Anders Grahn

Anders Grahn
Anders Grahn
Background information
Birth name	Anders Grahn
Born	1979 (age 44–45); Malmö, Sweden
Genres	Pop; Rock; Soul; Blues;
Occupations	Songwriter; Producer; Musician; Guitarist; Vocalist;
Labels	Spirit B-Unique; Kobalt music

Anders Grahn is a Swedish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, vocal coach and producer, living in Los Angeles.

Songwriting and producing

The Black Eyed Peas

”BIG LOVE” by the Black Eyed Peas is co-written by Anders Grahn, who also is one of the prominent vocalists 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 date October 12, 2018. ^[1] The graphic video, that is 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 USA, and is a collaboration with tow organizations, March For Our Lives and FamiliesBelong Together. ^[2]

Anastacia

Anders 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 & 2018 Anders 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

"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 official trailer for the motion picture Welcome to Marwen feat. Steve Carell amongst many others.

The single went Gold awarded (500.000 units sold) in the U.S on 28 June 2016.^[7]

Haley Reinhart

2016
Anders has co-written 5 of the total 11 tracks on Haley Reinhart's full-length album Better. The title track was released as the lead single. "Listen", co-written with Haley 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 Billboard Independent Albums Chart in May (2016).

2017
15 September (2017) the single & video for "Let's start" was released. Co-written with Haley 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 Haley did a flash release of the 2,5-minute long bossa-nova, ”Last Kiss Goodbye”, written by Haley and Anders Grahn. The writing duo also produced the song together.
”Don’t Know How To Love You” is written by Anders Grahn, Haley Reinhart and Rob Kleiner.
^[10] The song quickly became the fastest-growing original song for Haley since 2011. The American rapper, Russel Vitale, aka RUSS released the mini EP “Just In Case” December 23, 2018.

TVXQ

The single "Android" with the Korean band TVXQ went gold in just one day, as well as the album is the world's biggest-selling album 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" – the sales are currently up to a total of approximately 1,500,000 units 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

Anders, James Flannigan and the singer/songwriter/actress Hayley Kiyoko have co-written "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

Year	Artist	Song	Album/EP	Peak positions	Awards
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]
2017	TVXQ	"Tree of life"	Fine collection - Begin again
2017	Anastacia	"Why"	Evolution
2017	Anastacia	"Higher livin"	Evolution
2017	Haley Reinhart	"Let's start"	What's that sound?	(67) US Top Album Sales
2017	Haley Reinhart	"Somewhere in between"	What's that sound?
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
2016	Tingsek	"Maggie & Al"	Amygdala
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
2015	Hayley Kiyoko	"Feeding the Fire"	This Side of Paradise
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)^[17]
2014	TVXQ	"Tree of Life"	Tree	( 1) Oricon Japanese Albums Chart ( 1) Billboard Japan Top Albums (15) Gaon South Korean Albums Chart ( 2) Gaon South Korean Int. Albums Chart ( 9) G-Music Taiwanese Albums Chart ( 4) G-Music Taiwanese East Asian Albums Chart ^{[citation needed]}	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 ( 2) Billboard Japan Hot 100 Weekly (35) Billboard Japan Hot Top Airplay (34) Billboard Japan Adult Contemporary Airplay ( 1) Oricon Daily Singles Chart ( 1) Oricon Weekly Singles Chart ( 4) Oricon Monthly Singles Chart (40)Oricon Yearly Singles Chart ^{[citation needed]}	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)^[18]
		"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"

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