Selena Gomez’s boyfriend Benny Blanco has a stellar career as a music producer, and has worked with more than one of Selena’s ex-boyfriends.
After many ups and downs in her love life, in December 2023, Selena Gomez officially confirmed her relationship with Benny Blanco.
She shared on PopFaction’s Instagram: “He is everything in my heart, the best thing that has ever happened to me. He is better than anyone who has ever been with me.” On the same day, she posted a photo of herself leaning her head on her boyfriend on her personal Instagram story.
Benny Blanco is the first boyfriend Selena has publicly dated in more than 5 years. Before that, besides her tumultuous relationship with Justin Bieber, Selena was rumored to have dated many famous artists but did not confirm.
The last time Selena publicly dated was with The Weeknd in January 2017. But their relationship lasted less than a year.
According to People , Benny Blanco is an American musician, music producer, DJ and rapper. The male artist 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in 1988 also collaborated with Interscope Records to establish two record labels, Mad Love Records and Friends Keep Secrets.
Benny Blanco has been a big name in the music production industry since the late 2000s.
He has produced singles for some famous artists such as Katy Perry ( California Gurls, Teenage Dream ), Maroon 5 ( Moves like Jagger , Payphone ), Britney Spears ( Circus ), Kesha ( Tik Tok )…
Benny Blanco has won many prestigious awards such as: Hal David Starlight Award from Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013, Producer of the Year at iHeartRadio in 2017… In addition, he has also won the Songwriter of the Year award at BMI 5 times.
Notably, in the list of people who have collaborated with Benny, there are 2 ex-boyfriends of Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber and The Weeknd.
In 2015, he collaborated with Justin Bieber on the song Love Yourself , producing the song and co-writing the lyrics with Justin and Ed Sheeran. The two had the opportunity to reunite on the song Lonely in 2020. Benny also praised Justin for being creative and not stereotypical in his music.
As for The Weeknd, Benny Blanco co-wrote and produced two songs, True Colors and Attention, in 2016.
In addition, Benny also collaborated with BTS and rapper Snoop Doggs to release the song Bad Decisions in 2022.
Before dating Selena Gomez, Benny also collaborated with his girlfriend. He was responsible for producing and singing the song I Can’t Get Enough with Selena Gomez, Tainy and J Balvin in 2019.
Benny and Selena dated secretly for about 6 months before going public. The beauty did not hesitate to share affectionate and intimate photos with her lover on social media, while praising him as the most wonderful man.
Not only that, Selena also publicly protected Benny from rumors and malicious comments after falling in love with her.