Free

Album: 96 Months (2024)
Charted: 35
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Songfacts®:

  • "Free" is a collaboration between Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding. The song is a euphoric piano-house tune with cascading breaks and waves of warm, glowing synths. Goulding's vocals float above as she sings about the feeling of freedom and liberation, especially when she's with someone special.
  • Calvin Harris released "Free" on July 26, 2024. It arrived more than a decade after the pair's first team-up, the 2013 mega-hit "I Need Your Love." After that, they worked together on "Outside" from Harris' 2014 album Motion and the 2023 single "Miracle."

    "Free" echoes the familiar DNA of their previous work: playful piano stabs, airy pop melodies, and a relentless house beat designed to ignite dancefloors.
  • Harris co-wrote "Free" with Theo Hutchcraft and Chenai Zinyuku.

    Hurts lead singer Theo Hutchcraft's other collaborations with Harris include singing on the Scottish DJ's UK 2013 #1 single "Under Control," co-writing his 2021 song with Tom Greenan, "By Your Side," and appearing in the video for his 2012 track "Thinking About You."

    Chenai Zinyuku is an English singer-songwriter of Zimbabwean descent. She participated in Series 2 of The X Factor UK, finishing in ninth place. Zinyuku previously teamed up with Theo Hutchcraft to pen the Hurts tracks "Spotlights" and "Slave To Your Love."
  • Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding first performed the song together at the Ibiza mega-club Ushuaïa on July 21, 2024.

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