Anders Grahn is a Swedish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, vocal coach and producer based in Sweden.
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| Birth name | Anders Grahn |
| Born | June 12, 1979 Malmö, Sweden |
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| Labels | Copyright controller |
Songwriting and producing
editGordo
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Anders Grahn is involved having co-written and co-produced 4 out of 16 songs on the Gordo new album ”Diamante”.
One of the leading singles “With you” (GORDO & Adriatique) - not on the album - was also co-written and co-produced by Anders.
The Guatemalan-American DJ, Gordo (formerly known as DJ Carnage),
released his long anticipated debut album - “Diamante” - Friday, July 26, 2024.
The album features two songs with Drake and holds features with - T-Pain -
Leon Bridges - Feid - Maluma - Rampa - NTO - Yung Gravy - Larry Jube - Nicki
Nicole- Sech - Fuerza Regida - Alice Aera and Karolina Falk.
Drake is also credited as executive Producer on the album.
Anders Grahn track list - “Diamante”
WDYM (What do you mean)
Easier
Take control
Aura
Armin van Buuren
editArmin van Buuren releases the single ”When We Come Alive” together with Israeli super duo Vini Vici featuring ALBA on vocals. The single is co-written by Anders Grahn who’s also doing background vocals on the track.
The Black Eyed Peas
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"BIG LOVE" by the Black Eyed Peas is co-written by Anders Grahn, who also is one of the prominent vocalists[failed verification] in the song's chorus. BIG LOVE was released as the main single for the Grammy-winning group's album Masters of the Sun, release on 12 October 2018.[1] The graphic video, a 9-minute double video for the same song with two different stories, addresses both school shootings in the United States, as well as children being taken from their parents by the border to the US, and is a collaboration with two organizations, March For Our Lives and Families Belong Together.[2]
Anastacia
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Grahn is one of the writers ("Why" and "Higher Living") and additional producers ("Before" and "Reckless") as well as guitarist, background singer, percussionist and bass player on Anastacia's album Evolution. Released 15 September 2017.[3] During 2017 and 2018 Grahn has been touring as guitarist with Anastacia on her Ultimate Collection Tour and Evolution Tour in a total of 110 shows in 25 countries.[4]
Andrew McMahon
edit"Cecilia and the Satellite" features in the CBS superhero action drama, Supergirl,[5] as well as in the TV spot for the Warner Bros. Pictures film Pan and the Fox Network series Red Band Society.[6] In 2018, it was featured in the trailer for the motion picture Welcome to Marwen. The single went gold (500,000 units sold) in the U.S. on 28 June 2016.[7]
Haley Reinhart
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2016
Grahn has co-written 5 of the 11 tracks on Haley Reinhart's full-length album Better. The title track was released as the lead single, "Listen," co-written with Reinhart and Maria Marcus, was featured in the trailer of the showtime Network series Years of Living Dangerously, executive produced by James Cameron.[8] The album debuted at no. 22 on the Billboard Independent Albums Chart in May 2016.
2017
On 15 September 2017, the single & video for "Let's Start" was released. Co-written with Reinhart and Rob Kleiner, the song is one out of just three original songs on the album What's That Sound? (Concord Records). The same trio also wrote "Somewhere In Between."[9]
2018
In June 2018, Reinhart did a flash release of the 2.5-minute long bossa-nova, "Last Kiss Goodbye," written by Reinhart and Grahn. The writing duo also produced the song together.
"Don't Know How To Love You" is written by Grahn, Reinhart and Rob Kleiner.[10] The song became the fastest-growing original song for Reinhart since 2011. The American rapper Russel Vitale, aka RUSS, released the mini EP "Just In Case" on 23 December 2018.
2022
A.G produced the EP ”Off The Ground” in Malmö, Sweden together with close friend, and acclaimed producer, artist and musician, Tingsek, during 2020-2021.
Anders is also the co-writer on five out of the seven tracks on this EP/Album.
”Lovergirl” and ”21st Century” were both written in London, UK and date all the way back to 2015.
Anders & Haley wrote ”Lovergirl” together, and the latter title was penned together with H.R and
Bhavik Pattani (a.k.a. BHAV).
”Change” was written in L.A together with H.R and musical mastermind
Rob Kleiner in 2019, and the last two titles, ”Looking At You” (feat. Tingsek) and ”Roll The Dice” were created during the process of recording this EP in 2021, both co-written with Tingsek, and Haley of course - over zoom from L.A.
TVXQ
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The single "Android" with the Korean band TVXQ went gold in just one day, and it was the best-selling album in the world during its week of release in the spring of 2013. It went platinum in Japan a few weeks after coming out on the market and together with two other tracks for the same band, "Disvelocity" and "Tree of Life," approximately 1,500,000 units were sold. The two other songs written by Anders have both sold gold and platinum in Japan as well.[6]
In October 2017, TVXQ released its greatest hits album Fine collection - Begin again featuring both "Android" and "Tree of life." After two days it became the best selling album of the week in Japan.[11]
Hayley Kiyoko
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Grahn, James Flannigan and the singer/songwriter/actress Hayley Kiyoko cowrote "Rich Youth" featured on Hayley's EP A Belle to Remember, released in 2013[12] and "Given it All," featured on the EP This Side of Paradise, released in 2015.
