Anders Nilsen (born June 23, 1988) is a Norwegian songwriter and music producer from

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, who has written and produced for

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, IVE and W&W, and currently has eight #1 singles in his home country Norway. In 2013 he got a large following on the "

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" app where he made 6 second songs, which later resulted in him being cast for a SNL like TV-show called "Torsdag Kveld Fra Nydalen". It was however with his hit "

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", an attempt to write a song in

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without actually knowing Spanish (No hablo Español, as he says in the single's lyrics) that he gained fame and an international dance hit that has charted in Norway, Netherlands and Belgium. Since January 2014, he worked on various TV shows as a writer-performer like ''Tabu med Abu'', ''Torsdag Kveld Fra Nydalen'' and ''Senkveld Med Thomas & Harald''. From May 2017 he started focusing full time on writing and producing for other artists. In 2022, he represented Austria as a songwriter and producer in the

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, alongside

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, with the song "

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", which was performed by

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and Pia Maria. He also produced and co-wrote the lead single on IVE's single album '' After Like''. The album recorded the highest sales of its own. According to Hanteo Chart, the largest album sales site in Korea, reported that "After Like" sold 466,690 copies on the first day of its release. This broke the group's previous sales for

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on Hanteo Chart. After one week the single managed to sell over 924,000 physical copies through Hanteo. The single also debuted at the top of

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with over 1 million copies. After Like peaked at #20 on

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''), #3 at US

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'') and #1 at Top 50 Spotify and the official charts in South Korea.

Selected discography

Producer-co-writer

2022: * IVE - " After Like" *

feat. Pia Maria - "

" *

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- Holiday * Class:y - "Tick Tick Boom" * Tungevaag - "Not The One" 2021 *

, W&W - "Distant Memory" *

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- "23" 2020 *

- "Embrace Your Life" *

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- "Highs & Lows" *

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- "Lies (they never leave their wives)" 2018: *

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featuring Black O - "Noora" *ZadeKing - "Kumbaya" *Ezzari - "Ikke ring meg, jeg ringer deg" *Ezzari - "Casablanca" *Ezzari and Kald Flamme - "Isbjørn" *Kald Flamme and Ezzari - "Jaja (oui oui si si eywa)" *

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- "Chico" *Serlina - "Digger deg" *eMMa - "Fått deg på hjernen" * Mads Hansen - "Sommerkroppen" (Peaked at #1 on

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for 8 consecutive weeks)Norwegiancharts.com: Mads Hansen- "Sommerkroppen"
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- "Olav Thon" *Pete Mello - "Kom med Mig" *Pete Mello - "Side om Side" *Zadeking and SnowBoyz - "Ingen er bedre enn meg" *

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and Vidar Villa - "Når julen kommer"

Singles

References

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