Topliner / Producer / Writer / Instrumentalist

Based In UK.

ARCADES is a British electronic music production duo consisting of Max Graham and Matt Thomson.

To date, ARCADES has achieved over 2 billion Spotify streams, 30 million album sales including 3 Billboard 200 #1s and 11 worldwide iTunes #1 albums. They recently co-wrote “Slow Dance” featuring Sofia Carson on Jimin’s new album “Muse” which debuted at #2 on the official US Billboard charts and “Take Two” celebrating BTS’s 10 year anniversary. 

ARCADES was originally formed in 2018, after their first single release “In The Air” featuring LA based singer Sarah Walk. The song was supported by YouTube channels CloudKid and Freshmixes. It gained the attention of BTS member J-Hope, who added the song to his Spotify playlist J-Hope’s Jam. Their follow up single “Fragile” featuring SOFIA was released at the start of 2019 and has gained over 2 million YouTube views.

ARCADES co-wrote and produced two songs on the BTS album Map of the Soul: Persona; “Jamais Vu” and “Mikrokosmos”. “Inner Child” from the 2020 BTS album, Map of the Soul: 7 as well as BTS’ single “Take two”. The duo received songwriting credits on 4 of TXT’s albums including hit song “OX1lovesong”, co-wrote/produced Fifty Fifty’s first single “Higher” and Jungkook single “Stay Alive” which recorded over 4.2 million streams in its first day of release, becoming the biggest single debut by a South Korean soloist in Spotify history. This all putting ARCADES just under two billion Spotify streams and 27 million album sales.