TheFatRat

• Name — TheFatRat • Birth Name — Christian Friedrich Johannes Büttner • Born — 1 June 1979 (age 47) • Birthplace — Göttingen, Lower Saxony, West Germany • Genre — * Glitch hop • EDM • progressive house • electro house • Occupation — * Record producer • DJ • audio engineer • Years Active — 2001–present • Label — * Pharisade • The Arcadium • Universal Music Group • Rhino Entertainment • Tasty • Seeking Blue • Monstercat • Spinnin Records • Website — https: www.thefatrat.com/ • Instruments — Piano, electronic keyboard, hang drum, synthesizer, digital audio workstation

Büttner originally aspired to become a classical conductor. He began producing music in 2001 under his real name. He began by making background music for television, radio and advertisements and produced music for DJs. In 2010, Büttner produced the song Mignon Mignon for René la Taupe, which became a number-one single in France. Around that time, he also produced the song "Audubon Ballroom" on Lupe Fiasco's album Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1, which charted at #5 on the Billboard 200. In July 2011, he began making solo music under the pseudonym TheFatRat. The nickname given to him was Ratte, which is German for rat. It came from his short stature as he is 5 feet tall. His career began with the release of his first EP, Do Be Do Be Do. By 2014, Büttner's music was used in over 1.5 million YouTube videos. His single "Unity" was included on the album Sounds of Syndication Vol. 1 curated by Tom Cassell, one of the most subscribed streamers on Twitch. In November 2016, Büttner released his second EP, Jackpot on the Universal Music label. The EP reached #23 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. In December 2016, Büttner started a record label, The Arcadium, in collaboration with Universal Music. In June 2017, Büttner released the single "Fly Away" featuring vocalist Anjulie. In July, he performed at the Electric Forest Festival. In October 2017, he released the single "Oblivion" featuring vocalist Lola Blanc. In March 2018, he released the single "MAYDAY". In July 2018, he released "Warrior Songs", a music pack for the video game Dota 2, which has been made available in the game as of 13 September 2018, according to Matthew "Cyborgmatt" Bailey, director of operations of Team Secret. In December 2018, he posted a video about how YouTube's content ID system is "broken", as an anonymous user known as Ramjets claimed all the earnings for his song "The Calling" and YouTube refused to settle the dispute. The claim was removed by YouTube later. As an act of gratitude towards the YouTube community standing up for him, he announced that all of his music would be free to use for creative videos on the platform, without fear of him claiming or copyright striking any video. From sometime around 2020, Redbull.com made a 10-minute documentary about Büttner and his career titled, TheFatRat: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Him. They released this within their article, "TheFatRat: Meet the EDM DJ who's elevated video game music to high art." On 7 February 2020, Büttner released a sci-fi music video on YouTube starring himself and Maisy Kay for a special song called "The Storm," where he performed with Kay. The music video was filmed in Iceland, with Surtshellir Cave on the first day, Hekla Mountain on the second day, and Hjörleifshöfði on the third and final day. Accompanying the music video is a game for mobile titled The Storm - Interactive, where one can play through the story of the video. To conclude the year, he did a collaboration with South Korean vocalist AleXa for “Rule the World”. On 13 April 2021, he released his first studio album, titled Parallax, containing over 10 songs. Artists featured on the collaborative setlist were Laura Brehm, Anjulie, RIELL, Cecilia Gault, Lindsey Stirling, and Everen Maxwell.

• Year — Title — Information • 2019 — End of the Decade — * Released: 12 December 2019 * Labels: Monstercat, self-released, The Arcadium, Universal Music, Tasty, Seeking Blue, Enter Records * Format: Digital download • 2024 — Unity 10th Anniversary Mixtape — * Released: 29 September 2024 * Labels: The Arcadium, Pharisade, Tasty, Universal Music * Format: Digital download

• Year — Title — Information • 2018 — Warrior Songs (from Dota 2) — * Released: 20 July 2018 and 13 September 2018 * Label: The Arcadium * Format: Digital Download • 2021 — PARALLAX — * Released: 10 September 2021 * Label: The Arcadium * Format: Digital download • 2023 — Eo and Eden — * Released: between 5 April 2023 and an unannounced final date, as of July 2026 * Label: Pharisade * Format: Digital download

