French electronic music producer David Guetta rose to prominence atop the sparkling wave of DJs who combined Daft Punk's sleek house music with a pinch of electroclash punch at the start of the 21st century. Achieving international crossover success during the late-2000s EDM boom with the chart-toppers One Love and Nothing But the Beat, his house anthems became fixtures on the dance charts into the 2010s, often featuring famous names from the worlds of pop and rap, including frequent collaborators Nicki Minaj, Sam Martin, Sia, Morten, Chris Willis, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, and Afrojack. Along with the latter two artists, Guetta also won a pair of Grammy Awards in 2011. In 2020, he released the EP New Rave and teamed up with Sia for the ebullient international synthwave/pop hit "Let's Love." In 2022, he hit the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot 100 with "I'm Good (Blue)" featuring Bebe Rexha and again paired with the singer in 2023 for the Grammy-nominated "One in a Million."

A native of Paris, the artist born Pierre David Guetta had been DJing around France playing popular tunes, but his brain was particularly rewired in 1987 when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French radio. He taped the track, brought a copy to a gig, and promptly cleared the floor with it during one of his own sets. Things loosened up a year later when acid house came to France and Guetta successfully promoted his own club nights. It was during one of those nights in 1992 that he met Robert Owens, a Chicago-based house legend who was touring Europe at the time. Guetta played Owens some of his own tracks, and Owens picked one he liked enough to sing over. The result was "Up and Away," a minor hit that lurked in garage DJ crates for the next four years.

Guetta's carefree attitude -- that he only produces good music while he's having casual fun -- kept the DJ from releasing anything until 2001's "Just a Little More Love." The track featured American gospel singer Chris Willis, who'd met Guetta while on vacation in France. Another slow-burner, "Just a Little More Love," kept popping up in sets for the next two years, first in an electro version and later in a pumped-up Wally Lopez remix. During this time, Guetta snuck out a bootleg remix of David Bowie's "Heroes," retitled "Just for One Day." Bowie gave the go-ahead to release the track officially, and Guetta soon had a massive hit on his hands. Guetta featured the liberated boot on his first mix CD, Fuck Me I'm Famous, named after Guetta's successful Ibiza-based party.

The fun-loving slacker DJ finally got around to releasing a collection of his own productions in 2004, Just a Little More Love on Astralwerks. Guetta Blaster arrived that same year, followed by Poplife in 2007. Chris Willis sang lead vocals on the latter album, which spun off multiple dance singles in multiple countries. Fuck Me I'm Famous: International, Vol. 2 was then released in July 2008, giving listeners a taste of the stylish sounds that orchestrated Guetta's summer club events in Ibiza. A year later, he released One Love, a platinum-selling album featuring the singles "When Love Takes Over" with Kelly Rowland, "Sexy Bitch" with Akon, and "Gettin' Over" with Chris Willis.

In 2010, Guetta received five nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards, two of them related to the One Love album and the other three for his work on the Black Eyed Peas' massive worldwide hit "I Gotta Feeling." That same year, One Love was reissued as One More Love, featuring a bonus disc of remixes and new tracks. A superstar guest list -- featuring Akon, Lil Wayne, Flo Rida, Usher, Chris Brown, and others -- would figure into his 2011 release Nothing But the Beat, but this time the DJ's songwriting was inspired by dramatic rock bands like Coldplay.

In 2014, Guetta released three singles on his own Jack Back label, all of which were rounded up on that year's Lovers on the Sun EP. Later that year, Guetta released his sixth studio album, Listen. Perhaps as a reaction to inadvertently finding himself a sort of unofficial godfather to the burgeoning EDM movement, the record saw him branching out of his electro-house comfort zone, experimenting with elements of hip-hop, alternative rock, R&B, and acoustic instrumentation, and featuring guest artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Emeli Sandé, Sia, the Script, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In 2015, the LP was reissued as Listen Again with new songs and remixes added to the track list, including "Bang My Head" featuring Fetty Wap and Sia.

