Jake Gosling

He won the 2014 ASCAP Award for his contributions to Ed Sheeran's "Lego House," and was named Music Week's Producer of 2012^[3] following his work on its parent album, + (2011). His notable album 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.^[3][4] Gosling founded the Surrey-based recording studio Sticky Studios in the early 2000s.^[5]


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 received a Grammy Award nomination with the same title. In June 2015, "Thinking Out Loud" became the first song to spend a full year in the UK Singles Chart's top 40. By September 2015, it became the seventh to have received triple platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) after the 2000s. 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.^[6] In 2018, he served a similar role for Mario's fifth album Dancing Shadows.^[7] As a lead artist, he was credited as a guest performer alongside Mr Eazi and RAYE on Major Lazer's 2018 single "Tied Up".^[8]


Gosling and Sarah Liversedge co-founded the publishing company The Movement London Limited in 2013.^[9] In 2017, Gosling launched his own record label record label Goldun Egg Records.^[10] In 2020, he signed to Concord Music Publishing as a songwriter and was selected as a member of the Music Producers Guild.^[11]

Early career[edit]

Gosling started his music career performing as a lead vocalist and keys player in numerous bands, often engineering and producing the band's music, it was here he began to learn music production and modern recording techniques. After working in numerous jobs within the music industry, Gosling started his own recording studio; Sticky Studios, in Surrey, UK.^[5] Gosling's first mainstream success came in 2008 with the album See Clear Now by UK rapper Wiley, which reached number 18 in the UK charts.^[16] The album featured tracks "summertime", produced by Gosling, and "Cash in My Pocket", which he worked on with Mark Ronson.^[17] Gosling then worked with Southern Fried Records and produced/co-wrote tracks on the Crookers album Tons of Friends.^[18] He also performed vocals alongside Pitbull and Kardinal Offishall on tracks "Natural Born Hustler" and "Put Your Hands on Me".

Shawn Mendes[edit]

In 2016 Gosling started working on Shawn Mendes's second album, Illuminate^[40]


Gosling produced 9 tracks on the album, which went to number 1 on the US Billboard 200 with 145,000 equivalent album units, of which 121,000 copies were pure album sales.


Joe Levy, writing for Rolling Stone noted "Illuminate mixes professions of romantic agony like "Mercy" (where a quietly hummed hook explodes into crashing drums), with nice-boy valentines like "Treat You Better" and bedroom come ons like "Lights On. For Jon Reyes of Idolator, "[Shawn's] most noticeable change, aside from the tight music hall sonics, is the subtle infusion of sex into the lyrics. He's graduated from songs like "Kid in Love" to fare like "Lights On" and "Patience." Both ballads paint clear pictures of behind-closed-doors moments, and the sexual nature of the lyrics doesn't qualify as innuendo by any means."^[41]

Shania Twain[edit]

After completing the Shawn Mendes album Illuminate, Gosling was asked to work with another Canadian artist, this time being Shania Twain on her fifth studio album, Now. Now was released on 29 September 2017 by Mercury Nashville.^[42] It is Twain's first new studio album in 15 years, since her 2002 release, Up!.


Gosling produced 3 tracks on the main, including the promotional single "Poor Me".^[43] and a further track on the deluxe edition.


Now debuted at number one in the United Kingdom.^[44] It also entered at the top position in Australia, becoming her third album after Come on Over and Up! to reach the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart.^[45] In the United States, it additionally opened atop the Billboard 200 with 137,000 album-equivalent units, which included 134,000 album sales, and became her second number-one album in the country after Up!.^[46]