Question 1

Does Florence Welch write her own songs?

Accepted Answer

Almost all of them. She is credited on 70 of the 72 tracks across six studio albums. Six carry her name alone and eight more are hers with the band's keyboardist Isabella Summers, so fourteen songs are written entirely inside the group. The only two she has no hand in are "Girl with One Eye" and the cover that closes the debut.

Question 2

Who wrote "Dog Days Are Over"?

Accepted Answer

Welch with Isabella Summers. It reached number 21 on the Hot 100, the band's highest American placing.

Question 3

Who wrote "You've Got the Love"?

Accepted Answer

John Bellamy, Arnecia Michelle Harris and Anthony B. Stephens. It is a cover and one of only two album tracks with no Welch credit.

Question 4

How many albums have they released?

Accepted Answer

Six studio albums between 2009 and 2025, from Lungs to Everybody Scream.

Question 5

Who is Isabella Summers?

Accepted Answer

The band's keyboardist since 2007 and Welch's most frequent co-writer, credited on eight album tracks across the first three records.

Question 6

Have they won a Grammy?

Accepted Answer

No. They have six Grammy nominations including Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album. Lungs did win the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2010.

Question 7

Which songs did Welch write alone?

Accepted Answer

"Breaking Down", "Third Eye", "June", "100 Years", "Dream Girl Evil" and "Heaven Is Here", one or two per album from 2011 onwards.

Question 8

Who is Paul Epworth?

Accepted Answer

The producer of the first two albums and Welch's co-writer on seven of the twelve tracks on Ceremonials.

Question 9

Which album did best in America?

Accepted Answer

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 2015, their first to do so.

Question 10

Why do the co-writers keep changing?

Accepted Answer

Each record is built around a different collaborator: Paul Epworth on the first two, Kid Harpoon and Markus Dravs on the third, Emile Haynie on the fourth, Jack Antonoff on the fifth and Mark Bowen on the sixth.

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