Anders Grahn

Anders Grahn is a Swedish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, vocal coach and producer based in Sweden.

This article is about Swedish songwriter, multi instrumentalist, vocal coach and producer. For Swedish curler, see Anders Grahn (curler).

Anders Grahn
Background information
Birth name	Anders Grahn
Born	1979 (age 40–41) Malmö, Sweden
Genres	Pop Rock Soul Blues
Occupation(s)	Songwriter Producer Musician Guitarist Vocalist
Labels	Spirit B-Unique Kobalt music
Associated acts	The Black Eyed Peas Andrew McMahon Haley Reinhart Anastacia will.i.am Troye Sivan Siedah Garrett Jessica Mauboy Hayley Kiyoko TVXQ/Tohoshinki Alex Vargas Rebecca Ferguson Cheat Codes

Songwriting and producing

The Black Eyed Peas

Black Eyed Peas performing at O2 Apollo Manchester on 1 November 2018.

"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 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

Anastacia

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

"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

Haley performing at the Hotel Cafe in October 2018

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.

TVXQ

TVXQ

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

Kiyoko

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

Year	Artist	Song	Album/EP	Peak positions	Awards
2020	X. Ari	"Take me home"
2020	Tingsek	"Genuine"
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
		"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 ( 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	RIAJ Platinum Album (Japan, March 2014)
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
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	RIAJ Gold Record (Japan, July 2012) RIAJ Platinum Album (Japan, 2013)
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

1. "The Black Eyed Peas Premieres New Song "Big Love"". Pmstudio.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
2. "The Black Eyed Peas Tackle Gun Violence In 'Big Love' Music Video: Watch". Billboard.com. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
3. "Anastacia / Evolution". Reinhold-stuhr.de. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
4. "SprockAnastacia: NEWS» LA PRODUZIONE DEL NUOVO ALBUM DI ANASTACIA". Sprock-anastacia.blogspot.com. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
5. "Cecilia and the satellite". Spirit music group. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) | Swansfieldmusic
7. "Gold & Platinum". Riaa.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
8. "Haley Reinhart". Facebook.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
9. "Anders Grahn | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
10. "Haley Reinhart drops new single 'Last Kiss Goodbye', releases nostalgic music video: Watch". Meaww.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
11. "TVXQ Leads Billboard Japan Weekly CD Album Sales". Billboard.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) | Roastinghouse newsinfo
13. "Dance Club Songs Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
17. "Swedish Charts - Singles Top 100 2006-03-09". Swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.