• Year — Title — Information — Peak chart positions — Aditional notes • US Dance • 2011 — Do Be Do Be Do — * Released: 28 July 2011 * Label: self-released * Format: Digital download — – • 2016 — Jackpot — * Released: 18 November 2016 * Label: Universal Music * Format: Digital download — 23 • 2020 — Classics Remixed — * Released: 12 June 2020 * Label: The Arcadium * Format: Digital download — – • 2024 — Ray Tracer — * Released: 27 September 2024 * Label: Pharisade * Format: Digital download — – — Part of the Eo and Eden album.

• Title — Date — Album — Extended Play — Label • "Some Body" — 2011 — rowspan="5" Non-album singles — Do Be Do Be Do EP — Self-written • "Less Than Three" • "Do Be Do Be Do" • "Splinter" — 2013 — rowspan="14" Not from extended plays — Spinnin Records • "Dancing Naked" — The Arcadium • "Infinite Power!" — 2014 — Rocket League OST • "Unity" — Sounds of Syndication Vol. 1 • "Windfall" — Tasty Album 001 - Entree — Tasty • "Xenogenesis" • "Never Be Alone" — 2015 • "Time Lapse" — rowspan="1" Non-album singles — The Arcadium • "Telescope" — Taking You Higher — Seeking Blue • Pharisade • "Monody" (featuring Laura Brehm) — rowspan="12" Non-album singles — The Arcadium • "The Calling" (featuring Laura Brehm) — 2016 • "No No No" • "Youtubers Life Rap" (with Kronno Zomber) • "Jackpot" — Jackpot EP — Universal Music • "Epic" • "Prelude" • "Elegy" • "Prelude (VIP Edit)" (with JJD) — 2017 • "Fly Away" (featuring Anjulie) — rowspan="46" Not from extended plays • "Oblivion" (featuring Lola Blanc) • "MAYDAY" (featuring Laura Brehm) — 2018 • "Warrior Song" (with Stasia Estep) — Warrior Songs — The Arcadium • "Origin" • "Ascendancy" • "Nemesis" • "Origin Reprise" • "Elevate" • "Kingdom Come" • "Mad Moon Falling" • "Threnody" • "Envelope" • "Reminiscence" • "Afterlife" • "Chosen" (with Anna Yvette and Laura Brehm) — 2019 — rowspan="11" Non-album singles — Universal Music • "Solitude" (with Slaydit) • "Sunlight" (with Phaera) — The Arcadium • "Stronger" (with Slaydit and Anjulie) — Monstercat • "Close to the Sun" (with Anjulie) — The Arcadium • "Rise Up" — Enter Records • "Rise Up (Orchestra Version)" • "The Storm" (with Maisy Kay) — 2020 — The Arcadium • "Electrified" • "We'll Meet Again" (with Laura Brehm) • "Rule the World" (with AleXa) • "Hiding in the Blue" (with RIELL) — 2021 — PARALLAX • "Arcadia" • "Pride & Fear" (with RIELL) • "Upwind" • "Our Song" (with Cecilia Gault) • "Violet Sky" (with Cecilia Gault) • "Warbringer" (with Everen Maxwell and featuring Lindsey Stirling) • "Fire" • "Love It When You Hurt Me" (with Anjulie) • "Let Love Win" (with Anjulie) • "Ghost Light" (with Everglow) — 2022 — rowspan="4" Non-album singles — Pharisade • "Back One Day" (with NEFFEX) • "Monkeys" — 2023 • "Monkeys Remix" • "Out of the Rain" (with Shiah Maisel) — Eo and Eden • "Hunger" • "Escaping Gravity" (with Cecilia Gault) • "Sail Away" (featuring Laura Brehm) — 2024 • "Still Here with You" • "Myself & I" (with RIELL) • "Ray Tracer" (with Sprites and featuring Flavia) — Ray Tracer EP • "P. S." • "Whispers" (featuring Reptythm) • "Out of Love" — 2025 — rowspan="7" Not from extended plays • "Killing Me" • "Genius" (with Shiah Maisel) • "HONK" — rowspan="1" Non-album singles • "Give Myself to You" (with Laura Brehm) — Eo and Eden

