Louder

Story of Song

DJ Fresh explained to the Ministry of Sound how ‘Louder’ came about: “I started ‘Louder’ at the end of last year, it began as an instrumental though it was always supposed to be a song with a vocal. I played it out at a festival in Belgium and the crowd went nuts! Sian Evans, who I knew from her days as front woman of Kosheen, and I had been talking about working on something together for a while, and it seemed like the perfect track. I had a muffled recording of the chorus with slightly different words, and I had excitedly got out of bed to sing into my phone at about 3 o’clock in the morning one night. When Sian started scatting around it worked perfectly. We changed a few words, notes, etc. and then wrote the verses, the whole song was written like that in just one night!”

Release date

Released July 3, 2011

Songwriter/s

Sian Evans – Daniel Stein

Label

Ministry of Sound

Chart Rankings

AUSTRALIA – 82

UK – 1

IRELAND – 4

‘Louder’ achieved success in the UK, topping the Official Charts Company, the Indie Charts, and the Dance charts. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified it Platinum for sales over 600.000 copies. The song topped the charts in Scotland, peaked at number 5 in Belgium, and at number 4 in Ireland. ‘Louder’ did not enter the US charts.

Artist’s age on release date

Daniel Stein aka DJ Fresh was active for 15 years and Sian Evans was 41 years old when this song was released.

Cover Versions

Amateur artists covered this song on Youtube.