Best HUGEL Collaborations
How HUGEL turned three-way collabs into his biggest moment, and why his instinct for partners matters.
The game-changer
"I Adore You" with Topic, Arash and Daecolm (2024) is the collaboration to lead with. It became HUGEL's biggest hit, and the industry response was immediate. The track was so in-demand it spawned alternate versions featuring J Balvin and Ellie Goulding on top of the original three-way lineup. This is collaboration as a multiplier, not as a single boost. The production is designed to flex depending on which voice sits on top, which means each version serves a different room. That's sophisticated production thinking.
The producer pairings
HUGEL also works producer-to-producer, and those moments show different sides of his sound. Robin Schulz and "I Believe I'm Fine" (2017) pairs two artists with very different fingerprints. Schulz's polished European house aesthetic meets HUGEL's rawer, tribal instincts, and the result is one of his more melodic entries. David Guetta makes sense as a partner too. Two French dance music exports with shared instincts for big rooms, and their work together sits at the intersection of Guetta's mainstage polish and HUGEL's grittier house roots. Then there's Diplo and "Stay High" - HUGEL's house sensibility paired with Diplo's genre-crossing instincts, which takes the sound somewhere else entirely.
The album gambit
His debut album, Twenty One, is where his collaborator instincts go widest. He pulls in hip-hop heavyweights Big Sean, French Montana and Snoop Dogg alongside his usual dance-world partners. That's not compromising or boxing yourself into one lane. It's HUGEL saying he belongs in multiple rooms at once, that his production can carry a rap verse just as easily as a vocal hook or a dance beat. The album is proof that collaboration, for him, is about expanding what the music can do.