Shellback
Shellback in 2015
Shellback in 2015
Background information
Birth nameKarl Johan Schuster
Born (1985-02-01) 1 February 1985
OriginKarlshamn, Sweden
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Record producer
  • songwriter
  • multi-instrumentalist
Instrument(s)
Years active2003–present
Websiteshellbackmusic.com

Karl Johan Schuster (Swedish: [ˈjûːan ˈɧʏ̌sːtɛr]; born 1 February 1985), known professionally as Shellback, is a Swedish record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Shellback was listed as the No. 1 producer of 2012 on Billboard magazine's year end chart, and he also topped the list of their "Top 10 Songwriters Airplay Chart" the same year; he has won four Grammy Awards.

He regularly collaborates with songwriter Max Martin and together they have produced, written, or co-written songs for various artists such as P!nk, Taylor Swift, Adam Lambert, Britney Spears, Usher, Avril Lavigne, Ariana Grande, Adele and Maroon 5. Shellback has also collaborated with fellow producer Benny Blanco and has produced songs by himself, including "Want U Back" by Cher Lloyd and "Animals" by Maroon 5. He co-wrote and co-produced the song "Can't Stop the Feeling!" along with Martin and Justin Timberlake for the animated film Trolls (2016), earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2017.

Life and career

Karl Johan Schuster was born and raised in Karlshamn, Sweden. He started as a drummer in local indie rock bands in Karlshamn, as well as recording all instruments on the 2003 Meriah demo ...Turn Him Your Other Cheek (a strictly black metal recording), before joining the hardcore-metal scene as a vocalist in 2004 for Blinded Colony, with whom he recorded 2005's Promo Demo and 2006's Bedtime Prayers, drawing comparisons to fellow Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames, before leaving in 2007. In 2005 he also performed as a guest musician on the Faith album Sorg.

At the age of 16, Schuster met Max Martin through their mutual friend Julius. By that time, according to an interview in the Swedish music magazine Stim-magasinet, Schuster's taste in music was "too cool for school" and he had no interest in pop music whatsoever. Julius kept sending Schuster's indie rock-death metal demos to Martin, who became curious about what it would sound like if Schuster would make pop music. So in 2006 Martin invited Schuster to his studio in Stockholm to record a demo with him, and since 2007 Schuster has been signed to Martin's production company Maratone.[1]

Among the first songs Schuster co-wrote with Martin are Pink's 2008 single "So What" and Britney Spears' 2008 single "If U Seek Amy".[2] In 2012 Schuster won the STIM Platinum guitar prize.[3] In 2014, Schuster produced "Problem" alongside Martin and Ilya.[4] In 2015, Shellback collaborated with Swedish hardcore punk band Refused, as he is both a fan of the band's music and friends with the band's drummer David Sandstrom. Sandstrom sent him the versions of the songs "Elektra" and "366" that Refused had recorded with producer Nick Launay, and Shellback replied with his own arrangements of the two songs. Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzen explained in June 2015 that Shellback's versions were "far more Refused than our versions" and "were better" than the Launay-produced versions. The two songs appear on Refused's comeback album Freedom—"Elektra" was released as a single on 27 April 2015—which was released on the label Epitaph Records on 26 June 2015.[5]

Discography

With Meriah
  • ...Turn Him Your Other Cheek (Demo) (2003)
With Blinded Colony
As a guest musician

