40 Fun Facts About Bebe Rexha

Bebe Rexha co-wrote which Eminem and Rihanna single from The Marshall Mathers LP 2, a US No. 1 hit?

The Monster grew from a hook Bebe Rexha wrote for her own debut album while trying to climb out of a depressed phase. Her background vocals remain on the finished track.

Which Bebe Rexha hit with country duo Florida Georgia Line peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100?

Meant to Be spent a record-breaking 50 weeks on top of the Hot Country Songs chart, even though Rexha was a New Yorker with no earlier country chart entries.

Bebe Rexha and David Guetta's I'm Good (Blue) reworks a 1998 dance hit first recorded by which group?

Eiffel 65 are the Italian group behind Blue (Da Ba Dee), so three of that song's writers share the credits. Rexha and Guetta first worked on their version in 2017 with no plan to release it.

Bebe Rexha sang lead for Black Cards, an electropop project started in 2010 by which Fall Out Boy member?

Pete Wentz and producer Sam Hollander overheard Bebe Rexha recording demos at their studio and brought her in. She left Black Cards in 2012 to pursue a solo career.

Which rapper reworked Bebe Rexha's song I Don't Need Anything into the 2015 top-ten hit Me, Myself & I?

G-Eazy heard Bebe Rexha play the song on piano three days after she asked a friend to connect them, and he wanted it for his album. Her label had doubted it suited her own record.

Bebe Rexha's birth name, Bleta, comes from a word in her parents' native language that means what?

Bee is the meaning behind Bleta, and people shortening the name gave Bebe Rexha the nickname she performs under. She was born Bleta Rexha in New York City in 1989.

Which Louis Tomlinson single features Bebe Rexha alongside the English producer Digital Farm Animals?

Back to You was Louis Tomlinson's second solo single after One Direction went on hiatus, released on his own label. It reached number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bebe Rexha mentored the Comeback Stage contestants on season 16 of which American TV singing competition?

The Voice named Bebe Rexha its fifth coach in 2019, mentoring singers who missed out on a team or were eliminated so they could fight their way back in.

Bebe Rexha's parents belong to which ethnic group, with roots in Debar and Gostivar in North Macedonia?

Albanian heritage runs through both sides of Bebe Rexha's family: her father emigrated to the US from Debar at 21, and her mother was born in America.

Which rapper shares the featured credit with Bebe Rexha on David Guetta's 2015 hit Hey Mama?

Nicki Minaj raps on Hey Mama while Bebe Rexha sings the chorus, a part she was not credited for at first. The track reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100.

Which Dutch DJ premiered In the Name of Love, his song with Bebe Rexha, at Ultra Music Festival 2016?

Martin Garrix was not in the studio when Bebe Rexha first recorded her vocal, so the pair worked over FaceTime before meeting up to finish the future bass track.

Which rapper features on Baby, I'm Jealous, the lead single from Bebe Rexha's album Better Mistakes?

Doja Cat joined Baby, I'm Jealous for its October 2020 release, and a remix with Dominican singer Natti Natasha followed seven weeks later.

Which rapper joined Bebe Rexha on Satellite, a disco single with a video inspired by Hanna-Barbera cartoons?

Snoop Dogg added his verse after Bebe Rexha simply sent him the song over Instagram, a collaboration she called a dream. The single celebrates 4/20 culture and came out on April 19.

Which country legend duets with Bebe Rexha on Seasons, the first song written for her 2023 album?

Dolly Parton was someone Bebe Rexha had long wanted to sing with, which made Seasons a point of special pride. In its black-and-white video the two appear as mirror images of each other.

Bebe Rexha was born in which New York City borough before her family moved to Staten Island?

Brooklyn was home until Bebe Rexha was six, when the family moved to Grasmere on Staten Island. She later sang in the choir and in musicals at Tottenville High School.

Which duo's Call You Mine, featuring Bebe Rexha, won Best Dance Video at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards?

The Chainsmokers had already remixed two earlier Bebe Rexha vocals, including her debut solo single, before recording Call You Mine with her for their album World War Joy.

A snippet of Bebe Rexha and David Guetta's unreleased I'm Good (Blue) went viral in 2022 on which app?

TikTok users spread the clip so widely that the pair finished and released a track they had set aside for years, and it became a worldwide chart-topper.

Bebe Rexha's single The Way I Are, featuring rapper Lil Wayne, samples a classic hit by which singer?

Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance with Somebody is the sample, a debt the single admits in its full title. Bebe Rexha performed the song at Ubisoft's E3 press conference in 2017.

Bebe Rexha was an opening act in North America on the 2019 Happiness Begins Tour for which band?

Jonas Brothers shared the bill with Bebe Rexha and Jordan McGraw across the continent, after she had earlier opened Bruno Mars shows in Latin America.

Alongside a country duo/group performance nod, Bebe Rexha earned which Grammy nomination at the 61st ceremony?

