Emily Warren
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Emily Warren Schwartz |
| Born |
August 25, 1992 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
| Labels | Prescription (Rx) Songs |
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Emily Warren Schwartz (born August 25, 1992), also known simply as Emily Warren, is an American singer and songwriter signed to Dr. Luke's label Prescription Songs. She is best known for the songs she has written for several high-profile pop artists, including The Chainsmokers, Dua Lipa, Frenship, Sean Paul, Melanie Martinez, and Shawn Mendes.
Early life and education
Warren was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she attended the preparatory school Trinity, from kindergarten through high school. From an early age, she had a penchant for the creative and performed regularly with her band, Emily Warren & the Betters (members Etienne Bowler and Marc Campbell went on to form part of the pop band MisterWives).[1] A single from The Betters EP, Not at All, was featured on the soundtrack of MTV's short-lived series, Skins.[2][3] She was accepted into the NYU Tisch School/Clive Davis Institute in 2011 and offered a songwriter's contract with Prescription (Rx) Songs in 2013. In 2015 Warren graduated from the university and began splitting her time between Los Angeles and London.[4]
Music career
Beginnings
After signing with Dr. Luke, Warren disbanded the Betters and spent a year in LA. Soon after her arrival, she co-wrote "Masterpiece", the third single on pop artist Jessie J's album, Sweet Talker. "Masterpiece" debuted at number 30 on the US Mainstream Top 40 and number 65 on Billboard Hot 100,[5] it was also certified gold in Australia and New Zealand.[6][7] Following the success of that release, Warren eventually teamed up with longtime friend and collaborator Scott Harris to co-write four songs from Shawn Mendes' platinum-selling album, Handwritten: "Strings", "Aftertaste", "Air" and "Lost". September 18, 2015 marked the release of The Chainsmokers' and Tritonal's "Until You Were Gone", which featured Warren's lead vocals. Her performance was immediately praised by Nylon, which wrote: "Her delivery is filled with a longing that packs a strong punch."[8] Additionally, The Chainsmokers hailed Warren as "one of the best songwriters and vocalists that they had ever worked with".[9] Shortly after, Warren teamed up again with Scott Harris and together they wrote "Don't Let Me Down" with The Chainsmokers, which reached number 3 and went on to reach triple platinum in the United States. It was both The Chainsmokers and Daya's first top 5 on Billboard Hot 100. Don't Let Me Down was also nominated and won a Grammy in 2017 for Best Dance Recording. Around the same time, Warren co-wrote and featured vocals on viral hit "Capsize" with Los Angeles duo Frenship, which is certified platinum and has surpassed 400 million streams on Spotify (115 million of which were acquired prior to its radio impact date).
When interviewed by the online music publication Smashed about her writing process, Warren stated: "I think that sometimes songwriting, especially for pop, is viewed as a factory or an assembly line process, and I have to challenge that... I think that good songwriting has a real art to it, and I don’t just mean the profound or thought-provoking ones. Even most of the light-hearted, straight-up pop ones are masterfully written–sometimes even harder to write."[10] Warren's express mission as a writer and artist is to create pop music that has the conceptual backing to influence positive social change. In a Tisch interview, she states: "What excites me about this field is that pop music can be an incredibly powerful and crucial platform for influence and change."[4] She also has uncredited vocals on The Chainsmokers' track "Paris" from their debut album Memories... Do Not Open.[11][12] She quotes "I think for the first song introducing their album, they just wanted it to be a Chainsmokers thing and not featuring anyone." The Chainsmokers felt it would be best to release it as a single without any features because it would promote their new album. Although she did not receive credit for the vocals she believed it all worked out and quotes: "It ended up kinda working out for the best 'cause there was all this mystery of who was singing it!"[13]
Artist
Warren's beginnings as an artist came with the release of American pop duo Frenship's single, "Capsize". Warren not only co-wrote the viral hit, but also performed as a featured vocalist. She made her first televised appearance performing "Capsize" with the duo on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on December 8, 2016.[14]
On April 7, 2017, American electronic pop duo The Chainsmokers released their debut album, Memories...Do Not Open. Warren was credited as a writer on four songs, including "The One", "Don't Say", "My Type" and "Wake Up Alone". She was additionally featured as lead vocalist on "Don't Say" and "My Type" and provided uncredited backup vocals on "Paris".[15] She was announced as a special guest on the duo's American "Memories...Do Not Open" tour and appeared with them for a performance of "Paris" on the April 8, 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live.[16] The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart.[17]
On May 5, 2017, Warren released her debut single, "Hurt By You", which landed on both the US Viral and Global Viral charts on Spotify. On July 21, 2017, Warren released her second single, "Something To Hold On To", which was also featured on Spotify's New Music Friday playlist. Her most recent single, "Poking Holes", was released on October 12, 2017.
