Joel Little (born 13 February 1983) is a New Zealand record producer, musician and

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-winning songwriter.Lorde's Silver Scroll 'a big deal' for co-writer Joel Little
. ''3 News NZ''. 16 October 2013.Lorde takes out top Silver Scroll
''Radio NZ''. 16 October 2013. He is best known for his work as a writer and producer with artists

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Broods Broods is a New Zealand musical duo from Nelson, composed of Georgia Josiena Nott on lead vocals, with older brother and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Allan Joseph Nott on production and backing vocals. They released the single "Bridges", which w ...

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Amy Shark Amy Louise Billings (born 14 May 1986), known professionally as Amy Shark, is an Australian indie pop singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer from the Gold Coast, Queensland. During 2008 to 2012, her early solo material was released and per ...

Goodnight Nurse Goodnight Nurse was a New Zealand pop punk band formed in Auckland in 2001. The group originally began as a trio, but later changed to a four-piece prior to the release of their second album. It consisted of lead vocalist Joel Little, guitaris ...

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, and the

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Career

Little trained at the

Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand (MAINZ) is a faculty of the Southern Institute of Technology, focused on contemporary music and music-industry related education. MAINZ offers music and audio courses from Certificates to Graduate Diplomas ...

(MAINZ) in Auckland, and began his career as singer and guitarist of the pop punk band

. The band released two studio albums, ''

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'' (2006) and ''

Keep Me on Your Side ''Keep Me on Your Side'' is the second studio album by New Zealand pop punk band Goodnight Nurse, released on 7 April 2008. The album was the follow-up to their successful debut album, '' Always and Never''. It peaked at number five on New Zeala ...

'' (2008) both of which peaked at number five on the New Zealand top 40 albums chart. Over the two albums, the band had five singles in the New Zealand top-40 from 2004 to 2008. Goodnight Nurse guitarist

Sam McCarthy Sam McCarthy is a New Zealand songwriter and pop vocalist. He is best known for his work in Kids of 88 and Goodnight Nurse. Early life McCarthy was brought up in Auckland in the suburb of Weymouth. He was educated at Weymouth Primary School ...

and Little produced and also co-wrote the majority of the debut album released by McCarthy's new group,

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. The album, '' Sugarpills'' was released in 2010 and debuted at number two in the New Zealand album chart. It featured three hit singles, " My House", " Just a Little Bit" and "

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" co-written by Little. "Just a Little Bit" went on to win Single of the Year at the

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. In 2011, Little set up his own production studio, Golden Age, in

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. In 2012, Little co-wrote and produced, recorded and mixed '' The Love Club'' EP by

at Golden Age. Singles "Royals" and "

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" both charted at number one in New Zealand in 2013, with the EP achieving gold certification in New Zealand and Platinum certification in Australia. Little also co-wrote, produced, mixed, engineered and played the instruments on the debut Lorde album, ''

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'', which was released worldwide on 30 September 2013. In early September 2013, Little and co-writer Lorde were shortlisted for " Royals" in the 2013 Silver Scroll Award, which honours outstanding achievement in songwriting of original New Zealand pop music. They went on to win this award, at a ceremony on 16 October. He also won a

on 26 January 2014, alongside Lorde, winning Song of the Year for "Royals". Little produced Auckland-based pop duo

' single, "

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", subsequent EP, ''

'', and their 2014 album,

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. In 2019, Little co-wrote and co-produced four songs with American singer-songwriter

for her seventh studio album '' Lover'', including "

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", "

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", " The Man", and "

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". Little and Swift also co-wrote and co-produced a fifth track, " Only the Young" which was left off the album. The track was released in 2020 in conjunction with ''

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'', a documentary on Swift's life and career; Little appeared in the documentary. Little is based in Los Angeles.

Discography

With Goodnight Nurse

* ''

'' (2006) Festival Mushroom Records * ''

'' (2008) Warner Music New Zealand

Production and writing credits

Awards and nominations

APRA awards

APRA Awards (Australia)

The

APRA Awards (Australia) The APRA Music Awards in Australia are annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters, and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performanc ...

are annually held by

Australasian Performing Right Association APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwr ...

to honour outstanding music artists and songwriters of the year. ! Ref. , - , style="text-align:center;" ,

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Ella Yelich-O'Connor Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known professionally as Lorde ( ), is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Taking inspiration from aristocracy for her stage name, she is known for her unconventional musical styles and ...

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, " Everybody Rise" by

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APRA Silver Scroll Awards (New Zealand)

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Team A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson (academic), Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interde ...

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and Joel Little for "

Yellow Flicker Beat "Yellow Flicker Beat" is a song by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde released on 29 September 2014 as the lead single from the soundtrack for '' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1'' by Republic Records. Written by Lorde and Joel Little a ...

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for "

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Georgia Nott Broods is a New Zealand musical duo from Nelson, composed of Georgia Josiena Nott on lead vocals, with older brother and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Allan Joseph Nott on production and backing vocals. They released the single "Bridges", which w ...

and

Caleb Nott Broods is a New Zealand musical duo from Nelson, composed of Georgia Josiena Nott on lead vocals, with older brother and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Allan Joseph Nott on production and backing vocals. They released the single "Bridges", which w ...

for " L.A.F." ,

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Jack Antonoff Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. Antonoff is the lead singer of rock band Bleachers, and is the guitarist and drummer in the pop rock band Fun. He was p ...

and Joel Little for " Green Light" ,

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ASCAP Pop Music Awards

The annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards are held by the

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

to honour the songwriters and publishers of the most performed pop songs in the United States. Some of his works (like those for

) are controlled in the US by ASCAP's largest competitor,

Broadcast Music, Inc. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from BMI's repertoire of over 20.6 milli ...

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Golden Globe Awards

The

Golden Globe Awards The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in both American and international film and television. Beginning in 2022, there are 105 members of t ...

were established in 1944 by the

Hollywood Foreign Press Association The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is a nonprofit organization of journalists and photographers who report on the Cinema of the United States, entertainment industry activity and interests in the United States for media (newspaper, ...

to celebrate the best in film and television. ! Ref. , - , style="text-align:center;" , 2015 ,

and Joel Little for "

" ,

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Grammy Awards

The

Grammy Awards The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...

are awarded annually by the

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American Learned society, learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is famous f ...

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56th Annual Grammy Awards The 56th Annual Grammy Awards presentation was held on January 26, 2014, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show was broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT and was hosted for the third time by LL Cool J. The show was moved to January to avoid comp ...

–

Record of the Year The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without reg ...

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New Zealand Music Awards

The

New Zealand Music Awards The Aotearoa Music Awards (previously called the New Zealand Music Awards), conferred annually by Recorded Music NZ, honour outstanding artistic and technical achievements in the recording industry. The awards are among the most significant that ...

are awarded annually to musicians of New Zealand origin, by

Recorded Music NZ Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand. Membership of Recorded Mus ...

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References

External links

Official site
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