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David Guetta’s fourth studio album, One Love, was digitally released on 21 August 2009, and physically released on 24 August 2009 in Europe and 25 August in the United States. Its first single “When Love Takes Over”, which featured Kelly Rowland, peaked at #2 on the French singles chart and #78 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. His second single from the album, “Sexy Bitch” (featuring Akon) went to #2 in France and #5 in the US. “One Love” featuring Estelle and “Memories” featuring Kid Cudi followed. Guetta also produced the Black Eyed Peas’ single “I Gotta Feeling”, which peaked at #1 in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, and #2 in France. The album has sold 1.4 million copies worldwide since its release according to Billboard.

Guetta is now working on Akon, Kelis, Céline Dion, Rihanna, and Kelly Rowland upcoming albums for 2010. At the beginning of February, rumours regarding Guetta producing music for Lady Gaga began to spread, but in a March interview he stated “We met. I would love to work with her but there’s nothing yet”.[8]

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981), known as Beyoncé  (pronounced /biˈjɒn.seɪ/ bee-YON-say), is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child. According to Sony, Knowles’ record sales, combined with those of the group’s, have surpassed 100 million.[2]

“Telephone” is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga from her second studio album The Fame Monster, featuring American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. Gaga originally wrote “Telephone” for Britney Spears, however plans did not go through, and Gaga recorded the song herself, with Beyoncé as the featured vocalist. The main inspiration behind the song was Gaga’s fear of suffocation. The lyrics portray the singer as preferring the dance floor, rather than answer her lover’s phone calls. Gaga explained that the telephone addressed in the lyrics of the song, is in reality a person telling her to continue working harder. Musically, the song consists of an expanded bridge, verse-rap and an epilogue  where the line is disconnected. Knowles appears in the middle of the song with the verses being sung in a rapid-fire way, accompanied by double beats.

Rap verse has been one of the main distinguishing elements of Eurodance. While Eurodance makes use of rap vocals, it does not contain the lyrical themes of “gangster rap”, nor does it follow many of the instrumental conventions of rap music, such as turntable scratching or heavy basslines. It does however focus on danceability similar to funk music which was a critical basis to the hip hop genre since many songs from that genre were sampled by hip hop artists.

Eurodance has, however, served to popularize rap music in Europe. While rap had been made in Europe at least as far back as Falco’s Einzelhaft album (1982), the American variety only gained a more widespread acceptance when Technotronic landed their hit “Pump Up the Jam”, followed by Snap’s “The Power”. The combination of house music with rap vocals in general came to be referred to as Hip house or “house rap”.