Artist:A Great Big World f/Christina Aguilera
Song:Say Something
Album:Is There Anybody Out There?
Say Something was a top five hit in 2013. It is the only big hit to date for the duo A Great Big World. One of their other songs charted so they will not be a one hit wonder. But I don't expect them to score any more hits. This one was was a fluke. Singer songwriter Ian Axel is from Fair Lawn, NJ. After graduating high school, he moved to New York and met Chad King while both were attending the Steinhardt Music Program at New York University. In 2010, Axel posted a video of This Is the New Year on YouTube. iTunes selected the song as a Discovery Download and it was used in the MTV docuseries I Used To Be Fat and the 2011 film New Year's Eve. Axel self released an album and the cast of Glee performed the song in 2013. After King started to join Axel on stage, they called themselves A Great Big World and signed with Epic. They released a 2013 EP and toured. They performed This Is the New Year on The Today Show. Then Say Something was featured on the season finale of the TV competition series So You Think You Can Dance. Christina Aguilera liked the song so much that she wanted to record it with them. That version reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Adult Contemporary chart. Both versions of Say Anything appear on the 2014 album Is There Anybody Out There?. The album was produced by Dan Romer, a film composer who won an Emmy for the HBO film Jim: The James Foley Story. So far these guys have been lucky. The luck didn't last when the 2015 album When the Morning Comes didn't sell. They lost their record deal and self released an album in 2021. Well, one big hit is better than nothing. Their music is too schmaltzy for me. Here's the video for Say Something by A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera.
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