Peter Rycroft (born October 1993),[1] known professionally as Lostboy, is a British songwriter and music producer. Active in the music fields since 2010s, he has written and produced music across multiple genres, working with Tiësto, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding, Lewis Capaldi, Anne-Marie, Little Mix, Zedd and Ava Max. In 2023, he co-wrote Calvin Harris' single "Miracle" which spent 8 weeks at No.1 in the UK,[2] and produced and co-wrote Kylie Minogue's 2023 hit single "Padam Padam", for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Dance Recording.[3]
Peter Rycroft began piano lessons at age six, then took drum lessons and joined several bands during high school. Originally planning to enroll at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts to study song production, Rycroft took a gap year to tour with The Laurence Jones Band, and realised that he wanted to write songs.[4] Inspired by Peter Pan, with whom he shares a given name, Rycroft began working under pseudonym Lostboy.
Fraser T. Smith got ahold of Lostboy's demo, and invited him to do additional production on songs for Anne-Marie and Gavin James. Lostboy soon began to work with an array of UK artists, writing and producing songs for Becky Hill, and producing 2019 single "Losing Me" for Gabrielle Aplin.[4] Lostboy went on to co-write Zedd and Kehlani's 2019 single "Good Thing", to co-write with Lewis Capaldi Rita Ora's 2020 single "How to Be Lonely", to co-produce with Tiësto his and Ava Max's 2021 single "The Motto",[5] and co-write and co-produce "Hate You" from Jung Kook's debut solo album "Golden", among others.
In 2022, Lostboy signed a global publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing UK.[5]
In 2023, Lostboy co-wrote with Ina Wroldsen Kylie Minogue's hit single "Padam Padam" which he also produced. He also co-wrote and produced the song "Rise" by Freya Ridings for the teen comedy film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.[6][7] The single is Minogue's first to break into the UK top 10 since 2011,[8] and her first ever to chart on the Billboard Hot Dance / Electronic Song list, peaking at Number 10.[9][10]
In 2023, Lostboy won Songwriter of the Year at the 2023 Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards.[11]
Peter Rycroft's works include:[12][13]
| Year | Title | Artist | Album | Songwriter | Producer |
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| 2016 | "Liability" | Kloe | Non-album single | 
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| 2017 | "Becoming" | Jones | Acoustic |
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| "Call Me Out" | Sarah Close | Caught Up |
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| "Caught Up" |
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| "When the Time's Right" | L Devine | Growing Pains |
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| "Ultra Love" | Marlon Roudette | Non-album single |
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| "Waking Up Slow" | Gabrielle Aplin | Avalon |
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| 2018 | "Daughter" | L Devine | Peer Pressure |
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| "Drink 2 U" | Jack Vallier | Anyway |
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| "Frozen Frames" | Hannah Jane Lewis | Non-album single |
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| "Revival" (featuring Cheat Codes and Max) | Sigala | Brighter Days |
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| "Sunrise in the East" | Becky Hill | Get to Know |
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| "Used to Love You" | Anne-Marie | Speak Your Mind |
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| "Why Does It Hurt" | JHart | Non-album single |
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| "Wonderland" (featuring Jimi Tents) | Maad | Technicolor |
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| 2019 | "Empire" | Nina Nesbitt | The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change |
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| "Chloe" |
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| "Things I Say When You Sleep" |
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| "Last December" |
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| "The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change" |
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| "Critical" | Sam Tompkins | From My Sleeve to the World |
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| "Deep Sea Diving" (featuring Emir Taha) | Aboutagirl | Non-album singles |
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| "Every Time You're High" | Billy Lockett |
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| "First Time" (featuring Robinson) | Grey |
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| "Good Thing" | Zedd and Kehlani |
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| "If Looks Could Kill" | Lauren Aquilina |
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| "Look No Further" | Flawes | Highlights |
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| "No Good for My Soul" |
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| "When We Were Young" |
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| "Here to Stay" |
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| "Still Not Ready" |
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| "Would You Mind If" (featuring Sad Alex) |
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| "Outro" |
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| "Number One" |
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| "Turn Back Around" |
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| "I'm Letting Go" |
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| "Moonwalking" | Good Scott | Fka Fyko |
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| "Woozy" |
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| "Not Yours Never Was" | Hannah James Lewis | Hannah James Lewis |
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| "Rivers" | King Calaway | Rivers |
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| "Unbelievable" | Why Don't We | Non-album single |
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| 2020 | "10 Months" | Enhypen | Border: Day One |
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| "Bad People" | Lauren Aquilina | Non-album single |
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| "Better" | The Vamps | Cherry Blossom |
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| "Married in Vegas" |
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| "Chemicals" |
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| "Part of Me" |
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| "Nothing But You" |
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| "B-List" | Aboutagirl | Non-album single |
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| "Gloves Up" | Little Mix | Confetti |
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| "How to Be Lonely" | Rita Ora | Non-album single |
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| "Until the Sun Comes Up" | Gabrielle Aplin | Dear Happy |
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| "Strange" |
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| "Like You Say You Do" |
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| "Losing Me" (featuring JP Cooper) |
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| "So Far So Good" |
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| "Nothing Really Matters" |
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| "Mayday" | Victon | Mayday |
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| "New Me" | Ella Eyre | Quarter Life Crisis |
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| "Staying in Love" | Kasbo | The Making of a Paracosm |
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| "You Take The Fun Out of Everything" | Love Fame Tragedy | Wherever I Go, I Want to Leave |
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| 2021 | "LMLY" | Jackson Wang | LMLY |
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| "100 Ways" |
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| "Begging" | Billy Lockett | Reflections |
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| "Better Mistakes" | Bebe Rexha | Better Mistakes |
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| "Sacrifice" |
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| "Black Hole" | Griff | One Foot in Front of the Other |
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| "C'est La Vie" | Claudia Valentina | Non-album single |
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| "Cut You Off" | Little Mix | Between Us |
