William Edward Phillips (born 12 February 1987), also known by his stage name Tourist, is an English electronic musician and songwriter.
Biography In 2015 he won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for co-writing Sam Smith's "Stay with Me", along with James Napier. Since then, he has gone on to release six full-length albums, U (6 May 2016), Everyday (15 February 2019), Wild (18 October 2019), Inside Out (20 May 2022), Memory Morning (19 April 2024) and Music Is Invisible (5 December 2025) alongside several more EPs. He remains active as a writer, producer, and remixer, including remixing artists like Christine & The Queens, Hozier, Wolf Alice, and Chvrches.
Discography Albums U (2016) Everyday (2019) Wild (2019) Inside Out (2022) Memory Morning (2024) Music Is Invisible (2025)
EPs Tourist (2012) Tonight (2013) Patterns (2014) Wash (2017) Wild (Reworks) (2020)
Singles +List of singles, showing year released and album name Title Year Album "Wait" 2014 U "Patterns" Patterns EP "Illuminate" "I Can't Keep Up" Patterns EP "Holding On" 2015 "Waves" U "To Have You Back" 2016 "Run" "We Stayed Up All Night" 2017 Wash EP "Sleepwalking" "Apollo" 2018 Everyday "Someone Else" "Hearts" "Emily" 2019 "Love Theme" "Elixir"Wild "Bunny" "Last" 2020 rowspan="2" "Siren" "Avalanche" 2022 Inside Out "Your Love" "Howl"
Songwriting and production credits Year Artist Song Album Ref. 2012 Oshea "Cloud9" 2013 Javeon "Give Up" Javeon - EP 2014 Sam Smith "Stay with Me" In the Lonely Hour Jessie Ware "Pieces" Tough Love 2015 Låpsley "Hurt Me" Long Way Home Kacy Hill "Arm's Length" Bloo - EP 2016 Ivan B "Wish You Knew" Colouring "About You" Symmetry - EP Dillon Francis "Anywhere" Jones "Waterloo" New Skin Frank Casino "Christine's Song" Someone From Me 2017 Ardyn "Together" Bloom - EP Fred Falke "Don't Give Up" Ardyn "Throwing Stones" Bloom - EP 2018 Chloe Howl "Out of Luck" Work - EP 2019 Shura "That's Me, Just a Sweet Melody" Forevher 2020 Jack Peñate "Not Enough" 2021 Dillon Francis "Real Love" Happy Machine
Remixes Sharon Van Etten – "We Are Fine" (2012) Montevideo – "Castles" (2012) Sam Smith – "Safe with Me" (2013) Haim – "The Wire" (2013) Chvrches – "Lies" (2013) London Grammar – "Sights" (2014) Years & Years – "Desire" (2014) Shura – "What's It Gonna Be?" (2016) Christine and the Queens – "Saint Claude" (2016) Wolf Alice – "Don't Delete the Kisses" (2018) Rostam – "Gwan" (2018) Hozier – "Almost (Sweet Music)" (2019) Frere – "Often Wrong" (2020) Deftones – "Change (In the House of Flies)" (2020) Sofia Kourtesis – "La Perla" (2021) Swedish House Mafia and the Weeknd – "Moth to a Flame" (2022) Pheelz featuring BNXN – "Finesse" (2022) The Range – "Bicameral" (2022) Flume featuring Caroline Polachek – "Sirens" (2022)
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