On November 14, 2017, Warren was named as one of the Forbes 30 under 30 in the music industry.[18] The list, according to Forbes, is an "annual encyclopedia of creative disruption featuring 600 stars from 20 different industries."[19] Skylar Grey, one of the judges on the panel that selected Ms. Warren, said she was selected in part because, "Her sound and style of writing is so fresh, and I find a lot of other writers trying to emulate it. She’s young, but she’s been in the game for a while, so this isn’t some flash-in-the-pan writer. I think she’ll be killing it for a long time."[20]
Discography
Studio albums
| Quiet Your Mind | ||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
| 1. | "How It Ends" |
| Mac & Phil | |
| 2. | "The Point" |
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| 3. | "Say It" |
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| 4. | "Poking Holes" |
| Ruth | |
| 5. | "Something to Hold On To" |
| Mac & Phil | |
| 6. | "Just Click" |
| Shatkin | |
| 7. | "As Long as I'm Alive" |
| Mac & Phil | |
| 8. | "Like That" |
| Mac & Phil | |
| 9. | "Paranoid" |
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| 10. | "Hurt By You" |
| Ruth | |
| 11. | "Not Ready to Dance" |
| Scott Harris | |
| Total length: | TBA | |||
Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||
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| US [21] |
AUS [22] |
CAN [23] |
NOR [24] |
SWE [25] |
UK [26] | |||
| "Capsize" (with Frenship) |
2016 | 78 | 17 | 56 | 11 | 20 | 59 | Truce |
| "Hurt By You" |
2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Quiet Your Mind |
| "Something to Hold on To" |
— | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Poking Holes" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Paranoid" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||
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| US [21] |
US Dance [27] |
AUS [28] |
CAN [23] |
SWE [25] |
UK [26] | |||
| "Until You Were Gone" (The Chainsmokers and Tritonal featuring Emily Warren) |
2015 | — | 21 | — | — | — | — | Bouquet |
| "Phone Down" (Lost Kings featuring Emily Warren) |
2016 | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Side Effects" (The Chainsmokers featuring Emily Warren) |
2018 | 66 | 7 | 61 | 39 | 100 | 66 | Side Effects...This Feeling |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||
Other charted songs
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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| US Bub. [29] |
US Dance [30] |
CAN [31] | |||
| "My Type" (The Chainsmokers featuring Emily Warren) |
2017 | 17 | 14 | 66 | Memories...Do Not Open |
| "Don't Say" (The Chainsmokers featuring Emily Warren) |
— | 19 | 63 | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||
Songwriting credits
| Year | Artist | Album | Song | Co-written with |
| 2018 | Brett Young | Ticket to L.A. | "Reason to Stay" | Brett Young, Jonathan Nite, Jimmy Robbins |
| Sigrid | TBA | "Sucker Punch" | Sigrid Raabe, Martin Sjølie | |
| LANY | Malibu Nights | "If You See Her" | Paul Klein, David Pramik | |
| The Chainsmokers | TBA | "This Feeling" (feat. Kelsea Ballerini) | Drew Taggart, Alex Pall | |
| David Guetta | 7 | "Say My Name" (with Bebe Rexha and J Balvin) | Pierre Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Sia Furler, Marco Masis, Alejandro Rodriguez, Alejandro Ramierz, Bleta Rexha, Nicholas Seeley, Brittany Burton, Matthew Holmes, Philip Leigh, Thomas Troelsen, Jose Balvin, Jesus Cortes | |
| The Chainsmokers | TBA | "Side Effects" (feat. Emily Warren) | Sly, Corey Sanders, Drew Taggart, Tony Ann | |
