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Andreas Carlsson is a Swedish music producer, composer, and pop songwriter.

Carlsson was part of the Cheiron Studios team until the studio was closed down in 2001.

In January 2001, former Cheiron-members Andreas Carlsson, Kristian Lundin and Jake Schulze assumed the lease of the legendary Cheiron studios. Two years later, they launched production-company The Location and publishing-company Location Songs, where writer Savan Kotecha is signed.

In 2008 Andreas Carlsson formed production/publishing company Meriola with fellow producer, composer and songwriter Anders Bagge, who has written and produced songs for Madonna, Janet Jackson and Jennifer Lopez among others.

Carlsson frequently collaborates with writers Desmond Child and Chris Braide. Together they have written many recent American hit songs, including "Invisible" for the American Idol contestant Clay Aiken. The song became one of the most performed on American radio in 2004. A more recent collaboration is Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas", featured on her album "One of the Boys (Katy Perry album)".

Examples of Andreas work as a songwriter are collaborations on:

• Clay Aiken's hit single "Invisible" and "Lonely No More".
• Bon Jovi's "Everyday", "You Had Me From Hello", "Misunderstood", "All About Loving You", "Hook Me Up", "Alive" and "Bounce".
• Kevin Borg's hit single With Every Bit of Me".
• Backstreet Boys' hit single "I Want It That Way" and songs "Drowning", "Everyone", "Not For Me" and "It's True".
• Def Leppard's song "Unbelivable".
• Diana DeGarmo's hit single "Dreams" and "Emotional".
• Celine Dion's songs "That's the Way It Is", "Coulda Woulda Shoulda", "I'm Alive" and "The Greatest Reward".
• Hilary Duff's songs "Crash World" and "Who's That Girl".
• Europe's songs "Last Look at Eden" and "New Love in Town"
• Ana Johnsson's hit single "We Are" from Spiderman 2 Soundtrack.
• Lindsay Lohan's song "Symptoms of You" and "I Live For The Day".
• Jesse McCartney's hit single "Because You Live".
• 'N Sync's hit songs "Bye, Bye, Bye", "It's Gonna Be Me", "That Girl" and "Just Don't Tell Me That".
• Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas".
• LeAnn Rimes' songs "Life Goes On" and "Suddenly".
• Britney Spears' "Born to Make You Happy", "I Will Be There", "Deep In My Heart", "Can't Make You Love Me" and "Where Are You Now".
• Paul Stanley's hit single "Live To Win".
• Carrie Underwood's hit single "Inside Your Heaven".
• Westlife's "When You're Looking Like That", "Written In The Stars", "Obvious", "Soledad", "Somebody Needs You", "No, No", "I Need You" and "Open Your Heart".
• Amanda Stott's, Bryan Rice's, Tobias Regner's and Jennette McCurdy's versions of "Homeless Heart" (co-written with Desmond Child, and Harry Sommerdahl^[1]).
• Tata Young's song "Boys Will Be Boys from Ready For Love (album)".
• Sarah Kreuz's song "Heartache on the Dancefloor" from her debut album "One Moment in Time".

[edit] Television

Carlsson is part of the jury for the Swedish edition of Idol since 2008 - its fifth season. The current season, season six, began its run on September 8 on the Swedish television channel TV4.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.warnerchappell.com/wcm_2/song_search/song_detail/songview_2.jsp?esongId=859488300&view=splitinfo

[edit] External links

• Andreas Carlsson official website
• Interview, HitQuarters Jul 2009