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| "Eleven" | Ive | Eleven |
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| "Last Time" | Becky Hill | Only Honest on the Weekend |
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| "Let It Ring" | Reiley | Non-album single |
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| "You" | BRB, Having an Identity Crisis |
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| "Something Better" | Tom Grennan | Evering Road |
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| "Little Bit of Love" |
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| "Lonely In Love" | Mimi Webb | Seven Shades of Heartbreak |
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| "Postcard" | JLS | 2.0 |
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| "Psycho" | Lauren Aquilina | Ghost World |
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| "Tobacco in My Sheets" |
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| "Something Stupid" | Jonas Blue and Awa | Together |
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| "Starlight" | Westlife | Wild Dreams |
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| "Start Walking" | Tove Styrke | Hard |
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| "Testosterone" | Grace Davies | I Wonder If You Wonder |
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| "x2" | Anne-Marie | Therapy |
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| 2022 | "10:35" (featuring Tate McRae) | Tiësto | Drive |
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| "Follow Me" | Rina Sawayama & Pabllo Vittar | Non-album single |
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| "Friends with My Exes" (featuring Joel Adams) | Sam DeRosa | The Good Parts |
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| "Hate Being Human" | Chris Brown | Breezy |
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| "Hello"(featuring Chlöe and KayCyy) | Fivio Foreign | B.I.B.L.E. |
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| "Love Phobia" | Onew | Dice |
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| "One Heart" | Twinnie | Welcome to the Club |
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| "Questions" | Lost Frequencies and James Arthur | All Stand Together |
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| "Say Something" | James TW | Heartbeat Changes |
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| "Sweat" | Claudia Valentina | Non-album singles |
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| 2023 | "Back Home for Christmas" | Mimi Webb |
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| "Both of Us" | Amelia |
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| "Remind You" |
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| "Remind Me" | Tom Grennan | What Ifs & Maybes |
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| "Here" |
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| "Before You" |
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| "Bla Bla Bla" | Måneskin | Rush! |
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| "Dancing In a Hurricane" | Freya Ridings | Blood Orange |
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| "Rise" | Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken |
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| "Million Dollar Baby" | Ava Max | Diamonds & Dancefloors |
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| "Dancing's Done" |
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| "Hallelujah" | Rosa Linn | Lay Your Hands Upon My Heart |
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| "Hate You" | Jung Kook | Golden |
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| "Holy Moly" | Ive | I've Mine |
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| "I'm My Only Friend" | Dillon Francis and Arden Jones | This Mixtape is Fire Too |
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| "Leave Me for Dead" | Gayle | Hello This Is the Setlist for My Tour |
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| "Let It Die" | Ellie Goulding | Higher Than Heaven |
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| "Messy" | Reneé Rapp | Snow Angel |
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| "Miracle" | Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding | 96 Months |
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| "My Bad" | The Chainsmokers and Shenseea | Summertime Friends |
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| "My Stupid Heart" | Walk off the Earth | Stand By You |
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| "Opposite" | Sabrina Carpenter | Emails I Can't Send |
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| "Padam Padam" | Kylie Minogue | Tension |
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| "Personal Pornstar" | Bludnymph | Drool |
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| "Secondhand Happiness" | Sam Fischer | I Love You, Please Don't Hate Me |
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| "Self-Portrait" | Talia Mar | Non-album singles |
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| "That Kind of Woman" | The Scarlet Opera |
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| "The Motto" (featuring Ava Max) | Tiësto | Drive |
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| "Wallflower" | Twice | Ready to Be |
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| "Won't Forget You" (featuring Ina Worldsen) | Jax Jones and D.O.D. | Non-album single |
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| 2024 | "15 Minutes" | Madison Beer |
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| "Miss Me Too" | Griff | Vertigo |
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| "Into the Walls" |
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| "19th Hour" |
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| "Hole in My Pocket" |
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| "So Fast" |
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| "Where Did You Go" |
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| "One Night" |
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| "Colder" | St. Paul | Non-album single |
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| "Freaking Out" | Billy Lockett | Abington Grove |
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| "Heartbreak in Heaven" (featuring Peniel of BtoB) | Tzuyu | Aboutzu |
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| "Same Road" | Arlissa | Non-album single |
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| "Trash" | BGYO | BGYO |
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| "2 Hands" | Tate McRae | So Close to What |
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| 2025 | "Signs" |
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| "No I'm Not in Love" |
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| "Ash" | Le Sserafim | Hot |
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| "FUFN (Fuck You for Now)" | Jade | That's Showbiz Baby |
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| "It Girl" |
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| "Paradise" | Maymay Entrata | Non-album single |
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| "Someone for Me" | Kylie Minogue | Tension II |
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| "Who's Making You Feel It" | Cian Ducrot | Little Dreaming |
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| "Messy" | Rosé | F1 the Album |
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| "All At Once" | Madison Beer |
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| Award Show | Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref(s) |
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| Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards | 2022 | Producer of the Year | (Various) | Nominated | [14] |
| Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards | 2022 | Song of the Year | "Remind Me" (Tom Grennan) | Nominated | [14] |
| Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards | 2023 | Producer of the Year | (Various) | Nominated | [15] |
| Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards | 2023 | Song of The Year | "Miracle" (Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding) | Nominated | [15] |
| Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards | 2023 | Songwriter of The Year | (Various) | Won | [11] |
| Grammy Awards | 2024 | Best Pop Dance Recording | "Padam Padam" (Kylie Minogue) | Won | [16] |
| ASCAP Awards | 2024 | Songwriter off The Year | (Various) | Won | [1] |
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