| Chelsea Jade | Personal Best | "Pitch Dark" | Sam de Jong, Ecca Vandal | |
| Galantis | TBA | "Satisfied" featuring MAX | Christian Karlsson, Linus Eklow, Jimmy "Svidden" Koitzsch, Henrik Jonback, Joshua Coleman, Joseph Spargur, Scott Harris, Maxwell Schneider | |
| Theia | Non-Album single | "Bad Idea" | Emma Haley Walker, Jacob Zachary Grant, Sukhdeep Singh Bhogal | |
| Bebe Rexha | Expectations | "Don't Get Any Closer" | Bleta Rexha, Jussi Karvinen, Scott Harris | |
| Taeyeon | Something New | "Baram X3" | Karen Poole, Sonny J Mason | |
| Jason Mraz | Know. | "Unlonely" | Jason Mraz, Scott Harris, Andrew Wells | |
| Era Istrefi | TBA | "Prisoner" | Scott Harris, Maor Levi | |
| Anne-Marie | Speak Your Mind | "Trigger" | Scott Harris, Chris Loco | |
| JT Roach | Non-Album single | "Symmetry" featuring Emily Warren | JT Roach | |
| The Chainsmokers | TBA | "Somebody" featuring Drew Love | Drew Taggart, Drew Love | |
| Sigrid | Raw EP | "High Five" | Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, Martin Sjølie | |
| Matt Simons | TBA | "We can Do Better" | Matt Simons, Scott Harris, Dan Romer, Mike Tuccillo | |
| The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy EP | "Everybody Hates Me" | Drew Taggart | |
| "You Owe Me" | Drew Taggart, Alex Pall, Chelsea Jade | |||
| Sean Paul & David Guetta | Mad Love the Prequel | "Mad Love (featuring Becky G)" | Sean Paul, David Guetta, Shakira, Raoul Chen, Ina Wroldsen, Giorgio Tuinfort, Rosina Russell, Jack Patterson, 1st Klase, Banx & Ranx, Jason Henriques | |
| Josie Dunne | Non-Album single | "Old School" | Josie Dunne, Ryan Ogren, Nick Bailey | |
| The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy EP | "Sick Boy" | Drew Taggart, Alex Pall, Tony Ann | |
| 2017 | Jacob Sartorius | Non-Album singles | "Cozy" | The Futuristics, Steph Jones |
| Frank Walker | "Piano (featuring Emily Warren)" | Andrew Jackson, Fred Ball (producer) | ||
| Filous | For Love EP | "Already Gone (featuring Emily Warren)" | Scott Harris, Matthias Oldofredi | |
| Rationale | Rationale | "Into the Blue" | Tinashe Fazakerley, Mark Crew | |
| Charli XCX | TBA | "Boys" | Ingrid Andress, Cass Lowe, Michael Pollack, Ari Leff, Jerker Hansson | |
| Mitch James | Non-Album singles | "All the Ways to Say Goodbye" | Mitch James, Nik Brinkman, Sam de Jong | |
| Audien, 3LAU | "Hot Water" (featuring Victoria Zaro) | Scott Harris, Jasmine Thompson, Ido Zmishlany | ||
| Dua Lipa | Dua Lipa | "New Rules" | Ian Kirkpatrick, Caroline Ailin | |
| COIN | How Will You Know If You Never Try | "Are We Alone" | Chase Lawrence, Joe Memmel, Ryan, Zach | |
| "I Don't Wanna Dance" | Chase Lawrence, Joe Memmel, Teddy Geiger | |||
| Alessia Cara | The Get Down Part II Soundtrack | "The Other Side" (Alessia Cara Version) | Scott Harris | |
| Noah Cyrus | Non-Album single | "Stay Together" | Britt Burton, Digital Farm Animals | |
| The Chainsmokers | Memories...Do Not Open | "The One" | Scott Harris, Drew Taggart | |
| "Don't Say" (featuring Emily Warren) | Drew Taggart, Imad Royal, Joni Fatora, Brenton Duvall | |||
| "My Type" (featuring Emily Warren) | Britt Burton, Drew Taggart | |||
| "Wake Up Alone" (featuring Jhené Aiko) | Scott Harris, Drew Taggart | |||
| James Blunt | The Afterlove | "Someone Singing Along" | James Blunt, Steve Robson | |
| Little Mix | Glory Days: Platinum Edition | "No More Sad Songs" (featuring Machine Gun Kelly) | The Electric, Tash Phillips | |
| 2016 | Molly Kate Kestner | Non-Album singles | "Good Die Young" | Molly Kate Kestner, Nick Ruth |
