{{Short description|English singer and songwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Phil Plested | image = | caption = | birth_name = Philip John Plested | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|12|8}} | origin = Watford, Hertfordshire, England | genre = Pop | occupation = Songwriter, Singer | instrument = | associated_acts = {{flatlist| * Lewis Capaldi * Kygo * The Vamps * Why Don't We * Little Mix * Mali-Koa Hood * Miguel * Zayn Malik }} | website = {{URL|plestedmusic.com}} }}
'''Philip John Plested''' is an English singer and songwriter. He has co-written songs for artists including Lewis Capaldi, the Vamps, Little Mix, Kygo, James Arthur, Anne-Marie, and Bastille.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-16 |title=Bastille Rediscover Purpose & Creativity With 'Goosebumps' EP |url=https://americansongwriter.com/bastille-goosebumps-ep-interview/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=American Songwriter |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Plested Channels Impeccable Pop On 'Either You Love Me Or You Don't' |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/plested-channels-impeccable-pop-on-either-you-love-me-or-you-dont |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Clash Magazine |date=25 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-11 |title=Plested Interview - Hit U.K. Songwriter & Artist, "Before You Go" |url=http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/plested-songwriter-interview-2020.htm |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Songwriter Universe|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Early life and career == Plested was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, UK.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Songwriter who worked with Lewis Capaldi talks about his career journey |url=https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/18842857.watford-songwriter-talks-career-journey-working-lewis-capaldi/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Watford Observer |date=7 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He studied at Central Saint Martins in London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Music producers for Emeli Sandé sing praises of school |url=https://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/14747687.music-producers-for-emeli-sande-sing-praises-of-rickmansworth-school/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=St Albans & Harpenden Review |date=16 September 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ShieldSquare Captcha |url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/plested/beautiful-brutal |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=www.songfacts.com}}</ref> After leaving school in 2012, he formed a band, Chasing Grace, with his school friends. The band released their debut album ''Nowhere Near Old Enough'' in 2015, and were active until 2016.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Introducing: Chasing Grace">{{Cite web |date=2015-02-23 |title=Introducing: Chasing Grace |url=https://www.theedgesusu.co.uk/features/2015/02/23/introducing-chasing-grace/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=The Edge |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chasing Grace give us the lowdown on their debut album, Nowhere Near Old Enough |url=https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/leisure/music/11761726.chasing-grace-give-us-the-lowdown-on-their-debut-album-nowhere-near-old-enough/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Watford Observer |date=30 January 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tsapovksy |first=Flora |date=2017-05-26 |title=Chasing Grace's faith-based apparel |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/style/article/Chasing-Grace-s-faith-based-apparel-11174798.php |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref> He later transitioned to becoming a songwriter.<ref name=":0" /> Plested made his breakthrough as a songwriter in 2016 when he co-wrote the song "Touch" for Little Mix, which peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official Singles Chart Top 100 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20161223/7501/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=www.officialcharts.com |language=en}}</ref> In 2019, he co-wrote the song "Before You Go" for Lewis Capaldi,<ref name=":0" /> and it peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official Singles Chart Top 100|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20200131/7501/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=www.officialcharts.com |language=en}}</ref> as well as on ''Billboard'''s Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40.<ref name="Lewis Capaldi">{{Cite magazine |title=Lewis Capaldi |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/lewis-capaldi/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref>
As a solo artist, Plested released his debut album ''First & Foremost'' in 2018 with Atlantic Records.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Plested |url=https://www.thelist.ie/whats-on/artist/3630-plested-music.html |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=TheList.ie |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pettican |first=Luke |date=2019-02-16 |title=Plested's First & Foremost: A Track-By-Track Review |url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/plff-plested-first-and-foremost-review/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Atwood Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hartshorn |first=Tori |title=Plested Shares Official Music Video For New Song YOUR NAME |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Plested-Shares-Official-Music-Video-For-New-Song-YOUR-NAME-20181210 |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Discography == === Albums === * ''First & Foremost'' (2018)
