U.K. DJ whose song went viral in ‘Heated Rivalry’ going on tour across Canada

U.K. music producer Harrison speaks to CTV News about the success he's had since his song was featured in 'Heated Rivalry' and his upcoming Canadian tour.

U.K. electronic music producer and DJ Harrison was painting the walls of his new house last summer when he got a phone call that would later change the trajectory of his 15-year career.

The creators of a Canadian TV series were reaching out to him about his 2022 remix of the song ‘All The Things She Said’ by Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. and wanted to include it in the show.

“They said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this club scene, and your song’s perfect for it. Would you allow us to put it in?” said the 32-year-old, whose real name is Harrison Manley-Shaw.

Little did he know when he said yes that the show, Crave’s gay hockey romance drama “Heated Rivalry,” would become an international hit and the club scene was going to be burned into the collective minds of scores of fans around the world.

“I’d never thought that I’d be getting messages from Germany and France and all of this radio play all over the world, and it kind of rejuvenated my career and allowed me to do amazing collaborations,” he said in an interview with CTV News.

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He’s now embarking on a Canadian tour for the first time with stops in eight cities across the country, including one in Montreal next month, largely due to the success of the show created by Montrealer Jacob Tierney.

In episode four, Harrison’s cover of ‘All The Things She Said’ is played during one of the show’s most memorable moments.

The two rival hockey players, Canadian Shane Hollander and Russian Ilya Rozanov, cross paths on a night out at a Montreal nightclub and lock eyes from across the dance floor, unable to show the affection they secretly have for each other in public.

Harrison, who’s also a songwriter and vocalist, said it took about half a day to come up with the idea for the remix — which features his vocals — and two weeks to perfect it. Just two weeks after the fourth episode was released on Dec. 12, 2025, Spotify said the number of streams of Harrison’s remix surged more than 139,000 per cent.

Before the show, the song had gone under the radar, with about four million streams on the platform over the last three years, Harrison said. Now, the streams have skyrocketed to more than 38 million streams. He describes it as the unofficial theme song of “Heated Rivalry.”

The viral track has also been streamed more than one billion times on TikTok, “which is a number I can’t even fathom,” he told CTV News. “Truly, it has been the most crazy surprise of 2026.”

The song’s success wasn’t just limited to the streaming platform.

It’s been played at actual NHL hockey games, NBC used it to promote figure skating at the Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina, and it has been heavily featured in countless reels on Instagram by the likes of Jennifer Lopez.

It has also become the soundtrack on countless videos from hardcore fans who re-enacted the club scene on social media.

It has also opened doors to new projects. Harrison is set to release an orchestral version of “All The Things She Said” featuring his vocals with North-Carolina-based award-winning composing duo Joseph William Morgan, and has collaborated with Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers.

He’s now in the middle of a new project with The Veronicas for a remix of the electropop duo’s 2007 song ‘Untouched.’

“You think these [are] opportunities that you never thought you’d get unless you were, like, Michael Bublé or something,” he said.

“So truly, it’s changed my life, and a lot of people seem to be getting very happy from it, and it’s nice to be part of something positive.”

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Harrison suspects one of the reasons why his remix really resonated with the fans, particularly millennials, was because of the nostalgia it evoked, taking them back to the days of scrolling to the t.A.T.u. song on their iPods when the original song was a hit and watching the iconic music video on MTV in the living room.

“There seems to be a lot of energy for people to come back and listen to the songs that they once loved and then get them reworked, but to do it with the band is truly the opportunity of a lifetime,” he said of his ongoing project with The Veronicas.

Canadian tour starts March 30

Riding on the “Heated Rivalry” high, Harrison is now heading to Canada. The “Heated Tour” starts March 30 in Hamilton, Ont. at Mansion, where the show’s famous club scene was filmed.

The second stop is in Montreal at Le Belmont on April 2. Other stops include Ottawa (April 3), Vancouver (April 10), and Toronto (April 16).

He said people who come to his shows can expect house music — his specialty — to take over the dance floor, where he will showcase his new remixes, “the work that I put in for the last 15 years, and showcasing the ability to work a crowd as good as I can.”

“I think it truly is the honour of a lifetime to come to Canada and to play these shows and to be able to do this,” he said.

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The last three months have been a whirlwind for Harrison, who still struggles to grasp the success he’s had since he made the remix one day in his home studio in the middle of the pandemic.

“I know that’s crazy, and it does sound weird, but like, imagine just the whole world knowing a song that you did just feels so crazy,” he said.

“I think I owe ‘Heated Rivalry’ quite a lot.”

Tickets to Harrison’s shows are available on heatedtour.com.

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