Mark "Spike" Stent (born 3 August 1965) is an English record producer and mixing engineer who has worked with many international artists including Madonna, Sade, Marshmello, U2, Beyoncé, the Beatles, Björk, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Foo Fighters, Grimes, Ed Sheeran, Beth Orton, Harry Styles, Frank Ocean, Vince Staples, Selena Gomez, All Saints, Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Mansun, Gorillaz, 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.Tingen, Paul (January 1999). "Spike Stent: The Work Of A Top-flight Mixer". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
Career Stent grew up in Hampshire, England and first gained experience as an engineer at Jacobs 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.
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 Madonna Best Pop Vocal Album 1998 Homogenic Björk Best Alternative Music Album 2001 Music Madonna Best Pop Vocal Album 2001 Music Madonna Record of the Year 2002 Vespertine Björk Best Alternative Music Album 2005 Medulla Björk Grammy Best Alternative Album 2006 Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Gwen Stefani Grammy Best Pop Vocal Album 2006 Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Gwen Stefani Grammy Album of the Year 2006 Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Gwen Stefani Grammy Record of the Year 2006 Supernature Goldfrapp Grammy Best Electronic/Dance Album 2007 Confessions on a Dance Floor Madonna Grammy Best Dance/Electronic Album 2008 Volta Bjork Grammy Best Alternative Music Album 2008 Neon Bible Arcade Fire Grammy Best Alternative Album 2009 I Am... Sasha Fierce Beyoncé Grammy Best Contemporary R&B Album 2009 I Am... Sasha Fierce Beyoncé Grammy Album of the Year 2010 Funhouse Pink Grammy Best Pop Vocal Album 2010 It's Blitz Yeah Yeah Yeahs Grammy Best Alternative Music Album 2010 21st Century Breakdown Green Day Grammy Best Rock Music Album 2010 The Fame Monster Lady Gaga Grammy Best Pop Vocal Album 2010 The Resistance Muse Grammy Best Rock Album 2010 Head First Goldfrapp Grammy Best Dance/Electronica Album 2010 Raymond V Raymond Usher Grammy Best Contemporary R&B Album 2012 Channel Orange Frank Ocean Best Urban Contemporary Album 2013 "We Take Care of Our Own" Bruce Springsteen Best Rock Song 2013 Wrecking Ball Bruce Springsteen Best Rock Album 2013 Red Taylor Swift Album of the Year 2013 The 2nd Law Muse Best Rock Album 2015 x Ed Sheeran Best Pop Vocal Album 2015 x Ed Sheeran Album of the Year 2016 "Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran Record of the Year 2016 How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Florence + the Machine Best Pop Vocal Album 2016 "What Kind of Man" Florence and the Machine Best Rock Song 2017 "Tearing Me Up" Bob Moses Best Dance Recording 2018 ÷ Ed Sheeran Best Pop Vocal Album 2024 "Flowers" Miley Cyrus Record of the Year 2025 "Now and Then" the Beatles Record of the Year
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 Mix Engineer of the Year MPG Awards Won 2014 Mix Engineer of the Year MPG Awards Won 2015 Mix Engineer of the Year MPG Awards Won 2020 Mix Engineer of the Year MPG Awards Won
Selected film credits Artist Track/Album Year Film U2 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" 1995 Batman Forever Tina Turner "GoldenEye" 1995 GoldenEye Björk Selmasongs 2000 Dancer in the Dark Madonna "Die Another Day" 2002 Die Another Day
Selected discography
1980s
1985: The Cult – Love 1987: Erasure – It Doesn't Have to Be 1988: The Mission – Children 1989: ABC – Up
1990s
1991: The KLF – The White Room 1993: Depeche Mode – Songs of Faith and Devotion 1994: Madonna – Bedtime Stories 1994: Massive Attack – Protection 1996: Spice Girls – Spice 1997: Björk – Homogenic 1997: Erasure – Cowboy 1997: Spice Girls – Spice World 1997: U2 – Pop 1998: Mansun – Six 1998: Massive Attack – Mezzanine 1999: Echo & The Bunnymen – What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? –
2000s
2000: All Saints – Saints & Sinners 2000: Madonna – Music 2000: Oasis – Familiar to Millions 2000: Oasis – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants 2001: Björk – Vespertine 2001: No Doubt – Rock Steady 2002: Linkin Park – Reanimation 2002: Oasis – Heathen Chemistry 2003: Dave Mathews Band – Some Devil 2003: Madonna – American Life 2003: Massive Attack – 100th Window 2003: The Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk 2004: Björk – Medúlla 2004: Gwen Stefani – Love. Angel. Music. Baby. 2004: Keane – Hopes and Fears 2004: Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten 2005: Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful 2005: Dave Mathews Band – Stand Up 2005: Fischerspooner – Odyssey 2005: Goldfrapp – Supernature 2005: Kaiser Chiefs – Employment 2005: Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor 2005: The Black Eyed Peas – Monkey Business 2006: Depeche Mode – The Complete Depeche Mode 