When you scroll through your playlist, how many of the songs on there are collabs? Charli XCX has been in the charts with Talk Talk - her team-up with Troye Sivan - and she's been all over our feeds with Billie Eilish and Guess. Or maybe Chase & Status and Stormzy's Backbone is the one for you. Four of the top 10 songs in the current UK Singles Chart are collaborations, and it doesn't seem to be a fad.
Since 2020, almost half of the 100 biggest tracks have featured two artists, according to the Official Charts company. That's more than twice the number of collabs in the charts towards the end of the noughties, and over the past 30 years the people in charge of the charts say they've seen a rise. Since the beginning of their career, pop-punk legends Fall Out Boy have linked up with some of the biggest stars in the industry, including Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato and Jay-Z.
Front man Patrick Stump tells BBC Newsbeat the way most of these collabs happen is "pretty simple" and sometimes it's worth taking a chance. "People just ask," he says. "Whether we ask them or they ask us.
" A couple of years ago, he says he was planning on holding off when it came to working with other artists for a while. That was until Taylor Swift emailed. "[My manager's] like 'maybe you should do this one, huh?'" laughs Patrick.
Fall Out Boy were featured on Taylor's Electric Touch when her number one album Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was released last year. Patrick says "every instance is different" when .
