“Lay Your Head On Me” by Major Lazer featuring Marcus Mumford

"Lay Your Head on Me" teams Major Lazer with Marcus Mumford, the British frontman of Mumford & Sons, and it came out in 2020 as a single from Music Is the Weapon, the project's fourth studio album. A press release told a simple origin story: Mumford and Diplo became friends, started messing around in the studio together, and this is what came of it.

Mumford shares the writing credit with MØ, the Danish pop star who had already worked with Major Lazer on "Lean On", "Lost" and "Cold Water", along with King Henry, Jasper Helderman, Bas van Daalen and Thomas Pentz. On paper it's an unlikely pairing, and that contrast is the draw. It gave Major Lazer their third number one on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, and Mumford his first, in the issue dated August 22, 2020.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.