Madeon

About

Madeon is the stage name of Hugo Leclercq, a French electronic music producer who initially garnered popularity through his viral video and mashup "Pop Culture" before eventually seeing major success with an EP, a 2015 debut album, and the collaborative single Shelter with producer Porter Robinson.

History

Madeon initially garnered notability for winning a remix competition for the song "The Island" by drum and bass band Pendulum.^[1] He would later go on to create remixes for artists such as Deadmau5, Alphabeat, and Yelle, alongside original work with songs such as "For You" and "Shuriken". Prior to that, he produced under a number of aliases such as Wayne Mont and Deamon.

After signing onto Columbia Records following the attention gained from his viral "Pop Culture" mashup, he would release an EP preceded by semi-successful singles "Icarus", "Finale", and "The City" in 2012, and his debut album Adventure in 2015 featuring appearances from Dan Smith of Bastille, Passion Pit, and Mark Foster of Foster the People. He would also provide additional production work for artists such as Lady Gaga, Coldplay, and Ellie Goulding.

Pop Culture

In 2011 at the age of 17, Madeon uploaded "Pop Culture" to Youtube, featuring a live mashup of 39 different songs put together using a Novation Launchpad, that would gain over 40 million views in the next 7 years (shown below). The video would also draw attention from a number of record labels, eventually leading to his signing on to major label Columbia Records.

Shelter

On August 11th, 2016, Madeon and fellow electronic music producer Porter Robinson released their collaborative single "Shelter." Released as a testament to the two's friendship stemming back to their teens, the song would later receive an anime short film released as the song's music video produced by A-1 Pictures a few months later on October 16th, 2016. An accompanying live tour followed the release of the single.

Fan art (examples shown below) for the music video and the collaboration exist on places like Tumblr, under tags such as "shelter", "shelter the animation", "shelter anime" and "shelter" followed by "porter robinson" or "madeon". On Deviantart, searching for "shelter porter" nets 596 results, though more results could be found using other search terms pertaining to the subject. The video was also posted to various subreddits, such as /r/Anime, where it received over 11,000 upvotes, becoming the most upvoted post in /r/anime at that time, and the third-most upvoted post submitted there overall.

Good Faith

On November 13th, 2017, DJ Mag^[2] reported that Madeon was working on the "next era" of his career, announcing a new release in 2018, though he did not release new music that year. On May 28th, 2019, Madeon announced the start of a new era called "Good Faith" through the website goodfaith.world that was posted on social media.^[3] The next day, he debuted the single "All My Friends" through a limited 7" vinyl release in four cities. On the 31st, the single was officially released and uploaded to Youtube, gaining over 450,000 views in less than a week (shown below).

Online Relevance

Madeon has developed a dedicated fanbase online. He has over 780,000 likes on Facebook,^[4] 593,000 Twitter followers,^[5] and a subreddit with over 5,700 followers.^[6] On Soundcloud, he touts over 1.4 million followers and over 1.5 monthly listeners on Spotify. His Youtube channel, originally started on January 31st, 2010, has since gained over 770,000 subscribers. His official Instagram also touts over 177,000 followers.

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