David Guetta

Pierre David Guetta was born 7 November 1967 and spent his first three albums - Just a Little More Love (2002), Guetta Blaster (2004), Pop Life (2007) - building a lane without breaking through. The turn came with One Love in 2009: "When Love Takes Over" with Kelly Rowland hit number one in the UK, Billboard later called it the greatest dance-pop collaboration ever, and suddenly the French producer was everywhere, stacking "Sexy Bitch", "Gettin' Over You", "Memories" into a run that made electronic music unavoidable on pop radio. Nothing but the Beat (2011) doubled down - "Titanium" with Sia, "Where Them Girls At", "Without You" - and by 2013 he'd sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles, voted number one DJ in the world in 2011, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2025. He announced a new subgenre he called "future rave" with Morten Breum in 2019, released his seventh album 7 in 2018 under the alias Jack Back, and in 2021 sold his catalogue for up to $150 million - a catalogue that includes two Grammys and "I'm Good (Blue)", the third longest-running number one on the US dance chart.