Carl Falk

Carl Falk
Birth name	Carl Anthony Falk
Born	(1980-08-17) August 17, 1980 (age 44) Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Pop dance-pop pop rock electropop R&B Europop
Occupations	Songwriter record producer singer
Years active	2002–present
Labels	BMG

Carl Anthony Falk-Gramer (née Falk; born 17 August 1980 in Stockholm), is a Swedish songwriter, record producer and musician and has worked with artists such as Demi Lovato, One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Nicki Minaj, Ellie Goulding, Madonna, Avicii, Ariana Grande, Charlie Puth, Jason Derulo, Westlife, Hilary Duff, Iggy Azalea, Liam Payne.

Biography

As a student Falk attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. He then joined "The Location" in 2002, a new production and publishing-company formed by former Cheiron-members Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson and Jake Schulz, leasing the former Cheiron Studios.

Falk left "The Location" in 2007 and re-located to Los Angeles in April 2010 to team up with Rami Yacoub and Steve Angello (Swedish House Mafia). Back in Sweden Carl and Rami started their production company and studio – Kinglet Studios.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2010 he has co-written and co-produced hits like "What Makes You Beautiful", "One Thing", "Live While We're Young", "Kiss You" by One Direction and "Starships" and "Pound The Alarm" by Nicki Minaj.^{[citation needed]} In 2012 Carl was listed as No. 4 on Music Week Top 100 Songwriters of the year^{[citation needed]} based on the UK's 100 biggest selling singles of the year. The same year "Starships" also made US Billboard history, by both debuting in and spending a total of 21 consecutive weeks in the US Top Ten, passing The Black Eyed Peas's single "I Gotta Feeling".^{[citation needed]} As of February 2013, it has sold 7.2 million digital downloads worldwide.^{[citation needed]} Subsequently, he received two ASCAP awards for most performed songs of 2012: "Starships" and "What Makes You Beautiful".^{[citation needed]}

Falk worked with Demi Lovato writing "Shouldn't Come Back" and "Really Don't Care" for her 2013 album "Demi". He also worked on "Rest Of Our Life" for Jason Derulo and "Red Lights" for Tiesto. Falk reached further success in 2014 when he worked with David Guetta on the hit single "One Last Time" for Ariana Grande, reaching no.13 on the Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

In 2015 Falk wrote songs like "Broken Arrows" and "Sunset Jesus" for Avicii, "Rest Your Love" for The Vamps, "Your Type" for Carly Rae Jepsen, "Lost & Found" for Ellie Goulding and "Devil Pray" For Madonna.

His favourite instrument is the guitar as he tries to "always have guitar on my songs, almost like a trademark".^[1] Carl can also play multiple other instruments like bass, piano, violin and drums, which he started to learn from an early age on during his childhood.^[2] In 2013 Falk won the STIM Platinum guitar prize.^[3]

Songwriting Discography

Year	Artist	Album	Song
2003	Westlife	Turnaround	Obvious
2005	Westlife	Face to Face	Amazing
2009	Westlife	Where We Are	Leaving
	VanVelzen	Hear Me Out	Broken Tonight (with Armin van Buuren)
	2011	Nick Carter	I'm Taking Off	Burning Up
Remember
Darren Hayes		Secret Codes and Battleships	Talk Talk Talk
			Bloodstained Heart
			"The Siren's Call"
One Direction		Up All Night	What Makes You Beautiful
			One Thing
			I Wish
	2012	Take Me Home	Live While We're Young
			Kiss You
			Last First Kiss
			Heart Attack
			Back For You
			Change My Mind
Nicki Minaj		Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded	Starships
			Pound The Alarm
2013	Demi Lovato	Demi	Shouldn't Come Back
			Really Don't Care
	Jason Derulo	Tattoos	Rest Of Our Life
	Lawson	Chapman Square Chapter II	Juliet
	Tiësto	A Town Called Paradise	Red Lights
	One Direction	Midnight Memories	Happily
2014	Ariana Grande	My Everything	One Last Time
2015	Avicii	Stories	Broken Arrows
			Sunset Jesus
			Trouble
	The Vamps	Wake Up	Rest Your Love
	Carly Rae Jepsen	Emotion	Your Type
	Ellie Goulding	Delirium	Lost and Found
	Madonna	Rebel Heart	Devil Pray
2016	Carly Rae Jepsen	Emotion Remixed +	First Time
2017	Avicii	Avīci (01)	Without You (feat. Sandro Cavazza)
2019		Tim	Bad Reputation (feat. Joe Janiak)
			Ain't a Thing (featuring Bonn)
			Fades Away (featuring Noonie Bao)
2019	joan	Non-album singles	Drive All Night
			One More Touch
			Ease Your Mind

Awards

Falk has won two Ascap Pop Music Awards with the songs "Starships" and "What Makes You Beautiful", amongst many other of awards and nominations. Falk received two nominations both in 2012 and in 2013 in the Swedish Music Publishers Awards (SMFF). Both years for Songwriter Of The Year and International Achievement.^[4][5] He was also nominated for the 2013 Swedish Music Export Award,^[6]

Year	Award	Recipient/Nominated work	Category	Result
2011	4Music Video Honours	What Makes You Beautiful	Best Video	Won
2012	Brit Awards		Best Single Of The Year
	Teen Choice Awards		Choice Music: Love Song
	MTV Video Music Awards		Best Pop Video
	MTV Video Music Awards		Most Share-worthy Video
	Telehit Awards		Song Of The Public
	Nickelodeon Mexican Kids Choice Awards		Favourite Song
	Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards Argentina		Favourite Song
	MuchMusic Video Awards		Most Streaming Video Of The Year	Nominated
	Myx Awards		Favourite International Video
	BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards	One Thing	Best British Single	Won
	MuchMusic Video Awards		International Video Of The Year -Group	Nominated
	MTV Video Music Awards	Starships	Best Female Video	Won
	Much Music Video Awards		International Video Of The Year	Nominated
	Q Awards		Best Video
	Soul Train Awards		Best Dance Performance
	Teen Choice Awards		Choice R&B/Hip-hop Song
	4Music Video Honours		Best Video
		Pound The Alarm
	UK Music Video Awards	Live While We're Young	People's Choice	Won
2013	Bravo Otto		Best International Song Of The Year
	Radio Disney Music Awards		Song Of The Year	Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards		Choice Music: Single - Group	Won
	MTV Video Music Awards Japan	What Makes You Beautiful	Best Group Video	Nominated
	Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards		Favourite Song	Won
	People's Choice Awards		Favourite Song
	Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Australia	One Thing	Aussie's Favourite Song
	Myx Music Awards		Favourite International Video
	Neox Fan Awards	Kiss You	Best Song Of The Year	Nominated
	Billboard Music Awards	Starships	Top Dance Song	Won
	BMI Pop Awards		-
	BMI Urban Awards		-
	MTV Platinum Video Plays Awards		-
	BMI London Awards		-
	Ascap Pop Music Awards		-
		What Makes You Beautiful	-
	BMI London Awards	Pound The Alarm	-

References

1. "ASCAP interview, August 9th, 2012". ascap.com. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
2. "Chatting It Up With: Carl Falk, August 9th, 2012". americansongwriter.com. 12 July 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
3. "Home". stim.se.
4. "4 SNABBA med Carl Falk – dubbelt nominerad i Musikförläggarnas pris". 3 October 2012.
5. "Nominerade till Musikförläggarnas Pris 2013". October 2013.
6. "Musikexportpris till Avicii och ABBA".