Stay (Zedd and Alessia Cara song)
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| Zedd & Alessia Cara | |
| publication | February 24, 2017 |
| length | 3:30 |
| Genre (s) | House , pop |
| Author (s) | Sarah Aarons, Noonie Bao , Alessia Cara, Anders Frøen, Linus Wiklund, Anton Zaslavski |
| Award (s) | MTV Video Music Awards |
Stay ( English "stay") is a song of the German - Russian DJ Zedd , in cooperation with the Canadian pop singer Alessia Cara .
Creation and artwork
The song was written jointly by Sarah Aarons, Noonie Bao, Alessia Cara, Anders Frøen, Linus Wiklund and Anton Zaslavski (Zedd). The single was produced by Wiklund & Zedd. The song was released under the Interscope Records music label and distributed through Universal Music Publishing . On the cover of the maxi single you can see a screenshot from the music video , in addition to the artist name and song title . It shows a square mirror that stands in the middle of a salt desert and in which the evening sun is reflected. Zedd first published the cover image for Stay on various social media platforms on February 20, 2017.
Publication and promotion
The first release of Stay took place as a single download on February 24, 2017. Around three and a half months after the first release, Stay (Remixes) was a digital remix EP . This includes six remix versions , including one by Jonas Blue , of Stay . In order to promote the song, both artists performed live on the US singing casting show The Voice . The song was also part of the soundtrack for Stella Meghie's Everything, Everything .
Remix versions
- Stay (Petit Biscuit Remix)
- Stay (Jonas Blue Remix)
- Stay (The Kemist Remix)
- Stay (Lophiile Remix)
- Stay (Yasutaka Nakata Remix)
- Stay (Tritonal Remix)
Background information
Zedd described the meeting between him and Cara in the following words on his official YouTube profile:
“Alessia and I first met at rehearsals for the HALO awards, where Alessia, Daya and I performed together. I've loved her songs before but realized that she's an unbelievable talent when we started rehearsing together so I asked her if she was interested in making music with me. ”
“Alessia and I met during rehearsals for the Halo Awards (2016), where Alessia, Daya and I performed together. I loved her music before, but I realized she was an incredible talent when we started rehearsing together. So I asked her if she was interested in making music with me. "
content
The lyrics to Stay are in English; Translated into German, the title means "to stay". The music and the text were written jointly by Sarah Aarons, Noonie Bao, Alessia Cara, Anders Frøen, Linus Wiklund and Anton Zaslavski (Zedd). Musically, the song moves in the realm of house and pop music . The song is made up of two stanzas with a bridge and a refrain in between and a repeating refrain at the end. The tempo is 101 beats per minute . The singing of the song comes from Cara, Zedd only acts as a DJ. In terms of content, it is about a separation in which a person cannot let go and wishes that their partner "stays".
- Refrain, original excerpt
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- Refrain, translation
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Music video
A total of two official music videos have been released for Stay . First, on February 23, 2017, a lyric video premiered on YouTube. You can see impressions of a desert landscape, with the main focus falling again and again on a square mirror that was placed in different places. During the impressions, the text passages , as you know it from typical poetry videos, are faded in again and again .
On April 18, 2017, a second music video was released, in which Cara and Zedd can be seen. Both stayed on the same floor in a hotel, the video shows two scenarios of a daily routine for both of them. During the first scenario you can see them both getting up and getting ready. They want to go down using the elevator. Cara is already in the elevator, Zedd sees the door closing, tries to get into the elevator, but fails. Scenes follow in which everyone spends the rest of the day alone in a restaurant. Cara enjoys coffee while Zedd plays pool . When the first chorus occurs, the scenario can be seen in reverse, before the story begins again with the second verse. The second story begins right up to the move-out scene. This time Cara stops the elevator so that Zedd can go down with him. Now they spend the day together by driving a convertible to the restaurant and relaxing there. Towards the end, both of them are walking arm in arm along a beach, when they come back onto a street, Zedd is hit by a car. The video ends with Zedd being covered with a cloth by the police, but shortly afterwards this is pulled down by Zedd and he lies in his bed again in the morning. After the second chorus, short return passages can often be seen next to the continuing story.
The total length of both videos is around 3:30 minutes. The second video was directed by Tim Mattia. To date, both music videos have over 91 million views on YouTube (as of April 2017).
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Awards
On August 27, 2017, Stay received an MTV Video Music Award in the “Best Dance” category at the Forum in Inglewood ( California , United States ) . The duo won out against Afrojack ( Gone ), Calvin Harris ( My Way ), Kygo ( It Ain't Me ) and Major Lazer ( Cold Water ).
Charts and chart placements
Stay reached position 13 in the single charts in Germany and stayed in the charts for a total of 24 weeks. In Austria the single reached position seven and was able to stay in the top 10 for six weeks and also in the charts for 24 weeks. In the Swiss charts, the single reached its highest score in 26 chart weeks at position 16. In the United Kingdom, Stay reached position eight, staying in the top 10 for three weeks and in the charts for 20 weeks. The single reached position seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed in the top 10 for eight weeks and in the charts for 31 weeks. Furthermore, Stay placed at the top of the US hot dance / electronic songs and the Australian dance charts . In 2017, the single was placed at position 57 in the single year charts in Germany, at position 22 in Canada, at position 32 in Austria, at position 52 in Switzerland, at position 37 in the United Kingdom and at position 17 in the United States.
