By 2010 we were seeing an increasing trend of collaborations making the Top 40. This would include collaborations that one couldn't imagine happening once upon a time due to how different they were to each other.
This collaboration would fit that category. Keane were an indie band and K'naan a rapper/reggae fusion artists. Keane were one of the big indie bands of the mid-00s when indie was more or less the biggest music genre in the charts.
It had been 2 years since Keane had last been in the Top 40. Since then electropop had become the music of choice in the Top 40 so Keane basically made an electropop record. This would be the final Top 40 hit to date for Keane.
It was the Top 40 debut for K'naan, but this was shortly followed by his big hit "Wavin Flag".
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