Calvin Harris and Florence Welch’s ‘Sweet Nothing’ celebrates 14 years after becoming a UK No. 1 and one of the biggest singles from the album ‘18 Months’

Fourteen years after Calvin Harris and Florence Welch released ‘Sweet Nothing’, the collaboration remains one of the most remembered songs from the 18 Months era. Released in 2012, it brought together two artists who were already having very different but highly successful years in music, with Calvin Harris also working with Florence + The Machine around the same period. What followed gave ‘Sweet Nothing’ a much bigger story than its original release, from how the collaboration happened to the success that followed on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Story Behind ‘Sweet Nothing’

Before ‘Sweet Nothing’ became one of the most beloved songs from Calvin Harris’ 18 Months era, he and Florence Welch already had history together. Earlier in 2012, Calvin Harris remixed Florence + The Machine’s ‘Spectrum (Say My Name)’, which went on to reach No. 1 in the UK. That connection later led to an original collaboration, with Kid Harpoon joining Calvin Harris and Florence Welch as a co-writer on ‘Sweet Nothing’.

 

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The song placed Florence Welch’s vocal in a more electronic setting than much of her work with Florence + The Machine at the time, while fitting naturally into the sound Calvin Harris was developing across 18 Months. It became part of an album that also featured collaborations with Rihanna, Ellie Goulding, Example, Kelis and Ne-Yo, helping place ‘Sweet Nothing’ within one of the most successful periods of his career.

Annie Mac brings ‘Annie Mac Presents’ to Apple Music with eight volumes from the 2010–2017 mix series available to stream for the first time

Annie Mac is bringing more than a decade of her dance music archive to Apple Music, with eight volumes of Annie Mac Presents available to stream for the first time. Originally released between 2010 and 2017, the compilation series documented the house, techno, bass and electronic records she was championing throughout that period, with many of the mixes previously only available on CD. The launch also includes a dedicated Before Midnight curator page and her 2025 Warehouse Project set, bringing older material and more recent work together in one place.

 

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Eight ‘Annie Mac Presents’ Volumes Are Now Streaming

Originally released as double CDs, each edition of Annie Mac Presents will appear on Apple Music in two parts, making 16 mixes available from launch. Many of the original mixes had only existed in physical form, with Annie Mac returning to CDs from her own collection as part of the process of bringing the archive online.

Across its nine-year run, Annie Mac Presents followed the genre-spanning approach that became central to her broadcasting and DJ career. The compilations moved between house, techno, bass, electronic music and crossover records, pairing emerging artists with established names while documenting the music she was supporting throughout the 2010s.

Before Midnight Gets Its Own Apple Music Page

The archive forms part of Annie Mac’s new DJ Mix curator presence on Apple Music, with the page centered around Before Midnight. She launched the club concept in 2022 around an earlier schedule for nights out, keeping the focus on club music while changing the hours in which the events take place.

The Apple Music launch follows the latest Before Midnight show at Alexandra Palace in London on September 12. Her Before Midnight set from The Warehouse Project, recorded on September 6, 2025, is also being added to the platform alongside the Annie Mac Presents archive.

Annie Mac’s Archive Connects Different Parts Of Her Career

The release brings together material from a period when Annie Mac was one of the most prominent voices on BBC Radio 1 with the work she has continued since leaving the station in 2021. She first joined Radio 1 behind the scenes before beginning her own show in 2004, remaining at the station for nearly two decades.

Since then, she has continued across DJing, writing, broadcasting and live events, with Before Midnight becoming one of the main projects in that next period of her career. Bringing Annie Mac Presents to Apple Music now places those earlier mixes alongside her more recent DJ work, making a large part of that archive available digitally for the first time.

‘Like a G6’ hits 1 billion Spotify streams as KSHMR, Far East Movement and Dev celebrate the milestone

Released in 2010, ‘Like a G6’ became a huge global hit for Far East Movement, The Cataracs and Dev. The track reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three non-consecutive weeks at the top. Sixteen years later, it has now passed 1 billion streams on Spotify, with KSHMR marking the milestone on Instagram with the message “We made it to 1B.”

KSHMR’s Connection To ‘Like A G6’

When ‘Like a G6’ was released in 2010, KSHMR was still producing as Niles Hollowell-Dhar, one half of The Cataracs alongside David Singer-Vine. The duo produced the record for Far East Movement, while Dev provided the vocal that became one of its most recognisable elements.

Her part originated from ‘Booty Bounce’, which The Cataracs had produced with her earlier that year. They later used part of that vocal in ‘Like a G6’, helping create the version that went on to become a worldwide hit. The record gave Niles Hollowell-Dhar one of his biggest commercial successes years before he launched KSHMR.

His reaction to the Spotify milestone now brings that earlier part of his career back into focus. Long before the KSHMR project began, ‘Like a G6’ had already connected his production work to one of the biggest crossover records of the early 2010s.

‘Like A G6’ Became A Global No. 1

Following its release, ‘Like a G6’ climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and held the position for three non-consecutive weeks. The achievement also made Far East Movement the first Asian American group to top the chart.

The track came at a time when electronic production, hip-hop and pop were increasingly crossing into the mainstream. Its success introduced Far East Movement, The Cataracs and Dev to a much wider audience, while also giving each artist one of the biggest records of their careers.

That success led into very different paths afterward. Far East Movement continued releasing internationally, Dev developed her solo career, and Niles Hollowell-Dhar later left The Cataracs before launching KSHMR.

More than 16 years after its original release, ‘Like a G6’ has now passed 1 billion Spotify streams. The milestone adds another major achievement to the track’s history while bringing one of KSHMR’s earliest major records back into focus.