United Kingdom
Artists from the United Kingdom
82 artists are on SongSuey from the United Kingdom, with 769 albums and 8,989 tracks between them, every track credited by hand. On average they wrote 91% of their own tracks, 8 points above the site average of 83%.
- Artists
- 82
- Bands
- 56
- Solo acts
- 26
- Albums
- 769
- Tracks
- 8,989
- Average authorship
- 91% site 83%
Each dot is a hometown in the United Kingdom; a bigger dot means more artists share it.
What the credits say about the United Kingdom
- A writers' town: 72 of the 82 artists from the United Kingdom wrote at least 80% of what they recorded.
- The widest gap here is 82 points: A Flock of Seagulls at 100% against Olivia Newton-John at 18%.
- 52 of the 82 artists from the United Kingdom are Pop acts.
- Acts from the United Kingdom with a start year on file got going between 1960 and 2024.
- Greg Kurstin turns up in the credits of 13 of the 82 artists from the United Kingdom, 89 tracks in all.
- 30 of the 82 artists from the United Kingdom wrote every track on file: A Flock of Seagulls, Arctic Monkeys, Bullet for My Valentine, Calvin Harris, Charli XCX, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Ed Sheeran and 22 more.
All 82 artists from the United Kingdom, best score first
The score is the share of an act's tracks with a member credited as lyricist or composer. The grid is split by hometown; a heading links through when that place has a page of its own.
England
A Flock of Seagulls
Arctic Monkeys
Charli XCX
Coldplay
Depeche Mode
Ed Sheeran
Genesis
Gorillaz
Harry Styles
James Blunt
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Myles Smith
Oasis
Olivia Dean
Pink Floyd
Portishead
Radiohead
Rudimental
Sienna Spiro
Sleep Token
Tears for Fears
The 1975
The Police
Bring Me the Horizon
Eurythmics
Queen
The Cure
The Prodigy
Alt-J
Bastille
Culture Club
Def Leppard
Faithless
Lily Allen
Motörhead
Natasha Bedingfield
Pet Shop Boys
Sade
Sam Smith
Basement Jaxx
Elton John
Florence and the Machine
Adele
Amy Winehouse
Ellie Goulding
Zayn Malik
Fatboy Slim
Dua Lipa
Lola Young
Paul McCartney
Led Zeppelin
The Chemical Brothers
The Clash
Bush
Duran Duran
Massive Attack
David Bowie
Fleetwood Mac
Wham!
The Beatles
Sting
Billy Idol
Spice Girls
George Michael
Robbie Williams
Phil Collins
The Rolling Stones
Rick Astley
UB40
One Direction
Leona Lewis
Tricky
Eric Clapton
Rod Stewart
Olivia Newton-John
Also from the United Kingdom
Smaller hometowns inside the United Kingdom that do not have a page of their own yet. They get one once enough artists share them.
- Bridgend Bullet for My Valentine
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