Jimmy Robbins | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | James Michael Robbins |
Born | September 3, 1989 |
Origin | Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
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Years active | 2005–present |
Labels | Universal Motown (2007–2009) |
Website | Official website |
James Michael Robbins (born September 3, 1989, in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American record producer and songwriter, best known for his work in contemporary country music.
Biography
[edit]In addition to having penned ten number-one singles, he won a CMA Triple Play Award in 2014 for having three #1 songs in a twelve-month period as well as winning the ASCAP country song of the year for Thomas Rhett's It Goes Like This. His songs "We Were Us", performed by Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert, won the Musical Event of the Year award at the 2014 CMA Awards, the CMA song of the year in 2020 for "The Bones" by Maren Morris and CMA Musical Event of The Year award for his cowritten and coproduced "Half Of My Hometown" by Kelsea Ballerini featuring Kenny Chesney Robbins has produced songs for artists Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Canaan Smith, Carly Pearce, Gnash, Chrissy Metz, Maddie and Tae, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, RaeLynn, Sabrina Carpenter, and Trent Harmon.
Since 2016 Robbins and his wife, Sarah Robbins, own and operate Mailbox Money Music, a boutique publishing company based out of Nashville with a roster of writers working in multiple genres. Current writers include Robbins, Eric Arjes, Steven Lee Olsen, Dawson Anderson, and On The Outside.
Personal life
[edit]On April 16, 2016, Robbins married Sarah Boddie in Gulfport, Mississippi.[1] Their daughter Lily was born in January 2018.[2] Their son Ridge was born in December 2020.[3]
Select songwriting discography
[edit]Songs written or co-written by Robbins.
Discography | ||
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Artist | Album | Song |
Abby Anderson | I'm Good (2018) | "This Feeling" |
Alexz Johnson | Skipping Stone (2012) | "Back of the Room" |
"Pleased To Meet You" | ||
"Skipping Stone" | ||
"Walking" | ||
Amanda Jordan | Single (2022) | "Break Your Heart" |
Andrew Hyatt | Single (2018) | "Do It With You" |
CAIN | "Habit" | |
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | Zombies On Broadway (album) (2017) | "Dead Man's Dollar" |
"Throwing Punches" (Zombies demo) | ||
"Rich Kids With Summer Jobs" (Zombies demo) | ||
Andy Brown | Cedarmont (2018) | "About Last Night" |
"Hollow" | ||
Ashley Cooke | Already Drank That Beer: Side A (2021) | "The Opposite Of Love" |
Shot In The Dark (2023) | "Mean Girl" Ft. Colbie Caillat | |
"Tryin' To Love You" | ||
Ashley Gearing | Train Track EP (2015) | "Cry Baby" |
"Train Track" | ||
Badland Sons | Single (2020) | "Wild" |
The Band Camino | The Band Camino (2021) | "Damage" |
Beamer Wigley | Meteorite (2016) | "Greener" |
Billy Currington | Summer Forever (2015) | "Wake Me Up" |
"Jonesin" | ||
Ben Platt | Honeymind (2024) | "Treehouse Ft. Brandy Clark" |
"Shoe To Drop" | ||
"Boy Who Hung The Moon" | ||
Blake Shelton | Based on a True Story… (2013) | "Sure Be Cool If You Did" |
Brandy Clark | Brandy Clark (2023) | "Ain't Enough Rocks" |
