She shares a producer with Olivia Rodrigo
Chappell isn’t Dan’s only pop princess.
Dan first started working with Olivia Rodrigo in 2020 after stumbling upon a video of her singing her—at the time unreleased—song “Happier” on Instagram. Shortly after that they collaborated on the track “Driver’s license” which shot Olivia into the mainstream.
While Dan was having success with Olivia, Chappell was home in Missouri working on her music independently. When Chappell returned to L.A. and began working with Dan again, she was introduced to Olivia and the pair have been inseparable since.
Chappell opened for Olivia’s Sour Tour in San Francisco in May of 2022, and again for the first part of her GUTS world tour in 2024.
“I was like, ‘Oh my god’…I’ve only played my first headline show last May, and to go from, like, 200 people to 20,000 in less than two years is very intense and fast,” she said during a November 2023 appearance on Triple J radio. “But I’m so excited because I opened for her one time in San Francisco last May as well, and it was 9,000 [people]. It was a lot less, but the energy was so electric because a lot of her fans are younger than my fans.
