June 23, 2023 – No strangers to star-studded collaborations, the Diamond and multi-platinum selling duo Loud Luxury today released their latest single with acclaimed producer/DJ pair Two Friends featuring Grammy-nominated, pop superstar Bebe Rexha on Armada Music. In the works since September 2021, ‘If Only I’ is a powerhouse collaboration from these dance-pop heavyweights that is sure to be the song of the summer.
The latest single in the Canadian-born duo’s recent string of releases (Next To You with DVBBS feat. Kane Brown, Afterparty with Hook & Sling, These Nights with Kiddo), ‘If Only I’ pairs Bebe Rexha’s smooth vocals with Loud Luxury and Two Friends’ infectious beats for a true summer anthem. Both groups gave ‘If Only I’ a very special pre-release treatment in the past weeks, with Loud Luxury closing out their set at EDC Las Vegas mainstage with a firework-filled, high-tempo rendition and Two Friends performing the song live with Bebe Rexha at Coachella 2023.
“We’ve been staying tight-lipped about this collab for a while so it’s incredibly exciting to finally announce the release of ‘If Only I’,” said Loud Luxury. “We have a tremendous amount of respect for the Two Friends guys and find ourselves playing a lot of the same venues, so it truly felt right to finally work on something together. We can hear this track being blasted at pool parties and on boats all summer long and hope you love it as much as we do!”
The music video, which was shot under wraps in California last month, captures the feel-good essence of the track as viewers are immersed in a sun-soaked dance party alongside Loud Luxury, Two Friends and Bebe Rexha, featuring influencer Hannah Stocking. You can watch the music video now via Armada Music TV.
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Loud Luxury is a Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based international touring dance music duo, composed of Andrew Fedyk and Joe De Pace. The group was formed while attending Western University, where after several independent releases and remixes, their career took off with the smash hit “Body.” The song is certified Diamond in Canada and multi-Platinum across 9 countries, accumulating over 1.5 billion streams across all platforms. Since then, the duo released “Love No More” and “I’m Not Alright” (with Bryce Vine) totaling over 400 million streams. In 2020, they released their debut EP Nights Like This, which was supported by a three-month, 60-show bus tour across the U.S. and Canada. With follow-up releases “Like Gold,” “Amnesia,” and “Turning Me Up,” the multiple JUNO Award-winners and iHeart Music Awards nominees released their second EP Holiday Hills in 2021. Their latest single with DVBBS (“Next to You”) features country superstar Kane Brown. They currently hold a Las Vegas residency with TAO Group at OMNIA, Hakkasan, and Wet Republic. In addition, they perform globally at marquee music festivals and venues, and have amassed an engaging social following with viral hits and remixes.
Two Friends is the musical creation of longtime companions Matt Halper and Eli Sones whose fitting name reflects their lifelong bond as both musical collaborators and best friends. Two Friends are pioneering an artistic identity that is simultaneously relatable as it drives fans to the dance floor. The pair have released high-voltage original productions like “More than Yesterday (ft. Russell Dickerson),” “No Saving Us (ft. SAYGRACE),” “Graduated (ft. Bryce Vine),” and “Timebomb (ft. Mod Sun). The tandem exploded into the global dance music landscape with their viral remixes of The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside, Blink 182’s “I Miss You,” and their award-winning Big Bootie Mix series, which has amassed millions of streams across YouTube and SoundCloud per installment. The band created their very own festival, Big Bootie Land, for the premiere of a new Big Bootie Mix in a different city every year. This June, the festival came to Chicago at Huntington Bank Pavilion where attending fans were the first to hear Big Bootie Mix, Vol. 23. Testaments to their intricately-produced live sets, Two Friends will perform at iconic venues like Forest Hills Stadium in New York, just to name a few on their current headline tour, ‘Planet Two Friends,’ which kicked off with their Coachella debut. The pair also boast a coveted residency at the Wynn’s XS Nightclub and Encore Beach club, bringing their signature sound to the Las Vegas strip. As they continue building a legacy crossover brand, Matt and Eli will always just be Two Friends.
If there’s one refrain that follows singer, songwriter, and cultural sound-shaper Bebe Rexha, it’s this: expect greatness, and expect it constantly. It’s a refrain that echoes throughout the singer’s third studio album, Bebe (“the album I needed to make”) – a sumptuously woven tapestry of sounds and influences that finds Bebe – who’s achieved a massive 16 billion total global streams – at her most introspective and mature, tracing her growth through life, love, and everything in between. Heavy on dance but anchored in its entirety by Bebe’s career-best songwriting and singing, Bebe is an album that brims with lyrical highlights, sparkles with nostalgia, and pulse with sleek production and sonic propulsion. A progression in every sense, Bebe takes listeners on a journey hand-in-hand with its storyteller, and we promise: it’s a trip you’ll want to take over and over again.
About Armada Music
Armada Music is the biggest independent dance music label in the world. Founded by Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron (CEO) and David Lewis, the label manages an ever-growing catalog of over 40,000 tracks, built up across twenty-plus years of specialized dance music exploitation.
Representing artists such as Armin van Buuren, ARTY, D.O.D, Eelke Kleijn, Jan Blomqvist, Loud Luxury, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Tensnake, THEMBA and Yulia Niko, Armada Music amasses more than one billion streams per month, airplay on leading radio outlets such as BBC Radio 1 and Sirius XM, and top positions in the world’s most notable charts. The label also takes great pride in major achievements such as Armin van Buuren’s GRAMMY nomination for ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, Loud Luxury and Brando’s ‘Body’ surpassing one billion streams on Spotify and breaking artists such as Lost Frequencies into global stardom.
Across offices in Amsterdam (HQ), New York, London and Laren (NL), Armada Music offers a truly global appeal to its growing roster. The label has its own club, radio studio and multiple production studios, and hosts various live formats. Producer platform Armada University, which offers educational products and opportunities, shows the label’s sustained effort to nurture the next wave of talent.
In 2023, Armada Music launched BEAT Music Fund, the world’s first dance music investment company, that acquires catalogs with the mission of honoring, representing and reinvigorating them. BEAT’s portfolio will continue to grow; in the first six months following its launch, BEAT acquired the catalogs of, among others, electronic music star ARTY, house and techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson’s KMS Records, legendary NYC-based house label King Street Sounds and chart-topping producers Chocolate Puma.
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