#JOE CLOSER SONG CRACKED#

In 2018, the song received a diamond certification by the RIAA for selling 10 million units in the United States. It received a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2017 Grammy Awards. Its music video was released on October 23, 2016. Halsey and the Chainsmokers performed the track live at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards as well as a remix of the song at the 2016 American Music Awards. The song was performed live for the first time at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2016. It also became the second song in the history of the Hot 100 chart to spend 32 weeks in the top ten of the chart. The song went on to become the first song to spend 26 weeks in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Internationally the single topped the charts in seventeen countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, making it both the Chainsmokers' and Halsey's first chart-topping song in all six countries. The Chainsmokers became the first act to have four songs ('Closer' being the fourth) that top the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, passing Calvin Harris, who held the previous record with three.

#JOE CLOSER SONG CRACKED#

This is the highest EDM song that cracked the Billboard Decade-End in the 2010s according to Billboard. The song stayed at the top spot for 12 consecutive weeks. In the United States, 'Closer' became both the Chainsmokers' and Halsey's first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. Musically, it is a future bass and pop song with a ' retro' style synthesizer in the chorus. The song was written by Taggart, Halsey, Shaun Frank, Freddy Kennett, Isaac Slade and Joe King, while the production was handled by the Chainsmokers. It was released on July 29, 2016, through Disruptor Records and Columbia Records. Andrew Taggart (one half of the Chainsmokers) also provides his vocals in the song. Rock, however defined, rarely seems and sounds so important, so vital, and so impossible to resist or ignore as here.' Closer' is a song by American DJ duo the Chainsmokers featuring American singer Halsey. Joy Division were at the height of their powers on Closer, equaling and arguably bettering the astonishing Unknown Pleasures, that's how accomplished the four members were. Songs like 'Heart and Soul' and especially the jaw-dropping, wrenching 'Twenty Four Hours,' as perfect a demonstration of the tension/release or soft/loud approach as will ever be heard, simply intensify the experience. A long slow crawl down and out, Curtis' portrait of lost youth inevitably applied to himself soon after, its sepulchral string-synths are practically a requiem. Keyboards also took the fore more so than ever - the drowned pianos underpinning Curtis' shadowy moan on 'The Eternal,' the squirrelly lead synth on the energetic but scared-out-of-its-wits 'Isolation,' and above all else 'Decades,' the album ender of album enders. Opener 'Atrocity Exhibition' was arguably the most fractured thing the band had yet recorded, Bernard Sumner's teeth-grinding guitar and Stephen Morris' Can-on-speed drumming making for one heck of a strange start. Martin Hannett was still producing, but seems to have taken as many chances as the band itself throughout - differing mixes, differing atmospheres, new twists and turns define the entirety of Closer, songs suddenly returned in chopped-up, crumpled form, ending on hiss and random notes.

Who knows what the next path would have been had Ian Curtis not chosen his end? But steer away from the rereading of his every lyric after that date treat Closer as what everyone else thought it was at first - simply the next album - and Joy Division's power just seems to have grown. If Unknown Pleasures was Joy Division at their most obsessively, carefully focused, ten songs yet of a piece, Closer was the sprawl, the chaotic explosion that went every direction at once.

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