And basically 10 minutes later Justin and I wrote it, we sent it off, and I thought we'd never hear about it again." Puth and DJ Frank E's output from the session was well received by Furious 7 filmmakers, Universal Pictures, and Atlantic. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Puth recalled, "It just seemed to occur from out of nowhere. He was at first reluctant that the film's soundtrack label, Atlantic Records, would choose his vocal for the song. Puth became emotionally attached while writing the track, recalling Vail Cerullo, a friend of Puth's time at Berklee College of Music, who died in a motorcycle accident in 2012. His publishing company's president Ben Maddahi then set up a first-time studio session for Puth with DJ Frank E at a studio in Los Angeles. Frank E and Puth were approached by their publishing company, Artist Publishing Group, to develop a melody that could pay tribute to actor Paul Walker for the film Furious 7 (2015). It was produced by DJ Frank E, Charlie Puth, and Andrew Cedar. "See You Again" was written by DJ Frank E, Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa, and Andrew Cedar. "See You Again" was the best selling-song of 2015 worldwide, with combined sales and track-equivalent streams of 20.9 million units according to IFPI. It was also shortlisted for the Song of the Year for the BBC Music Awards and was nominated for Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. "See You Again" received three nominations at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards: Song of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media. The music video was the most viewed video on YouTube from July 10 to August 4, 2017. It set the record for most streams in a single week worldwide, and in the United Kingdom also in a single week. The song held the record for the most-streamed track in a single day on Spotify in the United States, until it was surpassed by One Direction's " Drag Me Down". It also reached number one in several other countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland. It spent 12 non-consecutive weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100, tying Eminem's " Lose Yourself" for the second longest-running rap number-one single in the country behind Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus' " Old Town Road", and topped the UK Singles Chart for two consecutive weeks. "See You Again" became both Khalifa's and Puth's biggest single to date. "See You Again" was released on March 10, 2015, as the soundtrack's lead single in the United States.
The artists co-wrote the song with its co-producers, DJ Frank E and Andrew Cedar, with additional production from Puth and mixing provided by Manny Marroquin. Later on, the song was included as a bonus track on the international release of Puth's debut album, Nine Track Mind. It was commissioned for the soundtrack of the 2015 film Furious 7 as a tribute to actor Paul Walker, who died in a single-vehicle accident on November 30, 2013. " See You Again" is a song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa, featuring American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth. Fast & Furious soundtrack singles chronology His first attempt at committing lyrics to paper was around age nine. After his parents divorced when he was three, he lived in various places and military bases around the world. His charm, persona, and weedy wit were in peak form from the time of his major-label debut, 2011's Rolling Papers on through 2020's slick The Saga of Wiz Khalifa.Ī military brat, Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Thomaz, was born in 1987 in Minot, North Dakota.
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With a series of hits built around slick rhymes and slicker production, Khalifa moved from mixtapes to stadium sports anthems and even major motion-picture soundtrack collaborations with pop star Charlie Puth. A perfect balance of pop hooks, effortless charm, and stoner rap swagger, Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa was one of the highest-rising stars of a certain sect of mainstream hip-hop in the 2010s.
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