Emily Warren
Emily Warren Schwartz is an American singer and songwriter signed to Dr. Luke's label Prescription Songs. She is best known for the songs she has written for several high-profile pop artists, including The Chainsmokers, Dua Lipa, Khalid, Sigrid, and Shawn Mendes.
Early life and education
Warren was brought up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she attended the preparatory school Trinity, from kindergarten through high school. From an early age, she had a penchant for the creative and performed regularly with her band, Emily Warren & the Betters. A single from The Betters EP, Not at All, was featured on the soundtrack of MTV's short-lived series, Skins. She was accepted into the NYU Tisch School/Clive Davis Institute in 2011 and offered a songwriter's contract with Prescription Songs in 2013. In 2015 Warren graduated from the university and began splitting her time between Los Angeles and London.Music career
Beginnings
After signing with Dr. Luke, Warren disbanded the Betters and spent a year in LA. Soon after her arrival, she co-wrote "Masterpiece", the third single on pop artist Jessie J's album, Sweet Talker. "Masterpiece" debuted at number 30 on the US Mainstream Top 40 and number 65 on Billboard Hot 100, it was also certified gold in Australia and New Zealand. Following the success of that release, Warren eventually teamed up with longtime friend and collaborator Scott Harris to co-write four songs from Shawn Mendes' platinum-selling album, Handwritten: "Strings", "Aftertaste", "Air" and "Lost". September 18, 2015 marked the release of The Chainsmokers' and Tritonal's "Until You Were Gone", which featured Warren's lead vocals. Her performance was immediately praised by Nylon, which wrote: "Her delivery is filled with a longing that packs a strong punch." Additionally, The Chainsmokers hailed Warren as "one of the best songwriters and vocalists that they had ever worked with". Shortly after, Warren teamed up again with Scott Harris and together they wrote "Don't Let Me Down" with The Chainsmokers, which reached number 3 and went on to reach triple platinum in the United States. It was both The Chainsmokers and Daya's first top 5 on Billboard Hot 100. Don't Let Me Down was also nominated and won a Grammy in 2017 for Best Dance Recording. Around the same time, Warren co-wrote and featured vocals on viral hit "Capsize" with Los Angeles duo Frenship, which is certified platinum and has surpassed 400 million streams on Spotify.When interviewed by the online music publication Smashed about her writing process, Warren stated: "I think that sometimes songwriting, especially for pop, is viewed as a factory or an assembly line process, and I have to challenge that... I think that good songwriting has a real art to it, and I don’t just mean the profound or thought-provoking ones. Even most of the light-hearted, straight-up pop ones are masterfully written–sometimes even harder to write." Warren's express mission as a writer and artist is to create pop music that has the conceptual backing to influence positive social change. In a Tisch interview, she states: "What excites me about this field is that pop music can be an incredibly powerful and crucial platform for influence and change." She also has uncredited vocals on The Chainsmokers' track "Paris" from their debut album Memories... Do Not Open. She quotes "I think for the first song introducing their album, they just wanted it to be a Chainsmokers thing and not featuring anyone." The Chainsmokers felt it would be best to release it as a single without any features because it would promote their new album. Although she did not receive credit for the vocals she believed it all worked out and quotes: "It ended up kinda working out for the best 'cause there was all this mystery of who was singing it!"
Artist
Warren's beginnings as an artist came with the release of American pop duo Frenship's single, "Capsize". Warren not only co-wrote the viral hit, but also performed as a featured vocalist. She made her first televised appearance performing "Capsize" with the duo on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on December 8, 2016.On April 7, 2017, American electronic pop duo The Chainsmokers released their debut album, Memories...Do Not Open. Warren was credited as a writer on four songs, including "The One", "Don't Say", "My Type" and "Wake Up Alone". She was additionally featured as lead vocalist on "Don't Say" and "My Type" and provided uncredited backup vocals on "Paris". She was announced as a special guest on the duo's American "Memories...Do Not Open" tour and appeared with them for a performance of "Paris" on the April 8, 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart.
On May 5, 2017, Warren released her debut single, "Hurt By You", which landed on both the US Viral and Global Viral charts on Spotify. On July 21, 2017, Warren released her second single, "Something To Hold On To", which was also featured on Spotify's New Music Friday playlist. Her most recent single, "Poking Holes", was released on October 12, 2017.
On November 14, 2017, Warren was named as one of the Forbes 30 under 30 in the music industry. The list, according to Forbes, is an "annual encyclopedia of creative disruption featuring 600 stars from 20 different industries." Skylar Grey, one of the judges on the panel that selected Ms. Warren, said she was selected in part because, "Her sound and style of writing is so fresh, and I find a lot of other writers trying to emulate it. She’s young, but she’s been in the game for a while, so this isn’t some flash-in-the-pan writer. I think she’ll be killing it for a long time."