Production discography

Year Title Artist and album Co-writer Producer or co-producer
2008 "If U Seek Amy" Britney Spears – Circus check
"I'm Gone I'm Going" Lesley Roy – Unbeautiful check
"Boring" Pink – Funhouse check
"It's All Your Fault" check
"So What" check
2009 "Oxygen" Living Things – Habeas Corpus check check
"Bigger" Backstreet Boys – This Is Us check
"3" Britney Spears – The Singles Collection check check
"Quitter" Carrie Underwood – Play On check
"Friday I'll Be Over U" Allison Iraheta – Just Like You check check
"Just Like You" check check
"Outta My Head" Leona Lewis – Echo check check
"Naked" check check
"Whataya Want from Me" Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment check check
"If I Had You" check check
2010 "Kiss n Tell" Kesha – Animal check check
"Hungover" check check
"Party at a Rich Dude's House" check check
"Dinosaur" check check
"DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" Usher – Versus check check
"Raise Your Glass" Pink – Greatest Hits... So Far!!! check check
"Fuckin' Perfect" check check
"Time Machine" Robyn – Body Talk check check
2011 "Can't Find Entrance" Those Dancing Days – Daydreams & Nightmares check check
"Loser like Me" Glee cast – Glee: The Music, Volume 5 check check
"Dancing Crazy" Miranda Cosgrove – High Maintenance check check
"I'll Survive You" BC Jean – Single check check
"Back 2 Life" E-Type – Single check check
"What the Hell" Avril Lavigne – Goodbye Lullaby check check
"Wish You Were Here" check check
"Smile" check check
"I Love You" check check
"I Wanna Go" Britney Spears – Femme Fatale check check
"Criminal" check check
"Up n' Down" check check
"Light Up the World" Glee cast – Glee: The Music, Volume 6 check check
"Moves like Jagger" (feat. Christina Aguilera) Maroon 5 – Hands All Over check check
"Beggin' on Your Knees" Victorious cast – Victorious check check
"No More Secrets" Carolina Liar – Wild Blessed Freedom check check
"Me and You" check check
"Beautiful People" check check
"King of Broken Hearts" check check
"Salvation" check check
"All That Comes Out of My Mouth" check check
"Want U Back" Cher Lloyd – Sticks + Stones check check
"With Ur Love" check check
"Beautiful People" check check
"She Doesn't Mind" Sean Paul – Tomahawk Technique check check
2012 "Payphone" (feat. Wiz Khalifa) Maroon 5 – Overexposed check check
"One More Night" check check
"Doin' Dirt" check check
"Scream" Usher – Looking for Myself check check
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" Taylor Swift – Red check check
"I Knew You Were Trouble" check check
"22" check check
"Slut Like You" P!nk – The Truth About Love check check
"Your Body" Christina Aguilera – Lotus check check
"Let There Be Love" check check
"Kiss You" One Direction – Take Me Home check
"Heart Attack" check check
"Nobody Compares" check check
"All That Matters (The Beautiful Life)" Kesha – Warrior check check
2013 "Release You" Megan & Liz – Look What You Started check check
"Easier To Lie" Cassadee Pope – Frame by Frame check check
"On a Roll" Icona Pop – This Is... Icona Pop check check
"That High" (feat. Kelly Rowland) Pitbull – Meltdown check
2014 "Air Balloon" Lily Allen – Sheezus check check
"I Wish" (feat. T.I.) Cher Lloyd – Sorry I'm Late check check
"Just Be Mine" check check
"Dirty Love" check check
"Blind Your Love" check check
"Killing It" check check
"I'm in Love" Ola Svensson – Carelessly Yours check check
"Tonight I'm Yours" check check
"Jackie Kennedy" check check
"Problem" (feat. Iggy Azalea) Ariana Grande – My Everything check
"Animals" Maroon 5 – V check check
"In Your Pocket" check check
"Feelings" check check
"Shoot Love" check check
"Blank Space" Taylor Swift – 1989 check check
"Style" check check
"All You Had to Do Was Stay" check
"Shake It Off" check check
"Bad Blood" check check
"Wildest Dreams" check check
"How You Get the Girl" check check
"Wonderland" check check
"New Romantics" check check
"Talking Body" Tove Lo – Queen of the Clouds check check
2015 "Bad Blood" (feat. Kendrick Lamar) Taylor Swift – Non-album single check check
"Elektra" Refused – Freedom check check
"366" check check
"This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker" Maroon 5 – V (reissue) check check
"The Original High" Adam Lambert – The Original High check check
"Rumors" (feat. Tove Lo) check check
"Evil in the Night" check check
"Run Away with Me" Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion check check
"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" Adele – 25 check check
"Rest Your Love" The Vamps – Wake Up check check
2016 "Just Like Fire" Pink – Alice Through the Looking Glass check check
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" Justin Timberlake – Trolls: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack check check
"Hair Up" check check
"Still Falling For You" Ellie Goulding – Bridget Jones's Baby check check
2017 "Bon Appétit" (feat. Migos) Katy Perry – Witness check check
"Roulette" check check
"Revenge" (feat. Eminem) Pink – Beautiful Trauma check check
"Whatever You Want" check check
"Secrets" check check
"...Ready for It?" Taylor Swift – Reputation check check
"Gorgeous" check check
"End Game" (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) check check
"I Did Something Bad" check check
"Don't Blame Me" check check
"Delicate" check check
"So It Goes..." check check
"King of My Heart" check check
"Dancing with Our Hands Tied" check check
2018 "Get Up and Fight" Muse – Simulation Theory check check
2019 "I Don't Care" (with Justin Bieber) Ed Sheeran – No.6 Collaborations Project check check
''Beautiful People'' (feat. Khalid) check check
''Take Me Back to London'' (feat. Stormzy) check
''Remember the Name'' (feat. Eminem and 50 Cent) check check
''Only Human'' Jonas Brothers – Happiness Begins check check
"(Hey Why) Miss You Sometime" P!nk – Hurts 2B Human check check
''Glad He's Gone'' Tove Lo – Sunshine Kitty check check
2020 ''X'' Jonas Brothers – XV check check
"Diamonds" Sam Smith – Love Goes check check
"Call Me Tonight " Ava Max – Heaven & Hell check check
2021 "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor's Version) check check
"I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift – Red (Taylor's Version) check check
"22 (Taylor's Version)" check check
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor's Version)" check check
"Message in a Bottle" check check
"Can I Get It" Adele – 30 check check
2023 "Eyes Closed" Ed Sheeran – - check check
"Blank Space (Taylor's Version)" Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor's Version) check
"Style (Taylor's Version)" check
"Shake It Off (Taylor's Version)" check
"Bad Blood (Taylor's Version)" check
"How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)" check
"Wonderland (Taylor's Version)" check
"New Romantics (Taylor's Version)" check
"Bad Blood (Taylor's Version)" (feat. Kendrick Lamar) check

