David Jost

David Jost
Born 12 August 1972
Hamburg, Germany
Genres Pop, rock, dance, electronica
Occupation(s) Songwriter, producer, music executive, remixer
Associated acts Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, Tokio Hotel, Limp Bizkit, Selena Gomez, Nelly Furtado, Keri Hilson, Aura Dione, Adam Lambert,
Website DavidJost.com

David Jost (born 12 August 1972) is an international music producer, singer-songwriter and DJ, born in Hamburg, Germany.[1] His career as an international songwriter, music producer and remixer has a track record of 74 platinum & 108 gold records and 14 No. 1 hits.[2] He has worked with platinum selling artist including Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, Tokio Hotel, Limp Bizkit, Selena Gomez, Nelly Furtado, Keri Hilson, Aura Dione, and Adam Lambert. For Tokio Hotel, David Jost has composed, produced and mixed six platinum selling #1 Hit Singles and three platinum selling #1 albums, he also has developed the band and is managing them.[3] Tokio Hotel became the biggest international rock band to come out of Germany within two decades.[4][5] Jost's work with Tokio Hotel lead to 87 media-awards,[6] including 4 MTV European Music Awards, the MTV Video Music award Japan,[7] 4 MTV Latin Music Awards including song of the year for "Monsoon"[8] and also the US MTV Video Music Award (Moonman).[9] Even though Jost managed several careers of big media artists, he only rarely answers interviews for the press and is known for principally never giving TV interviews.[10] For his work as a songwriter, Jost was named Germany's best songwriter (Rock & Pop) by the GEMA (the German equivalent to the ASCAP/BMI).[11] Jost is currently working in his Los Angeles[12] studios.[13]

Songwriter, producer and remixer

David Jost wrote Selena Gomez's song "Love Will Remember".[14] Along with Gomez's new album "Stars Dance",[15] Jost's composition went straight to No. 1 in the U.S. Billboard charts on August 1, 2013.[16] Jost wrote the song together with his production partners Rock Mafia and Gomez herself.[17] Jost continued collaborating with Rock Mafia, co-writing Gomez's song 'Love Will Remember' for her 2013 release 'Stars Dance'. For Grammy winning[18] urban artist Chris Brown David Jost wrote and co-produced the song "Nobody's Perfect"[19] which is featured on Brown's album named "X", in collaboration with Chris Brown, Lukas Hilbert, Showtek, K.C. Livingston. He co-wrote and co-produced the song 'Summertrain' from Grayson Chance's album Hold On 'til the Night. Together with Neue Deutsche Welle icons,[20] Inga Humpe, and Tommi Eckart, Jost wrote and produced 'Bei Dir Bin Ich Schön' which is set as the lead single of the upcoming album of Berlin’s[21] indie-elektro band 2Raumwohnung.[22] He also co-wrote two more songs off their Achtung fertig album - 'Ein neues Gefuhl' and 'Bye Bye Bye'. David co-wrote song 'Wenn du Liebst' for Adel Tawil's first solo album 'Lieder' released on November 8, 2013. David is credited co-writer on Marlon Roudette's song 'Hearts Pull' off Marlon's 2014 album 'Electric Soul'. For Timbaland signed Keri Hilson, David Jost composed and produced the platinum selling # 1 hit single "I Like",[23] which became Hilson's first #1 hit in Germany ever.[24] For Lady Gaga, David Jost produced the "Born This Way (Jost & Naaf Remix)",[25] which was included as the only remix on the over 7 million selling international version of Gaga's album Born This Way.[26] In 2011 David produced a radio mix of GAGA’s single "Marry the Night (David Jost Twin Radio Mix)".[27] Right after David Jost produced a remix for Limp Bizkit's single Shotgun, he composed, produced and mixed the multiple platinum selling #1 hit single Geronimo with Aura Dione and Joacim Persson.[28][29] The song reached the #1 in the radio charts for several weeks and already sold 6 times platinum in European territories. Dione's second single "Friends" of her hit album "Before the Dinosaurs" is written by Aura Dione and David Jost and is produced by David Jost and Rock Mafia. The single got recently released[30] and reached the official German radio charts #1.[31] Furthermore, Heidi Klum has chosen David Jost's composition "Girls Beautiful",[32] as the title song for the last "Next Topmodel" season. On top of that David Jost produced and mixed "Girls Beautiful". Madaline Juno's 2014 album The Unknow included 3 songs co-written by David Jost - 'Feel You', 'Error' and 'Do It Again'. David is credited on another 2014 release - Megalomania by the band Kissin' Dynamite, for which he co-wrote the song 'Deadly', together with Patrick Benzner, Desmond Child, and Dave Roth.

