David Jost

David Jost is a German music producer , songwriter and musician from Hamburg . Jost's most commercially successful titles are the author participations The Heart Wants What It Wants ( Selena Gomez ) and Beautiful Now ( Zedd ), each with over a million copies sold.

Career

Jost was initially a member of the boy group Bed & Breakfast . He later became the manager and producer of Tokio Hotel . Jost is also the author of many well-known pieces of music, some of which have become number one hits. He not only wrote I Like for Keri Hilson , the title song of the film Zweiohrküken , but also together with Ian O'Brien-Docker Geronimo for the Danish artist Aura Dione . Jost also worked for Patrick Nuo and Mandy Capristo . Jost is considered one of the most successful Hamburg music producers. Jost lives partly in Los Angeles and owns a studio between Santa Monica and Venice .

In 2010, Jost received the GEMA German Music Author Award in the Pop / Rock composition category together with Dave Roth and Pat Benzner . With six number one hits he is after Dieter Bohlen (21 number one hits) and Kurt Feltz (15 number one hits) the most successful author from Germany in the German single charts.

Discography

Author participations and productions

Chart successes as author (A) and producer (P)

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title artist	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1996	If I Could Change the World ^A Bed & Breakfast	DE61 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 22, 1996
	I Will Follow You ^A Bed & Breakfast	DE97 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: September 20, 1996
	Falling in Love ^{A, P} Bed & Breakfast	DE73 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: December 6, 1996
1997	Get It Right ^A Bed & Breakfast with Mola Adebisi & Sqeezer	DE46 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: June 13, 1997
1997	Tamagotchi (Tschoopapa ...) ^A Sqeezer	DE55 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: October 15, 1997
1998	Without You ^A Sqeezer	DE10 (13 weeks) DE	AT10 (12 weeks) AT	CH12 (9 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: April 14, 1998
1998	Wake up! ^A Sqeezer	DE59 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: August 3, 1998
2003	5 Days ^{A, P} Patrick Nuo	DE24 (13 weeks) DE	AT24 (13 weeks) AT	CH23 (19 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: March 28, 2003
	Reanimate ^A,Patrick Nuo ^P	DE22 (7 weeks) DE	AT56 (6 weeks) AT	CH18 (10 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 11, 2003
	Welcome (To My Little Island) ^{A, P} Patrick Nuo	DE55 (8 weeks) DE	-	CH44 (8 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: November 24, 2003
2004	Undone ^{A, P} Patrick Nuo	DE30 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH30 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: March 19, 2004
2004	Where Is Your Love ^A Benjamin Boyce	DE59 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: April 19, 2004
2005	Girl in the Moon ^{A, P} Patrick Nuo	DE38 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH20 (8 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: January 7, 2005
	Beautiful ^{A, P} Patrick Nuo	DE33 (9 weeks) DE	AT7 (26 weeks) AT	CH9 (15 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: April 4, 2005
	Through the Monsun / Monsoon ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE1 (22 weeks) DE	AT1 gold (28 weeks)AT	CH5 (43 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 15, 2005 Sales: + 30,000
	Scream ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE5 (18 weeks) DE	AT3 (20 weeks) AT	CH18 (15 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: November 25, 2005
2006	Rescue Me ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE1 (11 weeks) DE	AT1 (23 weeks) AT	CH6 (10 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: March 10, 2006
	Goodbye ^A Sasha	DE36 (10 weeks) DE	-	CH77 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 26, 2006
	Watchin 'over You ^{A, P} Patrick Nuo	DE52 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH54 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 26, 2006
	The last day / Final Day ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE1 (11 weeks) DE	AT1 gold (20 weeks)AT	CH7 (10 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 25, 2006 Sales: + 15,000
2007	Over the end of the world, Ready, Set, Go! ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE1 (12 weeks) DE	AT1 (12 weeks) AT	CH2 (13 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: January 26, 2007
	The Beginning ^A Ian O'Brien-Docker	DE74 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: February 9, 2007
	Don't Jump ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE3 (9 weeks) DE	AT7 (10 weeks) AT	CH21 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: April 6, 2007
	Too Late (To Save It with a Love Song) ^P Patrick Nuo	DE83 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: April 20, 2007
	At your side (I'm there) / 1000 Meere // By Your Side / 1000 Oceans ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE2 (9 weeks) DE	AT6 (8 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: November 16, 2007
2009	Automatic / Automatic ^{A, P} Tokio Hotel	DE5 (9 weeks) DE	AT14 (7 weeks) AT	CH44 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: September 18, 2009
	Half a Dream Away ^A Blind	DE94 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: October 2, 2009
	I Like ^{A, P} Keri Hilson	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (41 weeks)DE	AT2 (24 weeks) AT	CH5 platinum (35 weeks)CH	UK34 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 11th, 2009 Sales: + 480,000
2011	Girls Beautiful ^{A, P} Bullmeister	DE31 (14 weeks) DE	AT55 (3 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: March 14, 2011
	Rock Me ^A Melanie C	DE38 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: June 24, 2011
	Geronimo ^{A, P} Aura Dione	DE1 platinum (26 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (17 weeks)AT	CH7th gold (23 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: October 21, 2011 Sales: + 360,000
2012	Friends ^{A, P} Aura Dione feat. Rock mafia	DE4th gold (22 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (15 weeks)AT	CH10 gold (17 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: March 9, 2012 Sales: + 195,000
	The Way I Like It ^{A, P} Mandy Capristo	DE11 (12 weeks) DE	AT30 (5 weeks) AT	CH29 (7 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: April 13, 2012
	Hurt Lovers Blue ^A	DE7 (12 weeks) DE	AT27 (5 weeks) AT	CH22 (3 weeks) CH	UK70 (1 week) UK	-	First published: January 4, 2013
2013	With you I am beautiful ^{A, P} 2 room apartment	DE29 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH35 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 16, 2013
2013	Error ^A Madeline Juno	DE50 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: November 1, 2013
2014	Love Who Loves You Back ^A Tokio Hotel	DE38 (5 weeks) DE	AT39 (2 weeks) AT	CH65 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: September 26, 2014
2014	The Heart Wants What It Wants ^A Selena Gomez	DE53 (3 weeks) DE	AT48 (1 week) AT	CH52 (5 weeks) CH	UK30 (3 weeks) UK	US6th platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: November 6, 2014 Sales: + 1,115,000
2015	Beautiful Now ^A Zedd feat. Jon Bellion	-	-	-	-	US64 platinum (14 weeks)US	First published: May 13, 2015 Sales: + 1,045,000
	Number one author participations / productions	DE6/5DE	AT5/5AT	CH-CH	UK-UK	US-US
	Top 10 author participations / productions	DE13/11DE	AT12/11AT	CH8/8CH	UK1 / -UK	US1 / -US
	Author participation / productions in the charts	DE37/23DE	AT20/16AT	CH24/19CH	UK3/1UK	US2 / -US

