Justin Parker is an English songwriter and record producer best known for his work with female singer-songwriters such as Lana Del Rey, Rihanna, Bat for Lashes, and Banks.

Career Parker began writing music when he was 17, but his career breakthrough came when he started working with Lana Del Rey in February 2011. Together they wrote "Video Games", the song that would launch both of their careers and would lead Parker to win his first Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. Although label executives were unimpressed with the song, it became a viral hit after Del Rey posted the song online with an accompanying lo-fi video which led to Fearne Cotton playing the song on BBC Radio 1; "Video Games" also received critical acclaim and commercial success, charting at number 9 in the United Kingdom and number 91 in the United States. Off the back of the success of "Video Games", Del Rey asked Parker to work in collaboration with her on her first major studio album. The pair wrote twelve songs together, five of which can be heard on Born to Die. The creative relationship continued into 2012, and led to the birth of another iconic ballad, "Ride", which features on Del Rey's Paradise.

Also in 2012, Parker co-wrote the lead single "Laura" for Bat for Lashes' third album, The Haunted Man, for which he won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. On the experience of writing with Parker, Natasha Kahn of Bat for Lashes said that "the actual process...only took two or three hours" and that in his creative care she was eager for him to take her away from her "more subversive ways of writing music and give me some structure and teach me something about traditional chord progression". simplicity of his collaboration with Del Rey can also be heard on "Laura". Parker also wrote the song "I Know You Care" for Ellie Goulding's second album, Halcyon. He was reported in 2012 to be working with Lissie and Eliza Doolittle on future projects.

Justin then went on to co write "Stay" with Mikky Ekko and recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her seventh studio album, Unapologetic (2012). It features guest vocals by Mikky Ekko, and was released as the second single from the album on 7 January 2013. The song reached the top five of twenty-four countries worldwide including number four in the UK and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Rihanna's twenty-fourth top ten on the latter chart, thus passing Whitney Houston's tally of 23 top ten songs. Furthermore, it reached number one in Canada, Czech Republic and Denmark, while also topping the US Pop Songs chart. In an interview with MetroLyrics' Amanda Hutchison, Mikky Ekko said of Parker's understanding of songs that 'he really knows how to create a really interesting dynamic with chords that keeps you pleasantly surprised...Justin knows how to give people access to these really heartbreaking chords, and he understands how to push and pull really well with the chords. He knows how to put hurt in the chords'.