Discography
edit| Year | Artist | Song | Album | Credit | Awards |
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| 2024 | Bryce Vine | "Saturday night” | Writer | ||
| 2024 | Gordo and NTO | "Aura" | Diamante | Writer/Producer | |
| 2024 | Gordo feat Karolina Falk | "WDYM (What do you mean" | Diamante | Writer/Producer | |
| 2024 | Gordo | "Take control" | Diamante | Writer/Producer | |
| 2024 | Gordo | "Easier" | Diamante | Writer/Producer | |
| 2023 | Gordo and Adriatique | "With you” | Writer/Producer | ||
| 2023 | Showtek | "All we need” | Writer | ||
| 2023 | Armin van Buuren, Vini Vici & ALBA | "When We Come Alive” | |||
| 2023 | Parker Lane | "Brave" | Kaleidoscope | ||
| "The best (let it go)" | |||||
| "How you feel" | |||||
| "Good to me" | |||||
| "Fire” | |||||
| ”Ohio” | |||||
| ”Excusas” | |||||
| 2023 | Showtek & Ookay | ”BT1" | |||
| 2022 | Showtek feat. sonofsteve | "One life” | |||
| 2022 | Haley Reinhart | "Lovergirl" | Off the ground | ||
| "Roll the dice" | |||||
| "Change" | |||||
| "21st Century" | |||||
| "Looking at you"(feat. Tingsek) | |||||
| 2022 | Beta Lenska | "Deal Chwil (Bailando)" | |||
| 2022 | Tritonal - Sarah de Warren | "Signals" | |||
| 2022 | Sarah de Warren | "Vegan Leather Sneakers" | |||
| 2022 | Anastacia | "American Night" | |||
| 2022 | DJ T.H. & Sarah de Warren | "Catcher in the Rye" | |||
| 2021 | Michael Patrick Kelly | "Icon" | B.O.A.T.S | ||
| 2021 | Cheat Codes | "Dummy"(with Oli Sykes from Bring Me the Horizon) | |||
| 2021 | Austn | "Touch" | |||
| 2021 | Haley Reinhart | "Roll The Dice" | |||
| 2021 | Kerri Watt | "Spoonful of Sugar" | |||
| 2021 | Junge Junge feat. sonofsteve | "Closer" | |||
| 2021 | Tingsek | "Looking at you" (feat. Haley Reinhart) | Home | ||
| "Resonate" | |||||
| "Genuine" | |||||
| 2021 | Black Gatsby | "Who Da Man" | |||
| 2020 | Showtek feat. sonofsteve | "Show some love" | |||
| 2020 | To kill a king | "Wounded" | |||
| 2020 | sonofsteve | "Dreams" (cover version) | |||
| 2020 | Black Gatsby | "Change" | |||
| 2020 | X. ARI | "Take me home" | |||
| 2020 | Neon Capital | "Grow a new heart" | |||
| 2020 | Brando | "Millennial Rhapsody" | |||
| 2020 | Corti Organ & Sarah De Warren | "Better one" | |||
| 2020 | Nick Merico | "Natural" | |||
| 2020 | Natalie Major | "The Moon" | |||
| 2020 | sonofsteve | "Coming Back" | |||
| 2020 | Shayna Zaid | "The One" | |||
| 2020 | Haley Reinhart | "Change" | |||
| 2019 | Bleona | "Haters" | |||
| 2019 | Ramon Esteve feat. sonofsteve | "Comeback" | |||
| 2019 | Haley Reinhart | "Crack the Code" | Lo-Fi Soul | ||
| "Don't Know How to Love You" | |||||
| "Broken Record" | |||||
| 2019 | Thomas Gold feat. sonofsteve |
"Gold" | |||
| 2019 | Bleona | "I Don't Need Your Love" | ( 1 ) US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart[13] | ||
| 2019 | Alex Vargas | "What You Wish For" | |||
| 2018 | Rozzi | "Lose my Number" | Bad Together | ||
| 2018 | The Black Eyed Peas | "Big Love" | Masters of the Sun | ||
| 2018 | Russ | ”Nobody Knows” | |||
| 2018 | Haley Reinhart | "Don't Know How to Love You" | |||
| 2018 | Kelsy Karter | "God Knows I’ve Tried" | |||
| 2018 | Haley Reinhart | "Last Kiss Goodbye" | |||
| 2018 | Kelsy Karter | "Easy Tiger" | |||
| 2017 | sonofsteve | "Not Enough" | |||
| 2017 | Lions Head | "Golden" | The Night B4 Xmas | ||
| 2017 | Alex Francis | "What You're Looking For" | A Stronger Love | ||
| 2017 | TVXQ | "Android" | Fine Collection - Begin Again | (1) Japan Billboard Top Album Sales Chart[11] | |
| "Tree of Life" | |||||
| 2017 | Anastacia | "Why" | Evolution | ||
| "Higher Livin" | |||||
| 2017 | Haley Reinhart | "Let's Start" | What's that Sound? | (67) US Top Album Sales | |
| "Somewhere in Between" | |||||
| 2017 | Alex Francis | "Borderline" | These Words | ||
| 2017 | Tingsek | "Lie to Me" | |||
| 2017 | To Kill a King | "The Good Old Days" | |||
| 2017 | Morten Nørgaard (XFactor, Denmark) | "The Underdog" | The Underdog | ||
