New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Two-time Grammy-nominated DJ and Producer
Steve Aoki embraces the holiday season by treating fans to a series of remixes for his Neon
Future III hit single "Waste It On Me," featuring BTS. Starting today with a vibrant remix from Slushii, December sees new dancefloor reworkings drop from Cheat Codes (Dec 14), W&W (Dec 21) and Aoki himself on Christmas Day (Dec 25).
"
Waste It On Me" is the third project
Steve Aoki and BTS have collaborated on, following Aoki's RIAA certified gold remix of BTS' "
MIC Drop" featuring Desiigner. After debuting on iTunes at #1 in more than 60 countries, as well as becoming Twitter's #1 worldwide trend, "
Waste It On Me" has officially crossed 100 million on-demand streams in less than one month. Set to be one of Aoki's biggest singles ever, the track recently entered Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 Chart and hit #2 on the Dance/Electronic Chart. Accompanied by a star-studded music video, the Joe Hahn (Linkin Park)-directed visual features an all Asian-American cast including Ross Butler, Ken Jeong, Devon Aoki, Jamie Chung and Ben Baller, with cameos from
Leonardo Nam,
Vincent Rodriguez, Jimmy Yang,
Jessica Lu, amongst others. The video premiered on People Magazine and earned international accolades from the likes of NME, Refinery 29, W Magazine, and Metro UK.
About Steve Aoki:
Two-time Grammy-nominated producer/DJ
Steve Aoki is one of today's most successful American cross-genre artists, collectively counting 1.5 billion music streams on Spotify, with an additional 2 billion music streams on YouTube. As the founder of the trendsetting record label, events/lifestyle company, and apparel line Dim Mak Records, which he founded in 1996, Aoki has helped launch the careers of global acts like The Chainsmokers, Bloc Party, The Bloody Beetroots, The Gossip, and The Kills, among many others. Dim Mak today counts more than 1,000 official releases from the biggest acts and most buzzing newcomers across EDM, indie rock, hip-hop, and beyond over its two-decades-plus discography. As a solo artist, Aoki boasts a lauded discography that includes:
Wonderland (2012), his debut solo album, which garnered him his first-ever Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronica Album; the Neon
Future series, which includes Neon
Future I (2014, certified gold by the RIAA), Neon
Future II (2015), Neon
Future III (November 2018), and Neon
Future IV (spring 2019); and the hip-hop centric
Steve Aoki Presents Kolony (2017). His genre-defying collaborations also include original songs with A-listers like
Lil Yachty and
Migos ("Night Call" from Kolony, 2017); One Direction's
Louis Tomlinson on the global hit "
Just Hold On" (2016), which debuted at #1 in more than 40 countries and has since gone gold or platinum in 18 countries; and Daddy Yankee, Play-N-Skillz, and
Elvis Crespo on the Spanish-language track "
Azukita" (2018). In 2016, Aoki released the Netflix Originals documentary film I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which earned him his second Grammy nomination for Best
Music Film and globally released in more than 190 countries. Recognized by Forbes as one of the top 5 world's highest paid DJ's and the world's hardest working DJ, Aoki is "one of the most in-demand entertainers in the world" (Billboard), counting more than 250 tour dates per year, with past performances at nearly every top festival around the world including Coachella, Ultra
Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Fuji Rock Festival, Tomorrowland, Electric
Daisy Carnival, and more. As a fashion designer/entrepreneur, Aoki has collaborated with major fashion and lifestyle brands like Converse and Bathing Ape and serves as a global ambassador for several international brands including ASICS and Diesel. In 2016, he also debuted his very own Dim Mak Collection streetwear line, which he later presented at New York Fashion Week in 2017. In 2012, Aoki founded THE AOKI FOUNDATION, which primarily supports organizations in the brain science and research areas and has donated more than $500,000 to date. www.steveaoki.com
