Matthew Tishler

Matthew Tishler
BornToronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • keyboards
  • piano
  • bass
Years active2010–present
Websitelaundromatmusic.com

Matthew Tishler is a Canadian songwriter and music producer who has written and produced songs for film, television, radio, stage, and theme parks. He is known for his work with teen pop artists such as Olivia Rodrigo, Dove Cameron, Sabrina Carpenter, Ashley Tisdale, Olivia Holt and JoJo Siwa, as well as popular K-pop/J-pop artists like BTS, TWICE, EXO, NCT Dream, Enhypen, Taeyeon, Red Velvet, Namie Amuro, Kumi Koda, EXILE Atsushi, P1Harmony, and Stray Kids .[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] His projects have combined sales of over 25 million units.

Tishler produced and co-wrote the theme song to Girl Meets World, "Take on the World", performed by Sabrina Carpenter and Rowan Blanchard,[8] and songs for many Disney Channel original movies and series, including High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Descendants 3, Zombies, Austin & Ally, Teen Beach 2 and Shake It Up. He also co-wrote and produced "She's So Gone" from Lemonade Mouth, which is featured on Billboard's list of "The 100 Greatest Disney Songs of All Time" [9] and Rolling Stone's "Fake Bands, Real Songs: The 50 Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians".[10]

In early 2016, he was responsible for co-producing and co-writing a wave of successful K-pop singles, including "Sing for You" and "For Life" by EXO, "Rain" by Taeyeon from Girls' Generation, and "Good Luck" by AOA charting combined sales in excess of 1.4 million units that year.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Tishler co-wrote and co-produced "보조개 (Dimple)" by BTS, which was featured on Love Yourself: Her and Love Yourself: Answer, the #1 albums in Korea for 2017 and 2018, respectively.[19][20][21] Tishler also wrote and produced the title track for Namie Amuro's record-breaking album "Finally" (#1 album in Japan for 2017 and 2018),[22][23] and its accompanying "Finally" DVD/Blu-ray, which is the best-selling music DVD/Blu-ray in Japan of all time.[24][25]

He also produced All I Want by Olivia Rodrigo and was a music producer on the finale of Pasek and Paul's movie-musical Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, performed by Shawn Mendes.

  1. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (8 June 2010). "Disney Channel Taps Director, Cast For HSM Offshoot 'Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ^ Collar, Matt. "Austin & Ally [Original Soundtrack]". All Music. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  3. ^ "EXILE( 放浪兄弟 )". Mojim.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Kumi Koda – Japonesque". Discogs.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  5. ^ "EXO release two new MV's for 'For Life'". All K-Pop. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Album Review: Taeyeon – My Voice (Deluxe Edition)". K-Pop. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Koda Kumi : WINTER of LOVE". Nautiiljon. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  8. ^ Disney Channel Press Release. "'Girl Meets World' to Premiere Friday, June 27 on Disney Channel". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  9. ^ "The 100 Greatest Disneyverse Songs of All Time". Billboard.
  10. ^ "Fake Bands, Real Songs: The 50 Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians". Rolling Stone. 3 March 2023.
  11. ^ "2015 Albums Chart". Gaon Chart. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  12. ^ Fox, Kevin. "EXO Sell 267,900 Copies Of 'Sing For You' In 1st Week, Break Record Set By 'EXODUS'". K Pop Starz. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  13. ^ "2016 Digital Chart". Gaon Chart. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  14. ^ Ji-young, Kim. "Taeyeon's 'Rain' tops major charts". K-Pop Herald. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  15. ^ "Gaon Chart". Gaon Music Chart. Archived from the original on 25 February 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  16. ^ "Gaon Chart". Gaon Music Chart. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  17. ^ "AOA's Jimin is making a solo comeback with 'Call You Bae' feat. Xiumin". All K-Pop. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  18. ^ "2016 Download Chart". Gaon Chart. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  19. ^ "2017 Album Chart". gaonchart.co.kr. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  20. ^ "2018 Album Chart". gaonchart.co.kr. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  21. ^ "BTS's 'Love Yourself – Her' becomes first album in 16 years to sell over 1.2 million copies in the first month". All K-Pop. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  22. ^ "2017 Oricon Year-End Chart". ORICON NEWS. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  23. ^ "2018 Oricon Year-End Chart". ORICON NEWS. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  24. ^ "Namie Amuro's "Finally" Surpasses 1 Million in Sales". J-Pop Asia. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  25. ^ aramajapan (22 August 2018). "Namie Amuro's "Finally" concert surpasses Arashi for highest selling music DVD/blu-ray, and it's not even out yet". ARAMA! JAPAN. Retrieved 9 July 2019.