ALBIN NORDQVIST

Allround writer, producer (available for vocals and rap)

Albin examined from acclaimed Swedish songwriting academy ”Musikmakarna” in 2016, and after initial internship with Cosmos Music in Stockholm he inked a publishing deal with them and moved into their studio complex to immediately start hammering away beats and songs with the aim to make it on the Asian pop market.

His first release as writer/producer was  with the debut single “Fanfare” for Korean boy band SF9 (FNC Ent.) in 2016 which was a top5 hit in both South Korea and Japan.

Then the cuts have been flowing in, and also production deals.

Some of the achievements:

Japan:

SNOW MAN: “Hypnosis” included on million-selling success album “Snow Labo.S2”  and “Hip Bounce” on single “Hello”.

SixTONES: "Special Order" on their debut album "1st", which sold 470.000 units in its first week. Two songs on their album ”CITY”, released in January 2022 with sales exceeding half a million copies (double platinum). “Party People” pre-released on youtube in the fall of 2022, and included on their #1 album “Koe” in January 2023.

MONSTA X “Spotlight”, “Living It Up”, “Flash Back”, three straight single tracks reaching gold status.

GOT7, “The New Era”, Billboard Japan no 1.

TWICE, “Wake Me Up”, double platinum single (over 500K copies), album over 300k.

Received JASRAC’s “Excellent Record of the Year”-award. Big digital hit. 

“Luv Me”, included on platinum selling single.

NCT127, “Chain”, Japanese breakthrough single (charted #2) for the Korean band on international rise. Also released in Korean version on top selling “Regulate”-album and performed on world tour.

KAT-TUN, “Fly Like A Rocket” on gold-selling chart-topping album “Ignite”, and “Ready for this” on equally successful album “Cast”.

South Korea:

NCT127: “LOL (Laugh-Out-Loud)” included on their album “2 Baddies”, which sold over 1.8 million units and also reached #3 on the US album chart: Billboard.

EPEX: The singles “Anthem of Teen Spirit” and “Hymn To Love” during 2022.

JO YURI: The ex-member of IZ*ONE released Albin’s co-written song “Love Shhh!” as a single in 2022.

GOT7, “The One And Only You” from platinum-selling album “Eyes on You” and no 1 on streaming site Soribada.

MONSTA X, “Spotlight” (Korean version) and “Oh My” on no 1 album “Take 1.Are You There?”, and “Disaster” on album “Follow:Find You” and "Gasoline" on platinum selling album "Fatal Love", together over 700.000 units sold.

“X1-MA”, theme song for big talent TV show “Produce X 101” (Mnet), included on X1’s debut album “Quantum Leap” selling over 600.000 copies. 

SEOHYUN, “Magic”, solo release from Girls Generation member.

PRISTIN V, “Get It”, top3 single track which has over 30 million streams on Spotify.

HINAPIA, “Drip”, debut single.

PENTAGON, “Summer”, “Talk”

STRAY KIDS, “Booster”, “Phobia” from albums with sales of close to a million units.

MCND: Single "Nanana"

A.C.E.: "Golden Goose" and "Baby Tonight" on praised mini-album "HJZM: The Butterfly Phantasy"

CRAVITY: "Moonlight" on mini-album "Hideout: Be Our Voice". ”POW” on 2022 album ”Liberty: In Our Cosmos”

TXT: ”Eyes” - soundtrack single for animated TV series ”Armored Saurus”.

ASTRO: ”Someone Else” from album ”All Yours” selling over 360.000 units.

THE BOYZ: ”Thrill Ride” title track hit from success album ”Thrill-ing” selling over 620.000 units.

He also scored an EDM release with Armada signed artist Justin Caruso, “No Eyes On Me”

Albin produced and co-wrote "Wonderland" with AleXa, who represented the state of Oklahoma in NBC's "American Song Contest" in March, 2022, released on Atlantic Records. The song won the whole competition and was a radio hit in the US, charting on Billboard Top40 Pop Radio.

Albin produced an co-wrote ”Evergreen” with artist Skott, which was included in the popular Netflix series ”Young Royals” s.2.