Deekay is a Danish production and songwriting team founded by Lars Halvor Jensen, Martin Michael Larsson with other members Tim "Data" McEwan, Daniel "Obi" Klein and Johannes "Josh" Jørgensen. The name Deekay comes from the acronym dk, which means Denmark.
Deekay have written and produced for artists like Jason Derulo, Jordin Sparks,[1] Lil Wayne, Diddy,[2] Sugababes,[3] Orianthi,[4] JLS,[5] [6] [7] Tinie Tempah, Jake Zyrus,[8] Allison Iraheta,[9] Method Man, Fat Joe, Styles P, Lemar,[10] Medina, Mietta, Girls' Generation, Red Velvet, Loona, Exo, TVXQ and others.
Selected releases & recordings written and/or produced fully or in part by DEEKAY
From Diddy/Dirty Money album Last Train to Paris, #7 US Billboard 200 Album Chart
Title-track on Orianthi's 2nd studio album, which has reached certified Gold status in Japan and Australia.
From their UK No. 1 debut album, which sold in excess of 1.300.000 copies in the UK alone (4 x platinum)
From their second album, "Outta This World"
Title-track on UK #1[12] album "Change" – the song was a top 3 UK radio airplay hit.
From multi-platinum album "Time To Grow"
1st single from multi-platinum album "The Truth About Love" – No. 2 Official UK Radio Airplay Chart & No. 7 UK Single Sales Chart
Hit No. 1 on the iTunes single chart in Germany, Sweden, Austria and Ireland.[13]
From his debut album, which entered the UK album chart at #3.
The first track is included in the credits of the 2009 movie Aliens in the Attic and both of them are included in the Tidale's second studio album, Guilty Pleasure.
Hit no. 1 on all Korean charts 7 minutes after release – 150.000+ pre-orders on "Hoot" album...The song was No. 1 for 5 weeks on the Music Bank K-Chart and won the Triple Crown on the Inkigayo chart in November/December 2010. The Hoot EP achieved 18 x platinum status in Korea and became best song of the year according to Gallup Korea.[15] [16]
The album became the first ever from a foreign girl group to top the Official Japanese Oricon Chart on the release date. The album sold 231,553 copies in the first week, placed first on the Oricon Weekly Album Chart and surpassed the record for first week debut album sales for a foreign artist.
Hit no. 1 on the Oricon Daily Chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Japan.[17]
From the Rise as God album
From the multi-platinum UK No. 1 album Guilty
"Breathe Easy" was the third single from the album and a UK #4. It was an 8-week consecutive No. 1 in Italy and the biggest selling single there in 2004 in front of records like "Yeah", "Toxic" & "Superstar". It was also a hit in the rest of Europe (#7 in Austria & Germany etc.)"
"Bubblin'" was the 4th single from the album and a UK #6. It also became a smash hit all over Europe, top 3 in Italy, top 15 in France, No. 11 Germany etc.
| Artist | Year | Song | Album | Music | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Producer | Credited | |||||
| Exo | 2014 | Love, Love, Love | Overdose | Daniel "Obi" Klein | co-composition | |
| 2017 | Boomerang(부메랑) | The War: The Power of Music | co-composition, arrangement | |||
| Girls' Generation | 2010 | Hoot (훗) | Hoot | Lars Halvor Jensen, Martin Michael Larsson | co-composition, arrangement, programmed, co-writing | |
| 2011 | Hoot | Girls' Generation | ||||
| 2012 | Reflection | Girls & Peace | co-composition & arrangement | |||
| 2013 | Lips | Love & Peace | Daniel "Obi" Klein | co-composition & arrangement | ||
| 2015 | Check | Lion Heart | ||||
| 2022 | Seventeen | Forever 1 | ||||
| f(x) | 2013 | Airplane | Pink Tape | Tim McEwan | co-composition & arrangement | |
| Red Velvet | 2015 | Automatic | Ice Cream Cake | Daniel "Obi" Klein | co-composition & arrangement | |
| Lady's Room | The Red | Daniel "Obi" Klein | ||||
| Time Slip | Daniel "Obi" Klein, Johannes "Josh" Jorgensen | |||||
| Cool World | Daniel "Obi" Klein | |||||
| 2016 | Cool Hot Sweet Love | The Velvet | Daniel "Obi" Klein | |||
| 2017 | Mojito (여름빛) | The Red Summer | Johannes "Josh" Jorgensen, Lars Halvor Jensen | |||
| Look (봐) | Perfect Velvet | Daniel "Obi" Klein | ||||
| Perfect 10 | ||||||
| SHINee | 2010 | Hello | Hello [Repackage] | Lars Halvor Jensen, Tim McEwan | co-composition & arrangement | |
| Taemin (SHINee) | 2014 | ACE | ACE | Daniel "Obi" Klein | co-composition & arrangement | |
| 2016 | Already (벌써) | Press It | ||||
| Super Junior | 2012 | Sexy, Free & Single | Sexy, Free & Single | Daniel "Obi" Klein | co-composition & arrangement | |
| 2014 | Hit Me Up | This is Love | ||||
| TVXQ | 2011 | Superstar | TONE | Lars Halvor Jensen, Johannes Joergensen | co-composition, co-writing, arrangement | |
| 2015 | Smile (웨딩드레스) | Rise as God | Daniel "Obi" Klein | co-composition & arrangement | ||
| Henry & Sunny (Girls' Generation) | 2017 | U&I | U&I | Daniel "Obi" Klein | co-composition & arrangement | |