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Other charted songs
Songwriting credits
| Year | Artist | Album | Song | Co-written with |
| 2020 | Phoebe Ryan | How it Used to Feel | "Exist" | Phoebe Ryan, Leroy Clampitt |
| 2020 | Lennon Stella | Three. Two. One | "Weakness " | Erin McCarley, Eg White, Lennon Stella, Sam De Jong |
| 2020 | Lennon Stella | Three. Two. One | "Fear of Being Alone" | Caroline Ailin, Malay Ho, Paul Shelton |
| 2019 | Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia | "Don't Start Now" | Dua Lipa, Caroline Furoyen, Ian Kirkpatrick |
| 2019 | Melanie Martinez | K-12 | "Wheels on the Bus" | Melanie Martinez, Michael Keenan |
| 2019 | Melanie Martinez | K-12 | "Strawberry Shortcake" | Melanie Martinez, Michael Keenan |
| 2019 | Melanie Martinez | K-12 | "Recess" | Melanie Martinez, Michael Keenan |
| 2019 | RITUAL | "Using" | Adam Midgley, Tommy Baxter, Gerrard O'Connel | |
| 2019 | Basic Tape | rowspan="2" | "Sweet Talk" | Benjamin Emard, Savinien Milot |
| 2019 | Vanic | "Somedays" | Britt Burton, Jesse Hughes, Kevin Pederson, Matthew Elifritz, Trevor Dahl | - |
| 2019 | X Ambassadors | ORION | "Shadows" | Adam Levin, Casey Harris, Sam Harris, Eric Frederic, Jason DeZuzio |
| 2019 | Phil Plested | "Either You Love Me or You Don't" | Phil Plested, Matthew Holmes, Philip Leigh, Thomas Eriksen | |
| 2019 | Khalid | Free Spirit | "Twenty One" | Khalid Robinson, Jamil Chammas, Ryan Vojtesak, Charlie Handsome, Digi |
| 2019 | Khalid | Free Spirit | "Alive" | Khalid Robinson, John Hill, John Blanda, Jonathan Hoskins |
| 2019 | MacKenzie Porter | "Cry Baby" | Lily Ava Stokes, Steph Jones, Will Lobban-Bean, | |
| 2019 | Sigrid | Sucker Punch | "Sucker Punch" | Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, Martin Sjølie, Odd Martin Skalnes |
| 2019 | Sigrid | Sucker Punch | "Mine Right Now" | Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, Martin Sjølie, Odd Martin Skalnes |
| 2019 | Sigrid | Sucker Punch | "Don't Feel Like Crying" | Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, Oscar Holter |
| 2019 | Sigrid | Sucker Punch | "Level Up" | Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, Martin Sjølie, Odd Martin Skalnes |
| 2019 | Matt Simons | "Open Up" | Matt Simons, Scott Harris, Dan Romer, | |
| 2019 | Backstreet Boys | DNA | "Nobody Else" | Ari Leff, Gamal Lewis, Ryan Ogren, Nick Bailey |
| 2019 | RITUAL | "Love Me Back" | Adam Midgley, Cole Steven, Gerard O'Connell, Linden Jay, Milo Bennett, Tommy Baxter | |
| 2019 | Macy Maloy | Studio Sessions | "Wrong Things Right" | Macy Maloy, Dem Jointz |
| 2018 | Clean Bandit | What Is Love? | "Last Goodbye" | Jack Patterson, Grace Chatto, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Stephanie Allen |
| 2018 | Rita Ora | Phoenix | "Only Want You" | Alexandra Tamposi, Andrew Wotman, Louis Bell |
| 2018 | Brett Young | Ticket to L.A. | "Reason to Stay" | Brett Young, Jonathan Nite, Jimmy Robbins |
| 2018 | Professor Green | "Photographs" | Stephen Manderson, Chris Crowhurst, Rory Charles Graham, Fraser T. Smith, TMS, Manon Grandjean | |
| 2018 | Sigrid | Sucker Punch | "Sucker Punch" | Sigrid Raabe, Martin Sjølie |
| 2018 | LANY | Malibu Nights | "If You See Her" | Paul Klein, David Pramik |
| 2018 | The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy | "This Feeling" | Drew Taggart, Alex Pall |
| 2018 | David Guetta | 7 | "Say My Name" | Pierre Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Alejandro Ramierz, Brittany Burton, Matthew Holmes, Philip Leigh, Thomas Troelsen, Jose Balvin, Baoz de Jong |
| 2018 | The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy | "Side Effects" | Sly, Corey Sanders, Drew Taggart, Tony Ann |
