Best Billy Gillies Collaborations
Hannah Boleyn handed Billy Gillies his biggest hit and became the voice that defines his sound across multiple records.
The collaboration that changed everything: DNA (Loving You)
DNA (Loving You), released in 2023, is the record that mattered. UK top 10. Platinum. Over 600,000 combined sales and streams. This is the track that took Billy Gillies from a trance scene favourite to a mainstream name. The track that led to his Big Beat Records/Atlantic signing. The partnership that proved emotional, vocal-led trance could reach beyond the dancefloor devoted and into genuine mainstream space. Hannah Boleyn's voice was the reason.
Building the partnership: Right Here All Along and Tears On The Dancefloor
Hannah Boleyn became Billy's most important collaborator. After DNA, they came back together for Right Here All Along in 2024, proving the first hit wasn't a one-off. They've also worked on Tears On The Dancefloor, each track leaning into emotional, vocal-forward territory. If you want the soulful, singing-led side of what he does, that partnership is where it lives.
The newer voices: Nu-La and Flip & Fill
But Billy hasn't rested on the Hannah Boleyn partnership alone. A 2025 team-up with Nu-La on Crystallize showed he's still bringing in fresh voices rather than settling into one formula. That same year brought Discoland, featuring Flip & Fill and Karen Parry, pulling Eurodance energy alongside his usual uplifting trance base. A good pick if you want to hear him lean into the more dancefloor, less purely emotional, side of his range.
Solo territory: We Had It All
Worth clearing up: We Had It All, his 2026 single and the debut release on FRQNC, his own label, is a solo track. No Hannah Boleyn. No guests at all. Billy on his own terms, launching a label built around his own vision. The collaborations matter. But so does being alone in the room with what you actually want to make.
Why Billy's partnerships work
He doesn't overwrite what someone else brings to the table. A vocalist like Hannah Boleyn or Nu-La gets space to mean something. The production builds around the voice rather than burying it. That's harder than it sounds, and it's part of why his collaborations have converted into chart moments and festival moments simultaneously.