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Release Date
9 July 2021
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"Stay" (stylized in all caps) is a song by Australian rapper and singer the Kid Laroi and Canadian singer Justin Bieber. It was released through Grade A Productions and Columbia Records on 9 July 2021, as the lead single from Laroi's reloaded mixtape, F*ck Love 3: Over You. The song was produced by Cashmere Cat, Charlie Puth, Omer Fedi, and Blake Slatkin. It was written by the two artists and the producers, alongside FnZ members Finatik and Zac, and Haan. The song marks the second collaboration between Laroi and Bieber, following Bieber's song, "Unstable".
"Stay" peaked at number one the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Laroi's first chart-topper and Bieber's eighth. The song additionally topped the Billboard Global 200 and charts in twenty countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea and Sweden. It has also peaked within the top ten in 18 other countries. At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, the song was nominated for Best Pop Release and The Kid Laroi was nominated for Best Artist. On 20 September 2020, Laroi shared a snippet of the song on an Instagram live stream, followed by a longer snippet in better quality that was previewed on a live stream from Rolling Loud on 29 October 2020. Bieber's contribution to the song was revealed on 31 May 2021. The song leaked in full on a Discord server on 2 June 2021. "Stay" marks Laroi's first major single release as a lead artist in 2021 and Bieber's first major single as a lead artist since the release of his extended play, Freedom, which was released in April 2021. On 3 June 2021, Scooter Braun, who has been Bieber's manager from the start of his career, also became Laroi's manager. Laroi had the song "for about a year now". He created the song while hanging out with producers Blake Slatkin, Omer Fedi, and Charlie Puth at Slatkin's house. Puth played the melody of the song on the keyboard just for fun, but Laroi ended up liking it and wanted to get it in production software Avid Pro Tools to use it to create a song. He felt "it was probably the most organic way of making a song I've ever done – ever". Laroi thought Bieber "would sound perfect", so he then went to the studio that Bieber records at; they finished recording the song, but Bieber was hesitant about whether his vocals sounded good or not. Writing credits were given to Laroi, Bieber, Cashmere Cat, Puth, Fedi, Slatkinm, FnZ (Michael Mule and Isaac De Boni) and Subhaan Rahmaan.
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