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When the music world was shutting down for most artists in 2020, it was just gearing up for John Summit . At Thursday’s Billboard Live Music Summit , Summit and his manager, Metatone’s Holt Harmon, joined a panel discussion titled “Inside the Rise of John Summit,” moderated by Billboard ‘s Katie Bain, to detail how they managed to take the dance world by storm over the past four years. Summit’s Billboard -charting career began in 2020 with “Deep End,” which peaked at No.

26 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs that year. Since then, he’s racked up his first two top 10 hits on the chart — “Where You Are” and “Shiver” (both peaking at No. 8 and both with singer Hayla) — and crisscrossed the globe to play the biggest festivals, set up shop in dance havens like Ibiza and Las Vegas, and wow crowds around the world.



Below, find highlights from Summit and Harmon’s conversation, starting from the beginning of their journey through the release of his first full-length album Comfort in Chaos over the summer. Holt Harmon: “Part of the beauty of working with young people and being young ourselves is, nobody had put a title on what we were already. So honestly, it was like the beauty of the unknown and the beauty of being able to tackle anything — not living by rules that we didn’t know about.

” John Summit: “If you don’t know the rules, you can’t break them.” Summit: “I just knew that the whole world was online because everyone was stuck at home..

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