--- title: Calvin Harris Thanks Taylor Swift, Rihanna For Collaboration description: Calvin Harris thanked Rihanna and Taylor Swift after hearing that “This Is What You Came For” went double platinum in the United Kingdom. canonical: https://time.com/4559308/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-04T22:01:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:26.042Z og:title: Calvin Harris Thanks Taylor Swift and Rihanna For Hit Song og:description: The song went double platinum in the United Kingdom og:url: https://time.com/4559308/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05e0e4e0dab07dd8/6988ad1e656a3f43a5bcdbc5/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Calvin Harris Visits "The Elvis Duran Z100 Morning Show" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Calvin Harris Thanks Taylor Swift and Rihanna For Hit Song twitter:description: The song went double platinum in the United Kingdom twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05e0e4e0dab07dd8/6988ad1e656a3f43a5bcdbc5/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Calvin Harris Thanks Taylor Swift and Rihanna For 'This Is What You Came For' by [Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly Nov 4, 2016 10:01 PM UTC  Musician Calvin Harris Visits "The Elvis Duran Z100 Morning Show" at Z100 Studio on September 14, 2016 in New York City. Musician Calvin Harris Visits "The Elvis Duran Z100 Morning Show" at Z100 Studio on September 14, 2016 in New York City.Roy Rochlin/Getty Images by [Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly Nov 4, 2016 10:01 PM UTC Calvin Harris tweeted his thanks Friday to collaborators Rihanna and Taylor Swift after hearing that their track “This Is What You Came For” had gone double platinum in the United Kingdom. The DJ thanked Rih for her vocal performance and his ex Swift for writing the lyrics. “I am blessed to work with incredible artists,” tagging Rihanna and Swift before adding, “thank you!!!” on Twitter. Swift originally wrote the lyrics to “This Is What You Came For” under a pseudonym while in a relationship with Harris. After what [seemed like an amicable split](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/07/calvin-harris-talks-taylor-swift-breakup), Swift revealed herself to be the [song’s writer in July](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/13/taylor-swift-wrote-calvin-harris-single). > [](https://twitter.com/CalvinHarris/status/794638604060409856) Back in July, Harris [sounded off on Twitter](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/13/calvin-harris-reponds-taylor-swift) about Swift’s authorship when he called her an “amazing lyric writer.” He added, “I wrote the music, produced the song, arranged it and cut the vocals though. And initially she wanted it kept secret, hence the pseudonym. Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though.” Swift has since [performed the song at her recent concert](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/23/taylor-swift-calvin-harris-formula-one) in Texas. She invited the crowd to sing along saying, “I’ve never played this song live before, but if you know it, maybe you could sing along, and then I could get to know what that feels like to hear it sung back to me.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/04/calvin-harris-rihanna-taylor-swift) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4559308/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4559308/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna/"},"headline":"Calvin Harris Thanks Taylor Swift and Rihanna For 'This Is What You Came For'","datePublished":"2016-11-04T22:01:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:26.042Z","description":"The song went double platinum in the United Kingdom","url":"https://time.com/4559308/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05e0e4e0dab07dd8/6988ad1e656a3f43a5bcdbc5/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05e0e4e0dab07dd8/6988ad1e656a3f43a5bcdbc5/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Calvin Harris Visits \"The Elvis Duran Z100 Morning Show\"","caption":"Musician Calvin Harris Visits \"The Elvis Duran Z100 Morning Show\" at Z100 Studio on September 14, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Roy Rochlin/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4559308/calvin-harris-thanks-taylor-swift-rihanna/","name":"Calvin Harris Thanks Taylor Swift and Rihanna For 'This Is What You Came For'"}}]}] ```