Why artist collabs are more popular than ever

When you scroll done your playlist, however galore of the songs connected determination are collabs?

Charli XCX has been successful the charts with Talk Talk - her team-up with Troye Sivan - and she's been each implicit our feeds with Billie Eilish and Guess.

Or possibly Chase & Status and Stormzy's Backbone is the 1 for you.

Four of the apical 10 songs successful the existent UK Singles Chart are collaborations, and it doesn't look to beryllium a fad.

Since 2020, astir fractional of the 100 biggest tracks person featured 2 artists, according to the Official Charts company.

That's much than doubly the fig of collabs successful the charts towards the extremity of the noughties, and implicit the past 30 years the radical successful complaint of the charts accidental they've seen a rise.

Since the opening of their career, pop-punk legends Fall Out Boy person linked up with immoderate of the biggest stars successful the industry, including Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato and Jay-Z.

Front antheral Patrick Stump tells BBC Newsbeat the mode astir of these collabs hap is "pretty simple" and sometimes it's worthy taking a chance.

"People conscionable ask," helium says. "Whether we inquire them oregon they inquire us."

A mates of years ago, helium says helium was readying connected holding disconnected erstwhile it came to moving with different artists for a while.

That was until Taylor Swift emailed.

"[My manager's] similar 'maybe you should bash this one, huh?'" laughs Patrick.

Fall Out Boy were featured connected Taylor's Electric Touch erstwhile her fig 1 medium Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was released past year.

Patrick says "every lawsuit is different" erstwhile it comes to signaling a way with an artist.

"There person been a batch wherever we've been successful the country together," says Patrick. "But there's besides times wherever we weren't."

Back erstwhile CDs were popular, helium says helium didn't privation radical to bargain their albums conscionable due to the fact that of the featured creator sticker.

"I don't ever privation to bash it for marketing."

Patrick says helium prefers authentic collabs, referencing erstwhile Brendon Urie from Panic! astatine the Disco featured connected Fall Out Boy's 20 Dollar Nose Bleed connected their 2008 medium Folie à Deux.

"Brendon ended up connected that opus [because] helium was determination that day... hanging retired with us," helium says.

"That's erstwhile collaboration feels truly good.

"It makes the full acquisition much normal, much than the 'have your manager telephone my manager' benignant of thing," helium adds.

Frequent collaborator Ella Henderson tells Newsbeat she loves linking up with antithetic musicians due to the fact that of however artists tin "learn our craft" from others.

She changeable to fame aft competing successful the 2012 bid of The X Factor, alongside James Arthur and released debut single, Ghost, 2 years later.

Ella's worked with the likes of David Guetta, Tom Grennan and Becky Hill, describing it arsenic an "amazing process".

"Not lone bash you get to unfastened your horizons a small spot to a antithetic genre of music," she says.

"But you besides get to larn astir their practice successful music.

"From immoderate collaboration, I've ever learned truthful galore things, bully oregon bad."

Ella believes that her euphony collabs person allowed her to turn arsenic an artist.

"When you're doing your ain projects each the time, it tin get a spot stale."

She says sometimes it takes a antithetic sentiment for her to person religion successful a song.

"The magnitude of times I mightiness constitute songs and discard them," she says.

"For instance, Crazy What Love Can Do. David Guetta has picked that up, and look what it's become."

"Not everything is to ne'er beryllium heard. It really could beryllium thing truly magical."

Music shaper Seb Barlow says he's "noticed an increase" successful collaborations.

Seb, who besides plays bass guitar successful the pop-punk set Neck Deep feels societal media has played a relation of late.

"And technology, however casual and convenient distant signaling tools person go [since the pandemic].

"Everyone started looking for ways to ways to collaborate that didn't mean getting successful a country with each other."

Neck Deep person released songs with Mark Hoppus from Blink-182 arsenic good arsenic Sam Carter from The Architects.

He says helium likes to amusement the fans that though Neck Deep are a pop-punk band, the members perceive to a assortment of antithetic music.

"It's conscionable different mode to conscionable caller fans," helium says. "Fans similar their favourite artists teaming up with each other.

"It's fulfilling to propulsion yourself creatively, deliberation extracurricular the container and spell extracurricular of your accustomed processes," helium says.