For Cara as an interpreter, Stay is the fifth chart success in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as her fourth chart success in Austria. As a writer, this is her fourth chart success in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as her third chart success in Austria. It is her third top 10 success as a writer and performer in the United States, as well as her first in Austria and the United Kingdom. To date, no single Caras has been able to place higher in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In her home country Canada she reached the singles charts for the fifth time as an interpreter and for the fourth time as an author. It is her first top 10 success in her home country, so she replaced the two singles Wild Things and Scars to Your Beautiful as the most successful chart singles to date.
For Zedd as an interpreter, Stay is the eighth chart success in the United States, as well as the seventh in Germany and the United Kingdom, the sixth in Austria and the fifth in Switzerland. As an author, this is his ninth chart success in the United States, as well as his eighth in the United Kingdom, the seventh in Germany, the sixth in Austria and the fifth in Switzerland. As a music producer, Stay is already his tenth chart success in the United States, as well as the eighth in Germany and the United Kingdom, the seventh in Austria and the sixth in Switzerland. It is his third top 10 success as a writer, performer and music producer in the UK and, after Break Free, his second in Austria in all functions. In the United States, Zedd was a Top 10 writer and producer for the fourth time and a third time performer.
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Awards for music sales
In August 2017, Stay was awarded a platinum record in the UK . In 2018, a platinum record was awarded in Germany. For Zedd it was the first and so far several platinum awards in his home country, making Stay Zedd's most commercially successful release in Germany. The single received gold twice and platinum 25 times for over 4.4 million units sold worldwide.
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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 Australia (ARIA)
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 4 × platinum
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280,000 |
 Belgium (BEA)
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platinum
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30,000 |
 Brazil (PMB)
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3 × platinum
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120,000 |
 Denmark (IFPI)
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platinum
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90,000 |
 Germany (BVMI)
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platinum
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400,000 |
 France (SNEP)
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platinum
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150,000 |
 Italy (FIMI)
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2 × platinum
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100,000 |
 Japan (RIAJ)
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 gold
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100,000 |
 Canada (MC)
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4 × platinum
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320,000 |
 Mexico (AMPROFON)
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3 × gold
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90,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
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platinum
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30,000 |
 Sweden (IFPI)
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2 × platinum
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80,000 |
 Spain (Promusicae)
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platinum
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40,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
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2 × platinum
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2,000,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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platinum
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600,000 |
| All in all |
2 × gold 25 × platinum |
4,430,000 |
Main article: Zedd / Music Sales Awards
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay. discogs.com, accessed March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Stay (Remixes) - EP by Zedd & Alessia Cara. itunes.apple.com, accessed June 9, 2017 .
- ^ Everything, Everything Soundtrack. soundtrackmania.net, accessed June 8, 2017 .
- ^ Stay by Zedd. songbpm.com, accessed March 12, 2017 .
- ^ ARIA Dance Singles Chart - Week Commencing March 12, 2017. aria.com.au, accessed April 7, 2017 .
- ^ Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay. officialcharts.de, accessed on April 7, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Zedd / Chart History. billboard.com, accessed April 11, 2017 .
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- ^ Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay. hitparade.ch, accessed on April 16, 2017 .
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- ↑ Single year charts 2017. officialcharts.de, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Year End Charts: Canadian Hot 100. billboard.com, accessed January 13, 2018 .
- ^ Annual Singles Singles 2017 hit parade. Austriancharts.at, accessed on January 6, 2018 .
- ^ Swiss annual hit parade 2017. hitparade.ch, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
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- ↑ Hot 100 Songs - Year-End 2017. billboard.com, accessed January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Aria Singles Charts. ariacharts.com.au, accessed April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Goud en Platina - Singles 2017. ultratop.be, accessed on May 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Certificados. pro-musicabr.org.br, accessed December 4, 2018 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Zedd & Alessia Cara “Stay”. ifpi.dk, accessed on November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Gold / platinum database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on December 4, 2018 .
- ^ Les Certifications. snepmusique.com, accessed June 23, 2017 .
- ^ Certificazioni. fimi.it, accessed on November 20, 2017 .
- ↑ 有 料 音 楽 配 信 認定. riaj.or.jp, accessed February 17, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ Gold / Platinum. musiccanada.com, accessed May 16, 2019 .
- ^ Certificados Musicales Amprofon. facebook.com, accessed April 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Singles. nztop40.co.nz, accessed June 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Veckolista Singlar - Vecka 32, 11 August 2017. sverigetopplistan.se, accessed on 11 August 2017 .
- ↑ Zedd feat. Alessia Cara - Stay. elportaldemusica.es, accessed July 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Gold & Platinum. riaa.com, accessed June 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Certified Awards. bpi.co.uk, accessed August 18, 2017 .