Jake Gosling

Biography

Jake Nathan Gosling is an English record producer and songwriter. Best known for his production work for English singer Ed Sheeran, he has also been credited on releases for acts including Lady Gaga, The Libertines, James Bay, Shawn Mendes, All Time Low, One Direction, Major Lazer, Christina Perri, Shania Twain, 5 Seconds of Summer, Paloma Faith, and Wiley.

He won the 2014 ASCAP Award for his contributions to Ed Sheeran's "Lego House," and was named Music Week's Producer of 2012 following his work on its parent album, + (2011). His notable credits include Paloma Faith's Fall to Grace (2011), One Direction's Up All Night (2011) and Take Me Home (2012); the latter's single, "Little Things" peaked atop the UK Singles Chart. Gosling founded the Surrey-based recording studio Sticky Studios in 2002.

He was nominated for Record of the Year at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards for his work on Sheeran's 2014 single "Thinking Out Loud". Its parent album, x (2014) won the Brit Award for "Album of the Year" in 2015, and was nominated for the namesake award at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. In June 2015, "Thinking Out Loud" became the first song to spend a full year within the UK Singles Chart's top 40, and by September, it became the seventh to have received triple platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in the 21st century. Furthermore, "Thinking Out Loud" was the first song to reach 500 million streams on Spotify.

Gosling co-wrote the songs "Incomplete" from James Bay's album Chaos and the Calm (2015), "Missing You" from All Time Low's album Future Hearts (2015), and "Home" for Birdy from her album Fire Within (2013). He served as lead producer on the albums Illuminate (2016) and Dancing Shadows by American singers Shawn Mendes and Mario, respectively. As a lead artist, he was credited as a guest performer alongside Mr Eazi and RAYE on Major Lazer's 2018 single "Tied Up".

Gosling and Sarah Liversedge co-founded the publishing company The Movement London Limited in 2013. In 2017, Gosling founded the record label Goldun Egg Records. In 2020, he signed with Concord Music Publishing as a songwriter, and was selected as a member of the Music Producers Guild.

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