"Up Above The Clouds" | ||
Breland (musician) and Shania Twain | Twisters soundtrack (2024) | "Boots Don't" |
Brett Kissel | We Were That Song (2017) | "That's How The World Ends" |
Brett Young | Brett Young (2017) | "Close Enough" |
"Left Side Of Leavin'" | ||
Ticket To L.A. (2018) | "Reason To Stay" | |
"Used To Missing You" | ||
Weekends Look A Little Different These Days (2021) | "Dear Me" | |
"You Didn't" | ||
"You Got Away With It" | ||
Father Stu (film) (2022) | "Long Way Home" | |
Across The Sheets (2023) | "Dance With You" | |
Single (2024) | "Goodnight Into Good Morning" | |
Brian Kelley (musician) | Sunshine State Of Mind (2022) | "By Boat" |
"Tennessee Truth" (2024) | "Dirt Road Date Night" | |
"How We're Livin" | ||
The Cadillac Three | Bury Me In My Boots (2016) | "Party Like You" |
"This Accent" | ||
Country Fuzz (2019) | "Heat" | |
Callista Clark | Real To Me: The Way I Feel (2022) | "Sad" |
Calynn Green | Single (2020) | "Chills" |
Canaan Smith | Bronco (2015) | "Love At First" |
Carly Pearce | Carly Pearce (2020) | "Halfway Home" |
"Woman Down" | ||
"29" (2021) | "Messy" | |
Carson Boatman | Single (2019) | "Country" |
Cassadee Pope | Summer (2016) | "Piano" |
Catherine McGrath | Talk Of This Town (2018) | "Good At Love" |
"Just In Case" | ||
"The Edges" | ||
CB30 | Single (2020) | "We Are Right Now" |
Chad Brownlee | Hearts on Fire (2016) | "Gone Gone" |
"Somethin' We Shouldn't Do" | ||
Charles Kelley | Single (2022) | "As Far As You Could" |
Chase Rice | Ignite the Night (2014) | "Gonna Wanna Tonight" |
The Record (2021) | "Bedroom" | |
Chris Lane Ft. Scotty McCreery | Single (2021) | "Small Town On It" |
Christina Grimmie | Single (2020) | "Cry Wolf" |
Clare Dunn | Put You Into Words (2018) | "Put You Into Words" |
Dallas Smith | Tippin' Point (2014) | "A Girl Like You" |
Lifted (2014) | "Thinkin' 'Bout You" | |
Side Effects (2016) | "One Little Kiss" | |
"Sleepin' Around" | ||
Dallas Smith (2023) | "Good Time Getting There" | |
Dan + Shay | Obsessed (2016) | "All Nighter" |
"Already Ready" | ||
"Dan + Shay" (2018) | "Island Time" | |
Bigger Houses (2023) | "Heartbreak On The Map" | |
"What Took You So Long" | ||
Dan Smalley | If I'm Being Honest (2020) | "Till Country Comes Back" |
Danielle Bradbery | Single (2022) | "A Special Place" |
Darling Brando | Single (2020) | "Nightlights" |
David Fanning | — | "Doin' Country Right" |
David Nail | I'm a Fire (2014) | "Whatever She's Got" |
Dierks Bentley | Black (2016) | "Pick Up" |
Demps | Single (2024) | "Bitch On Wine" |
Single (2024) | "If You Were A Country Girl" | |
Due West | — | "Move Like That" |
Dustin Lynch | Where It's At (2014) | "Halo" |
"Sing It To Me" | ||
Current Mood (2017) | "Why Not Tonight" | |
Dylan Scott | Dylan Scott (2016) | "Back" |
Easton Corbin | Let's Do Country Right (2023) | "In It" |
Eli Young Band | 10,000 Towns (2014) | "Let's Do Something Tonight" |
Fingerprints (2017) | "Never Again" | |
Love Talking (2022) | "Lucky For Me" | |
"Tell Me It Is" | ||
Emily Reid | Wine EP (2019) | "Wine" |
Emily Weisband | Single (2021) | "New Salt" |
Eric Ethridge | Single (2020) | "Gasoline" |
Single (2020) | "Forever With You" | |
Eric Paslay | Single (2023) | "Best Friends" |
Single (2023) | "Perfect Stranger" | |
Filmore | Single (2020) | "Me Lately" |
