The Invisible Men is a songwriting and music production trio consisting of Jason Pebworth, George Astasio and Jon Shave. Invisible Men's songs have so far achieved over 7 billion

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streams, 30 million record sales worldwide and the trio has frequently ranked among ''

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's'' Top Songwriters. They co-produced and co-composed

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's seven week US #1 single "

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" (featuring

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) which has sold in excess of 11 million copies digitally worldwide to date, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time and the seventh best-selling single worldwide of 2014. As well as her US million-selling debut single, "

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", and a vast portion of Azalea's debut album ''

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''. The Invisible Men as IIVI co-produced six of the seven tracks on

Lil Peep Gustav Elijah Åhr (November 1, 1996 – November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Helping pioneer an emo revival-style of ...

's 2017 album "Come Over When You're Sober Pt. 1", as well as the majority of its follow-up "Pt. 2", alongside other stand-alone tracks including " Falling Down" (with

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), I've Been Waiting (with

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) and When I Lie (Remix) (with

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Career

Before The Invisible Men were formed in 2008 Jason Pebworth and George Astasio were members of Orson, who sold over a million copies of their debut album, reached No. 1 in both the UK singles and album charts, and received the

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for Best Breakthrough Act 2007. Jon Shave was a member of Xenomania in the early 2000s, contributing to a string of top 10 hit singles, including co-writing " The Show" for

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. The Invisible Men's songwriting and production catalogue includes international hits such as Riton's 2021 multi-platinum global smash Friday (Dopamine Re-edit),

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's Heaven On My Mind,

's Say You Do (UK top 5) and Just Got Paid,

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's UK No. 1 hit "

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" (featuring

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), No. 3 hit "

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" (featuring

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) and

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's debut top 5 hits "

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" and "

Vegas Girl "Vegas Girl" is a song by British singer Conor Maynard from his debut studio album, '' Contrast''. It was released as the album's second single as a digital download on 22 July 2012. The song was written and produced by The Invisible Men with a ...

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's hits " Do It Like A Dude", "

LaserLight "Laserlight" is a song by English singer-songwriter Jessie J featuring French DJ David Guetta, taken from the platinum edition of Jessie J's debut studio album, '' Who You Are''. The artists co-wrote the song with The Invisible Men, Giorgio ...

" (feat.

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), " Who's Laughing Now?" and the

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' "

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" and "Never Forget You". In 2019 Invisible Men produced two

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songs for

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's Black Mirror episode "

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IIVI

As a side project, Invisible Men also produce under the name "IIVI". IIVI have produced records for

, Bexey and

. Their sound has been described as "the 808s and rumbling basslines of trap music ombinedwith the guitars of early 00s emo music to create an atmosphere that is at once hard-hitting yet bleak", mixing "emotive riffs with the slap of rap drums".

Career

IIVI

Discography

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