The Chainsmokers Just Signed Two, Million Dollar Record Deals

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The Chainsmokers Just Signed Two, Million Dollar Record Deals

The Chainsmokers, behind the satirical hit  “Selfie” released earlier this year on Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak label and left us asking ‘is this the golden turd of 2014‘ has led to what seems like not one, but two million dollar contracts for the pair, according to Billboard.

It looks like both Sony/ATV and Republic Records are looking to cash in on that viral money with the “Selfie” video recently surpassing a mighty 100,000 million views on Youtube and a sign of their digestible beats for future masses. Derp.

What originally started out as a tongue-in-cheek parody has now seemingly been legitimised by charts according to Alex, one half of The Chainsmokers, in an interview with DJ Mag Canada in which ole mates Stoney copped a bit of flak too.

Yes, exactly. Some website came out and called it “the worst song ever.” Stoney Roads, those fuckers. Honestly I love it, because we’ve submitted our music to them for a year and they never reply or respond to a single thing. So it’s comical to me that this time they choose to call on us. So their website is full of shit. We probably had so many more people say it was great. I think it’s great. I mean, they asked Fatboy Slim about it, and it’s cool to see that. And somebody asked us “well, what do you think about his comments,” and we just say that we’ll have the charts speak for themselves. He said that he didn’t think that this type of song would work and people wouldn’t respond to it. It wasn’t that bad, but still.

Fatboy Slim continued to feel the heat in their response after we asked the legend in an interview earlier this year about the sub-par track with Drew, the other floppy looking bro, somehow claiming FB’s only claim to fame was “Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat” – time to head back to school fellas:

Basically he said the song feels someone is trying to shove it down your throat. Like, dude, the only song you’ve ever done that anyone ever cared about was “Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat,” which is exactly the same thing in its own way.

At the end of the day, topping charts mean very little… aside from getting paid, which these two can now relax and enjoy for the rest of their lives, but at the least they’ll have to stomach the fact that their biggest hit was a joke, always will be a joke, and a hard feat to overcome.

We’re half expecting them to rub some money in our faces as a sign of success which, you know, proves the legitimacy of it all.

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