Steve Mac is one of the most successful British songwriters and producers in history.<\/p>\n
Mac has racked up over 30 No.1 singles in the United Kingdom and has been associated with over 240 hit albums and singles, globally.<\/p>\n
His songs have been recorded by the likes of Mabel, Ed Sheeran, Chainsmokers, Pink, Bastille, Tom Walker, Chvrches, Anne-Marie, Clean Bandit, Little Mix, Years & Years, Kelly Clarkson and Westlife, amongst several others.<\/p>\n
Mac was a co-writer and co-producer of Sheeran’s Shape Of You<\/em>, which stands as the most popular track of all time on Spotify, with over 2.5 billion streams.<\/p>\n Another Mac credit appears on Happier<\/em> by Marshmello, feat. Bastille \u2013 which still holds the record for the most weeks at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance\/Electronic Chart in the US, retaining the title for 76 weeks.<\/p>\n Other global hits penned by Mac include Ed Sheeran and Camila Cabello\u2019s\u00a0South Of The Border<\/em>, Clean Bandit’s Rockabye<\/em>, as well as Mabel\u2019s Mad Love<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Don\u2019t Call Me Up<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mac entered the music business in the early \u201990s as part of the British house music scene.<\/p>\n He co-wrote\u00a0(I Wanna Give You) Devotion<\/em> by NOMAD, which reached No.2 in the UK and No.1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.<\/p>\n “I learned a long time ago that if you make the song great, the production\u2019s easy.”<\/p>\n Steve Mac<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mac, real name Steve McCutcheon, then himself became a member of a dance act, Undercover. They recorded a version of Gerry Rafferty classic Baker Street<\/em>, which went Top 5 hit in the UK and Germany in 1992.<\/p>\n From there, Mac began co-writing with Wayne Hector, with whom he penned huge pop ballads, often associated with recording artists signed to Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n Mac and Hector’s hits included Forever by Damage (1996), as well as Westlife’s Swear It Again<\/em> (1999) and Flying Without Wings <\/em>(1999), plus Beat Again<\/em> by JLS (2009).<\/p>\n Mac has won awards including the 2020 Songwriter of the Year prize at the Ivor Novello Awards \u2013 the prestigious London-based annual awards for songwriters.<\/p>\n He also won an Ivor Novello in 2018 for Most Performed Work for Shape Of You<\/em>, and has won a clutch of ASCAP Awards, plus both Songwriter of the Year and Producer of the Year gongs at the UK-focused A&R Awards, presented by Music Business Worldwide.<\/p>\n