Over the next few years, Guetta issued a continuous stream of singles. In 2016, notable releases included the official UEFA Euro anthem "This One's for You" featuring Zara Larsson, which topped the charts in France, Germany, and Switzerland; "Shed a Light" with Robin Schulz and Cheat Codes; and "No Worries" with Disciples. The following year, Guetta issued a handful of additional collaborations with Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne ("Light My Body Up"), Afrojack ("Another Life"), Justin Bieber (the platinum "2U"), Kiiara ("Complicated"), and Charli XCX and French Montana ("Dirty Sexy Money"). He kicked off 2018 with a pair of Sia collaborations (a remix of "Helium" and "Flames"), while also scoring another Top Ten hit for "Mad Love" with Sean Paul and Becky G. His seventh set, the aptly titled 7, arrived in September. In addition to including a some of his previously released singles -- "2U" and "Flames" among them -- Guetta also recruited Anne-Marie, Bebe Rexha, J Balvin, Jason Derulo, Martin Garrix, Jess Glynne, Steve Aoki, Lil Uzi Vert, G-Eazy, and many more for the effort. A bonus second disc of material was also bundled with 7, collecting a dozen tracks recorded as his alter ego Jack Back.

Early 2019 saw Guetta team up with Spanish DJ Tom Staar for the single "This Ain't Techno." The EP New Rave arrived in July 2020 and included the track "Kill Me Slow" featuring Morten. Later that year, he worked with Sia on the Top Ten dance single "Let's Love." More well-received singles followed, including 2021's "Heartbreak Anthem" with Galantis and Little Mix, 2021's "Remember" with Becky Hill, and 2022's "Crazy What Love Can Do," again with Hill and Ella Henderson. Also in 2022, Guetta released "You Can't Change Me" with Morten and Raye and topped the Hot Digital Songs chart alongside Bebe Rexha with "I'm Good (Blue)." He appeared on multiple charts in 2023 with "Baby Don't Hurt Me," a collaboration with British singer Anne-Marie and American rapper Coi that sampled Haddaway's 1993 hit "What Is Love." He also reunited with Rexha for "One in a Million," which cracked to Top Ten of Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. By the end of the year, both "Baby Don't Hurt Me" and "One in a Million" had picked up Grammy nominations for Best Pop Dance Recording. ~ Neil Z. Yeung

Justin Bieber is an eclectic pop star whose hits as a headliner and featured artist span R&B-inspired pop, tropical house, reggaeton, and contemporary country. The singer and songwriter became a global phenomenon with his effervescent debut EP, My World (2009), a multi-platinum smash in his native Canada and several other territories. Only 15 years old at the time, Bieber was fast-tracked to sustained commercial presence. Within three years, he issued the albums My World 2.0 (2010) and Believe (2012), and an assortment of remix, acoustic, live, and Christmas releases. The Juno-winning first album featured "Baby," the singer's first global Top Ten hit. The follow-up returned him to the top of numerous national charts. Bieber briefly lost momentum and re-emerged with the Skrillex and Diplo collaboration "Where Are Ü Now," his first Grammy-winning recording, hotly trailed by Purpose (2015), containing "What Do You Mean," "Sorry," and "Love Yourself" -- all number one pop singles in Canada and the U.S. By the end of the 2010s, Bieber had added to his achievements as a collaborator on hits such as a Latin Grammy-winning remix of Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," DJ Khaled's "I'm the One," Ed Sheeran's "I Don't Care," and another Grammy winner, Dan + Shay's "10,000 Hours." Bieber's evolution has continued with Changes (2020) and Justice (2021), positive-minded and open-hearted sets that have kept his streak of number one albums intact. He has since topped the pop charts in Canada, the U.S., and elsewhere again with the Kid LAROI collaboration "Stay."

Born in London, Ontario and raised in nearby Stratford, Bieber inched toward stardom with a second-place finish in a local 2007 singing competition and began posting his performances on YouTube. The videos caught the attention of Scooter Braun, a talent agent and former So So Def marketing executive who helped Bieber land an impromptu audition with R&B star Usher. Impressed by what he saw, Usher, along with Island/Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid, quickly signed the 15-year-old Bieber to a recording contract. Bieber released his first single, "One Time," in May 2009. Supported by a popular video that featured an appearance by Usher, "One Time" went platinum in both Canada and the U.S., a feat replicated later that year with the release of My World. The disc was technically an EP featuring only seven songs, but it topped the Canadian Albums Chart and reached number six on the Billboard 200.

Less than a year after his debut, Bieber returned with the "second half" of My World, a ten-song release titled My World 2.0. Further demonstrating his and his management's marketing power, over 8,000 fans who pre-ordered My World 2.0 had their head shots used in a photo mosaic (formed to look like a portrait of Bieber) that was displayed on the back side of the disc's booklet. The set, powered by the Ludacris collaboration "Baby" -- Bieber's first single to reach the Top Ten of the Canadian and U.S. Hot 100 charts -- entered the Canadian and U.S. charts at number one. A few weeks later, a combination of My World and My World 2.0, titled My Worlds, appeared in some territories.

