Madeon

Madeon (2015)

Hugo Pierre Leclercq (born May 30, 1994 ), known as Madeon , is an electro-pop producer from Nantes , France . He gained popularity through his video Pop Culture , which he published on the video portal YouTube and which had already reached over 48 million views by January 2019.

biography

Leclercq began composing music at the age of 11 - at that time still under the name DJ Deamon, an anagram of today's stage name Madeon. The first official releases under this name were a remix for the song "Wake Up" by Sun Kidz in 2008 and the in-house production "Still Loving You". Both productions belong to the electronic genre Hands up . Later the genre changed and the name was changed to Madeon.

After Leclercq had won a competition in 2010 in which he remixed "The Island" by Pendulum , he began to remix other tracks by artists in the electronic genre in the following years . He gained international fame through a video about his mash-up Pop Culture , which he uploaded to YouTube in July 2011. In this mash-up he used 39 songs that he mixed together with a Novation Launchpad. The video gained popularity very quickly and reached over 7 million views within a few months (as of January 2019: over 48 million).

Leclercq had his first live appearance in April 2011 in Paris, where he appeared as a support act for Yelle . During the show he also uses Novations SL MKII, FL Studio and Ableton Live in addition to his launch pads . Leclercq was featured several times on Pete Tong's radio show "15 Minutes of Fame" on BBC Radio 1 . His debut single Icarus and his remix of Deadmau5's "Raise Your Weapon" were played in full for the first time on this show. His first live recording was for Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 gala event in Hull on January 27, 2012, where he gave a 20-minute concert. A debut EP had already been announced for the end of 2011, but was canceled in favor of several singles. His first single, Icarus , was released on February 24, 2012 through his own label "popculture". On November 11th, he was involved in the show as a DJ at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2012 in Frankfurt am Main . He hung up while the TV was broadcasting the advertisement and was also involved in various other places in the course of the show.

As a sign of his rapid international success, he was invited to appear at three of the most important American festivals. The Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Coachella in California and the Electric Daisy Carnival in New York. He was also invited to many other festivals in the UK, for example to play alongside Swedish House Mafia at the "Milton Keynes Bowl". Icarus appeared in the US version of You Can Dance in May 2012. Leclercq names The Beatles and Daft Punk as his greatest influences .

In 2016 he announced that he would go on tour with his DJ colleague and friend Porter Robinson . This is called the "Shelter Tour". Shelter is also the title of their first single together. Shelter can be classified as part of the future bass, which was very popular at the time .

Others

The song "Finale" is part of the EA Sports FIFA 13 soundtrack and is the opening song of Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale. The song "The City" is on the soundtrack of Electronic Arts' Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2012 and "Technicolor (Club Extended)" is on the soundtrack of Need for Speed: Rivals.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	FR	US
2015	Adventure	UK30 (1 week) UK	FR29 (5 weeks) FR	US43 (1 week) US	First published: March 30, 2015
2019	Good Faith	-	-	US82 (1 week) US	First published: November 15, 2019

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	FR
2012	Icarus The City - EP	UK22 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 24, 2012
	Finale The City -EP	UK35 (3 weeks) UK	FR197 (1 week) FR	First published: July 22nd, 2012 feat. Nicholas Petricca
	The City The City -EP	UK74 (1 week) UK	-	First release: October 5th, 2012 feat. Zak Waters & Cass Lowe
	Pop culture	-	-	First published: February 12, 2013 Mash-up of 40 songs
2015	You're on	-	FR36 (10 weeks) FR	feat. Kyan
2016	Shelter	-	FR126 (1 week) FR	with Porter Robinson US:gold

More singles

• 2009: Gold (first published: November 2009; download only)
• 2010: For You (first published May 2010; download only)
• 2010: Shuriken (first published July 2010; download only)
• 2013: Stay Awake (first published March 4, 2013; feat. Ellie Goulding )
• 2013: Technicolor (first published: August 19, 2013; feat. Phil Schwan)
• 2014: Cut the Kid (First published: February 5, 2014; Free-Track)
• 2014: Imperium (first release: October 17th, 2014; free track, pre-single for "Adventure")
• 2014: You're On (First published: December 8, 2014; feat. Kyan, pre-single for "Adventure")
• 2015: Pay No Mind
• 2015: Home

Remixes

• 2010: The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
• 2010: Alphabeat - DJ
• 2010: David Latour - Friday Night
• 2010: Pendulum - The Island
• 2011: Yelle - Que Veux Tu
• 2011: Deadmau5 - Raise Your Weapon
• 2012: Martin Solveig - The Night Out

Productions

• 2011: Glenn Morrison - Tokyo Cries
• 2012: Picture Book - Sunshine
• 2012: Ellie Goulding - Stay Awake
• 2013: Muse - Panic Station
• 2013: Lady Gaga - Mary Jane Holland
• 2013: Lady Gaga - Gypsy
• 2013: Lady Gaga - Venus
• 2013: Two Door Cinema Club - Changing of the Seasons
• 2014: Coldplay - Always in My Head
• 2014: Coldplay - O

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: UK FR US
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
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Web links

• Official website
• Madeon channel on YouTube