David Sneddon Songwriting

DAVID SNEDDON is a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician and music producer. He took an unusual route into the music business via performing on stage and in television and he sang lead roles in musicals in Glasgow. He went on in 2002 to win the first series of the BBC's music competition Fame Academy.  In January 2013 his single 'Stop Living the Lie' was a No 1 hit single selling over 250,000 copies, and was the 12th highest selling single of the year. Sneddon released his debut album "Seven Years - Ten Weeks" in April 2003, which reached the UK Albums Chart at No 5. He had three further UK hit singles  - "Dont' Let Go" No 3, "Best of Order" No 19 and "Baby Get Higher' No 39. His song Baby Get Higher was later a hit on the dance floor for Almighty Records and a singles chart hit for Dutch singer VanVelzen and for Emin Agalarov.  In October 2003 he took the step of moving from being a popstar to working as a songwriter. In 2009 he was signed to major music publisher Sony ATV Music Publishing as a songwriter and he describes his music as 'melody driven pop'. He is one of the more successful graduates from a reality tv show and has built a long career in music. 

Sneddon works as half of The Nexus with both high profile and highly-anticipated emerging artists in the US and UK. In 2010 David travelled with James Mein to LA for his writing work. 2011 was very successful for David's writing career and he worked with well respected songwriter Eg White and many other top songwriters.  His musical journey and songwriting successes have drawn from his influences from the songs of Elton John, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Dylan and Coldplay.
Since 2003 Sneddon has worked with James Bauer-Mein in a London recording studio discovering, producing and writing with new talent. Sneddon and Mein (The Nexus) have written songs for other artists such as Lana Del Rey, Hurts, Newton Faulkner, Morten Harket, Will Young, Nicole Scherzinger, Olly Murs, Pixie Lott and Kristina Train. 

He writes with producer and guitarist James Bauer-Mein as "The Nexus" songwriting and music production partnership for both high profile and highly-anticipated emerging artists in both the US and the UK. They have built a strong reputation as songwriters the past years. Mein worked with Sneddon when he toured and recorded his debut album in 2003 and he has been writing with him for the past ten years. In 2009 they decided to call themselves “The Nexus”.

They wrote songs for the synthpop duo Hurts 2010 global multi platinum debut album Happiness – “Illuminated”, "Silver Lining" and "Blood, Tears & Gold.”  Radio One DJ Zane Lowe gave the song 'Blood Tears & Gold' its premier in January 2010 as his "Hottest Record in the World" and two of the tracks would go on to become singles for Hurts in 2011. Hurt's Happiness reached the Top 10 in 12 European countries, and has sold over one million copies worldwide. The band has also sold more than one million singles worldwide.

They have written "Letters" and "Slowly" (co-written with Cardle and Eg White) for Matt Cardle’s debut album Letters which was released in 2011 and charted at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. 
In April 2012 The Nexus was listed as the writers for the song "Keep the Sun Away" for Morten Harket, best known as the singer of the Norwegian synthpop/rock band A-ha, solo album "Out of My Hands”.  Emin Agalarov released "Baby Get Higher" in 2012 as the single release from his album "After the Thunder"  and the song received BBC Radio 2 A List airplay.  In 2012 as well as developing their own artists Sneddon and Mein have been writing with a number of artists that include Greyson Chance, Eliza Doolittle and Dionne Bromfield.  
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The song "National Anthem" was co-written with The Nexus for Lana Del Rey's debut album "Born To Die" which was released in January 2012 and reached No.1 in the UK Albums Chart and became one the fastest-selling albums of the year. They also co-wrote the song "Driving in Cars With Boys" with Del Rey. The Nexus song "National Anthem” was released in July 2012. The music video for the song premiered June 2012 and depicted Del Rey as Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Onassis and A$AP Rocky as John F Kennedy. Del Rey said the video was "definitely the most beautiful thing" she had done and the video had received over 19 million views on YouTube.

The single "National Anthem” appeared on Del Rey’s international multi platinum hit album “Paradise” which has had record sales of over 4 million and made  No.1 in eleven countries. 
Newton Faulkner's third studio album "Write It On Your Skin" contained two Nexus songs -"Pick Up Your Broken Heart", "Soon" and "Feel." - was released in July 2012 and reached No.1  UK Album Charts.

David Sneddon’s Songs – Nate James (“The Message”), VanVelzen (“Baby Get Higher”) Hurts ("Illuminated", "Blood, Tears and Gold", "Silver Lining"). Matt Cardle (“Slowly”, “Letters”),  Lana Del Rey {"National Anthem") Newton Faulkner ("Pick Up Your Broken Heart") Charlie Brown ("Dependency"). Greyson Chance ("Sunshine City Lights"), David Archuleta ("Don’t Run Away").

2013 Nexus song releases include – Charlie Brown’s single “Dependency” which was released December 2012 was produced by Mushtaq and co-written with David Sneddon (Lana Del Rey, Hurts) with a mix by the mighty Sticky. The track features street star Yungen and vocalist Mrs D known for her part on Wiley’s recent No.1, Heatwave. Brown's album "Dreamstate" is due for release in 2013. American pop singer Greyson Chance latest single “Sunshine and City Lights” was released in November 2012 (on his “Truth Be Told Part 1” EP) was co-written with The Nexus during a late session. American Idol finalist and runner up David Archuleta released his single “Don’t Run Away” on 12th February 2013 - the song was produced by British music producers The Nexus  and was serviced to the AC Radio format. Archuleta is set to release his new studio album “No Matter How Far” on March 26, 2013. 

Shane Filan, formerly lead singer with Westlife released his first solo EP Everything To Me in August 2013 which included 2 songs co-written with David Sneddon and James Bauer-Mein (The Nexus) - Everytime and Today's Not Yesterday.
In April 2013 The Nexus became part of 365 Artists. http://www.365artists.com/producers/the-nexus.php
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 "The Nexus" work on major label projects across the UK, Europe and the US. They specialise in the discovery of new talent, assisting in their development and have successfully taken several artists from independent to major label status. In 2011, Sneddon became engaged to his long-term girlfriend, who works in television in London.

http://www.newtonfaulkner.com/gb/home/ 

http://www.lanadelrey.com/

http://www.mattcardlemusic.com/

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Sneddon works with the UK based production and writing team "The Nexus" and has been building a strong reputation as a songwriter the past years.