Sweet Harmony (2010)
Danny Byrd's "Sweet Harmony", his drum and bass remix of the Liquid track of the same name, gave him his first UK Singles Chart entry at No. 64 in February 2010.
Danny Byrd's "Sweet Harmony" is his remix of Liquid's "Sweet Harmony", and it reached No. 64 on the UK Singles Chart on 7 February 2010, his first entry on that chart, alongside a No. 6 peak on the UK Dance Chart, according to the Wikipedia article on Danny Byrd (checked 2 September 2026).
The credit runs one way only: Liquid are the original act and the song is theirs, and what the sources record is a Byrd remix of it, not a collaboration and not a guest appearance by either party. For a producer who had been releasing since the late 1990s, this remix is the record that first put his own name on the main UK chart.
Where the original Sweet Harmony comes from
The original "Sweet Harmony" comes from Liquid, a British dance act, and its dates are on the record: the track was originally released on the Liquid EP in 1991 and as a single in 1992, per the Wikipedia article on the song (checked 2 September 2026). It samples heavily from CeCe Rogers' "Someday" (1987), and it kept returning after its first run: new remixes were released in 1995, and the single was re-released in 2004 and 2007. The 1995 date belongs to those later remixes and not to the original, which is 1991 on the EP and 1992 as a single. The record Byrd remixed in 2010 had therefore been in circulation since 1991, and what he did with it is fully documented on this page.
Byrd himself was well placed to take on a rave-era track. He is an English DJ, record producer and musician from Bath, born 4 May 1979, one of the first artists to sign to Hospital Records in 1999, and influenced by house, UK garage, R&B and the jungle sound, per the Wikipedia article on Danny Byrd. Jungle and the UK rave scene are the same family tree the original Sweet Harmony era belongs to, and that lineage is unpacked on Drum and bass.
How Sweet Harmony charted for Danny Byrd
Sweet Harmony charted at No. 64 on the UK Singles Chart on 7 February 2010 and at No. 6 on the UK Dance Chart, per the Wikipedia article on Danny Byrd. The Singles Chart entry was the first of his career: "Red Mist" (feat. IK) had stalled at No. 147 in 2009, outside the published top 100, although "Red Mist VIP" had already taken No. 1 on the UK Dance Chart in the week ending 25 July 2009. Sweet Harmony is therefore the crossing point, the record where a Dance Chart regular first registered on the main chart.
The remix also set the baseline the rest of 2010 built on. The 4 fully charted Byrd singles of the period line up like this:
| Year | Record | UK Singles peak | UK Dance peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Sweet Harmony | No. 64 | No. 6 |
| 2010 | We Can Have It All | No. 144 | No. 22 |
| 2010 | Ill Behaviour (feat. I-Kay) | No. 36 | No. 7 |
| 2011 | Tonight (feat. Netsky) | No. 91 | No. 11 |
On the Dance Chart, Sweet Harmony's No. 6 is the best placing of those 4 singles; on the Singles Chart, Ill Behaviour's No. 36 is the higher of the 2. Neither peak is given a date in the sources this page relies on, so the table carries the positions and leaves the weeks they were reached unstated.
How Sweet Harmony sits beside Rave Digger
Sweet Harmony and Rave Digger belong to the same year without belonging to the same release. Sweet Harmony charted on 7 February 2010, 8 months before Rave Digger, Danny Byrd's second studio album, arrived through Hospital Records on 10 October 2010 digitally and 11 October 2010 physically and reached No. 68 on the UK Albums Chart, per the Wikipedia article on Rave Digger. The sources name 1 single from that album, Ill Behaviour, its second; they do not file Sweet Harmony on Rave Digger, and neither does this page. Rave Digger's No. 68 is 1 of the 2 sourced Byrd album placings, the other being Golden Ticket at No. 181, and Supersized, the debut from 26 May 2008, is the release the sources positively record as not entering the UK Albums Chart.
Read as a sequence rather than as a campaign, the 2010 records divide cleanly. Sweet Harmony proved a Byrd record could reach the main chart; Ill Behaviour, the second single from the album, then pushed to No. 36 with BBC Radio 1 A-list support from 8 September 2010. How Rave Digger sits beside Supersized, Golden Ticket (24 June 2013, No. 181) and Atomic Funk (7 September 2018) is the business of The albums.
Why this page carries no Sweet Harmony lyrics
The Sweet Harmony lyrics are not reproduced here, in any quantity, because this reference quotes no lyrics from any recording as a fixed rule of the site. Searches for the words of the song arrive on this page often enough that the position is worth stating plainly: song titles, dates and chart positions are facts and appear throughout; the words sung on a record are creative work and stay off the page.
What Sweet Harmony shows about Byrd as a remixer
As a remixer, the Sweet Harmony remix is the middle chapter of a 21-year through-line. In 2000, BBC Radio 1's Fabio championed Byrd's remix of London Elektricity's "Wishing Well", per the Wikipedia article on Danny Byrd. In 2010, the Liquid remix became his first Singles Chart entry. In 2021 he released a rework of Groove Armada's "Superstylin", and in October of that same year he signed with Ministry of Sound. Each time the pattern repeats: a respected source record, rebuilt at drum and bass tempo, typically 165 to 185 beats per minute for the genre, per the Wikipedia article on drum and bass.
The full catalogue of that work sits on The remixes, and the style he rebuilt these records into, from jungle roots to the liquid funk that Fabio began championing in 1999 and that Hospital Records helped establish, is set out on Drum and bass. Sweet Harmony stands as the proof case: the remix that turned Danny Byrd from a Dance Chart name into a Singles Chart one on 7 February 2010.