• Date — Title — Artist • 2012 — Very Good Feeling — Flo Rida • Next Levels — Avicii • Brightside — The Knocks • Somebody I Used To Know — Gotye • Don't Stop — Foster the People • The Night Out — Martin Solveig • Turn The World On — Static Revenger • Float — Pacific Air • Don't Wake Me Up — Chris Brown • 2013 — The Feeling — The Knocks • Set It Off (ft. Lazerdisk Party Sex) — Diplo • The Tide — Singularity (ft. Steffi Nguyen) • If So — Atlas Genius • Picking Up All The Pieces — Strange Talk • All Night — Icona Pop • 2015 — We Are The Dream — Sound Remedy • 2018 — Salt is My Sugar — MarieMarie • 2019 — Pokémon Theme — Video Games Live • 2023 — Monkeys — TheFatRat

• Date — Title — Artists — Songs • 2012 — Do Harder Be Faster — TheFatRat — Do Be Do Be Do • Daft Punk — Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger • Drive Space Junk — PrototypeRaptor — Drive Hard • Wolfgang Gartner — Space Junk

• Title — Date — Album — Extended Play • "No Escaping You" (released in SoundCloud; now private) — 2012 — Non-album singles — Not from extended plays • "Everything" (upcoming) — 2021 (originally, TBA) — Everything EP (upcoming extended play) • "Blue Sakura" (cancelled) — 2021 — PARALLAX — Not from extended plays • "Eyes Wide Shut" (cancelled) — 2023 — Eo and Eden • "Kawaii Side Of Life" (it was meant for Ray Tracer EP, and hence, in Eo and Eden as well, but was cut) — 2024 — Eo and Eden (it was meant to be there, but was cut) — Ray Tracer EP (it was meant to be there, but was cut)

• Singer — Song — Date • CeCe Rogers — "Unity" (original version; sampled from his song "Someday") — 2014 • Laura Brehm — "Unity" (choir; pitched-up vocals; common special version; not credited) • "Monody" — 2015 • "The Calling" — 2016 • "MAYDAY" — 2018 • Majority of "Chosen" — 2019 • "We'll Meet Again" — 2020 • "Sail Away" — 2024 • "Give Myself To You" — 2025 • TheFatRat — "Infinite Power" — 2016 • "The Calling" (choir) • "No No No" (Pitched-down vocals) • "Fly Away" (Pitched-down vocals) — 2017 • "Electrified" (Sampled from KLOUD's song of the same name, which features him; but then it was canceled and then released under TheFatRat's name) — 2020 • "Killing Me" — 2025 • "HONK" (Pitched-down vocals) • Anjulie — "Fly Away" (normal vocals) — 2017 • "Stronger" — 2019 • "Close To The Sun" • "Love It When You Hurt Me" (normal vocals) — 2021 • "Let Love Win" • Lola Blanc — "Oblivion" — 2017 • Stasia Estep — "Warrior Song" — 2018 • Anna Yvette — "Chosen" — 2019 • Michaella Ryall — "Sunlight" (sampled from JC's song "Missing Summer", which features her) • Moa Petterson Hammar — "Rise Up" (not credited) • Maisy Kay — "The Storm" — 2020 • Josh Mhire — "Love It When You Hurt Me" (Pitched-down vocals) • AleXa — "Rule The World" • RIELL — "Hiding In The Blue" — 2021 • "Pride & Fear" • "Myself & I" — 2024 • Cecilia Gault — "Our Song" — 2021 • "Violet Sky" • "Escaping Gravity" — 2023 • "Out Of Love" (not credited) — 2025 • Lindsey Stirling — "Warbringer" — 2021 • Everglow — "Ghost Light" — 2022 • NEFFEX — "Back One Day" • Shiah Maisel — "Out Of The Rain" — 2023 • "Genius" — 2025 • Kinnie Lane — "Hunger" (not credited) — 2023 • Sprites — "Ray Tracer" — 2024 • "Out Of Love" (not credited) — 2025