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Spike Stent
Background:person
Birth Name:Mark Stent
Birth Date:3 August 1965
Birth Place:Alton, Hampshire, England
Years Active:1985–present

Mark "Spike" Stent (born 3 August 1965) is an English record producer and mixing engineer who has worked with many international artists including Madonna, Marshmello, U2, Beyoncé, Björk, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, Grimes, Ed Sheeran, Beth Orton, Harry Styles, Frank Ocean, Selena Gomez, All Saints, Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Mansun, Maroon 5, Muse, Lily Allen, Peter Gabriel, Gwen Stefani, Moby, No Doubt, Lenka, Usher, Kaiser Chiefs, Linkin Park, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Oasis, Keane, Massive Attack, Bastille, Diana Vickers and Take That.[1]

Career

Stent grew up in Hampshire, England and first gained experience as an engineer at Jacob Studios as a teenager before a two-year stint at Trident Studios. After Trident, Stent worked at Olympic Studios in Barnes, South London. While at Olympic, Stent worked with artists such as Massive Attack, Bjork, Madonna, U2, Keane, and Oasis. Radiohead enlisted him to produce their 2007 album In Rainbows, but the collaboration was unsuccessful.[2]

Stent works at two studios: Mix Suite LA in EastWest Studios and Mix Suite UK.

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

Year Album/Song Artist Award Results Ref
1996 Bedtime Stories Best Pop Vocal Album[3]
1998 Homogenic Best Alternative Music Album[4]
2001 Music Best Pop Vocal Album[5]
2001 Music Record of the Year
2002 Vespertine Best Alternative Music Album
2005 Medulla Grammy Best Alternative Album
2006 Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Grammy Best Pop Vocal Album
2006 Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Grammy Album of the Year
2006 Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Grammy Record of the Year
2006 Supernature Grammy Best Electronic/Dance Album
2007 Confessions on a Dance Floor Grammy Best Dance/Electronic Album
2008 Volta Grammy Best Alternative Music Album
2008 Neon Bible Grammy Best Alternative Album [6]
2009 I Am... Sasha Fierce Grammy Best Contemporary R&B Album [7]
2009 I Am... Sasha Fierce Grammy Album of the Year
2010 Funhouse Grammy Best Pop Vocal Album
2010 It's Blitz Grammy Best Alternative Music Album
2010 21st Century Breakdown Grammy Best Rock Music Album
2010 The Fame Monster Grammy Best Pop Vocal Album [8]
2010 The Resistance Grammy Best Rock Album [9]
2010 Head First Grammy Best Dance/Electronica Album
2010 Raymond V Raymond Grammy Best Contemporary R&B Album [10]
2012 Channel Orange Best Urban Contemporary Album [11]
2013 "We Take Care of Our Own" Best Rock Song
2013 Wrecking Ball Best Rock Album
2013 Red Album of the Year
2013 The 2nd Law Best Rock Album[12]
2015 x Best Pop Vocal Album[13]
2015 x Album of the Year
2016 "Thinking Out Loud" Record of the Year
2016 How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Best Pop Vocal Album[14]
2016 "What Kind of Man" Best Rock Song
2017 "Tearing Me Up" Best Dance Recording[15]
2018 ÷ Best Pop Vocal Album
2024 Flowers Miley CyrusRecord of the Year
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Billboard Music Awards

Year Artist Album/Song Award Result
2001 Madonna "Music" Top Hot Dance Club Play Won
2001 Madonna "Music" Top Hot Dance Maxi Single Sales Won
2005 Gwen Stefani "Hollaback Girl" Digital Song the Year Won

Music Producers Guild (MPG) Awards

Year Award Results
2011 Recording Engineer of the Year MPG Awards Won [16]
2014 Mix Engineer of the Year MPG Awards Won
2015 Mix Engineer of the Year MPG Awards Won [17]

Selected film credits

Artist Track/Album Year Film
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" 1995 Batman Forever
"GoldenEye" 1995 GoldenEye
Selmasongs 2000 Dancer in the Dark
"Die Another Day" 2002 Die Another Day

Selected discography

2020s

2010s

2000s

1990s

1980s

External links

Notes and References

  1. Sound on Sound magazine, January 1999 (link). Retrieved March 2006.
  2. Vozick-Levinson . Simon . 27 April 2012 . The making of Radiohead's In Rainbows . live . . https://web.archive.org/web/20190730031338/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-making-of-radioheads-in-rainbows-187534/ . 30 July 2019 . 30 July 2019.
  3. News: Grammys 1996. CNN. 8 June 2016.
  4. Web site: Bjork Grammy Nominations. Bork. 8 June 2016.
  5. Web site: Madonna Awards and Nominations. Madonna Awards and Nominations. 8 June 2016.
  6. Web site: Arcarde Fire Grammy Nominatoins. Grammys. 8 June 2016.
  7. Web site: Grammys 2009. Grammys. 21 May 2016.
  8. Web site: Grammys 2010 Gaga. Grammys. 21 May 2016.
  9. Web site: Grammys Muse 2010. Grammys. 21 May 2016.
  10. Web site: Usher Grammy. Grammys. 21 May 2016.
  11. Web site: Grammy Frank. Grammys. 21 May 2016.
  12. Web site: 2nd Law Nominations. Muse. 8 June 2016.
  13. Web site: Grammy Awards 2016. Grammys. 21 May 2016.
  14. Web site: Florence and The Machine Grammy Nominations. Grammy Nominations. 8 June 2016.
  15. Web site: Awards . GRAMMY.com . 2017-07-27.
  16. Web site: MPG 2011. Music Radar. 15 February 2011 . 21 May 2016.
  17. Web site: MPG Awards 2015. MPG. 13 February 2015 . 21 May 2016.
  18. Web site: Calm – 5 Seconds of Summer (Credits). AllMusic. 26 June 2020. 27 March 2020.
  19. Heartbreak Weather. Niall Horan. 2020. Neon Haze Music / Capitol Records.
  20. Web site: Harry Styles - Harry Styles | Credits . . 2017-05-12 . 2017-07-27.
  21. Web site: Snapes. Laura. Keeping it Unreal: In the Studio with Chvrches. Pitchfork Media. 26 September 2015. 22 June 2015.
  22. Web site: Mark "Spike" Stent . . 22 May 2014.

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