keep him from accepting new remix assignments, think again: Guetta continues to dramatically reshape such fellow heavy-hitters as U2, Megan Thee Stallion, Coldplay, and BTS.
- HOMETOWN
- Paris, France
- BORN
- November 7, 1967
- GENRE
- Dance