Florida Georgia Line | This Is How We Roll (2013) | "Headphones" |
Anything Goes (2014) | "Girl On The Radio" | |
Gabby Barrett | Gold Mine (2020) | "Thank God" |
Chapter and Verse (2024) | "Growing Up Raising You" | |
George Canyon | I Got This (2016) | "Daughters Of The Sun" |
Gloriana | Three (2015) | "Get Back That Goodbye" |
Gnash (musician) | We (2018) | "Dear Insecurity" |
"Feel Better" | ||
"Insane" | ||
"Nobody's Home" | ||
"The Broken Hearts Club" | ||
"Pajamas" | ||
Single (2023) | "The Art Of Letting Go" | |
Gone West (band) | Canyons (2020) | "When To Say Goodbye" |
Hailey Whitters | Raised (2021) | "College Town" |
I'm In Love (2023) | "Bad Love" | |
Hannah Ellis | That Girl (2024) | "Still" |
HunterGirl | Single (2022) | "Hometown Out Of Me" |
Single (2023) | "Lonely Outta You" | |
Hunter Hayes | The 21 Project (2015) | "I Mean You" |
Idina Menzel | Drama Queen (2023) | "Make Me Hate Me" |
Ivory Layne | Single (2020) | "God Save The Queens" |
Jake Owen | Days of Gold (2013) | "Beachin'" |
"One Little Kiss (Never Killed Nobody)" | ||
Greetings From...Jake (2019) | "In It" | |
Jana Kramer | Thirty One (2015) | "All I've Got" |
"Last Song" | ||
"Love" | ||
Jason Aldean | They Don't Know (2016) | "Lights Come On" |
Jennifer Nettles | Playing with Fire (2016) | "Hey Heartbreak" |
Jerrod Niemann | This Ride(2017) | "But I Do" |
Jimmie Allen | Mercury Lane (2018) | "How To Be Single" |
John King | — | "Baseball Cap" |
Joy Oladokun and Maren Morris | Single (2021) | "Bigger Man" |
JP Saxe and Maren Morris | Single (2020) | "Line By Line" |
Keith Urban | Fuse (2013) | "Gonna B Good" |
"We Were Us" (with Miranda Lambert) | ||
Graffiti U (2018) | "Drop Top (feat. Kassi Ashton)" | |
Kellie Pickler | — | "Feelin' Tonight" |
Kelly Clarkson | Piece by Piece (2015) | "Good Goes the Bye" |
Kelsea Ballerini | Unapologetically (2017) | "In Between" |
"Music" | ||
Kelsea (2020) | "Homecoming Queen" | |
"Club" | ||
"Half Of My Hometown" | ||
"Bragger" | ||
"Country Song" | ||
Subject To Change (2022) | "Walk In The Park" | |
Kimberly Perry | Super Bloom (2023) | "If I Die Young Pt. 2" |
"Burn The House Down" | ||
"Ghosts" | ||
"Black Corvette" | ||
"God's Hometown" | ||
"Fool's Gold" | ||
King Calaway | Rivers (2019) | "A Picture Of The Way You Are" |
Kyd The Band | Kyd The Band (2017) | "Ice Cream" |
"Wishful Thinking" | ||
Character Development (2020) | "Easy" featuring Elley Duhé | |
"This Time Last Year” | ||
"Heartbreak Anthem" featuring Gnash (musician) | ||
"Hard Feelings" | ||
Season 3 (2020) | "I'll Stay" | |
"Love Somebody Else" | ||
Laci Kaye Booth | Self Titled (2021) | "Treasure" |
Lady Antebellum | 747 (2014) | "All Nighter" |
Leah Turner | Leah Turner (2014) | "Pull Me Back" |
Leaving Austin | Single (2019) | "She Can" |
Levi Hummon | Levi Hummon EP (2016) | "Chain Reaction" |
"Life's For Livin'" | ||
"Love You Hate You Miss You" | ||
"Window Down Days" | ||
Patient EP (2019) | "Tough Love" | |
Single (2019) | "Night Lights" | |
Single (2019) | "Drop Of Us" | |
Single (2020) | "Good Taste" | |
Single (2022) | "For Me" | |
Single (2024) | "Another Shot" | |
Lindsay Ell | TBA (2016) | "All Alright" |
Lindsay James | The Wavy EP (2024) | "What To Do With Myself" |
Logan Mize | Single (2020) | "Who Didn't" |
Love and Theft | Whiskey on My Breath (2015) | "Hang Out Hungover" |
