Must Haves. Music Edition. The Chainsmokers

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active 2010s - 2020s

Formed 2012 in New York City, NY

Genre Electronic

Styles EDMClub/DancePop

Group Members Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart

ALBUMS

Memories ... do not open, Sick Boy, World War Joy

HITS

Paris, Closer, Selfie, roses, dont let me down, side effects, this feeling, all we know, new york city, who do you love

CULTURAL IMPACT

An digital manufacturing duo offering Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, the Chainsmokers blend indie, dance, and dad right into a chart-topping sound that`s spawned no much less than ten multi-platinum singles. The pair launched their authentic debut unmarried in 2014, a primary dance hit called "#Selfie" that each celebrated and skewered 2010s narcissism. Two Top Ten pop hits, "Roses" and "Don't Let Me Down," observed in 2016, every of them licensed as a minimum five-instances platinum. "Closer," offering Halsey on vocals, additionally started mountaineering to the pinnacle at some point of the summer time season of 2016, closing there for 12 weeks and subsequently incomes 12-instances platinum status. In 2017, Taggart and Pall switched up their competitive EDM method to encompass extra pop and indie rock touches, however they remained a platinum act with singles along with 2017's "Something Just like This," offering Coldplay. That track turned into blanketed on their full-period debut, Memories: Do Not Open, which debuted at primary at the Billboard 200. Starting in 2018, the Chainsmokers launched a unmarried every month, later gathered on Sick Boy (2018) and World War Joy (2019). Both EPs crowned the Electronic Albums chart and paved the manner for full-period versions. Following the duo's soundtrack paintings on 2020's Words on Bathroom Walls, they once more hit the Top forty with 2022's "High."

Pall and Taggart first made a call for themselves with the aid of using growing remixes in their favourite indie bands that garnered tens of hundreds of thousands of streams. The duo launched their authentic debut unmarried, "#Selfie," which celebrated and skewered 2010s narcissism, in January 2014. The track's bouncy beats and self-obsessed phrases hit primary at the Billboard dance chart and offered over ten million copies. Meanwhile, "#Selfie"'s video featured cameos with the aid of using Snoop Dogg and David Hasselhoff, fueling the track's viral recognition to masses of hundreds of thousands of views. More singles, along with "Kanye" and "Let You Go," observed.