WHAT IT IS: Diplo and Mark Ronson named their new collaboration, Silk City, after the Philadelphia institution where they met in the early 2000s. The longtime friends’ project, which is the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning producers’ first official collaboration, channels their shared love of soul, disco and house music. Most recently, the duo teamed up with Dua Lipa on the instant hit “Electricity,” which has reached over 30m audio streams and 20m video views to date, and garnered 50k in first-week consumption.
SINGLE: “Electricity”
LIVE: Major festival appearances include Governor’s Ball, Bestival and Treasure Island (upcoming on 10/13)
INTERNET: 20m+ official video views TD, 1.5m+ views/day, #1 trending video for release week; 30m combined audio streams; #15 on WW Spotify chart (+4 spots), #30 U.S. (+10 spots); featured on key Spotify and Apple Music playlists, including Today’s Top Hits (#6) and Today’s Hits (#2); charting in nearly 50 territories at iTunes and 50+ territories at Spotify
RADIO: #44 at Pop radio TW (+19 spots); 3m+ in radio audience; another 29 new commitments at presstime (72 Pop stations in first two weeks); led this week by KAMP, SiriusXM Hits 1, WPOI, KBFF,KTFM, KENZ, KLUC, more; impact week included WKTU, WBBM, KYLD, KREV, KMVQ, KHKS, KROI, WWPW, WODS, WXKS, WFLC, WPOW, WZFT, more
PRESS: Rolling Stone, Billboard, Fader, Nylon (“The song is the perfect end-of-summer bop to close out the season”), Complex, Variety, Hypebeast, Spin, Stereogum, more
PUBLISHING: Songs of Zelig c/o Concord Music Publishing LLC d/b/a Concord Copyrights a/c Songs of Zelig (BMI); Mad Decent Publishing, LLC and Prescription Songs, Admin by Kobalt o/b/o 12th and Spring Garden (GEMA)
MANAGEMENT: Diplo – Renee Brodeur, Andrew McInnes/TMWRK; Mark Ronson – Brandon Creed, Tyler Reymore/Full Stop