"TBA" (2016) | "Candyland" | |
Lucy Hale | Road Between (2014) | "From the Backseat" |
"Those Three Words" | ||
Luke Bryan | Kill the Lights (2015) | "Corner Booth" |
Single (2022) | "Prayin' In A Deer Stand" | |
Maddie & Tae | Start Here (2015) | "No Place Like You" |
The Way It Feels (2020) | "Everywhere I'm Goin'" | |
"I Don't Need To Know" | ||
"Tourist In This Town" | ||
"Tryin' On Rings" | ||
"Water In His Wine Glass" | ||
Breakthrough | "People Need People" | |
Single (2021 | "Mood Ring" | |
Through the Madness, Vol. 1 (2022) | "Strangers" | |
Through the Madness, Vol. 2 (2022) | "More Than Maybe" | |
Well In Your World" | ||
Madeline Edwards | Crash Landed (2022) | "Mama Dolly Jesus" |
Maggie Rose | Dreams > Dollars - EP (2017) | "More Dreams Than Dollars" |
"Too Many Love Songs" | ||
Maren Morris | Hero (2016) | "I Could Use a Love Song" |
Girl (2019) | "The Feels" | |
"A Song For Everything" | ||
"Flavor" | ||
"The Bones (song)" | ||
Single (2020) | "Better Than We Found It" | |
Humble Quest (2021) | "Circles Around This Town" | |
"Background Music" | ||
"Humble Quest" | ||
"Nervous" | ||
The Bridge (2023) | "The Tree" | |
"Get The Hell Out Of Here" | ||
Mary Sarah | Just Go With It (2017) | "Just Go With It" |
MaRynn Taylor | Single (2021) | "I Know A Girl" |
Matt Ferranti | Matt Ferranti (2020) | "New Ways To Love You" |
"Love Somebody" | ||
"Outta My Radio" | ||
"Heaven To Me" | ||
Matt Simons | When The Lights Go Down (2016) | "Take Me Home" |
Megan and Liz | — | "Long Distance" |
"Old School Love" | ||
"Run Away" | ||
Michael Ray | Michael Ray (2015) | "Look Like This" |
"Think a Little Less" | ||
"This Love" | ||
Amos (2018) | "Drink One For Me" | |
Mickey Guyton | Remember Her Name (2021) | "Indigo" |
Mike Parker | Single 2023 | "Thinking Of You" |
Single 2023 | "Better Man" | |
Single 2023 | "Sawdust" | |
Single 2023 | "Bluejean Masterpiece" | |
Single 2024 | "Love You On My Mind" | |
Single 2024 | "Going On Forever" | |
Single 2024 | "H2Over You" | |
Miranda Lambert | Platinum | "Babies Makin' Babies" |
"Girls" | ||
"Priscilla" | ||
Morgan Evans (singer) | Single (2021) | "Christmas In The Sun" |
Life Upside Down(2023) | "Hey Little Mama" | |
Nash Overstreet | U Don't Get 2 Do That ep (2017) | "Brand New Man" |
Nicolle Galyon | First Born (2022) | "Sunflower" |
"Death Bed" | ||
Old Dominion | Meat and Candy (2015) | "Til It's Over" |
On The Outside | Single (2021) | "Sleepless" |
Single (2023) | "Go Broke" | |
Single (2023) | "Act Like You Don't" | |
Single (2023) | "Country Music Never Broke My Heart" | |
OSMR | Sweet Life EP (2017) | "Lookin' At You" |
"Sweet Life" | ||
Quinn Lewis | Single (2021) | "Don't Love Back" |
Rachel Wammack | Rachel Wammack EP (2018) | "Hard To Believe" |
Single (2020) | "What He Does" | |
RaeLynn | Me (2015) | "Careless" |
"Kissin' Frogs" | ||
Always Sing (2015) | "Always Sing" | |
WildHorse (2016) | ||
"Diamonds" | ||
"Graveyard" | ||
"Insecure" | ||
"Love Triangle (song)" | ||
"Say (Feat. Dan + Shay)" | ||
"Your Heart" | ||
Origins (2018) | "Dirty Word" | |
Baytown (2021) | "She Chose Me" | |
Ray Gibson | — | "In Your Kiss" |
Reyna Roberts | Single (2022) | "Another Round" |
Robyn Ottolini | Growing Up To Do (2024) | "House I Grew Up In" |
