Joel Little

• Name — Joel Little • Born — 13 February 1983 • Birthplace — Auckland, New Zealand • Occupation — * Record producer • songwriter • musician • Instrument — * Guitar • keyboards • Years Active — 2003–present • Label — Dryden Street • Associated Acts — * Lorde • Taylor Swift • Broods • Sam Smith • Elliphant • Ellie Goulding • Imagine Dragons • Jarryd James • 6lack • Noah Kahan • Tove Lo • Goodnight Nurse • James Bay • Khalid • Shawn Mendes • Jonas Brothers • Past Member Of — Goodnight Nurse

Little trained at the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand (MAINZ) in Auckland, and began his career as singer and guitarist of the pop punk band Goodnight Nurse. The band released two studio albums, Always and Never (2006) and Keep Me on Your Side (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 and Little produced and also co-wrote the majority of the debut album released by McCarthy's new group, Kids of 88. 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 "Downtown" co-written by Little. "Just a Little Bit" went on to win Single of the Year at the 2010 New Zealand Music Awards. In 2011, Little set up his own production studio, Golden Age, in Morningside, Auckland. In 2012, Little co-wrote and produced, recorded and mixed The Love Club EP by Lorde at Golden Age. Singles "Royals" and "Tennis Court" 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, Pure Heroine, 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 Grammy Award on 26 January 2014, alongside Lorde, winning Song of the Year for "Royals". Little produced Auckland-based pop duo Broods' single, "Bridges", subsequent EP, Broods, and their 2014 album, Evergreen. In 2019, Little co-wrote and co-produced four songs with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her seventh studio album Lover, including "Me!", "You Need to Calm Down", "The Man", and "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince". 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 Miss Americana, a documentary on Swift's life and career; Little appeared in the documentary. As of 2014 Little is based in Los Angeles.

• Always and Never (2006) Festival Mushroom Records • Keep Me on Your Side (2008) Warner Music New Zealand