Best New Artist was a late-arriving nod for Bebe Rexha, whose recording career had begun in a pop band back in 2010, eight years before her first studio album.

Which 2018 debut studio album by Bebe Rexha features I'm a Mess and reached No. 13 on the Billboard 200?

Expectations came together almost by accident: Bebe Rexha had not planned a full album after her EPs, but said everything fell into place naturally. It later went platinum in the US.

Bebe Rexha, Cardi B and Charli XCX all feature on Girls, a 2018 single by which British singer?

Rita Ora first sang Girls live at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in May 2017, a full year before the four-woman single was released.

In the music video for Sacrifice, Bebe Rexha leads a hospital rampage as which kind of creature?

Vampire lore drives the Sacrifice video, which nods to the films Blade and The Matrix and moves on to a Blade-inspired club scene. The song reached number one in Hungary.

Bebe Rexha's country crossover hit broke a chart record set by Body Like a Back Road, by which singer?

Sam Hunt had set the mark for most weeks at number one on Hot Country Songs only a year earlier, in 2017. Rexha's single passed it in August 2018 and stayed on top for 50 weeks.

Which Colombian singer joins David Guetta and Bebe Rexha on the 2018 single Say My Name?

J Balvin was first reported on the song with Demi Lovato instead; Bebe Rexha's name appeared a month later, when Guetta announced the track list of his album 7.

Bebe Rexha sang Take Me Home, a 2013 dance single that went platinum for which American DJ trio?

Cash Cash took Bebe Rexha's vocal into the top ten in Australia and the United Kingdom, and recorded an acoustic version of the song a few months after its release.

In which Dutch city did Bebe Rexha host the MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2016?

Rotterdam staged the show at its Ahoy arena, where Bebe Rexha did double duty, hosting the night and taking the stage twice to perform.

Bebe Rexha voiced Tuesday, a blue-haired member of the Spy Girls, in which 2019 animated musical film?

UglyDolls is based on a line of plush toys and follows them as they try to find owners despite their flaws. Kelly Clarkson and Pitbull are also in the cast.

Bebe Rexha recorded You Can't Stop the Girl as the theme song for which Disney fantasy film?

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil used the song as its theme, and composer Geoff Zanelli wrote an orchestral and choir arrangement to fit her vocal into the film's world.

Which rock drummer features on Break My Heart Myself, the opener of Bebe Rexha's album Better Mistakes?

Travis Barker plays drums on the track and shares its writing credit with Bebe Rexha, Justin Tranter and Jussi Karvinen. He is one of eight guest acts on the album.

Bebe Rexha's single I'm a Mess contains an interpolation of a 1997 hit performed by which singer?

Meredith Brooks's 1997 single is woven into a song that Bebe Rexha says is about accepting your imperfections and celebrating them. It was her first US top 40 hit with no other act on the record.

Bebe Rexha's first songwriting credit was Lucifer, a 2010 title track for which South Korean boy band?

Shinee's Lucifer sold over a million downloads in South Korea in 2010, the same year Bebe Rexha's own recording career was only getting started.

Bebe Rexha and Lauren Christy helped write Team, a 2016 single recorded by which rapper?

Iggy Azalea planned Team as the launch of her second album, Digital Distortion, but the album was shelved and the song was left as a stand-alone single.

Bebe Rexha, Machine Gun Kelly and X Ambassadors recorded Home for the soundtrack of which Will Smith film?

Bright casts Will Smith as a Los Angeles police officer with an orc partner, and Home was the second single from its soundtrack. The song reached number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Which instrument did Bebe Rexha first teach herself, before she later taught herself guitar and piano?

Trumpet came first for Bebe Rexha, who went on to sing in her high school choir and take part in a variety of musicals there.

Bebe Rexha sang on Harder, a 2019 single from the album Snacks (Supersize) by which English DJ?

Jax Jones released Harder as the ninth single from his Snacks project, and it spent 14 weeks on the UK Singles Chart.

Which Bebe Rexha single, with a desert-set video directed by Dave Meyers, led her EP All Your Fault: Pt. 1?

I Got You reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Billboard ran a piece on how uncannily Bebe Rexha resembled Kylie Jenner in its video.

Bebe Rexha played a hacker called Tempe Tina in which 2021 comedy film starring Kristen Bell?

Queenpins follows two women running a coupon scheme, and Tempe Tina is the identity thief they turn to for advice on hiding their money.

Bebe Rexha and David Guetta's 2023 single One in a Million samples which 2009 Guetta hit?

When Love Takes Over resurfaces in the pair's fifth collaboration, which was nominated in the inaugural year of the Grammys' Best Pop Dance Recording category.

Bebe Rexha was a supporting act on Witness: The Tour, the fourth concert tour by which pop star?

Katy Perry's tour ran for 115 shows across six continents, with Carly Rae Jepsen and Zedd among the other acts who warmed up its crowds.