| 2018 | Chelsea Jade | Personal Best | "Pitch Dark" | Sam de Jong, Ecca Vandal |
| 2018 | Galantis | "Satisfied" featuring MAX | Christian Karlsson, Linus Eklow, Jimmy "Svidden" Koitzsch, Henrik Jonback, Joshua Coleman, Joseph Spargur, Scott Harris, Maxwell Schneider | |
| 2018 | Theia | "Bad Idea" | Emma Haley Walker, Jacob Zachary Grant, Sukhdeep Singh Bhogal | |
| 2018 | Bebe Rexha | Expectations | "Don't Get Any Closer" | Bleta Rexha, Jussi Karvinen, Scott Harris |
| 2018 | Taeyeon | Something New | "Baram X3" | Karen Poole, Sonny J Mason |
| 2018 | Jason Mraz | Know. | "Unlonely" | Jason Mraz, Scott Harris, Andrew Wells |
| 2018 | Era Istrefi | "Prisoner" | Scott Harris, Maor Levi | |
| 2018 | Anne-Marie | Speak Your Mind | "Trigger" | Scott Harris, Chris Loco |
| 2018 | JT Roach | "Symmetry" featuring Emily Warren | JT Roach | |
| 2018 | The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy | "Somebody" featuring Drew Love | Drew Taggart, Drew Love |
| 2018 | Sigrid | Raw EP | "High Five" | Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, Martin Sjølie |
| 2018 | Matt Simons | "We can Do Better" | Matt Simons, Scott Harris, Dan Romer, Mike Tuccillo | |
| 2018 | The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy | "Everybody Hates Me" | Drew Taggart |
| 2018 | The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy | "You Owe Me" | Drew Taggart, Alex Pall, Chelsea Jade |
| 2018 | Sean Paul & David Guetta | Mad Love the Prequel | "Mad Love " | Sean Paul, David Guetta, Shakira, Raoul Chen, Ina Wroldsen, Giorgio Tuinfort, Rosina Russell, Jack Patterson, 1st Klase, Banx & Ranx, Jason Henriques |
| 2018 | Josie Dunne | "Old School" | Josie Dunne, Ryan Ogren, Nick Bailey | |
| 2018 | The Chainsmokers | Sick Boy | "Sick Boy" | Drew Taggart, Alex Pall, Tony Ann |
| 2017 | Jacob Sartorius | rowspan="2" | "Cozy" | The Futuristics, Steph Jones |
| 2017 | Frank Walker | "Piano " | Andrew Jackson, Fred Ball | - |
| 2017 | Filous | For Love EP | "Already Gone " | Scott Harris, Matthias Oldofredi |
| 2017 | Rationale | Rationale | "Into the Blue" | Tinashe Fazakerley, Mark Crew |
| 2017 | Charli XCX | "Boys" | Ingrid Andress, Cass Lowe, Michael Pollack, Ari Leff, Jerker Hansson | |
| 2017 | Mitch James | rowspan="2" | "All the Ways to Say Goodbye" | Mitch James, Nik Brinkman, Sam de Jong |
| 2017 | Audien, 3LAU | "Hot Water" | Scott Harris, Jasmine Thompson, Ido Zmishlany | - |
| 2017 | Dua Lipa | Dua Lipa | "New Rules" | Ian Kirkpatrick, Caroline Ailin |
| 2017 | COIN | How Will You Know If You Never Try | "Are We Alone" | Chase Lawrence, Joe Memmel, Ryan, Zach |
| 2017 | COIN | How Will You Know If You Never Try | "I Don't Wanna Dance" | Chase Lawrence, Joe Memmel, Teddy Geiger |
| 2017 | Alessia Cara | The Get Down Part II Soundtrack | "The Other Side" | Scott Harris |
| 2017 | Noah Cyrus | "Stay Together" | Britt Burton, Digital Farm Animals | |
| 2017 | The Chainsmokers | Memories...Do Not Open | "The One" | Scott Harris, Drew Taggart |
| 2017 | The Chainsmokers | Memories...Do Not Open | "Don't Say" | Drew Taggart, Imad Royal, Joni Fatora, Brenton Duvall |
| 2017 | The Chainsmokers | Memories...Do Not Open | "My Type" | Britt Burton, Drew Taggart |
| 2017 | The Chainsmokers | Memories...Do Not Open | "Wake Up Alone" | Scott Harris, Drew Taggart |
| 2017 | James Blunt | The Afterlove | "Someone Singing Along" | James Blunt, Steve Robson |
| 2017 | Little Mix | Glory Days: Platinum Edition | "No More Sad Songs" | The Electric, Tash Phillips |
| 2016 | Molly Kate Kestner | "Good Die Young" | Molly Kate Kestner, Nick Ruth | |
| 2016 | Naughty Boy | Bungee Jumping | "Should've Been Me" | James Murray, Shahid Khan, Mustafa Omer, Scott Harris, Kyla Reid, Andrae Sutherland |
