“Faded” by Zhu

"Faded" was the first single from Zhu, the American electronic producer, and it appears on his 2014 EP The Nightday. Steven Zhu wrote the words and the music, a sleek, late-night future house number that climbed all the way to number one on the US dance chart.

Its rise started on the radio in Australia, where alternative station Triple J got behind it early, the mainstream stations followed, and from there it spread around the world as a club hit. A remix EP arrived at the end of June 2014, the black-and-white video came out that May, and the track was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the Grammys, losing to Clean Bandit's "Rather Be" with Jess Glynne. It remains one of his biggest records.

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