Jake Gosling
Jake Nathan Gosling is an English record producer and songwriter. He's worked on albums or singles for artists including Ed Sheeran, 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.
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Birth name | Jake Nathan Gosling |
Origin | Surrey, UK |
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Website | themovement |
He received the 2014 ASCAP Award as a songwriter for Ed Sheeran's "Lego House," and was named Music Week's Producer of 2012 following his work on its parent album, + (2011). In addition, he's worked on Paloma Faith's Fall to Grace (2011), and One Direction's Up All Night (2011) and Take Me Home (2012), in which he produced the UK number one single "Little Things". Gosling has remixed under the pseudonym Sketch Iz Dead for Lady Gaga, Timbaland, Keane, Keri Hilson, and Far East Movement. Gosling founded the Surrey-based recording studio Sticky Studios in the early 2000s.
He was nominated at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards for Record of the Year for his work on Ed Sheeran's 2014 single "Thinking Out Loud". Its parent album, x (2014) won the Brit Award for "Album of the Year" in 2015 and received a Grammy Award nomination for the same title. In June 2015, "Thinking Out Loud" became the first single to spend a full year in the UK top 40. By September 2015, it also became the seventh single to have achieved triple Platinum certification in the UK during in post-2000. 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). In 2016, he worked on Shawn Mendes' album Illuminate as a lead producer. In 2018, he served a similar role for Mario's fifth album Dancing Shadows. As a lead artist, he was credited as a guest feature on Major Lazer's song "Tied Up" alongside Mr Eazi and RAYE.
Gosling and Sarah Liversedge co-founded the publishing company The Movement London Limited in 2013. In 2017, Gosling launched his own record label record label Goldun Egg Records. In 2020, he signed as a songwriter to Concord Music Publishing and was selected as a member of the Music Producers Guild.