"Goodbye" is a song by American singer

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and French music producer

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featuring Trinidadian-born rapper

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and fellow French musician

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. It was adapted and written by the artists alongside Jmi Sissoko, DJ Paulito,

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, JVZEL, VodKa,

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, David Saint Fleur, Art Beatz, and Curtis Gray, the latter five receiving production credits along with Guetta;

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, and Frank Peterson are credited due to the inclusion of elements of their composition " Time to Say Goodbye", as performed by

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and

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. "Goodbye" is included on Guetta's seventh studio album, '' 7'' (2018). The song debuted on August 23, 2018, and was released a day later by both Guetta and Derulo's record labels – What a Music,

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and

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respectively. It is the sixth single from Guetta's ''7'' album and was unveiled alongside another single from Guetta called "Drive" with Black Coffee and featuring Delilah Montagu.

Background

On August 24, 2018, Guetta unveiled the sixth and seventh singles from his seventh album '' 7'' (2018), "Goodbye" and then also "Drive" (with Black Coffee featuring Delilah Montagu). "Goodbye" is a collaboration with US R&B singer

and features Trinidadian-American rapper

, as well as French musician and DJ

. Guetta and Minaj have previously collaborated four times, beginning in 2011 with "

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" (also featuring

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) and " Turn Me On", both taken from Guetta's fifth album ''

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''. In 2015 they collaborated on " Hey Mama" (also featuring

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and

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) for his sixth album '' Listen'' (2014). In 2017, they released the collaboration " Light My Body Up" (also featuring

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). Meanwhile, Minaj and Derulo first collaborated in 2010 when she featured on the remix to his single " In My Head", taken from Derulo's debut self-titled studio album. They reunited in 2017 for the collaboration "

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" (also featuring

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). The song's lyric video was released alongside the song's announcement. It features on Guetta's album ''7'' as track number six. "Goodbye" samples " Time to Say Goodbye" by Italian opera singer

. The official music video was released on October 21, 2018.

Live performances

Guetta, Derulo and Minaj performed the song at the

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Personnel

Credits adapted from album booklet. *

– producer, engineer, keyboards, mastering, mixer, recording *David Saint Fleur – producer *David Guetta – producer, DJ *Vodka – producer *Kat Dahlia – background vocals *Jazelle "JVZEL" Rodriguez – background vocals *Ludovic Mullor – engineer *Ben Hogarth – engineer *Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine – engineer * Luca Pretolesi – mastering, mixing *Jason Derulo – vocals *Nicki Minaj – vocals *Willy William – vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

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Certifications

Release history

References

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