Billboard Hot 100

The following singles peaked inside the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.

Number-one singles
  • "So What"
  • "3"
  • "Raise Your Glass"
  • "Moves like Jagger"
  • "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
  • "One More Night"
  • "Shake It Off"
  • "Blank Space"
  • "Bad Blood"
  • "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
Top 10 Hits
  • "Whataya Want from Me"
  • "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love"
  • "Fuckin' Perfect"
  • "Loser Like Me"
  • "I Wanna Go"
  • "Payphone"
  • "Scream"
  • "I Knew You Were Trouble"
  • "Problem"
  • "Animals"
  • "Style"
  • "Wildest Dreams"
  • "Just like Fire"
  • "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"
  • "...Ready for It?"
  • "I Don't Care"

Awards

Grammy Awards[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Maratone". Maratone official website. maratone.se. Archived from the original on 27 January 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
  2. ↑ Eigert, Av Ann-Marie (6 November 2008). "Pink hyllade svenske Johan". Expressen (in Swedish). AB Kvällstidningen Expressen. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  3. ↑ "There is value in music". Stim.se. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "How Ariana Grande and Max Martin Made 'Problem' the Song of the Summer". Rolling Stone. 22 May 2014. Archived from the original on 7 April 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Lamington23 (24 June 2014). "Refused on lying, selling out and Taylor Swift". FasterLouder. FasterLouder Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Shellback". GRAMMY.com. Recording Academy. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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