2006: Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape 2006: Keane – Under the Iron Sea 2006: The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home 2007: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible 2007: Björk – Volta 2007: Hard-Fi – Once Upon a Time in the West 2007: M.I.A – Kala 2007: Maroon 5 – It Won't Be Soon Before Long 2007: Natasha Bedingfield – N.B 2007: Stereophonics – Pull The Pin 2008: Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce 2008: CSS – Donkey 2008: Madonna – Hard Candy 2008: Pink – Funhouse 2008: Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System 2008: The Pussycat Dolls – Doll Domination 2008: The Script – The Script 2009: Cheryl Cole – 3 Words 2009: Ciara – Fantasy Ride 2009: FrankMusik – Complete Me 2009: Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand 2009: Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown 2009: Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster 2009: Lenka – Trouble Is a Friend 2009: Lily Allen – It's Not Me, It's You 2009: Muse – The Resistance 2009: Sean Garrett – Turbo 919 2009: Tegan & Sara – Sainthood 2009: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz 2009: The Yeah You's – Looking Through You 2009: Vedera – Stages
2010s
2010: Cheryl Cole – Messy Little Raindrops 2010: Sade – Soldier Of Love 2010: Christina Aguilera – Bionic 2010: Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now 2010: Ellie Goulding – Lights 2010: Goldfrapp – Head First 2010: Hurts – Happiness 2010: James Blunt – Some Kind of Trouble 2010: Lights – The Listening 2010: N.E.R.D – Nothing 2010: Nelly Furtado – The Best of Nelly Furtado 2010: P Diddy – Last Train to Paris 2010: Take That – Progress 2010: The Script – Science and Faith 2010: The Wanted – The Wanted 2010: Usher – Raymond v. Raymond 2011: Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball 2011: Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto 2011: Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials 2012: Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 2012: Muse – The 2nd Law 2012: No Doubt – Push and Shove 2012: Taylor Swift – Red 2013: Bastille – Bad Blood 2013: Biffy Clyro – Opposites 2013: Haim – Days Are Gone 2013: John Newman – Tribute 2013: Moby – Innocents 2013: One Direction – Midnight Memories 2013: Rudimental – Home 2013: White Lies – Big TV 2014: Coldplay – Ghost Stories 2014: Ed Sheeran – x 2014: Kasabian – 48:13 2014: The Script – No Sound Without Silence 2015: Chvrches – Every Open Eye 2015: Duran Duran – Paper Gods 2015: Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 2015: Grimes – Art Angels 2015: Selena Gomez – Revival 2016: Gwen Stefani – This Is What the Truth Feels Like 2017: Bishop Briggs – "Dream" 2017: DreamCar – "Dreamcar" 2017: Ed Sheeran – ÷ 2017: Harry Styles – Harry Styles 2017: Jessie Ware – Glasshouse 2017: Julia Michaels – "Issues" 2017: Julia Michaels – "Nervous Systems" 2017: Julia Michaels – "Uh Huh" 2017: Justin Bieber and BloodPop – "Friends" 2017: Kesha – "This Is Me" 2017: Liam Gallagher – "As You Were" 2017: Miguel – "War & Leisure" 2017: Mondo Cozmo – "Plastic Soul" 2017: Muse – "Dig Down" 2017: Niall Horan – "Slow Hands" 2017: PVRIS – "All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell" 2017: Rita Ora – "Your Song" 2017: Take That – "Giants" 2017: Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory 2018: Cardi B – "Thru Your Phone" 2018: Chvrches – Love Is Dead 2018: Elton John – Revamp tracks "Your Song" featuring Lady Gaga and "Bennie and the Jets" featuring Pink and Logic 2018: Jade Bird – "Lottery" 2018: Marshmello featuring Anne Marie – "Friends" 2018: Pale Waves – "Heavenly" 2018: Post Malone – "Stay" 2018: Rudimental – "These Days" featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen 2018: Years & Years – "Sanctify" 2019: Charli XCX featuring Lizzo – "Blame It on Your Love"
2020s
2020: 5 Seconds of Summer – Calm 2020: Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos 2020: Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts 2020: Niall Horan – Heartbreak Weather 2020: Ted When – Edge Off 2021: John Mayer – Sob Rock 2022: Liam Gallagher – C'mon You Know 2023: Blink-182 – One More Time... 2023: Foo Fighters – But Here We Are 2023: Gorillaz – Cracker Island 2023: Peter Gabriel – i/o 2023: the Beatles – "Now and Then" 2024: Blink-182 - One More Time... Part-2 2024: Indochine - Babel Babel 2024: Julian Lennon "I Should Have Known" (Spike Stent Version) 2024: Liam Gallagher and John Squire Liam Gallagher John Squire 2025: Lorde - Virgin 2025: Yungblud - Zombie 2026: Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy 2026: Holly Humberstone - Cruel World 2026: Peter Gabriel – o\i 2026: Harry Styles – Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally
Notes and references
External links
Article by Paul Tingen in Sound on Sound magazine, February 2010: Spike Stent on his mix of Muse's album The Resistance