Ryan Hurd | Pelago (2021) | "The Knife Or The Hatchet" |
Sabrina Carpenter | EVOlution (2016) | "Run and Hide" |
Sam Fischer | Not a Hobby (2018) | "This City" |
Sara Evans | Slow Me Down (2014) | "Slow Me Down" |
Words (2017) | "Marquee Sign" | |
"Words" | ||
Sasha Sloan | Me Again (2024) | "Highlights" |
"Don't Laugh I'll Cry" | ||
Scotty McCreery | See You Tonight (2013) | "Before Midnight" |
Temecula Road | What If I Kissed You (2017) | "What If I Kissed You" |
Hoping (2017) | "Hoping" | |
The Shires (duo) | Accidentally On Purpose (2018) | "Accidentally On Purpose" |
"Echo" | ||
The Swon Brothers | The Swon Brothers (2014) | "What I'm Thinking About" |
The Tragic Thrills | The Tragic Thrills | "Crazy" |
Tim McGraw | Damn Country Music (2015) | "Top of the World" |
Thomas Rhett | It Goes Like This (2013) | "It Goes Like This" |
"Sorry For Partyin" | ||
Tangled Up (2015) | "Anthem" | |
"Learned It From The Radio" | ||
Thompson Square | Just Feels Good (2013) | "Home Is You" |
Tori Kelly | A Tori Kelly Christmas (2020) | "Gift That Keeps On Giving" |
Trent Harmon | You Got 'Em All (2018) | "Her" |
"My Somebody" | ||
"There's a Girl" | ||
"On Paper" | ||
Walker Hayes | 8 Tracks (2019) | "Acceptance Speech" |
Single (2020) | "Trash My Heart" | |
Waterloo Revival | Front Row EP (2016) | "I Could Get Used To This" |
"Meet Up In The Middle" | ||
Witt Lowry ft Kyd The Band | If You Don't Like The Story Write Your Own (2023) | "Hurt Alone" |
Select production discography
[edit]Year | Artist | Song(s)/Album | Details |
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2012 | Alexz Johnson | Skipping Stone | Producer |
2015 | RaeLynn | "Me EP" | Producer |
2015 | Canaan Smith | Canaan Smith (EP) | Co-Producer w/ Brett Beavers |
2015 | Canaan Smith | Bronco | Co-Producer w/ Brett Beavers |
2015 | John King | "Baseball Cap" | Producer |
2016 | Levi Hummon | Levi Hummon EP | Producer |
2016 | Matt Simons (2016) | "Lose Control (Acoustic Version)" | Producer |
"Take Me Home" | Producer | ||
2016 | RaeLynn | Wild Horse (album) | Co-Producer w/ Nicolle Galyon |
2016 | Sabrina Carpenter | Run and Hide | Producer |
2016 | Trent Harmon | There's A Girl | Producer |
2016 | Waterloo Revival (2016) | "I Could Get Used To This" | Producer |
"Meet Up In The Middle" | Producer | ||
2017 | Maggie Rose | "Dreams > Dollars - EP" | Producer |
2017 | Kelsea Ballerini | "Music" - "Unapolagetically" | Co-producer W/ Jason Massey and Forest Glen Whitehead |
2018 | Trent Harmon | "You Got 'Em All" | Producer |
2018 | Keith Urban | "Drop Top (feat. Kassi Ashton)" | Co-producer W/ Jesse Shatkin and Keith Urban |
2018 | Catherine McGrath | "Cinderella", "Good At Love", "Just In Case", "The Edges" | Producer |
2018 | Maddie and Tae | Friends Don't, "Die From A Broken Heart", "Tourist In This Town" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2018 | Clare Dunn | Put You Into Words | Co-Producer w/ Clare Dunn |
2018 | Gnash (musician) | The Broken Hearts Club | Co-Producer w/ Gnash |
2018 | Sam Fischer | "This City" | Producer |
2019 | Leaving Austin | Single (2019) | "She Can" |
2019 | Maddie and Tae | "People Need People" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2019 | Kelsea Ballerini | "Homecoming Queen" | Producer |
