The Chainsmokers

“Everything starts with the song,” The Chainsmokers’ Andrew Taggart tells Apple Music.

“That’s the most important thing to us.” Taggart and his music partner Alex Pall got their start in EDM, but they found their calling as hitmaking multi-hyphenates—producers, songwriters, and collaborators with unerring instincts for pop that moves both hips and heart.

Taggart and Pall met through their future manager in 2012, and in 2014, they went viral with “#SELFIE,” a social-media satire accompanied by an earthshaking drop.