Together with Tokio Hotel's lead singer Bill Kaulitz, Jost composed the multi platinum selling #1 hit single Monsoon, as well as producing and mixing it. "Monsoon" was awarded multiple times worldwide, including winning "Best Song of the Year" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica.[33] In addition to "Monsoon", Jost produced five more #1 hit singles by Tokio Hotel that went platinum, as well as Tokio Hotel's multi-platinum selling #1 Album "Scream",[34][35] which was awarded gold and platinum worldwide, and two more #1 platinum awarded international albums[36] for Tokio Hotel.

Soundtracks

Jost also contributed songs for movie soundtracks. The song "Strange", co-written by Jost and performed by Tokio Hotel and Kerli, was included on the album Almost Alice, a concept album of various artists' music inspired by Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland.[37] He also co-wrote the song "By your Side"[38] which was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Prom Night[39]. Prom Night was ranked number 1 in US box office sales.[40][41] The song "I like", sung by Keri Hilson and co-written by Jost, became the title song of Til Schweiger's[42] feature film Zweiohrküken.[43] The song "Half a Dream Away" performed by Blind was used in the soundtrack of the German movie "Gangs" (2009).[44] For the German blockbuster movie "Schlussmacher"[45] by director, star and contributing screenwriter Matthias Schweighöfer,[46] Jost co-wrote the title song Hurt Lovers for the British band Blue.[47] In addition to that Jost composed music for TV campaigns of various brands including BMW, Mercedes, Veltins[48] and Verizon/Motorola. Jost's composition "Human connect to human" was selected for Verizon's US campaign to introduce their Motorola Droid phone.[49]

Early life

At the age of 12, Jost started breakdancing, DJing, painting graffiti. In 1986, he won the German Breakdance Championships. In the 1990s, Jost worked in collaboration with several German musicians such as Franz Plasa,[50] Michel Van Dyke,[51] Stefan Knoess,[52] Andreas Herbig,[53] etc. ... on several projects like Neil Hickethier,[54] Glass,[55] Bed and Breakfast,[56] Ian O'Brien-Docker[57] (Totally Alright[58]). Together with Dave Roth Jost produced remixes for Faith Hill, The Doors, The Corrs, Mötley Crüe, and Jewel.[59][60] Furthermore, Jost and Roth wrote the song 'Undone' performed by Swiss singer Patrick Nuo,[61][62] as well as the song 'Joyride'[63] used for a TV commercial of the German beer brand Veltins.[64]