Discography +YearArtistAlbumSongContribution2026Lykke LiThe Afterparty"Lucky Again"Writer"Sick Of Love"Writer"Euphoria"WriterEveryone Says HiNon-album single"Just Like That"WriterGIULIA BENon-album single"girls just wanna"Writer2025Everyone Says HiNon-album single"Communication"WriterGretelSquish"Maybelline"WriterNewDadAltar"Other Side"Writer"Heavyweight"Writer, Producer"Pretty"Writer"Puzzle"Writer"Everything I Wanted"Writer, Producer"Mr Cold Embrace"Writer"Vertigo"WriterLuke Sital-SinghFool's Spring"True Love"Writer, ProducerSIENNA SPIROSINK NOW, SWIM LATER"ORIGAMI"WriterEveryone Says HiEveryone Says Hi"Lucky Stars"Writer"I Wish I Was In New York City"Writer"I Wasn't Dreaming"Writer"Holding On To Let Go"Writer"Tried And Failed"WriterDean LewisThe Epilogue (Deluxe)"With You"Writer2024WalliceThe Jester"The Hardest Working Man Alive"Writer"Sickness"WriterDavid KushnerThe Dichotomy"Universe"WriterSea GirlsMidnight Butterflies"First On My List"WriterNewDadMADRA"Nosebleed"Writer2023"Nightmares"WriterIsleyFrom The Valley"Catch Fire"WriterGeorgiaEuphoric"All NightWriter"So What"WriterGrace CarterA Little Lost, A Little Found"Riot"WriterDelaceyThe Girl Has A Dream"The End"Writer, ProducerAidanAnd It Was All For Love"By Myself"Writer, Producer2022Man-Made SunshineMan-Made Sunshine"Rosebud"Writer, ProducerJojiSMITHEREENS"Before The Day Is Over"Writer, ProducerJillian JacquelineHonestly"Hurt Somebody Else"WriterSuki WaterhouseI Can't Let Go"Blessed"WriterGeorge CosbyLonely Heartbeats"Paris"Writer, ProducerSea GirlsHomesick (Deluxe)"DNA"WriterHomesick"Someone's Daughter Someone's Son"WriterJames ArthurIt'll All Make Sense In The End (Deluxe)"Nothing In The Way Of Us"Writer, ProducerLucy BlueSuburban Hollywood"Quiz Show"WriterFleurieGreetings from Supertropicali (Chapter 1)"Supertropicali"WriterJosef SalvatIslands"Islands"Writer2021"I'm Sorry"Writer"The Drum"WriterGeorge CosbyWe Stand Alone"Only Ever Cry On Planes"Writer, ProducerDay In Day Out"Lost On You"Writer, ProducerWRABELthese words are all for you"let love in"Writer, ProducerSam WilliamsGlasshouse Children"Hopeless Romanticism"WriterKat CunningNon-album single"Boys"WriterDua LipaFuture Nostalgia (The Moonlight Edition)"That Kind Of Woman"Writer, Producer2020CelesteNot Your Muse (Deluxe)"I'm Here"Writer, ProducerCamelphatDark Matter"Easier "WriterPatrick DroneyState of the Heart"Where You Are"WriterKat CunningNon-album single"Supernova (tigers blud)"WriterJosef Salvatmodern anxiety"human"Writer, ProducerJames Vincent McMorrowNon-album single"Headlights"WriterLivingstonLighthouse"Say The Word"WriterMartin GarrixNon-album single"Drown "WriterJojiNectar"Run"Writer, Producer2019KAWALAKAWALA"Who'd You Rather"WriterBishop BriggsCHAMPION"SOMEONE ELSE"WriterGeowulfMy Resignation"I See Red"Writer"Lonely"Writer"Round and Round"Writer, ProducerJC StewartNon-album single"Have You Had Enough Wine?"WriterSasha Alex SloanSelf Portrait"Thoughts"WriterbabyidontlikeyouNon-album single"Wanna Go Back"WriterMARINALove + Fear"Too Afraid"WriterTalosFar Out Dust"On and On"WriterDrakeCare Package"Days in The East"Writergnashwe"be"Writer2018Mikky EkkoFAME"FAME"WriterCLOVESOne Big Nothing"Bringing The House Down"Writer"Wasted Time"Writer"Hit Me Hard"Writer"Kiss Me In The Dark"Writer"Up And Down"Writer"One Big Nothing"WriterXamVoloAll The Sweetness On The Surface"Adored"WriterVance JoyNation of Two"One Of These Days"WriterGrace CarterWhy Her Not Me EP"Silhouette"Writer2017Tire Le CoyoteDésherbage"Jeu vidéo"WriterAlbin Lee MeldauBloodshot"Bloodshot"WriterLana Del Rey, Stevie NicksLust For Life"Beautiful People Beautiful Problems "WriterCLOVESOne Big Nothing"California Numb"Writer"Better Now"WriterLinkin ParkOne More Light"Invisible"WriterRhyeBlood"Song For You"Writer2016JONESNew Skin"Bring Me Down"Writer"Lonely Cry"WriterBillie MartenWriting of Blues and Yellows"Untitled"WriterPetite MellerLil Empire"America"WriterBANNERSNon-album single"Half Light"WriterAlbin Lee MeldauLovers"Let Me Go"Writer, ProducerThe Temper TrapThick as Thieves"Fall Together"WriterBirdyBeautiful Lies"Deep End"WriterGryffin, Josef SalvatNon-album single"Heading Home"Writer, Producer2015CLOVESXIII"Frail Love"Writer, Producer"Don't You Wait"Writer, Producer"Everybody's Son"Writer, ProducerSeal7"Do You Ever"WriterKwabsLove + War"Fight for Love"WriterMikky EkkoTime"Comatose"Writer, Producer"Pressure Pills"WriterSamsayaBombay Calling"Beginning at the End"Writer2014BANKSGoddess"You Should Know Where I'm Coming From"WriterSia1000 Forms of Fear"Straight for the Knife"WriterSkrillexRecess"Stranger "WriterLuke Sital-SinghThe Fire Inside"Lilywhite"Writer2013LissieBack to Forever"Cold Fish"WriterIcona PopTHIS IS... ICONA POP"Just Another Night"WriterKeith UrbanFuse"Shame"WriterLana Del ReyParadise"Burning Desire"WriterFallulahEscapism"13th Cigarette"Writer, Producer2012Rihanna, Mikky EkkoUnapologetic"Stay" Writer, ProducerKristina TrainDark Black"Lose You Tonight"Writer, ProducerSander van Doorn, MayaeniNon-album single"Nothing Inside"WriterEllie GouldingHalcyon"I Know You Care"Writer, ProducerBat For LashesThe Haunted Man"Laura"WriterLana Del ReyParadise"Ride"WriterBorn To Die"National Anthem"Writer"Radio"Writer, Producer"Carmen"Writer, Producer2011"Born To Die"Writer"Video Games"Writer2010Darren HayesHe Will Have His Way"Not Even Close"Producer

Awards YearInstitutionAwardWinner2012Ivor Novello AwardsBest Contemporary Song ("Video Games")2012ASCAP AwardsFoundation Stone AwardNominated2013Ivor Novello AwardsBest Song Musically and Lyrically ("Laura")

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