Some artists go on these songs due to time restraints, others on account of the tunes merely aren’t their kind, and since some actually think about one other individual ought to hold out them. Plenty of artists have opened up about turning down tunes, solely to see them flip into quite a lot of the most well liked songs throughout the music enterprise instantly.

Keep finding out to see who turned down what!

Former Fifth Harmony member, Camila Cabello turned down one in all many largest Chainsmoker hits, “Nearer,” due to commitments collectively together with her her earlier girl group, Fifth Harmony, on the time. The “Havana” singer talked about she recorded a demo of the tune, nevertheless was unable to maneuver forward with it.

“I recorded that tune and so they additionally had been like, ‘Oh do you want to be on the tune?’ and I actually just like the tune, nevertheless I wanted to flip it down,” she revealed.

“I was with the group on the time and we had been about to put an album out and so I didn’t want to, you acknowledge, I always tried to do my solo stuff off cycle, so that was large on and I wanted to say no,” she continued.

“After which it was the first tune on this planet!” the “Havana” singer talked about in an interview on Elvis Duran and The Morning Current Proper now.

Britney Spears allegedly turned down Lady Gaga’s iconic “Telephone.”

Gaga revealed on The Howard Stern Current that she wrote quite a lot of songs for Spears, which had been certainly not included on any of her albums. When requested if it “killed” her inside to place in writing for various artists, she exclaimed, “Hell no! Freakin’ Britney Spears sang my file! Are you kidding? I was doing backflips and ordering drinks!”

Spears did end up releasing one different tune Gaga wrote for her known as “Quicksand” on her Circus album, whereas Gaga went on to launch “Telephone” with Beyoncé.

Pussycat Dolls member Kimberly Wyatt claimed the lady group turned down Lady Gaga’s tune, “Merely Dance,” which she talked about was notably written for them.

“When Lady Gaga was merely getting started, she was signed to our label principally to take care of writing for the Pussycat Dolls album,” Wyatt talked about on British focus on current, The Nightly Current. 

“We handed on it, Gaga took it, she smashed it,” talked about Wyatt, who known as Gaga’s mannequin “phenomenal.”

Hilary Duff’s workforce handed on Charli XCX’s well-known The Fault in Our Stars tune, “Development Clap.”

The brat artist talked about she initially wished to supply the tune to Duff on account of she was making a comeback on the time she and her workforce wrote it. Charli was a large fan of Duff’s music and her hit current, Lizzie McGuire, so she was excited to share it collectively together with her.

“I truly wished her to have this tune,” she knowledgeable the British newspaper, The Telegraph. “We reached out to her people they normally had been like ‘No, this tune will not be cool ample for Hilary.’”

Only a few years later, after the tune received right here out in 2014, Duff tweeted Charli — sharing her love for the tune and stating that she certainly not listened to it when it reached her workforce.

“I would like I might heard it,” Duff wrote. “I may need saved it.”

“Consideration” singer Charlie Puth allegedly handed on Joji’s pretty summer season anthem, “Glimpse of Us.”

“They despatched that tune for me initially and I was within the midst of tour,” he outlined in a SirisXM interview. Sadly, Puth didn’t have ample time to take heed to the tune in its entirety when he was despatched to him.

“I take into accout listening to it on my phone being like that may be a very good sounding tune … I’m going to get to it,” he talked about.

By the purpose did take heed to the tune, it was already too late. Joji launched it in June 2022, leaving Puth in full regret. “And that was a very powerful hand slap,” Puth talked about, whereas pretending to hit his face.

Singer/songwriter Sia talked about her pal Katy Perry handed on every “Elastic Coronary coronary heart” and “Chandelier.” Though she didn’t exactly flip it down, Sia talked about Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” was one different tune shared with Perry that apparently wound up misplaced in her inbox.

Sia knowledgeable Rolling Stone, “Yeah, I truly wished her to sing a number of of my songs. Largely on account of I actually like her as a person.” She added, “Within the occasion that they reject it, you start contemplating additional creatively or broadly. It’s truly like a puzzle piece.”

She wound up releasing every “Elastic Coronary coronary heart” and “Chandelier” herself, becoming predominant hits for the singer. Of “Pretty Hurts,” Sia talked about Perry texted her after listening to Beyoncé’s mannequin, with Sia telling her “Confirm your e mail.”

One different notable Sia tune, “Low value Thrills,” was apparently turned down by Rihanna’s workforce. The Per Sia, the “Umbrella” singer’s people requested her to make them one different “Diamonds,” which she moreover wrote for the artist.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Sia talked about “Low value Thrills” was initially written for Rihanna — nevertheless even Sia felt “it sounded just a bit bit too Brit-pop for her” whereas writing it.

After it was turned down, Sia decided to take care of it for her private album, That’s Showing.