Talk:Just Dance 2017/@comment-5454568-20161125054237/@comment-1465604-20161125145052

TAL is a major recording artist... in France. She's never charted outside of France and the French-speaking parts of Switzerland (only 1 single) and Belgium. "Danse" likely wasn't very expensive to license originally. I'm also pretty sure Ubisoft commissioned a special version of "Danse" for Just Dance specifically so they wouldn't have to pay Flo Rida. I can find no sources talking about "Danse (Pop Version)" outside of Just Dance.

[Florida actually isn't too difficult to snag as a featured artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo_Rida_discography#As_featured_artist]. For goodness sake, TWiiNS, a duo consisting of, you guessed it, twins, whose biggest claim to fame was their participation in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest where they got 13th place in the their semi-final (out of 19 entrants) and therefore failed to qualify for the grand final, managed to snag him as a Featured Artist. This was in 2013, the same year "Danse" was released. In fact, that year, Flo Rida appeared as a Featured Artist on a lot of international artists' songs, artists that have little to no recognition outside of their home countries and/or regions.

TAL's career since "Danse" also hasn't been exactly spectacular. Her songs started charting lower and lower and her latest 2 singles didn't even chart in France (or anywhere else). So I'm sure that when Ubisoft came a knocking last year (when TAL released no music at all), TAL was more than happy to allow them to add her song to JDU for a less-than-exorbitant fee. This is all speculation, of course.