| Naughty Boy | Bungee Jumping | "Should've Been Me" (featuring Kyla and Popcaan) | James Murray, Shahid Khan, Mustafa Omer, Scott Harris, Kyla Reid, Andrae Sutherland | |
| Sean Paul | Mad Love the Prequel | "No Lie" (featuring Dua Lipa) | Sean Paul, Andrew Jackson, Pip Kembo, Sermstyle | |
| Little Mix | Glory Days | "Nobody Like You" | Steve Robson | |
| "No More Sad Songs" | The Electric, Tash Phillips | |||
| Lost Kings | Non-Album single | "Phone Down" (featuring Emily Warren) | Scott Harris, Phil Leigh, Matt Holmes, Norris Shanholtz, Robert Gainley | |
| Britt Nicole | Britt Nicole | "No Filter" | Britt Burton, Josh Alexander | |
| Ava Lily | Non-Album single | "Painkiller" | Lily Stokes, Shama Joseph | |
| Various Artists | The Get Down Soundtrack | "Just You, Not Now (Love Theme)" by Grace | Grace, Emile Haynie, Baz Luhrmann | |
| Chris Lane | Girl Problems | "Circles" (featuring Mackenzie Porter) | Danny Parker, Steph Jones, Joey Moi, Sno | |
| Astrid S | Astrid S | "Jump" | Astrid S, Nick Ruth | |
| "I Don't Wanna Know" | Astrid S, Nick Ruth | |||
| Andy Black | The Shadow Side | "Put The Gun Down" | Andy Biersack, John Feldmann | |
| Becky Hill | Non-Album single | "Back To My Love (ft. Little Simz)" | Becky Hill, Little Simz, Noah Breakfast | |
| Frenship | Truce | "Capsize" (featuring Emily Warren) | James Sunderland, Brett Hite, Babydaddy | |
| Skizzy Mars | Alone Together | "Girl on a Train" | Skizzy Mars, Scott Harris, Michael Keenan | |
| The Chainsmokers | Collage (EP) | "Don't Let Me Down" (featuring Daya) | Drew Taggart, Scott Harris | |
| Tiësto, Oliver Heldens | Non-Album single | "The Right Song" (featuring Natalie La Rose) | Scott Harris, Tiësto, Oliver Heldens | |
| 2015 | 5 Seconds of Summer | Sounds Good Feels Good | "Safety Pin" | John Feldmann, Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin |
| OMI | Me 4 U | "Drop in the Ocean" (featuring AronChupa) | Scott Harris, Oscar Scivier, AronChupa | |
| The Chainsmokers, Tritonal | Bouquet | "Until You Were Gone" | The YoungBoyz, The Chainsmokers, Tritonal, Jared Scharff | |
| Becky G | Non-Album single | "Break a Sweat" | Dr. Luke, Cirkut, J Kash, LunchMoney Lewis, Chloe Angelides | |
| Sophia Black | Sophia Black | "mizu" | Sophia Black, Aaron Joseph, Jon Castelli | |
| Melanie Martinez | Cry Baby | "Soap" | Melanie Martinez, Kyle Shearer | |
| Shawn Mendes | Handwritten | "Strings" | Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris | |
| "Aftertaste" | Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris | |||
| "Air" (featuring Astrid S) | Scott Harris | |||
| "Lost" | Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris, Joshua Grant | |||
| Katy Tiz | Non-Album single | "Whistle (While You Work It)" | Katy Tiz, Kinetics & One Love, J.R. Rotem | |
| Sleeping with Sirens | Madness | "Gold" | John Feldmann, Kellin Quinn | |
| "Heroine" | John Feldmann, Kellin Quinn | |||
| Fifth Harmony | Reflection | "Them Girls Be Like" | Britt Burton, James Abrahart, Victoria Monet, T-Collar | |
| 2014 | Niykee Heaton | Bad Intentions | "Sober" | Niykee Heaton, Michael Keenan |
| "Champagne" | Niykee Heaton, Nick Bailey, Ryan Ogren | |||
| "Skin Tight" | Niykee Heaton, Tommy Tysper | |||
| "Villa" | Niykee Heaton, Scott Harris, Keenan, SmarterChild | |||
| Nick & Knight | Nick & Knight | "If You Want It" | Nick Carter, Jordan Knight, Who is Fancy, Jeff Halatrax | |
| Jessie J | Sweet Talker | "Masterpiece" | Britt Burton, Josh Alexander | |
| "Ain't Been Done" | Scott Harris, David Gamson | |||
| Karmin | Pulses | "Gasoline" | Amy Heidemann, Nick Noonan, Kyle Shearer | |