2019 | Maddie and Tae | "Bathroom Floor" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2020 | Kelsea Ballerini | "Club", "LA", "Bragger", "Needy", "Country Song", "The Way I Used To", "Half Of My Hometown" | Producer |
2020 | Chrissy Metz | "Talking To God" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2020 | Chrissy Metz | "Actress" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2020 | Chrissy Metz | "Feel Good" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2020 | Kelsea Ballerini | "Ballerini" album | Producer |
2020 | Maddie and Tae | "We Need Christmas" EP | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2020 | Clare Wright | "I Could Use A Beach" | Co-Producer w/ Eric Arjes |
2020 | Derek Austin | "Her Daddy Don't Like Me" | Co-Producer w/ Jonathan Singleton |
2021 | Carly Pearce | "Messy" | Producer |
2021 | Ashley Cooke | "Sunday Morning Kinda Saturday Night" | Producer |
2021 | Maddie and Tae | "Woman You Got" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2021 | Maddie and Tae | "Mood Ring" | Co-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2021 | Joy Oladokun and Maren Morris | "Bigger Man" | Producer |
2021 | Chase Rice | "If I Didn't Have You" | Co-Producer w/ Jonathan Singleton |
2021 | Kelsea Ballerini and LANY | "I Quit Drinking" | Co-Producer w/ Noah Conrad |
2021 | Mickey Guyton | Indigo | Producer |
2021 | Ashley Cooke | "Already Drank That Beer: Side A" | Producer |
2021 | Morgan Evans | The Country and The Coast side A | Producer |
2021 | Eli Young Band | Lucky For Me | Co-Producer w/ Eric Arjes |
2022 | Brett Young | Long Way Home | Producer |
2022 | Ashley Cooke ft. Brett Young | Never Til Now | Producer |
2022 | Eli Young Band | Love Talking | Co-Producer w/ Eric Arjes |
2022 | Levi Hummon | For Me | Co-Producer w/ Eric Arjes |
2022 | Noah Thompson | "One Day Tonight" | Producer |
2022 | HunterGirl | "Red Bird" | Producer |
2022 | Nicolle Galyon | "First Born" | C0-Producer w/ King Henry |
2022 | Maddie and Tae | "Through The Madness Vol. 1" | C0-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2022 | Maddie and Tae | "Through The Madness Vol. 2" | C0-Producer w/ Derek Wells |
2022 | Noah Thompson | "Stay" | Producer |
2022 | Ashley Cooke | Getting Into | Producer |
2022 | Charles Kelley | "As Far As You Could" | Co-Producer w/ Dave Haywood |
2023 | Erin Kinsey | Boys In Boots | Producer |
2023 | Kimberly Perry | Bloom | Producer |
2023 | Ashley Cooke | "Shot In The Dark" | Producer |
2023 | Kimberly Perry | Super Bloom | Producer |
2024 | Nicolle Galyon | "Second Wife" | C0-Producer w/ King Henry |
2024 | Carson Wallace | "Light Of Day" | Producer |
2024 | Demps | "Bitch On Wine", "If You Were A Country Girl" | Producer |
2024 | Brett Young | "Goodnight Into Good Morning" | Producer |
2024 | Sacha | "Hey Mom, I Made It" | C0-Producer w/ Eric Arjes |
2024 | Ben Platt | "Treehouse" ft. Brandy Clark, "Shoe To Drop", "Boy Who Hung The Mon" | Co-Producer with Dave Cobb |
Albums released as an artist
[edit]- Sleep The Pain Away (2005) LP
- Too Sorry For Apologies (May 9, 2006) EP
- See Through Secrets [Digital Release] (September 8, 2009) LP
- Step One EP (November 29, 2009) EP
- "Borrowed Time" (December 13, 2011) EP
References
[edit]- ^ "Jimmy Robbin's Instagram". Instagram.
- ^ "Jimmy Robbin's Instagram". Instagram.
- ^ "Jimmy Robbin's Instagram". Instagram.