References

  1. ↑ "Hamburger Morgenpost Article "Hamburgs Hit-Macher"". Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Kobalt Music Publishing" (PDF). Kobaltmusic.com. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Focus Magazine Article". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "BILD Newspaper Article". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "Starflash Magazine Article". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "Official Tokio Hotel Fanclub Awards Collection". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  7. ↑ "Official MTV Japan Blog "2011 VMAJ Winners"". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  8. ↑ "Spiegel online Article "Bester Song Tokio Hotel siegen bei MTV-Latino-Awards"". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  9. ↑ "MTV US Past VMA Winners And Their Moonmen". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "David Jost - Hit-Maker". www.mopo.de. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  11. ↑ "Official GEMA Blog Entry "Deutscher Musikautoren Preis 2010"". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  12. ↑ "EMI Publishing Press release: Tokio Hotel Produzent DAVID JOST erreicht mit dem Hit "I LIKE", von Keri Hilson Goldstatus" (PDF). EMI Publishing. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  13. ↑ "David Jost brings Pop Siren into the charts". Hamburger Morgenpost. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "All Music News "Love Will Remember"". Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  15. ↑ "Billboard "Selena Gomez Reveals 'Stars Dance' Album Cover and Track List"". Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  16. ↑ "Selena Gomez Knocks Jay Z From Top of Billboard 200 With First No. 1 Album". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  17. ↑ "All Music News "Love Will Remember"". Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  18. ↑ "Official The Grammy "And The GRAMMY Went To …"". Grammy.com. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  19. ↑ "Discogs". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  20. ↑ "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Article "2Raumwohnung das Gute an der Neuen Deutschen Welle"". Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  21. ↑ "Monsters And Critics "2raumwohnung – Musiker"". Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  22. ↑ "HR Radio Online News "2raumwohnung – Bei dir bin ich schön VÖ: 16. August 2013"". Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  23. ↑ "BILD Article "Tokio-Hotel-Manager schrieb Zweiohrküken-Hit"". Bild.de. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  24. ↑ "Keri Hilson new Single-Charts No.1". Gfk Media Control. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  25. ↑ "Tokio Hotel discoverer writes Hit for Lady Gaga". Bild.de. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  26. ↑ "Lady Gaga Album Born this Way International Version: Tracklist and credits". Discgos.com. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  27. ↑ "Lady Gaga Marry The Night track list". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  28. ↑ "Aura Dione Geronimo Credits and track list". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  29. ↑ "Article Joacim Persson: Nu är det dags att byta attityd Robyn". Afton Bladet Sweden. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  30. ↑ "Aura Dione is going to release her new single Friends beginning of March". klatsch-tratsch.de.
  31. ↑ "Universal Music Press Release" Archived 18 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 April 2012
  32. ↑ "Music: Bullmeister singing for pretty girls". Focus.de. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  33. ↑ "Spiegel online Article "Bester Song Tokio Hotel siegen bei MTV-Latino-Awards"". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  34. ↑ "Tokio Hotel Album Scream credits and tracklist". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  35. ↑ "Tokio Hotel Album Schrei credits and tracklist". Discgos.com. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  36. ↑ "Overview of all relevant Tokio Hotel releases". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  37. ↑ "Tokio Hotel, Avril Lavigne Confirmed For 'Alice In Wonderland' Soundtrack". mtv.com. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  38. ↑ "Tokio Hotel – Scream". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  39. ↑ "Soundtracks for Prom Night". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  40. ↑ ""Prom Night" eyes box office crown". www.reuters.com. 11 April 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  41. ↑ "Prom Night (2008)". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  42. ↑ "Til Schweiger films "Zweiohrküken"". focus.de. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  43. ↑ "Tokio Hotel manager wrote "Zweiohrküken"-Hit". bild.de. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  44. ↑ "Gangs (2009) - Soundtracks - IMDb".
  45. ↑ "Stern Article on Schlussmacher Movie". Stern. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  46. ↑ Webster, Andy (29 November 2012). "NY Times Article Featuring Matthias Schweihöfer's work". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  47. ↑ "Discgogs Credits 'Hurt Lovers'". Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  48. ↑ "Kobalt Publishing International Press Release". Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  49. ↑ "Motorola Droid Commercial - Human?". youtube.com. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  50. ↑ "Discogs.com "Collaboration with Franz Plaza on Marlon"". Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  51. ↑ "CD Universe "Collaboration with Michele Van Dyke on Venus"". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  52. ↑ "AustrianCharts.at "Collaboration with Stefan Knoes on Patrick Nuo"". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  53. ↑ "Discogs.com "Collaboration with Andreas Herbig on Neil Hickethier"". Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  54. ↑ "Discogs.com "Collaboration with Neil Hickethier"". Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  55. ↑ "Youtube "Glass Music Video and Descricption"". Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  56. ↑ "Discogs.com "CD Credits Deep in My Mind"". Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  57. ↑ "Discogs "Album info Ian O'Brien-Docker"". Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  58. ↑ "Youtube.com "Ian O'Brien-Docker music video for : Totally Alright"". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  59. ↑ "Hybridmagazin.com Article "Introduction of the Tokio Hotel producers and their former projects"". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  60. ↑ "Kobalt Publishing "Kobalt publishing press release"". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  61. ↑ "Youtube.com "Music video for Undone"". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  62. ↑ "Discogs.com "CD credits Undone"". Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  63. ↑ "Youtube.com "Veltins campaign spot including song "Joyride""". Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  64. ↑ "Top.de "Article featuring Jost's work for Veltins"". Retrieved 7 July 2013.


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