By the end of 2010, Bieber issued My Worlds Acoustic, a set featuring acoustic versions of nine songs off the My World discs, as well as one new song. The following February, the 3-D documentary Never Say Never was released to theaters. The seven-track Never Say Never: The Remixes, issued just days after the film, maintained the flow of Bieber product, and featured appearances from the likes of Kanye West, Usher, and Miley Cyrus. Just in time for Christmas 2011 came the holiday-themed Under the Mistletoe, complete with several celebrity guest duets and an original song, "Mistletoe," for the first single, which entered the Holiday Songs chart at number two.

In 2012, Bieber returned with the proper follow-up to My World 2.0, titled Believe. With a more mature sound based in dance-pop and R&B, it featured production from Darkchild, Diplo, and Max Martin. Believe became yet another Canadian and U.S. number one album, paced by hits such as "Boyfriend," "As Long as You Love Me" (featuring Big Sean), and "Beauty and a Beat" (with Nicki Minaj). Believe Acoustic, a sequel to My Worlds Acoustic, followed in 2013. Late that year, Bieber released the first in a weekly series of singles. Nearly all of them charted, led by Top 40 showings in Canada and the U.S. for "All Around the World" (featuring Ludacris) and "Heartbreaker." Those and other songs were compiled for release as Journals, a digital download-only album that wasn't submitted for sales tracking, so it did not chart. Only two days later, on December 25, the documentary Justin Bieber's Believe was released to theaters.

A collaboration with Cody Simpson, "Home to Mama," was Bieber's lone charting release in 2014, a year during which Bieber made headlines more frequently for nonmusical reasons. The next year, however, he bounced back in a major way. A tropical house remix of the My World 2.0 bonus cut "Where Are You Now," credited to Diplo and Skrillex Present Jack Ü (and retitled "Where Are Ü Now"), became a Top Ten hit in Canada and the U.S. Later in the year, "What Do You Mean?," a track that skillfully strengthened Bieber's tropical house connection, topped both national charts. This paved the way for Purpose, the singer's fourth consecutive Canadian and U.S. chart-topper, promoted with the equally successful singles "Sorry" and "Love Yourself." Bieber was subsequently a nominee in two of the "big four" Grammy categories -- Song of the Year, for "Lose Yourself," plus Album of the Year -- as well as Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance.

After spending the first half of 2016 touring in support of Purpose, Bieber collaborated on a pair of singles, first with Major Lazer and MØ on the hit "Cold Water" and a little later with DJ Snake on "Let Me Love You." In 2017, Bieber was featured on a Grammy-nominated remix of the global reggaeton-pop hit "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, marking the first time he sang in Spanish. That same month, he notched back-to-back number ones when the DJ Khaled collaboration "I'm the One" preceded "Despacito" at the top of the U.S. Hot 100. Other hits as a featured artist, such as David Guetta's "2U," Khaled's "No Brainer," Ed Sheeran's "I Don't Care," and Dan + Shay's "10,000 Hours," kept Bieber's profile high as he worked toward his next album.

Also preceded by the first installments of his Seasons documentary and the headlining singles "Yummy" and "Intentions" -- eventual Top Ten hits in Canada and the U.S. -- Changes arrived in February 2020 and continued his streak of number one albums in Canada and the U.S. Hits as a lead artist, co-headliner, and featured guest kept coming. Bieber was behind four subsequent 2020 singles that topped the Canadian pop chart: "Stuck with U" (a duet with Ariana Grande), "Holy" (featuring Chance the Rapper), "Lonely" (with Benny Blanco), and "Monster" (a duet with Shawn Mendes). He was up for four Grammys handed out in March 2021, nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album (Changes), Best Pop Solo Performance ("Yummy"), and Best Pop/Duo Performance ("Intentions"), while he and Dan + Shay took the award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance ("10,000 Hours").

By the time Bieber issued Justice in March 2021, he had another pair of Top Ten Canadian singles with "Anyone" and "Hold On." Like his five previous proper albums, Justice topped the Canadian and U.S. charts. After its release, he focused on collaborative work. Beside the Kid LAROI, he scored yet another global chart-topper with "Stay." This was followed later in 2021 by "Don't Go," which teamed him with Skrillex and Don Toliver, and a featured role on the posthumous Juice WRLD single "Wandered to LA.," a number 29 hit in Canada. The following year, Bieber headlined another Toliver collaboration, the number 21 Canadian single "Honest," and was tapped to record with the likes of Omah Lay ("Attention") and Kehlani ("Up at Night"). He was featured on Toliver's "Private Landing" in 2023. ~ TiVo Staff