Draft:Bloodshy & Avant

Bloodshy & Avant
Bloodshy & Avant
	Karlsson (right) and Winnberg (left) performing in Södertälje, Sweden, March 2011
Background information
Also known as	Böz o Lö; Karlsson & Winnberg; Robotberget;
Origin	Sweden
Genres	Pop; dance; electropop; electroclash;
Occupations	DJs; record producers; songwriters;
Years active	2000–present
Spinoffs	Miike Snow
Members	Christian Karlsson; Pontus Winnberg;

Bloodshy & Avant are a Swedish songwriting and production duo consisting of Christian "Bloodshy" Karlsson and Pontus "Avant" Winnberg. They have worked with many prominent artists, including Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Ms. Dynamite, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Kelis, Girls' Generation, Christina Milian, Sky Ferreira, Hikaru Utada and BoA. In addition to their production work, Karlsson and Winnberg are also members of the synth-pop group Miike Snow, alongside lead vocalist Andrew Wyatt.

Career

Original songs and production

Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with American singer/songwriter Christina Milian for her début album.^[1] The collaboration resulted in two hit singles, "AM to PM", and "When You Look at Me", both of which hit number three on the UK Singles Chart.

They were then commissioned to work with UK hip-hop singer/rapper, Ms. Dynamite and BRIT Award-winning English pop group Sugababes. The collaboration with Ms. Dynamite resulted in several tracks which appeared on her début album, A Little Deeper, including her hit début single, "It Takes More". They also produced tracks for her 2005 second release, Judgement Days.^[2]

Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced two songs which appeared on Britney Spears' 2003 album In the Zone: the hit single, "Toxic", that merited a Grammy award; and "Showdown". They also produced all the three new songs on her 2004 Greatest Hits: My Prerogative album and the theme song for Britney & Kevin: Chaotic series. They subsequently worked with Spears on her fifth studio album, Blackout, for which they collaborated with Spears on four songs: the hit single, "Piece of Me", "Radar", "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier"; and again on her 2008 follow-up album Circus, for which they produced the songs "Unusual You", "Phonography" and "Trouble", the latter two appeared only as bonus tracks. Bloodshy alone co-produced two songs for Britney Spears' 7th studio album Femme Fatale, "How I Roll" and "Trip to Your Heart".

The duo co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with Madonna, "How High" and "Like It or Not", for her 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor album.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, for Kylie Minogue's 10th studio album X, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced "Speakerphone", "Nu-di-ty" and "Cherry Bomb"; the latter appeared only on CD singles.

In 2008, Bloodshy and Avant produced few songs for BoA's English début BoA. A year later they produced "Chocolate Love" for South Korean girl groups Girls' Generation and f(x).

In 2010, Bloodshy signed Sky Ferreira and produced songs like "One", "17" and "Haters Anonymous"

Discography

2003

From Britney Spears' In the Zone

"Toxic" (UK #1, US #9) Grammy award winner
"Showdown"
"Me Against the Music" (Bloodshy & Avant's Chix mix) (US club play #1)
"Me Against the Music" (featuring Madonna) (Bloodshy & Avant "Dubbie Style" remix)
"Toxic" (Bloodshy & Avant's Intoxicated remix) (US club play #1)
"Take Off" (unreleased)
"Look Who's Talking Now" (unreleased)