| 2013 | Krewella | Get Wet | "Pass the Love Around" | Scott Harris, SmarterChild |
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ "Emily Warren". Rebel One. Archived from the original on October 23, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Artist Interview: Emily Warren and the Betters". MTV. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ Alford, Dan. "Review: Emily Warren and the Betters at Webster Hall". TheHuffingtonPost.com. Huffington Post. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- 1 2 "Emily Warren: Class of 2015". NYU: Tisch. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Jessie J – Chart history – Billboard". Retrieved January 30, 2017.
- ↑ "ARIA Australian Top 40 Urban Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
- ↑ "The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Retrieved January 30, 2017.
- ↑ Manders, Hayden. "The Chainsmokers' and Tritonal's New Song will get you Lit". Nylon Magazine. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ "TheChainsmokers on Twitter". September 17, 2015.
- ↑ Tanners, Jon. "Songwriting is Alchemy: The Secret Sauce behind Writing a Hit". Smashed. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Emily Warren Talks Working With The Chainsmokers, Singing on 'Paris'".
- ↑ Elizabeth, De. "Sorry, Selena Gomez Isn't Singing on the New Chainsmokers Song".
- ↑ Inc., Midwest Communications. "Emily Warren is The Chainsmokers' secret weapon". 95-5 WIFC. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
- ↑ "Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Jennifer Aniston, Tom Ford, Music from FRENSHIP". abc.go.com. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
- ↑ "Emily Warren Talks Working With The Chainsmokers, Singing on 'Paris'". Billboard. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ↑ "[WATCH} The Chainsmokers' Exuberant 'SNL' Performance of 'Paris" is Essentially a Remix". UPROXXX. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ↑ "The Chainsmokers Begin at #1 With Their Debut Album". Forbes. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ↑ "Emily Warren".
- ↑ "30 Under 30: 2018". Forbes.
- ↑ Greenburg, Zack O'Malley. "30 Under 30 Music: From Cardi B To Playboi Carti, The Class Of 2018".
- 1 2 "Emily Warren Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Search: Emily Warren". australian-charts.com. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- 1 2 "Emily Warren Chart History: Canadian Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Norwegian Charts Portal". Norwegiancharts.com. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
- 1 2 "Swedish Charts Portal". Swedishcharts.com. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
- 1 2 "Emily Warren | Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Emily Warren Chart History: Dance/Electronic Songs". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ↑ "ARIA Chart Watch #484". auspOp. August 4, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ↑ "The Chainsmokers – Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles history". Billboard. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
- ↑ "The Chainsmokers – Chart history – Billboard". www.billboard.com.
- ↑ "The Chainsmokers – Chart history – Billboard". www.billboard.com.
References
- "Emily Warren: Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- "Emily Warren (BMI)". SongHall: Songwriters Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- Mohammad "Hamada" Sherif. "Jessie J shares music video for new single, "Masterpiece"". Hamada Mania Music Blog. Retrieved August 2, 2015.