"No Holding Back" is a song by Dutch DJ and record producer

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, featuring British singer

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. The song was expected to be the first single from Hardwell's upcoming second studio album (never released) and it featured on David's sixth studio album ''

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''. It was released as a digital download on 19 August 2016 by Insanity Records, Speakerbox Media and

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Background

On 19 March 2016, at the second day of

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2016, during the set of the Dutch DJ and record producer

, David appeared as a featured artist on their new track "No Holding Back". On 19 August 2016, exactly five months later, both artists announced on their own social media that it will be their next single following the performance. The single was announced along with David's release date of his new album as well as his latest single, " Ain't Giving Up". The track contains two of David's third verses of the performance.

Music video

The music video for the song was released the same day it was announced, following the thirty-seconds snippet preview on Hardwell and David's official

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account. The music video features the performance of the duo at the Ultra Music Festival, with the images of Hardwell and David around Miami Beach time before the performance, it quite similar with David's last single, " One More Time".

Track listing

Credits

* Production, arrangement –

* Vocals –

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Robbert van de Corput Robbert van de Corput (; born January 7, 1988), known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda. He was voted the world's number one DJ by ''DJ Mag'' in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2022, he was ranked at number 43 i ...

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Release history

References

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