=== As songwriter === {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- !Year !Title !Artist !Album |- | 2026 | "Heroine" | Maroon 5 | {{N/A|TBA}} |- | rowspan="18" |2023 |Gone |Lost Frequencies & Alexander Stewart |All Stand Together |- |Back Home For Christmas |Mimi Webb | rowspan="2" {{n/a|Non-album singles}} |- |Leftover Love |Picture This |- |Home Is Where The Heart Is |LANY |A Beautiful Blur |- |Both |Tiësto & Bia | rowspan="2" {{n/a|Non-album singles}} |- |Goodbye Never Felt So Bad |James Bay |- |Trainwreck |Anne-Marie |Unhelathy |- |Duvet Cover |Ashley Singh | {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- |Must Be Love |Niall Horan |The Show |- |The Pretender | rowspan="4" |Lewis Capaldi | rowspan="4" |Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent |- |Love The Hell Out Of You |- |How This Ends |- |Any Kind Of Life |- |Dancing in a Hurricane |Freya Ridings |Blood Orange |- |Sweet Affection |Ashley Singh | rowspan="2" {{n/a|Non-album singles}} |- |Not Alone |New Rules |- |Both of Us | rowspan="2" |Mimi Webb | rowspan="2" |Amelia |- |Remind You |- | rowspan="6" |2022 |The Way We Were |Kygo |Thrill Of The Chase |- |Ghost of You |Mimi Webb |Amelia |- |Forget Me |Lewis Capaldi |Broken by Desire to be Heavenly Sent |- |I'm Good (Blue) Ft Bebe Rexha |David Guetta |TBD |- ||Everybody Needs Someone |James Bay |Leap |- |Shut Off The Lights |rowspan="2" |Bastille |rowspan="2"|Give Me The Future |- |rowspan="8"|2021 |No Bad Days |- |Can't Say No |Wild Youth |Can't Say No |- |Leave Before You Love Me |Marshmello & Jonas Brothers | rowspan="2" {{n/a|Non-album singles}} |- |Break My Heart |JC Stewart |- |Lemonade |Eves Karydas |Lemonade |- ||Falling Up |Dean Lewis |Falling Up |- |Therapy |Anne-Marie |rowspan="2"|Therapy |- |Our Song |Anne Marie & Niall Horan |- |rowspan="8"|2020 |Beautiful & Brutal |rowspan="2"|Plested |Beautiful & Brutal |- |25 Hours | Scoob! The Album |- |Permission |New Hope Club |New Hope Club |- |Lose Somebody Ft One Republic |Kygo |Golden Hour |- |Already Mine |Jasmin Abraha |Already Mine |- |Favourite Thing |Fleur East |FEARLESS |- |Kill Me Slow Ft MORTEN |David Guetta |New Rave |- |Survivin' |Bastille |Give Me The Future |- |rowspan="11"|2019 |Either You Love Me Or You Don’t - Live Acoustic |rowspan="2"|Plested | rowspan="2" {{n/a|Non-album singles}} |- |The Least I Could Do |- |Undo Ft Calum Scott & Shenseea |Naughty Boy |Undo |- |Over You |Lily Moore |Over You |- |Before You Go |rowspan="2"|Lewis Capaldi |rowspan="2"|Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent |- |Hollywood |- |5 Miles |James Blunt |Once Upon A Mind |- |Nobody |James Arthur & Martin Jensen |Nobody (The Remixes) |- |12:45 - Stripped |Etham |Stripped - EP |- |Devil |CLC | {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- |Proud |Aaron Carpenter |Proud |- |rowspan="21"|2018 |Joan of Arc |Little Mix |LM5 |- |Hooked |Why Don’t We |8 Letters |- |Say |Ruel |Ready |- |Worthy Of You |rowspan="11"|Plested |rowspan="8"|First & Foremost |- |Your Name |- |Habits |- |First Time |- |Ribcage |- |Backup Plan |- |Home By Now - Acoustic |- |Easier Said Than Done |- |Make A Start | rowspan="3" {{n/a|Non-album singles}} |- |Priorities |- |Lost For Words |- |All or Nothing Ft Ray BLK and Wyclef Jean |rowspan="2"|Naughty Boy |All or Nothing |- |Bungee Jumping Ft Emeli Sandé and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan |Bungee Jumping |- |Fire In Me - Sigala |John Newman | {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- |Future |Etham |Future |- |If Our Love Is Wrong |rowspan="2"|Calum Scott |rowspan="2"|Only Human |- |Sore Eyes |- |Talk About Love |Boyzone |Thank You & Goodnight |- |rowspan="6"|2017 |Too Good To Be True Ft Machine Gun Kelly |The Vamps & Danny Avila |rowspan="2"|Night & Day |- |Just My Type |The Vamps |- |Bloodstream |The Chainsmokers |Memories...Do Not Open |- |Remind Me To Forget Ft Miguel |Kygo |Kids in Love |- |Last Time Love Ft Myah Marie |Fancy Cars |Last Time Love |- |For Myself - Acoustic |Etham |For Myself - Acoustic |- |rowspan="7"|2016 |Science |rowspan="3"|Youthonix |Science |- |Starting Wars |rowspan="2"|One Beat at a Time |- |One Beat At A Time Ft THABO |- |Ballad |PROSE |Home Of The Brave |- |Grow On Me |PANG! |Grow On Me |- |Touch |Little Mix |Glory Days |- |Lazy Love |Chloe X Halle |Sugar Symphony |- |2015 |Me & You |Sam Sure |Me & You |- |rowspan="2"|2013 |So Strong Ft Chasing Grace |Naughty Boy |Hotel Cabana |- |Certain Things Ft Chasing Grace |James Arthur |James Arthur |- |2012 |A Gift & A Curse Ft Chasing Grace |Devlin |A Moving Picture |}
== Awards == Plested has won the Most Performed Pop Songs of 2021 for Before You Go by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pop Superstar The Weeknd Celebrated as 2021 Songwriter of the Year at ASCAP Pop Music Awards |url=https://www.ascap.com/press/2021/04/04-13-pop-awards}}</ref> He has been nominated for British Artist Video of The Year 2018 and British Single Of The Year for ''Touch'' by The Brits 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Touch Maze Game |url=https://www.4thfloorcreative.co.uk/work/digital-touch-maze-game |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=4th Floor Creative |language=en-GB}}</ref> He has been nominated for British Album of The Year for Lewis Capaldi by The Brits 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BRITs 2020 Nominations: Dave & Lewis Capaldi Lead The Nods – See The Full List|url=https://www.mtv.co.uk/news/v8hnna/brits-2020-nominations-dave-lewis-capaldi-lead-the-nods-see-the-full-list |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=www.mtv.co.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=And the nominees are... |url=https://www.brits.co.uk/about-us/who-votes-for-the-brit-awards |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=BRIT Awards |language=en |archive-date=27 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227064819/http://www.brits.co.uk/about-us/who-votes-for-the-brit-awards |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.plestedmusic.com/ Official website] * {{AllMusic|id=mn0003068230}} * {{Discogs artist|name=Phil Plested}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Plested, Phil}} Category:Alumni of Central Saint Martins Category:English male singer-songwriters Category:English singer-songwriters Category:21st-century English male singers Category:21st-century English singers Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Watford Category:Atlantic Records artists Category:Year of birth missing (living people)