Nick Monson

Nick Monson is a songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. He rose to prominence for writing and producing tracks on Lady Gaga's album Artpop and Revival by Selena Gomez. Applause and Good For You, both of which he was involved in writing and producing, reached the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100. Monson has also written and produced for Nick Jonas, Little Mix, R. Kelly, Britney Spears and the Veronicas. Monson has been signed to Maxwell and Carter Publishing and Warner/Chappell Publishing since 2014.

Born in Oakwood, Illinois, Monson moved to Ohio for college to study music recording and audio production at Recording Workshop in Chillicothe. Shortly after finishing, Monson returned to Illinois as an engineer at R. Kelly's Chicago based studio, where he worked with Kelly, Faith Evans and on the Shaft soundtrack.

Monson soon moved on to Jive Studio, and met DJ White Shadow, who brought him in to help with the production of Lady Gaga's Artpop. He has songwriting and production credits on seven of the 15 songs of the album. In 2014 Monson moved to Los Angeles and was signed to Warner/Chappell where he worked with Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas, Mike Posner, songwriters Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels and many other artists and writers. Monson was a producer on Gomez' platinum hit "Good For You", as well as "Nobody".

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