• Year — Artist — Album — Song — Co-writer: — Producer or co-producer: • 2026 — Nick Jonas — Sunday Best — "The Greatest" (feat. Jonas Brothers) • Josiah and the Bonnevilles — As Is — "Hell Without the Flames" • Debbii Dawson — Where Have All the Good Men Gone (EP) — "Where Have All the Good Men Gone" • Ruel — Kicking My Feet & Screaming — "Don't Say That" • Niall Horan — Dinner Party — "Flowers" • Suki Waterhouse — Loveland — "Any Man" • "Weirdo" • 2025 — Rita Ora — "All Natural" • Maren Morris — D R E A M S I C L E — "Too Good" • D R E A M S I C L E and Intermission — "Cut" • Noah Rinker — The Pines (EP) — "The Pines" • 2024 — Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness — "It's Nice To Feel This Way Again" • 2023 — Chelsea Cutler — Stellaria — "Your Bones" • Tove Lo — Dirt Femme (Extended Edition) — "Elevator Eyes" • Goodnight Nurse — "All Hail The Serpent Queen Part 3 of 3 (Trilogy) (Holy Hell!)" • Niall Horan — The Show — "Must Be Love" • "Science" • "You Could Start A Cult" • "The Show" • "Never Grow Up" • "Meltdown" • "If You Leave Me" • "Heaven" • 2022 — Vance Joy — In Our Own Sweet Time — "Clarity" • Years & Years — Night Call — "...Muscle" • "Hallucination" • James Bay — Leap — "Nowhere Left To Go" • Imagine Dragons — Mercury - Acts 1 & 2 — "Symphony" • 2021 — Noah Kahan — I Was/I Am — "Part Of Me" • "Animal" • "Caves" • "Bad Luck" • "Godlight" • "Someone Like You" feat. Joy Oladokun • "Fear Of Water" • "Hollow" • "Bury Me" • "Howling" • Gracie Abrams — This Is What It Feels Like — "Better" • "Wishful Thinking" • "For Real This Time" • Alessia Cara — In The Meantime — "Apartment Song" • Tate McRae & Khalid — "Working" • Vance Joy — In Our Own Sweet Time — "Missing Piece" • Noah Kahan — I Was / I Am — "Part Of Me" • Elliphant — Rocking Horse — "Notorious" • Imagine Dragons — "Follow You" • Elliphant — Rocking Horse — "Drunk & Angry" • Jarryd James — P.M. — "Slow Motion" • "Miracles" • "Stop Me" • 2020 — Isaac Dunbar — evil twin — "love, or the lack thereof' • "Intimate Moments" • Bishop Briggs — "Higher" • Amy Shark — Cry Forever — "Everybody Rise" • Lennon Stella — Three. Two. One. — "Jealous" • Gracie Abrams — Non-album single — "21" • Taylor Swift — Non-album single — "Only the Young" • 2019 — Tove Lo — Sunshine Kitty — "Mistaken" • Bishop Briggs — Champion — "Jekyll & Hide" • Foster The People — Pick U Up — "Pick U Up" • Taylor Swift — Lover — "Me!" (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco) • "You Need to Calm Down" • "The Man" • "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince" • Bishop Briggs — Champion — "Champion" • "Jekyll & Hide" • "I Tried" • K Flay — Solutions — "Sister" • Noah Kahan — Busyhead — "False Confidence" • "Mess" • "Hurt Somebody (with Julia Michaels)" • "Young Blood" • "Cynic" • "Save Me" • "Sink" • "Tidal" • Jonas Brothers — Happiness Begins — Happy When I'm Sad • James Bay — Oh My Messy Mind — "Peer Pressure" • MARINA — Love + Fear — "Handmade Heaven" • "To Be Human" • "Life Is Strange" • Terror Jr — Unfortunately, Terror Jr — "Pretty" • Jarryd James — "Slow Motion" • Broods — Don't Feed the Pop Monster — "Life After" • "Too Proud" • 2018 — Lennon Stella — Love Me - EP — "La Di Da" • Imagine Dragons — Origins — "Birds" • NAO — Saturn — "Yellow of the Sun" • Amy Shark — Love Monster — "Never Coming Back" • 6lack — East Atlantic Love Letter — "Switch" • Daya — "Safe" • Shawn Mendes — Shawn Mendes — "Youth (feat. Khalid)" • "Queen" • Mikky Ekko — "Moment" • Robinson — "Nothing To Regret" • Alison Wonderland — Awake — "Church" • "No" • "Okay" • "Easy" • "Cry" • "Happy Place" • "Awake" • Kailee Morgue — Medusa — "Unfortunate Soul" • Noah Kahan — "Come Down" • Noah Kahan — Hurt Somebody — "Hurt Somebody" • "Catastrophize" • "Passenger" • 2017 — Kesha — The Greatest Showman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — "This Is Me" • Lorde — Melodrama — "Supercut" • "Green Light" • Bebe Rexha — All Your Fault: Pt. 2 — "The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody) (feat. Lil Wayne)" • Imagine Dragons — Evolve — "Whatever It Takes" • Ruth B — Safe Haven — "Mixed Signals" • "Dandelions" • "Unrighteous" • "If This Is Love" • "Young" • "If By Chance" • "World War 3" • "Safe Haven" • "In My Dreams" • "First Time" • Khalid — American Teen — "Young Dumb & Broke" • "8teen" • "Therapy" • Noah Kahan — "Young Blood" • "Sink" • 2016 — Tove Lo — Lady Wood — "Imaginary Friend" • Brooke Fraser — A Sides — "Therapy" • Jarryd James — High — "1000x (feat. Broods)" • "Claim My Love" • "How Do We Make It" • Broods — Conscious — "Free" • "We Had Everything" • "Heartlines" • "Hold the Line" • "Freak of Nature (feat. Tove Lo)" • "Recovery" • "Couldn't Believe" • "Full Blown Love" • "Worth the Fight" • "Bedroom Door" • "Conscious" • Fitz and the Tantrums — Fitz and the Tantrums — "Do What You Want" • 2015 — Elliphant — Living Life Golden — "Step Down" • "Where Is Home (feat. Twin Shadow)" • Ellie Goulding — Delirium — "Paradise" • "The Greatest" • Half Noise — "Inside" • Jarryd James — Thirty One — "Do You Remember" • "Give Me Something" • "This Time (Serious Symptoms, Simple Solutions)" • "Underneath" • "Undone" • "Regardless" (feat. Julia Stone) • "High" • "Sure Love" • Daniel Johns — Aerial Love EP — "Aerial Love" • "Late Night Drive" • Talk — "Aerial Love" • "Cool On Fire" • "Warm Hands" • "Dissolve" • Lorde — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — "Yellow Flicker Beat" • "Meltdown" • "Ladder Song" • "Flicker (Kanye West rework)" • 2014 — Elliphant — One More EP — "One More (feat. MØ)" • Priory — Weekend — "Weekend" • Sam Smith — In the Lonely Hour: Deluxe Edition — "Reminds Me of You" • Broods — Evergreen — "Mother & Father" • "Everytime" • "Killing You" • "Bridges" • "L.A.F" • "Never Gonna Change" • "Sober" • "Medicine" • "Evergreen" • "Four Walls" • "Superstar" • 2013 — Broods — "Never Gonna Change" • "Pretty Thing" • "Bridges" • "Sleep Baby Sleep" • "Taking You There" • "Coattails" • Lorde — Pure Heroine — "Tennis Court" • "400 Lux" • "Ribs" • "Buzzcut Season" • "Team" • "Glory and Gore" • "Still Sane" • "White Teeth Teens" • "A World Alone" • "No Better" • 2012 — The Love Club — "Bravado" • "Royals" • "Million Dollar Bills" • "The Love Club" • "Biting Down" • Timomatic — Timomatic — "AYO (That's What I Like)" • 2010 — Dane Rumble — The Experiment — "What Are You Waiting For?"

Joel Little is recorded as record producer, songwriter, singer, composer and musician.