New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Multi-platinum singer-songwriter and Global
Superstar Shawn Mendes has teamed up with multi-platinum, GRAMMY award-winning artist, DJ & producer Zedd to release a new remix for his latest single "
Lost In Japan" via Island Records/Universal
Music Canada, the country's leading music company. Listen to it here! Shawn and Zedd teased the remix and artwork throughout the week, leading up to the song's release today. "
Lost In Japan" is now the official 2nd single from Shawn's self titled 3rd album, following smash hit "In My Blood,". The original version of the song has so far garnered 200M global streams.
Coinciding with the remix, Shawn & Zedd released a lyric video which can be seen here! "When we decided to make Lost In Japan the next single, I wanted to do an exciting remix for the song, and with Zedd being a good friend and such an amazing artist, it felt natural to ask him to collaborate on it. What he did with it is so incredible and I'm so excited for the world to hear it"
"I was really excited when Shawn asked me to work on a new version of "
Lost In Japan". I tried to fuse both of our worlds together and bring us both to a place we wouldn't have gone to by ourselves," shares Zedd, "It's my favorite song from the album so it was super fun to put my own touch to it."
Tonight, Shawn will perform the song on The
Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon & is also set to perform this weekend at New York's Global Citizen Festival. Listen to
Shawn Mendes ft. Zedd - "
Lost In Japan" (Remix):
shawnmendes.lnk.to/lijremix
About Shawn Mendes:
Toronto born multi-platinum singer/songwriter
Shawn Mendes released his highly anticipated self-titled third album in May 2018. Leading up to the album, he released multiple tracks including "
Youth" Featuring Khalid, "
In My Blood" and "
Lost In Japan". Both "
In My Blood" and "Lost In Japan," the first two songs released off the new album, experienced massive success, soaring to the #1 and #2 spots on the overall iTunes chart in the U.S, Top 5 on iTunes in 50 countries, and held the #1 and #2 spots on Spotify's "New
Music Friday" playlist. The tracks have received critical acclaim from everyone including Rolling Stone, Billboard, Idolator, Variety and Paste. "
In My Blood" is currently Top 10 at Pop
Radio and Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. In April 2017, Shawn released his 3x Platinum hit "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back." The track scored Shawn his second #1 single at Top 40 radio and on Billboard's Pop Songs chart, joining 7x Platinum single "Stitches." With "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back," Shawn also became the first artist to ever have had three #1 singles at AC radio before the age of 20. Throughout his career, Shawn has achieved 2 #1 album debuts with Handwritten (2015) and Illuminate (2016), 2 Platinum albums, and 7 consecutive Platinum and multi-Platinum singles. Worldwide, he has sold over 10 million albums, 100 million singles, and has amassed over 11 billion song streams and 4 billion YouTube views. Shawn has completed two sold-out world tours with over one million tickets sold, selling out legendary arenas including NYC's Madison
Square Garden, Toronto's Air Canada Centre, and London's O2
Arena in minutes. He topped Billboard's "21 Under 21" in 2017 and has been featured on Forbes "30 Under 30," Spotify's "25 Under 25," and Time Magazine's "Most Influential Teens" for 4 consecutive years. He was also just featured in Time Magazine's coveted Time 100 annual issue. In February 2018, ROI Influencer Media recognized Shawn as the #1 Most Influential Artist and #1 Most Influential Teen across all social media platforms.
About Zedd:
Multi-platinum, GRAMMY award-winning artist/DJ/producer Zedd made his debut with Clarity after signing with Interscope in 2012 and has been breaking down barriers surrounding music genres ever since. This fall, Zedd has teamed up with
Shawn Mendes for a remix of "
Lost In Japan" from Shawn's latest album. The remix is the follow up to Zedd's 2018 singles, "
Happy Now" with Elley Duhé and his monster hit, "
The Middle" with
Maren Morris and Grey. Zedd released "
The Middle" in January 2018, and earned Zedd his second #1 at Top 40 Radio. "
The Middle" held the top spot at Top 40
Radio for seven weeks, was #1 at Hot AC
Radio for five weeks, and has spent 34 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Digitally, the song has amassed over 1 billion streams. In 2017, Zedd released "Stay" with Alessia Cara, which held the #1 spot at Top 40 radio for six consecutive weeks and earned Zedd his second GRAMMY nomination. In 2015, Zedd released True Colors, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. Throughout his career, Zedd has worked with a diverse range of artists to create hits, including
Hayley Williams on platinum hit "Stay The Night," which racked up more than 400 million streams, and
Selena Gomez on platinum track "I Want You To Know," which spent four weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
