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Track artwork for track titled Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) by Elton John & Dua Lipa
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Track artwork for track titled Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) by Elton John & Dua Lipa
Track artwork for track titled Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran & Elton John
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255Days in Top 10
Elton John has had one song reach No. 1 on the Shazam Global Chart! Across 3 appearances in the Top 10, Elton John has spent a combined 255 days on the chart.
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Track artwork for track titled Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) by Elton John & Dua Lipa
Track artwork for track titled Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) by Elton John & Dua Lipa
Elton John & Dua Lipa
#1239Aug 22, 2021
"Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" by Elton John & Dua Lipa hit No. 1 on the Shazam Global Chart! The track spent 16 day(s) in the top spot and a total of 239 day(s) in the Top 10 since its release.
Released
2021
Days at No. 1
16 days
Total Shazams
21M
Days in Top 10
239
Top 10 Debut
Aug 22, 2021
"Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" by Elton John & Dua Lipa hit No. 1 on the Shazam Global Chart! The track spent 16 day(s) in the top spot and a total of 239 day(s) in the Top 10 since its release.
Released
2021
Days at No. 1
16 days
Total Shazams
21M
Days in Top 10
239
Top 10 Debut
Aug 22, 2021
Track artwork for track titled Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran & Elton John
Track artwork for track titled Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran & Elton John
Ed Sheeran & Elton John
#83Dec 24, 2021
"Merry Christmas" by Ed Sheeran & Elton John climbed to No. 8 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 3 day(s) in the Top 10.
Released
2021
Total Shazams
3M
Days in Top 10
3
Top 10 Debut
Dec 24, 2021
"Merry Christmas" by Ed Sheeran & Elton John climbed to No. 8 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 3 day(s) in the Top 10.
Released
2021
Total Shazams
3M
Days in Top 10
3
Top 10 Debut
Dec 24, 2021
Track artwork for track titled Hold Me Closer by Elton John & Britney Spears
Track artwork for track titled Hold Me Closer by Elton John & Britney Spears
Elton John & Britney Spears
#1013Sep 14, 2022
"Hold Me Closer" by Elton John & Britney Spears peaked at No. 10 on the Shazam Global Chart, where the song spent a total of 13 day(s) in the Top 10.
Released
2022
Total Shazams
5M
Days in Top 10
13
Top 10 Debut
Sep 14, 2022
"Hold Me Closer" by Elton John & Britney Spears peaked at No. 10 on the Shazam Global Chart, where the song spent a total of 13 day(s) in the Top 10.
Released
2022
Total Shazams
5M
Days in Top 10
13
Top 10 Debut
Sep 14, 2022

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Hometown
Pinner, Middlesex, England
Born
March 25, 1947
Genre
Pop

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At the height of the fever dream that was Elton John’s life in the ’70s, the singer-songwriter had the optician Dennis Roberts design a pair of giant, sculptural glasses studded with 57 battery-powered lights in the shape of the name Elton—to the tune of about $5,000. Adjusted for inflation, you’re talking about something more like $25,000. But John had a show to put on, and wouldn’t that be something to talk about?
The excess was always apparent: the rhinestones, the costumery, the old Hollywood glamour retrofitted for a new, gender-bending world. But beneath the feathers, John’s music—written with the lyricist Bernie Taupin—was direct and unpretentious, the kind of rock ’n’ roll storytelling that met you where you were. Even if you didn’t know exactly what it meant—who is the dancer, and why are they so tiny?—the feeling was immediate, universal. By 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, John said they were writing a couple of songs at breakfast and recording them before lunch. This was pop music, John argued: You weren’t supposed to think about it too much, and god help you if you did. And yet here we are, singing the songs five decades later.
Born Reginald Dwight in Pinner, England, in 1947, John took to the piano young, studying on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music while obsessively listening to Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. They were so physical, John marveled—they didn’t just play the piano, they beat it. He started playing in pubs at 15 and, around 20, met Taupin through a want ad in a music magazine.
There were good years and bad ones, highs and lows—that handful of Valium before jumping into the swimming pool in 1975, for example, or the disco album, which John himself described as jumping on a dying bandwagon—but he has always endured, emerging from the debauchery of the ’70s and redefinitions of the ’80s bruised but never beaten, a gay icon, AIDS activist, philanthropist, Knight Bachelor, and father of two. In 2018, nearly 50 years after his debut album, he embarked on a three-year farewell tour, and published his first autobiography, Me, in 2019. The host of Apple Music 1’s Rocket Hour, Elton has been the recipient of countless awards (Grammys, Oscars, BRITs, Tonys, Ivors), has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and, in 2020, was awarded the Companion of Honour.
Musical InfluencesElton John's musical influences include The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and more.
Influenced by Elton JohnElton John has influenced the music of Sam Smith, One Direction, Billy Joel and more.

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