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| Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
| Website | laundromatmusic |
Matthew Tishler is a Canadian songwriter and music producer who has written and produced songs for film, television, radio, stage, and theme parks. He is known for his work with teen pop artists such as Olivia Rodrigo, Dove Cameron, Sabrina Carpenter, Ashley Tisdale, Olivia Holt and JoJo Siwa, as well as popular K-pop/J-pop artists like BTS, TWICE, EXO, NCT Dream, Enhypen, Taeyeon, Red Velvet, Namie Amuro, Kumi Koda, EXILE Atsushi, P1Harmony, and Stray Kids .[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] His projects have combined sales of over 25 million units.
Tishler produced and co-wrote the theme song to Girl Meets World, "Take on the World", performed by Sabrina Carpenter and Rowan Blanchard,[8] and songs for many Disney Channel original movies and series, including High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Descendants 3, Zombies, Austin & Ally, Teen Beach 2 and Shake It Up. He also co-wrote and produced "She's So Gone" from Lemonade Mouth, which is featured on Billboard's list of "The 100 Greatest Disney Songs of All Time" [9] and Rolling Stone's "Fake Bands, Real Songs: The 50 Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians".[10]
In early 2016, he was responsible for co-producing and co-writing a wave of successful K-pop singles, including "Sing for You" and "For Life" by EXO, "Rain" by Taeyeon from Girls' Generation, and "Good Luck" by AOA charting combined sales in excess of 1.4 million units that year.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Tishler co-wrote and co-produced "보조개 (Dimple)" by BTS, which was featured on Love Yourself: Her and Love Yourself: Answer, the #1 albums in Korea for 2017 and 2018, respectively.[19][20][21] Tishler also wrote and produced the title track for Namie Amuro's record-breaking album "Finally" (#1 album in Japan for 2017 and 2018),[22][23] and its accompanying "Finally" DVD/Blu-ray, which is the best-selling music DVD/Blu-ray in Japan of all time.[24][25]
He also produced All I Want by Olivia Rodrigo and was a music producer on the finale of Pasek and Paul's movie-musical Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, performed by Shawn Mendes.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 2022 | "Mira, Royal Detective" | Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Media Production | Nominated |
| 2021 | "Mira, Royal Detective" | Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Media Production | Nominated |
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| 2016 | "Girl Meets World" | BMI TV Music Award | Won |
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 2023 | "These Kids" from Snow Day | Outstanding Original Song for a Children's or Young Teen Program | Pending |
| 2023 | "One Big Family" from Mira, Royal Detective | Outstanding Original Song for a Preschool Program | Pending |
| 2022 | "If You Have A Dream" from Fancy Nancy | Outstanding Original Song | Nominated |
| 2022 | "The J Team" | Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Live Action Program | Nominated |
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| 2018 | "Blaze and the Monster Machines" | Outstanding Music Direction and Composition | Nominated |
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| 2023 | "Love You Forever" from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" | Best Song - Onscreen Performance - TV Show/Limited Series | Nominated |