Yes, almost always as a co-writer. Bryan Adams is credited on about 94% of his catalogue, co-writing nearly every song with a partner. For most of his early career that was Jim Vallance, and in the 1990s it was producer Robert John 'Mutt' Lange. Songs like 'Summer of '69' and '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You' are his co-writes.
Across all 171 tracks: how many Bryan Adams wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Share of all 171 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Bryan Adams's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
Where Bryan Adams sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
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Bubble size = tracks worked on together. JV Jim Vallance · BC Bob Clearmountain · RJ Robert John "Mutt" Lange · GP Gretchen Peters · BR Bob Rock · EK Eliot Kennedy
Data Insight
Adams is a prolific co-writer who has penned nearly his entire catalog. From 1979 through the mid-1990s he worked almost exclusively with Jim Vallance; his 1991 and 1996 albums saw him shift primary co-authorship to Mutt Lange. Later albums brought in Gretchen Peters, Eliot Kennedy, and Jeff Lynne as writing partners. The one outlier in his catalog is the 2014 covers album Tracks of My Years, on which Adams wrote or co-wrote only two of the eleven standard tracks.
Quick Facts
Creative Fingerprint
A songwriting partnership man: Bryan Adams is credited on about 94% of his catalogue, co-writing nearly everything, first with Jim Vallance and then with producer Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, rather than writing alone.
The Story
Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959, Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter and musician, one of the best-selling artists of all time with an estimated 75-100 million records sold worldwide. Adams broke through internationally with the 1984 album Reckless. His 1991 album Waking Up the Neighbours produced the global chart-topper "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," which spent a record 16 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK. Throughout his career Adams has co-written the vast majority of his material, primarily with longtime collaborator Jim Vallance and, during the 1990s-2000s, with Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
