Calvin Harris

Adam Richard Wiles, better known by his stage name Calvin Harris, is a Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He owns the vanity label Fly Eye Records. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top-ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls". His second studio album, Ready for the Weekend (2009), reached number one on the UK Album Chart and includes the chart-topper "I'm Not Alone", the top-five hit "Ready for the Weekend", and the singles "Flashback" and "You Used to Hold Me".

A remix album titled L.E.D. Festival was released in July 2010 as a free album in the August issue of Mixmag. Harris released his third studio album, 18 Months in October 2012, which contained the singles "Bounce", "Feel So Close", "Let's Go", "We'll Be Coming Back", "Sweet Nothing", "Drinking from the Bottle", "I Need Your Love" and "Thinking About You". He has written and produced tracks for other recording artists including Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Dizzee Rascal, Cheryl Cole, Example and Rihanna (on the international chart-topper "We Found Love").

Harris holds the record for the most top ten hits from one studio album on the UK Singles Chart with nine hits, surpassing Michael Jackson. According to Forbes, Harris was the highest paid DJ of 2013, grossing an estimated $46 million.

On March 14, Harris' brand new single called "Summer" was premiered on Capital FM in the UK. This was then followed by the audio track of the song being published on YouTube. This track will be released as a Digital Download in the UK on April 27th, and will be the first single to be released from his forthcoming studio album. It's his first track since 2011's "Feel So Close" and 2012's "Iron" (with Nicky Romero) in which he sings.

« back to Top 40/Mainstream Artist Info