I. Introduction
Zayson is a Malaysian songwriter and producer, who has written songs in Western pop, K-pop and c-pop for GOT7, Baekhyun, Suran, Taeyong and NCT Dream.
II. Career
Although born in Malaysia, his family moved to China when he was child. He moved to the U.S. to attend college, then began his career as a producer in songwriter in 2017. He flew to South Korea to participate in a songwriting camp organized by SM Entertainment, but did not have one of his songs purchase. He formed a collaborative relationship with the production team, Royal Dive. The duo met with him while in Los Angeles with JB of GOT7 and encouraged him to move to Korea to pursue his career.
He sold his first song "Psycho" in 2019 to Baekhyun, assuming it would be used for EXO concerts, and was surprised to learn it would be included in Baekhyun's first solo EP, City Lights. He went on to write and produce songs for GOT7 and Suran. He became friends and a frequent collaborator with NCT 127's Taeyong, cowriting and producing many of Taeyong's SoundCloud work. He also began working with NCT in 2019.
III. Discography
Limited to works in Kpop and Cpop
Key: L= Lyricist, C = Composer, A = Arranger, P = Producer
U.S. refers to the Billboard U.S. World songs chart.
Title | Artist | Album | Release Date | Credit | Chart |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
"Sign" | Eyedi (feat. Loopy) | Sign | 2016 | C | - |
"Beauty Queen" | The Barberettes | Live Up To Your Name OST Part 3 | 2017 | C | - |
"Pop Pop" | Kim EZ | The bride of Habaek Drama OST | 2017 | C | - |
"Crush On You" | Voisper | single | 2017 | C | - |
"나 혼자 (Nahonza)" | MRSHLL | breathe | 2018 | C, A, P | - |
"Psycho" | Baekhyun | EXO Planet #4 - ElxYiOn / City Lights | 2019 | C, P | KOR: #125 |
"把你交給我" | Sam Lin | single | |||
"OJB (어젯밤 꿈에)" | Suran | Jumpin' | 2019 | C, A, P | - |
"Pray" | GOT7 | Call My Name | 2019 | C, A, P | - |
"Ride" | GOT7 | GOT 7 Keep Spinning Tour | 2019 | C, A, P | - |
“단잠 (All About You)" | NCT U | NCT 2020 Resonance Pt. 2 | 2020 | L, C, P | - |
"Last Piece" | GOT7 | Breath of Love: Last Piece | 2020 | C, A, P | KOR #75 US #10 |
"Sunny" | Suran | single / Flying' Part 1 | 2021 | C, A, P | - |
"Privacy" | Baekhyun | Bambi | 2021 | C, A, P | KOR #110 |
"Blue" | Taeyong | SoundCloud release | 2021 | C, A, P | - |
"Swimming Pool" | Taeyong | SoundCloud release | 2021 | C, P | - |
"Blanket" | Suran feat. Wonstein | single | 2021 | C, A, P | - |
"solo" | JUNNY | nostalgia | 2021 | L, C, A, P | - |
"Devils in the City" | Suran | Flyin' Part 1 | 2022 | L, C, A, P | - |
"Let It Fly" | Suran | Flyin' Part 1 | 2022 | C, A | - |
"Lucky Star" | Suran | Flyin' Part 1 | 2022 | C, A, P | - |
"Diamonds" | Suran feat. Taeyong | Flyin' Part 1 | 2022 | L, C, A, P | - |
"북극성 (Never Goodbye)" | NCT Dream | Glitch Mode | 2022 | C, A, P |
IV. Videography
GOT7 - Last Piece
Suran - Blanket
Suran feat Taeyong - Diamonds
Voisper - Crush on You
Sam Lin - 把你交給我
Sign - Eyedi
Kim EZ - Pop Pop
Suran - Sunny
References
KOMCA: Searching Works (search 10012746 under Writers & Publishers)
GAON charts
Billboard charts
pic courtesy of Zayson Instagram.