Bed & Breakfast

Awards

Prices

Bravo Otto
- 2006: in the "Man of the Year" category (industry Otto for his services to Tokio Hotel )
German music author award
- 2010: in the category "Composition Pop / Rock"

Awards for music sales

Golden record

Belgium Belgium
- 2007: for the author's participation / production Durch den Monsun
Denmark Denmark
- 2012: for the author participation / production Friends
- 2015: for the author participation The Heart Wants What It Wants
Italy Italy
- 2016: for the author participation Beautiful Now
Sweden Sweden
- 2015: for the author participation The Heart Wants What It Wants

Platinum record

Denmark Denmark
- 2012: for the author participation / production Geronimo
Canada Canada
- 2015: for the author participation The Heart Wants What It Wants
Poland Poland
- 2016: for the author participation Beautiful Now

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	gold1	0! P-	25,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	2 × gold2	platinum1	60,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	900,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	gold1	0! P-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	0! G-	platinum1	80,000	musiccanada.com
Austria (IFPI)	4 × gold4th	0! P-	60,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	0! G-	platinum1	20,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	0! P-	20,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 × gold2	platinum1	60,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	0! G-	2 × platinum2	2,000,000	riaa.com
All in all	13 × gold13	8 × platinum8th

Individual evidence

↑ www.abendblatt.de: Tokio-Hotel-Manager produces title song for two-eared chicks
↑ www.morgenpost.de: Hamburg's hit makers
↑ www.gema.de: Review of the German Music Author Award 2010 ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

http://DavidJost.com official website
David Jost at Discogs (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Jost, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music producer, songwriter and musician
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] www.abendblatt.de: Tokio-Hotel-Manager produces title song for two-eared chicks

[2] www.morgenpost.de: Hamburg's hit makers

[3] www.gema.de: Review of the German Music Author Award 2010 ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )