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| Single by Cashmere Cat featuring Ariana Grande | ||||
| from the album 9 (Japanese deluxe) | ||||
| Released | March 3, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | January 23, 2015 | |||
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| Length | 3:35 | |||
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"Adore" is a song recorded by Norwegian DJ and record producer Cashmere Cat,featuring vocals by American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande. It was written and produced by Cashmere along with Benny Blanco and Lido,and co-written by Ammar Malik,Jeremih Felton,Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Darryl Simmons. "Adore" was digitally released on March 3,2015 by Friends Keep Secrets and Interscope Records. [1]
"Adore" is the second collaboration between Cashmere Cat and Grande,the first being the song "Be My Baby",from Grande's second studio album, My Everything (2014). [2] [3] The song features a heavy dose of breathy,falsetto vocals,atmospheric elements,subtle dance beats and punches of clattering percussion,and a vocal interpolation of Johnny Gill's classic R&B hit "My,My,My". [3]
The song was first presented on Grande's The Honeymoon Tour where Cashmere Cat performed the song with Grande during his opening act. [4] it was also performed as an introlude for the Sweetener World Tour [5] for leg 2 and 3
USA Today ranked the song as one of the 50 best in 2015,writing,"Grande’s towering vocals have never sounded better than on this offbeat R&B track." [6]
Commercially,the song peaked at number 93 on the US Billboard Hot 100,becoming Cashmere Cat's first appearance on that chart. [7]
| Chart (2015) | Peak position |
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| Belgium Urban (Ultratop Flanders) [8] | 27 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 [7] | 93 |