As of April 2015, the song has sold 800,000 copies worldwide. The video features scenes set in what is depicted to be a spaghetti western. The music video is the first of the album campaign to feature live action footage, but Guetta does not appear in the video. The track reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, and was certified Silver by the BPI. The song features vocals from American singer Sam Martin. ' Lovers on the Sun' was released as the lead single from the album on 30 June 2014.The song was not included on Listen but appears on the Listen Again track list. ' Blast Off', Guetta's collaboration with Kaz James was released on 9 June 2014. It is available on the deluxe edition of Listen and on Listen Again. Again, the music video was entirely animated and features scenes of zombies on motorcycles with guns, whilst the army are trying to defend the earth. The song reached number twenty-two on the UK Singles Chart. The track features vocals from Australian singer Vassy and production from Showtek. ' Bad' was released on 17 March 2014 as the second stand-alone single.

The music video was entirely animated and features visual imagery similar to that on the single cover. The song reached number four on the UK Singles Chart. The track features vocals from American singer Skylar Grey. ' Shot Me Down' was released on 3 February 2014 as the first stand-alone single. It's not like, 'Oh wow, if you don't have this huge distorted kick, there's nothing else.'' Singles īefore the release of the lead single, it was preceded by 3 singles. These songs can be played by a classical orchestra, a rock band, or a funk band, and they would be great. A lot of EDM lately is based on production tricks that make it sound huge. I've really changed everything, like the way I was working, the people I was working with – everything.' ĭuring an interview with Billboard, Guetta said he has moved away from the current EDM and house sound on his previous two internationally released albums One Love and Nothing but the Beat with Listen, by adding elements of other music such as classical music, acoustic music, and piano ballads: 'I miss soul and emotion.

This time I was starting with piano, voice and guitar, then producing around the song. Until today I was always starting with the beat and then writing the song on it. 'When you're a little bit at the top of the game, what is left except being afraid to go down? I never want to feel like this, so I thought that the best way to avoid it was to kind of start from scratch again. I've never done this, because even for me it was all about making the people dance.' Guetta also said he wanted to reinvent himself with the album, steering away from the urban and dance sound he became famous for with One Love (2009): According to Guetta, Listen is his most personal album yet, reflecting his divorce from his wife of 22 years, Cathy Guetta: 'Until today I was doing lots of songs about happiness and love and sexiness and just having a party – it was basically my life, you know? And lately, my personal life has been a little more difficult, so it reflects also on the album, on the things that we're talking about, on the type of chords. Listen is David Guetta's first studio album in three years since the release of the commercially successful Nothing but the Beat (2011), which sold 3 million copies worldwide. The album debuted at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart and peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard 200. Reviews were mixed with critics praising the songwriting and catchiness of songs, but criticized the repetitive formula of the album. The album reached the top 10 in eighteen countries, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. Listen was preceded by the release of five singles: ' Shot Me Down', ' Bad', ' Blast Off', ' Lovers on the Sun' and ' Dangerous'. It also features additional production from Guetta's frequent collaborator Giorgio Tuinfort, Avicii, Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Showtek, and Stadiumx among others, with additional writing credits from Austin Bisnow, Jason Evigan, Julie Frost, and The-Dream among others. Dynamite, Elliphant, Birdy, Jaymes Young, Sonny Wilson, Vassy, and Skylar Grey. It features collaborations with artists from the R&B, hip hop, alternative rock and pop worlds such as Sam Martin, Emeli Sandé, The Script, Nicki Minaj, John Legend, Nico & Vinz, Ryan Tedder (the lead singer of pop rock band OneRepublic), Sia, Magic!, Bebe Rexha, South African male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ms. Listen is the sixth studio album by French DJ and record producer David Guetta.

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