--- title: Chainsmokers: New Video for Closer Featuring Halsey description: The viral hit song now has an its own appropriately moody music video, featuring Halsey and Drew Taggart locked in a troubled romance. canonical: https://time.com/4542577/chainsmokers-closer-halsey-video/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-24T16:27:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:55.859Z og:title: Watch the Steamy New "Closer" Video from The Chainsmokers og:description: The viral hit song now has an accompanying music video, also with Halsey. og:url: https://time.com/4542577/chainsmokers-closer-halsey-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Steamy New "Closer" Video from The Chainsmokers twitter:description: The viral hit song now has an accompanying music video, also with Halsey. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Steamy New Music Video for The Chainsmokers' 'Closer' Featuring Halsey  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 24, 2016 4:27 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 24, 2016 4:27 PM UTC The Chainsmokers have [dominated the pop charts this fall](http://time.com/4514830/chainsmokers-all-we-know/?iid=sr-link2), with their single “Closer” featuring [singer Halsey](http://motto.time.com/4429627/halsey-rolling-stone-interview/?iid=sr-link2) resting easy atop the Billboard Hot 100 for over nine weeks now. On Monday, the electro-pop DJ duo finally released the official music video to go along with [the inescapable chart topper](http://time.com/4497288/chainsmokers-closer-meme/?iid=sr-link1). (The YouTube lyric video has already racked up [half a billion streams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT2%5FF-1esPk).) Starring Chainsmoker Drew Taggart and vocalist Halsey as the embattled lovers of the conflicted lyrics, the moody video tracks their romance’s ups and downs, from casual house party to spartan bedroom to… casual house party. There is plenty of appropriately steamy shirtless writhing and meaningful stares on both parts. The Chainsmokers are set to premiere a new track, “Setting Fires,” on Nov. 4\. Although the young duo have never released a full album and [don’t intend to do so](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/7496136/the-chainsmokers-album-release-fans) anytime soon, their series of hits—they’ve racked up three triple-platinum singles—will be packaged in a five-track EP entitled _Collage_, also out on Nov. 4. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4542577/chainsmokers-closer-halsey-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4542577/chainsmokers-closer-halsey-video/"},"headline":"Watch the Steamy New Music Video for The Chainsmokers' 'Closer' Featuring Halsey","datePublished":"2016-10-24T16:27:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:55.859Z","description":"Drew Taggart and Halsey get pretty close","url":"https://time.com/4542577/chainsmokers-closer-halsey-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4542577/chainsmokers-closer-halsey-video/","name":"Watch the Steamy New Music Video for The Chainsmokers' 'Closer' Featuring Halsey"}}]}] ```