Silk City | |
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 Diplo (left) and Mark Ronson (right) | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2018–present |
| Labels | |
| Members | Mark Ronson Diplo |
| Website | www |
Silk City is an English-American supergroup duo composed of electronic music producers Mark Ronson and Diplo. [1] The duo have collaborated with artists including Dua Lipa, Daniel Merriweather, Mapei, GoldLink, Ellie Goulding and Desiigner. [2]
On 2 January 2018, American DJ and record producer Diplo and English-American musician, DJ, songwriter and record producer Mark Ronson, announced a new project entitled Silk City. [1] The duo released their debut single "Only Can Get Better" featuring Daniel Merriweather on May 25, 2018. [3] Their second single, "Feel About You" featuring Mapei, was released on July 20, 2018. [4] The duo's third single, "Loud", saw Diplo reunite with previous collaborators GoldLink and Desiigner. [5] [6]
Their fourth single "Electricity" was released on 6 September 2018 and features English singer and songwriter Dua Lipa. The music video was released on the same day. [7]
On 22 January 2021, Silk City released the single "New Love" featuring English singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding.
| Title | Details |
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| Electricity [8] |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||
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| UK [9] | AUS [10] | BEL [11] | CAN [12] | GER [13] | IRE [14] | SWE [15] | US [16] | ||||
| "Only Can Get Better" [3] (featuring Daniel Merriweather) | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Electricity [8] | |
| "Feel About You" [4] (featuring Mapei) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Loud" [5] (with GoldLink and Desiigner) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Electricity" [upper-alpha 1] (with Dua Lipa) | 4 | 22 | 7 | 61 | 64 | 6 | 51 | 62 | |||
| "New Love" [21] (featuring Ellie Goulding) | 2021 | 65 | — | — | — | — | 81 [22] | — | — | TBA | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||
| Title | Artist | Year |
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| "Missing U" (Silk City & Picard Brothers Remix) | Robyn | 2019 |
| Year | Category | Work | Result |
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| 2019 | Best Dance Recording | "Electricity" | Won |
| Year | Category | Work | Result |
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| 2019 | Best Pop/Electronic Song | "Electricity" | Nominated |
Thomas Wesley Pentz, known professionally as Diplo, is an American DJ and music producer. He is the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer; a member of the supergroup LSD, with Sia and Labrinth; a member of electronic duo Jack Ü, with producer and DJ Skrillex; and a member of Silk City, with Mark Ronson. He founded the record company Mad Decent in 2006, as well as the non-profit organization Heaps Decent the following year. His 2013 extended play (EP), Revolution, debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200. The EP's title track was later featured in a commercial for Hyundai and is featured on the WWE 2K16 soundtrack.
Mark Daniel Ronson is a British-born DJ, record producer, songwriter, and remixer. He has received eight Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year for Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black (2006) and two for Record of the Year singles "Rehab" and "Uptown Funk". He received an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award for co-writing "Shallow" for the film A Star Is Born (2018). In 2023, Ronson co-produced the soundtrack for the fantasy comedy film Barbie, on which he also composed and co-wrote several songs with his production partner Andrew Wyatt. The soundtrack received 11 Grammy nominations, with Ronson winning the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, and he received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Throughout his career, he's produced for Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Adele, Duran Duran, Miley Cyrus, and Queens of the Stone Age.
English-American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, record producer and record executive Mark Ronson has released five studio albums and twenty-two singles.
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"I Need Your Love" is a song by Scottish producer and DJ Calvin Harris from his third studio album, 18 Months (2012). The song features vocals from English singer Ellie Goulding and was released on 2 April 2013 as the album's seventh single. "I Need Your Love" is also included as a bonus track on Goulding's second studio album, Halcyon (2012). The accompanying music video, directed by Emil Nava, depicts Harris and Goulding as a romantic couple on a trip to Miami.
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"Electricity" is a song by British-American music duo Silk City and English-Albanian singer Dua Lipa featuring American DJ Diplo and British-American DJ Mark Ronson. The song was written by Silk City members: Ronson and Diplo, alongside Lipa, Diana Gordon, Romy Madley Croft, Jr Blender, Maxime Picard, Clément Picard, Jacob Olofsson and Rami Dawod. The production was handled by Silk City with additional production from Picard Brothers, Jarami, Riton, Alex Metric, and Blender. It was released for digital download and streaming through Columbia Records and Sony Music on 6 September 2018 as the fourth single from Silk City's debut 2019 extended play (EP) of the same name. The song was later included on Dua Lipa: Complete Edition (2018), the super deluxe reissue of Lipa's eponymous debut studio album.
Jarami is a Swedish artist and Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling production duo, consisting of Rami Dawod and Jacob Olofsson. Based in Stockholm, they achieved prominence initially as remixers, then for producing Frank Ocean's singles "Lens," "Biking," and "Chanel"; co-producing Camila Cabello's number one pop radio hit "Never Be the Same"; and producing Silk City and Dua Lipa's "Electricity."
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Caroline Furøyen, also known by her stage name Caroline Ailin, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter based in London. She co-wrote "New Rules", a single by Dua Lipa which reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and US pop radio in 2017. In 2019 Ailin, along with her collaborators Ian Kirkpatrick and Emily Warren, wrote the hit Dua Lipa song "Don't Start Now", for which they received nominations for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. She has also worked with a variety of other acts including, Zedd, Katy Perry, Clean Bandit, Ellie Goulding, Ella Mai, Louis the Child, MØ, and numerous others.
Picard Brothers are a duo of producers, songwriters and DJs composed by Maxime Picard and Clément Picard. The two French brothers have worked on records by Diplo, Mark Ronson, Silk City, Beyoncé, Madonna and many others throughout their career. They won a Grammy Award in 2019 for Best Dance Recording for their contribution to "Electricity" by Silk City and Dua Lipa.
Brightest Blue is the fourth studio album by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding. It was released on 17 July 2020 through Polydor Records. Originally scheduled for 5 June 2020, the album's release was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The album was preceded by three singles: "Worry About Me", "Power" and "Slow Grenade", and features guest vocals from Blackbear, Diplo, Juice WRLD, Lauv, serpentwithfeet and Swae Lee. It is Goulding's first album since Delirium (2015). Brightest Blue received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album was also a commercial success. It became Goulding's third album to peak at number one in the UK and fourth album to debut inside the top three on the chart. The album also peaked inside the top ten in several other countries. To promote the album, Goulding was set to embark on the Brightest Blue Tour on 28 April 2021, however this was pushed back to 5 October 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions in the UK.
"New Love" is a song by British-American music duo Silk City, featuring vocals from English singer Ellie Goulding. It was released as a digital download and for streaming on 21 January 2021. The song was written by Clément Picard, Ellie Goulding, Mark Ronson, Maxime Picard, Steve McCutcheon and Thomas Wesley Pentz.
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