Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are engaged to be married, but the couple started out as collaborators.
Blanco coproduced two songs on Gomez’s 2015 album, Revival: “Kill Em With Kindness” and “Same Old Love.” The pair quickly became friends, and at one point, Gomez even asked Blanco whether he had anyone he could set her up with. It wasn’t until Blanco brought Gomez to meet one of his friends at a birthday party that she started to see him in a romantic light.
“It just happens when you least expect it,” she said during a May 2024 interview with Time.
The twosome confirmed their relationship in December 2023 and announced their engagement the following December.
“Forever begins now,” Gomez captioned an Instagram post that included a photo of her engagement ring.
Selena Gomez and her fiancé, producer Benny Blanco, officially announced their relationship via Instagram in December 2023. “He is my absolute everything in my heart,” the “Wolves” singer wrote in an Instagram comment at the time. “He has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” Hints of the couple’s relationship were dropped on the […]
Blanco wrote in the comments section, “Hey wait … that’s my wife.”
Years before Gomez and Blanco teamed up for Revival, they crossed paths in a professional capacity at the very beginning of Gomez’s post-Disney Channel music career.
“Neither one of us remembered the meeting,” Blanco said during an April appearance on SiriusXM’s Hits 1. “But [Gomez’s] mom remembered it and was just like, ‘Yeah, you guys were 18.’”
Keep scrolling for a look back at all of Gomez and Blanco’s musical collaborations:
‘Kill Em With Kindness’
Blanco, who has also worked with artists including Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Kesha, Rihanna, Ariana Grande and Gomez’s ex Justin Bieber, coproduced the 2015 track with production team Rock Mafia.
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images Selena Gomez is officially engaged to Benny Blanco after more than one year of dating — and the couple have a lot in common. Just like Gomez, 32, Blanco, 36, has a string of hit songs to his name including Kesha’s “Tik Tok” and Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” making him and the […]
‘Same Old Love’
The Revival single peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Blanco coproduced the song with Norwegian production duo Stargate and Charli XCX served as one of the cowriters.
‘Trust Nobody’
Cashmere Cat’s 2016 electropop song featured vocals by Gomez and Tory Lanez. Blanco coproduced the tune with Cashmere Cat and Frank Dukes.
‘I Can’t Get Enough’
Gomez and Blanco teamed up with Tainy and J Balvin for the 2019 tune. In the music video, Gomez and Blanco pranced around a comically giant bed dressed in silk pajamas and a white teddy bear suit, respectively.
“Can’t believe we pulled it off in one take — even if I did fall once or twice trying,” Gomez wrote via Instagram at the time.
Courtesy of @jboogs1024/Instagram Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco celebrated their engagement with their inner circle. The couple announced their engagement after more than one year of dating on Wednesday, December 11. “Forever begins now…” Gomez, 32, captioned Instagram pics of her engagement ring and herself cuddling up with her fiancé. Blanco, 36, shared Gomez’s post […]
‘Single Soon’
Just months before Gomez and Blanco hard-launched their relationship, they paired up again for Gomez’s song “Single Soon,” which was released in August 2023. Blanco coproduced the anthem of singledom with Cashmere Cat. At the time, Gomez said she was happy on her own.
“I think everybody goes through the phase of, ‘Oh, it’d be nice to, like, have someone,’ and I get that,” she said while promoting “Single Soon” on Hits 1. “But you know, I’m just enjoying where I’m at, and I just want to be happy with who I am, so that whenever that person comes into my life, I can just have them add on to me instead of being this insecure person that I normally used to be.”