| 2016 | Kiah Victoria | "Hollow" | Everybody | ||
| 2016 | Tingsek | "The Fiddlers" | Amygdala | ||
| "Maggie & Al" | |||||
| 2016 | Haley Reinhart | "Better" | Better | (22) US Independent Albums[citation needed] | |
| "Listen" | |||||
| "Bad Light" | |||||
| "Talkin' About" | |||||
| "Good or Bad" | |||||
| 2016 | MakeBelieve | "The River" | Matter of Time | ||
| 2015 | Hayley Kiyoko | "Given It All" | This Side of Paradise | ||
| "Feeding the Fire" | |||||
| 2014 | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | "Cecilia and the Satellite" | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | (96) US Billboard hot 100[14] ( 7 ) US Billboard Adult Alternative[15] (10) US Billboard Adult Pop[15] ( 5 ) US Billboard Alternative[14] ( 6 ) US Billboard Hot Rock[16] |
RIAA Gold Record (US) (June 2016)[7] |
| 2014 | TVXQ | "Tree of Life" | Tree |
( 1) Oricon Japanese Albums Chart |
RIAJ Platinum Album (Japan, March 2014)[citation needed] |
| 2014 | Rebecca Ferguson | "Heroes" | Justin and the Knights of Valour | ||
| 2014 | Alexander Holmgren | "Christmas Was Made for Two" | |||
| 2013 | The United | "Stay Young" | Stay Young | ||
| 2013 | Hayley Kiyoko | "Rich Youth" | A Belle to Remember | ||
| 2013 | Bo Bruce | "Golden" | Before I Sleep | (10) UK Albums Chart[citation needed] | |
| 2013 | TVXQ | "Disvelocity" | |||
| 2012 | TVXQ | "Android" | Time |
( 1) Billboard Japan Hot Singles Sales |
RIAJ Gold Record (Japan, July 2012) RIAJ Platinum Album (Japan, 2013)[citation needed] |
| 2010 | Magnus Bäcklund | "Julens Hemlighet" | |||
| 2007 | CLARK | "Love" | Our Best Second Album | ||
| "Today" | |||||
| "Yeah Baby" | |||||
| "I Do You Do" | |||||
| "Love Song" | |||||
| "Living My Life" | |||||
| "All About You" | |||||
| "Waiting in Line" | |||||
| "Whatever" | |||||
| 2006 | CLARK | "As We Speak" | Two of a Kind | ||
| "Invisible" | |||||
| Easy Way Out" | |||||
| "You Make Me Love This World" | |||||
| "Be With You" | |||||
| "Nobody Else (But You)" | |||||
| "Make It Home" | |||||
| "I Don't Need You" | (6) Swedish Top 10 Singles, peak at No. 6, (2006)[17] | ||||
| "Two of a Kind" | |||||
| "What if" | |||||
| 2000 | Three Studs & a Stone | "Monday Morning" | Ain't No Blues on My Radio | ||
| "Miss Ellioth" | |||||
| "Rosedale Unset" | |||||
| "Ain't No Blues on My Radio" | |||||
| "Living Off the Ground" | |||||
| "Dying in My Sleep" |
References
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- ^ "The Black Eyed Peas Tackle Gun Violence In 'Big Love' Music Video: Watch". Billboard.com. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "Anastacia / Evolution". Reinhold-stuhr.de. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "SprockAnastacia: NEWS» LA PRODUZIONE DEL NUOVO ALBUM DI ANASTACIA". Sprock-anastacia.blogspot.com. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "Cecilia and the satellite". Spirit music group. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
- ^ a b "Anders Grahn is a songwriter, singer and guitarist". Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016. | Swansfieldmusic
- ^ a b "Gold & Platinum". Riaa.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "Haley Reinhart". Facebook.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "Anders Grahn | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "Haley Reinhart drops new single 'Last Kiss Goodbye', releases nostalgic music video: Watch". Meaww.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ a b "TVXQ Leads Billboard Japan Weekly CD Album Sales". Billboard.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ "RoastingHouse – Hayley Kiyoko – "Rich Youth"". Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2016. | Roastinghouse newsinfo
- ^ "Dance Club Songs Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "Swedish Charts - Singles Top 100 2006-03-09". Swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.