Sean Paul and Sia recently released images of their second Dynamite collaboration, which comes five years after their 2016 song Cheap Thrills, so it may surprise many that the two have yet to meet face to face. In a recent interview with British GQ, Sean was asked about "the first time he met Sia", at which point he said a real meeting with the 45-year-old artist had never happened.
We never met face to face, which is crazy. My supervisors asked me if I was thinking of doing a song with Sia and at the time I was just being taught musically by my mother. She was like, "Sia is a good artist," but I thought she meant [ "] Psy," a Temperature artist told GQ.
Sean told GQ that it was strange that his mother - who introduced him to old school artists and bands such as The Beatles, Cat Stevens and Abba, as a teenager - was now at an older age, telling him about the young artist he was. I have never heard of it in the past.
"I was arguing with her: 'Psy is a good artist from South Korea. I've only heard one song from her,' and she was like, 'No, man. Sia!" he recounted.
In July 2016, Cheap Thrills, climbed from number three to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, stripping Canadian rapper Drake Dance featuring WizKid and Kyla, and which had held the top spot for 10 weeks.
Cheap Thrills was Sia's first Billboard 100 song, and also marked Sean's fourth best song, and his first top song in 10 years.
Cheap Thrills' success gave Sia the reputation of being the first woman in her 40s to take first place in the Billboard Hot 100 since Madonna took first place in Hot 100 and Music in 2000. The song sold 1.7 million copies in the United States in the year 2016, and become the best song ever. The 10th best-selling song this year in the country, and as of May 2017, had sold 1.9 million copies in the country.
In an interview with Access Hollywood in May last year, Sean also stated that he and Sia had planned cheap online events.
"I haven't met him yet ... no we haven't met. We sang the song on the internet. He sent me a huge bunch of flowers when it came in number one," Sean said at the time. In Australia, Cheap Thrills was approved as Quadruple Platinum with sales of over 280,000 copies reaching number six on the chart. In neighboring New Zealand, the song reached third place and was approved as a Double Platinum with sales of over 30,000 copies. In the UK, Cheap Thrills held second place for four weeks and was also approved four times platinum for sales of more than 2.4 million units. "Dynamite started as a good vibe song ... Paul said in a statement." After recording 'Cheap Thrills' Sia and I knew we would record another song and 'Dynamite' is the second phase, "Sean Paul had said in a statement. Dynamite from Seor's next album Scorcher, the video for the song has been viewed at less than 1.4 million on YouTube.
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