| 2016 | Sean Paul | Mad Love the Prequel | "No Lie" | Sean Paul, Andrew Jackson, Pip Kembo, Sermstyle |
| 2016 | Little Mix | Glory Days | "Nobody Like You" | Steve Robson |
| 2016 | Little Mix | Glory Days | "No More Sad Songs" | The Electric, Tash Phillips |
| 2016 | Lost Kings | "Phone Down" | Scott Harris, Phil Leigh, Matt Holmes, Norris Shanholtz, Robert Gainley | |
| 2016 | Britt Nicole | Britt Nicole | "No Filter" | Britt Burton, Josh Alexander |
| 2016 | Ava Lily | "Painkiller" | Lily Stokes, Shama Joseph | |
| 2016 | Various Artists | The Get Down Soundtrack | "Just You, Not Now " by Grace | Grace, Emile Haynie, Baz Luhrmann |
| 2016 | Chris Lane | Girl Problems | "Circles" | Danny Parker, Steph Jones, Joey Moi, Sno |
| 2016 | Astrid S | Astrid S | "Jump" | Astrid S, Nick Ruth |
| 2016 | Astrid S | Astrid S | "I Don't Wanna Know" | Astrid S, Nick Ruth |
| 2016 | Andy Black | The Shadow Side | "Put The Gun Down" | Andy Biersack, John Feldmann |
| 2016 | Becky Hill | "Back To My Love " | Becky Hill, Little Simz, Noah Breakfast | |
| 2016 | Frenship | Truce | "Capsize" | James Sunderland, Brett Hite, Babydaddy |
| 2016 | Skizzy Mars | Alone Together | "Girl on a Train" | Skizzy Mars, Scott Harris, Michael Keenan |
| 2016 | The Chainsmokers | Collage | "Don't Let Me Down" | Drew Taggart, Scott Harris |
| 2016 | Tiësto, Oliver Heldens | "The Right Song" | Scott Harris, Tiësto, Oliver Heldens | |
| 2015 | 5 Seconds of Summer | Sounds Good Feels Good | "Safety Pin" | John Feldmann, Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin |
| 2015 | OMI | Me 4 U | "Drop in the Ocean" | Scott Harris, Oscar Scivier, AronChupa |
| 2015 | The Chainsmokers, Tritonal | Bouquet | "Until You Were Gone" | The YoungBoyz, The Chainsmokers, Tritonal, Jared Scharff |
| 2015 | Becky G | "Break a Sweat" | Dr. Luke, Cirkut, J Kash, LunchMoney Lewis, Chloe Angelides | |
| 2015 | Sophia Black | Sophia Black | "mizu" | Sophia Black, Aaron Joseph, Jon Castelli |
| 2015 | Melanie Martinez | Cry Baby | "Soap" | Melanie Martinez, Kyle Shearer |
| 2015 | Shawn Mendes | Handwritten | "Strings" | Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris |
| 2015 | Shawn Mendes | Handwritten | "Aftertaste" | Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris |
| 2015 | Shawn Mendes | Handwritten | "Air" | Scott Harris |
| 2015 | Shawn Mendes | Handwritten | "Lost" | Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris, Joshua Grant |
| 2015 | Katy Tiz | "Whistle " | Katy Tiz, Kinetics & One Love, J.R. Rotem | |
| 2015 | Sleeping with Sirens | Madness | "Gold" | John Feldmann, Kellin Quinn |
| 2015 | Sleeping with Sirens | Madness | "Heroine" | John Feldmann, Kellin Quinn |
| 2015 | Fifth Harmony | Reflection | "Them Girls Be Like" | Britt Burton, James Abrahart, Victoria Monet, T-Collar |
| 2014 | Niykee Heaton | Bad Intentions | "Sober" | Niykee Heaton, Michael Keenan |
| 2014 | Niykee Heaton | Bad Intentions | "Champagne" | Niykee Heaton, Nick Bailey, Ryan Ogren |
| 2014 | Niykee Heaton | Bad Intentions | "Skin Tight" | Niykee Heaton, Tommy Tysper |
| 2014 | Niykee Heaton | Bad Intentions | "Villa" | Niykee Heaton, Scott Harris, Keenan, SmarterChild |
| 2014 | Nick & Knight | Nick & Knight | "If You Want It" | Nick Carter, Jordan Knight, Who is Fancy, Jeff Halatrax |
| 2014 | Jessie J | Sweet Talker | "Masterpiece" | Britt Burton, Josh Alexander |
| 2014 | Jessie J | Sweet Talker | "Ain't Been Done" | Scott Harris, David Gamson |
| 2014 | Karmin | Pulses | "Gasoline" | Amy Heidemann, Nick Noonan, Kyle Shearer |
| 2013 | Krewella | Get Wet | "Pass the Love Around" | Scott Harris, SmarterChild |