Solo Artist
Holds writing credit on 23 of 23 tracks
He is credited on all 23 tracks across his two albums. Six of them carry his name alone. The others share credit with the writers of the records he sampled, which is how a producer working this way ends up with long credit lists.
Across all 23 tracks: how many Jamie xx 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 23 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Jamie xx's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
Where Jamie xx 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 catalog 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.
The discography also lists We're New Here (2011), a remix album of Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here credited jointly to Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. It is a joint release built from another artist's recordings rather than a Jamie xx solo album, so it sits outside this catalog.
No albums from this decade.
Jamie xx23 tracks
4Romy Madley Croft, 4 tracks on The xx's page
RM3Rodaidh McDonald, 3 tracks
2Oliver Sim, 2 tracks on The xx's page
RC2Robert Chater, 2 tracks
AS2Andy Szekeres, 2 tracks
TA2The Avalanches, 2 tracks
TS1Taneisha Smith, 1 track
KB1Kerry Brothers, Jr., 1 track
AK1Alicia Keys, 1 track
RW1Robert Wright, 1 track
GF1George Forrest, 1 track
FT1Four Tet, 1 track
PB1Peter Buffett, 1 track
MB1Mary Buffett, 1 track
JM1Jeff Mehl, 1 track
BG1Billy Guy, 1 track
SR1Sylvia Robinson, 1 track
KH1Kieran Hebden, 1 track
HM1Haruko Mizoguchi, 1 track
HM1Hugh Masekela, 1 track
RN1Rick Nowels, 1 track
DM1David Matthews, 1 track
AS1Anthony Sarafino, 1 track
DM1Dave Matthews, 1 track
P1Popcaan, 1 track
YT1Young Thug, 1 track
D1Daryll, 1 track
AJ1Andrae Jay Sutherland, 1 track
JL1Jeffery Lamar Williams, 1 track on Young Thug's page
OA1Omar Adimora, 1 track
TF1Tommie Ford, 1 track
TM1Tina Moore, 1 track
TL1Timothy Liken, 1 track
AQ1Andy Quin, 1 track
AL1Almeta Latimer, 1 track
IJ1Ilsey Juber, 1 track
DB1David Brandt, 1 track
AD1Alesha Dixon, 1 track
AG1Alan Glass, 1 track
MA1Mary Ann Morgan, 1 track
HD1Honey Dijon, 1 track
BB1Balal Bashir, 1 track
KB1Kenneth Burke, 1 track
MS1Mikal Safiyullah, 1 track
LS1Luke Solomon, 1 track
HR1Honey Redmond, 1 track
PA1Patrick Adams, 1 track
JG1John Glacier, 1 track
DJ1David Jordan Jr., 1 track
PB1Panda Bear, 1 track
KL1Kelsey Lu, 1 track
KM1Kelsey McJunkins, 1 track
BL1Benjamin Lennox, 1 track
JH1Justin Hayward, 1 track
R1Robyn, 1 track
KÅ1Klas Åhlund, 1 track
MC1Marc Cerrone, 1 track
RD1Raymond Donnez, 1 track
EN1Edward Nelson, 1 track
NG1Nikki Giovanni, 1 track
AD1Anthony Di Blasi, 1 track
TA1the Avalanches, 1 track
HH1Howard Harris, 1 track
D1DiBlasi, 1 track
OD1Oona Doherty, 1 track
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. R Romy · RM Rodaidh McDonald · RC Robert Chater · AS Andy Szekeres
Data Insight
Smith is credited on all 23 tracks of his two albums, and six of them carry his name and nobody else's. The rest are shared with the people whose records he sampled, which is why the credit lists run long: "Gosh" is his alone, while "Loud Places" carries Romy Madley Croft plus three more writers from the record underneath it. In Waves widens that further, with almost every track built on somebody else's fragment.
Quick Facts
Creative Fingerprint
A producer whose co-writers are mostly the people he sampled, not people in the room.
The Story
Jamie xx is James Smith, the producer in The xx, who has released two solo albums nine years apart. In Colour came out in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize. In Waves followed in 2024.