Artists & Writers

Third Day are a Southern Christian rock band from Atlanta, led by their lead singer and guitarist Mac Powell and another guitarist Mark Lee. The band played classic dramatic rock music, a sound that was able to appeal and cross over to people who didn’t usually listen to Christian Rock.

The band sold over 7 million albums in the US and achieved 28 Number One Christian album chart radio hits. Their second album Conspiracy No.5, their third album Time and their fourth album Offerings were all Grammy nominated releases in the Best Rock Gospel album category. Their next album Come Together actually won the Grammy for the Best Rock Gospel Album as did their 2004 release Wire.

In the spirit of bands like U2, the band played rousing and spiritual material. Stand out songs for the band include Soul On Fire, Your Words, Cry Out To Jesus and I Need A Miracle.

The-Dream is a true song writing talent, putting his skills to work for himself and outside artists. As an artist, his impressive successes include five studio albums, with key songs including Falsetto, I Luv Your Girl, Rockin’ That Sh**, and Shawty is Da Sh**. Alongside his artist career, he has written for artists like Britney Spears and then Rihanna, for whom he delivered the landmark song Umbrella, nominated for a Grammy for Song Of The Year in 2008. In 2008 he also co-wrote Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) for Beyoncé, which went on to win the Grammy for Song Of The Year and Best R&B Song. The-Dream has delivered dozens more global smashes for Beyoncé, Rihanna, Mariah Carey and Ciara, and indeed big hits for Justin Bieber with Baby (feat. Ludacris), Mi Gente for J Balvin, Kiss the Sky for Jason Derulo and Holy Grail for JAY-Z.

This group is a duo made of Andrew ‘Drew’ Taggart and Alexander ‘Alex’ Pall, who joined forces in New York City and began their career delivering remixes for indie bands. Their world exploded when their December 2013 track Selfie was unleashed on the world, a zeitgeist moment was caught, bundled up in the EDM sound of the time and accompanied by a super humorous star packed video which took this group into all corners of the globe. This was no fluke however, and across the next few years the band continued to deliver a host of high grade electronic pop songs, some of which included an incredible selection of artists, from Coldplay, to Bebe Rexha, to Jhene Aiko to 5SOS and Florida Georgia Line as well as their key writing partner Emily Warren. Closer, featuring Halsey stayed at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks in 2016, staying in the Top ten for over 32 weeks and was also a Number 1 single in the UK, and at least four tracks by the Chainsmokers are now close to or exceeding 1.5 billion streams.

The B-52’s were formed in Athens, Georgia in 1976. They emerged from the underground, rooted in surf music, kitsch fashion and a kaleidoscope of pop culture. They totally stood out in a new wave post punk landscape with their big hooks, dance friendly rock songs and their offbeat sensibilities. Four out of the five band members were on the LGBTQ spectrum.

They delivered a succession of wonderful pop singles, garnering them big support from the likes of John Lennon and David Byrne, and were serious live favourites at CBGBs and Maxs Kansas City on the downtown NYC live music scene.

Their Chris Blackwell produced self-titled album in 1979 featured the hits Rock Lobster and Dance This Mess Around and they delivered successive pop nuggets throughout the 80’s, peaking again with Cosmic Thing album in 1989. This included the song Love Shack which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Pop Performance in 1990, alongside another nomination for Best Pop Performance for Roam and a further nomination for Best Alternative Music Album for Good Stuff in 1992.

Geiger’s contribution to the career of Shawn Mendes has been sizeable. Stiches featured on Mendes’s 2015 album Essential. The track was initially a pre-order exclusive track but took on a life of its own, gave Mendes his first Top 10 single on the Billboard 100 and now has been streamed in excess of 1 billion times on Spotify alone.

Further billion streaming songs were then achieved on the songs Geiger created for the follow up album Illuminate, in 2017. The lead single from this album was Treat You Better, which gave Mendes another US Top ten single, followed by There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back and Mercy.

For Mendes’s third self-titled album in 2018, Geiger contributed the songs In My Blood, the lead single into the album and a track that was nominated for Song Of The Year at the Grammys. The other track was Lost In Japan, and both tracks have now accumulated over half a billion streams.