Billy Grant of 2Point9 was the first A&R executive from the UK to start commisioning productions from StarGate. Responsible for linking up the UK Top 3 hit 'Sweet Love 2K' for Fierce, 'One Night Stand' by Misteeq from their multi-platinum debut album, 'Lickin On Both Sides'. As well as the International Hit Single 'Scandalous' from Misteeq's second album.
Through these collaborations, and many other successful projects Billy signed StarGate to Telstar Records.
Upon the creation of 2Point9 Records, StarGate collaborated with 2Point9/Jayded artist Jay Sean to produce two UK Top 10 singles with "Eyes On You" and "Stolen" respectively.
StarGate and 2Point9 have continued to work closely together, thus consolidating a creative partnership that continues to this day with 2Point9 and Jayded Records.
Stargate a Grammy-award winning Norwegian record producing and songwriting team, composed of Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel S. Eriksen, based in New York City. The team's genres include R&B, pop and hip hop.
Stargate broke into the American recording industry in 2006, with the release of the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "So Sick", produced and co-written by the team and performed by singer Ne-Yo.
They also produced and co-wrote with singer Beyoncé Knowles her worldwide hit single "Irreplaceable", which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for ten consecutive weeks, becoming the biggest song of 2007 and giving Stargate their most successful single to date.
In 2007, "Beautiful Liar", a duet between Knowles and Colombian singer Shakira, became another hit for Stargate, reaching number one in more than 30 countries including the United Kingdom.
The song earned Hermansen and Eriksen the Ivor Novello Award for Best-Selling British song. Although "Beautiful Liar" is chiefly an American song, it includes British songwriters Amanda Ghost and Ian Dench, thus eligible for the award.
At the 2008 ASCAP Pop Music Awards, Hermansen and Eriksen received five awards for most performed songs, including "Irreplaceable" among the top five. Stargate was named Best Hitmakers in Rolling Stone magazine's "Best of Rock 2008". Eriksen and Hermansen received Grammy nominations for five separate songs in six categories for the 2008 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for "Irreplaceable", Best R&B Song for "Hate That I Love You" and Best Dance Record for "Don't Stop The Music".
Stargate received nominations in more than 10 categories for the 2009 Grammy Awards. They won their first Grammy in 2009 in the Best R&B Song category for "Miss Independent", performed by Ne-Yo.
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