To my ears, you can’t find a better inspiration for our current sound than this smash hit. One of the singles off of the album, “Blinding Lights”, is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.Look at the enduring hits right now on iTunes, Spotify, and Billboard and you’ll note a trend toward the downtempo, the atmospheric, and the distorted. Most recently, Serban Ghenea mixed The Weeknd’s After Hours, which has spent 4 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. Serban mixed 25 tracks off of the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade list that was released in December of 2019, including “Uptown Funk”, “Girls Like You”, “Shake It Off” and many other hits. Taylor Swift’s Lover, mixed by Ghenea in its entirety, was the best-selling album of 2019 in the United States and globally. Serban also mixed Ariana Grande’s single “7 Rings”, which spent 8 non-consecutive weeks atop the Hot 100 chart and became her longest running number one single to date. The track also held the #1 position on the Adult Contemporary chart for a record-breaking 36 consecutive weeks. Cardi B is tied for the longest top 10 run in Billboard chart’s archives. In 2019, Serban’s mixes continued to make history in the charts. He also mixed “Butterflies” and “High Horse” off of Kacey Musgrave’s album Golden Hour, which won 4 awards at the 2019 Grammy Awards.Īs of April 2020, Ghenea had mixed over 184 #1 singles and albums, including 51 Billboard Hot 100 #1s with hits for The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Pink, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Halsey, Imagine Dragons, Jonas Brothers, Ellie Goulding, Maroon 5, and Taylor Swift, among other artists. At the 2019 Grammy Awards Serban took home 2 Grammys for mixing Colors by Beck, one for Best Alternative Music Album and one for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. His first win, in 2004, was for his contributions to Justin Timberlake’s Justified, the pop-singer’s first studio attempt as a solo artist. Serban has also taken home 3 Latin GRAMMY’s. Most notably, he has been nominated 25 times for a GRAMMY, winning sixteen. Serban’s exceptional talent can be shown by his many accolades. His vast discography has grown to over 800 albums for a wide range of notable artists spanning over all genres, including Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Dave Matthews Band, Bjork, Carrie Underwood, Beck, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, Keith Urban and many more. Over the last 25 years, Serban Ghenea has become one of the most prolific, in demand mix engineers of his time.
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