# Mark Ronson Source: https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile/mark-ronson Published: 2026-09-22T17:11:23.485Z Language: en > British-American producer, DJ and songwriter Mark Ronson blends crate-dug funk and soul with pop craft, from Amy Winehouse's Back to Black to Uptown Funk, Shallow and the Barbie soundtrack. --- Artist profile ## Mark Ronson British-American producer, DJ and songwriter Mark Ronson blends crate-dug funk and soul with pop craft, from Amy Winehouse's Back to Black to Uptown Funk, Shallow and the Barbie soundtrack. ## Quick facts - **Origin:** United Kingdom - **Genres:** pop, dance, funk, hip-hop - **Award-winning work:** Rehab, Back to Black, Uptown Funk - **Awards:** 9 Grammy Awards won · 18 Grammy Award nominations - **Audience:** 31.3M Spotify monthly listeners, as of April 30, 2026 ![Mark Ronson official artist profile image](https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile-assets/v1/1759/43b270c1f231452458b270473e88c9285b5304abb8cf4c3048b752740316912e.jpg) *[Artist image via Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3hv9jJF3adDNsBSIQDqcjp)* - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 31.3M (No. 195 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 9.2B (No. 820 by TikTok top-video views) - **YouTube total views:** 7.4B - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 1.2B - **Total platform audience:** 10.9M - **Spotify followers:** 1.4M (No. 3185 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 7.2M (No. 690 by YouTube subscribers) - **TikTok followers:** 389.9K (No. 9484 by TikTok followers) Figures as of April 30, 2026. Data ## Audience, reach and discovery Figures as of April 30, 2026. ### Platform audience - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 31.3M (No. 195 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **Spotify followers:** 1.4M (No. 3185 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 7.2M (No. 690 by YouTube subscribers) - **Instagram followers:** 1.1M (No. 8072 by Instagram followers) - **TikTok followers:** 389.9K (No. 9484 by TikTok followers) - **Deezer fans:** 744.7K (No. 978 for Deezer fans) - **Pandora 28-day listeners:** 379.1K ### Consumption and discovery - **YouTube total views:** 7.4B - **YouTube daily views:** 1.6M - **YouTube monthly views:** 38.4M - **TikTok likes:** 6.1M (No. 9742 for TikTok likes) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 9.2B (No. 820 by TikTok top-video views) - **TikTok track posts:** 3.1M (No. 2380 for TikTok track posts) - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 1.2B - **Shazams:** 65.7M - **Genius pageviews:** 6.6M ### Playlist footprint - **Spotify playlist reach:** 373.2M - **Spotify editorial playlist reach:** 139.4M - **Spotify playlists:** 1.1M - **Spotify editorial playlists:** 763 - **Apple Music playlists:** 1.6K - **Apple Music editorial playlists:** 559 - **Deezer playlists:** 717 - **Deezer editorial playlists:** 154 - **YouTube playlists:** 344 - **YouTube editorial playlists:** 57 ### Top listener markets Leading cities by Spotify monthly listeners. | Rank | City | Listeners | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | London GB | 592.8K | | 2 | Mexico City MX | 465.2K | | 3 | Sydney AU | 419.7K | | 4 | São Paulo BR | 362.7K | | 5 | Melbourne AU | 349.5K | Biography ## Mark Ronson: biography ### London beginnings and New York upbringing Mark Daniel Ronson was born on 4 September 1975 in London. His father worked as a music manager and publisher, and his mother's later marriage to Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones brought a professional rock musician into the household. Ronson is raised in a Conservative Jewish family and has described himself from an early age as consumed by records and radio. When Ronson is eight years old the family moves to New York City, and he grows up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Still a teenager, he talks his way into an internship at Rolling Stone magazine. He attends the Collegiate School, then studies at Vassar College and New York University, all while becoming a familiar figure on the city's club circuit as a DJ through the early 1990s. ### From club DJ to record producer Ronson's DJ sets refuse rigid genre boundaries, mixing hip-hop with soul, pop and funk, and that eclecticism becomes the signature of his later production work. A set catches the attention of Nikka Costa's manager, which leads Ronson to produce her song Everybody Got Their Something and, shortly afterward, to sign with Elektra Records. Commercial advertising work, including projects tied to Tommy Hilfiger, has already given him studio experience. By the mid-2000s Ronson is in demand as a producer and remixer, contributing to records by Lily Allen and Christina Aguilera and, decisively, to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. Across his catalogue he favours live-sounding rhythm sections, brass and vintage warmth set against contemporary pop songwriting, an approach that connects his solo albums with his production for other artists. ### Here Comes the Fuzz and Allido Records Ronson's debut album, Here Comes the Fuzz, is released in 2003 with guest appearances from Mos Def, Jack White, Sean Paul, Nappy Roots and Rivers Cuomo. The lead single Ooh Wee reaches number 15 on the UK Singles Chart and is licensed to films including Honey, but the album sells poorly by the label's standards, and Elektra drops Ronson roughly two weeks after release. Rather than step back, Ronson co-founds Allido Records in 2004 as an imprint of Sony BMG's J Records alongside his longtime manager Rich Kleiman. The label becomes a vehicle for developing artists such as the rapper Wale while Ronson rebuilds his own recording career. The setback establishes a pattern that runs through his later work: protecting the conditions under which music is released. ### Version, Back to Black and the Grammy breakthrough After signing with Columbia Records, Ronson releases Version in 2007, a covers album refracted through Motown- and brass-heavy arrangements. Stop Me, featuring Daniel Merriweather, and Valerie, featuring Amy Winehouse, both reach number two on the UK Singles Chart, and Version itself peaks at number two on the UK Albums Chart. In early 2008 Ronson wins the BRIT Award for British Male Solo Artist. His role as lead producer on Winehouse's Back to Black proves even more consequential. At the 50th Grammy Awards he takes Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, together with Record of the Year for Rehab and Best Pop Vocal Album for Back to Black, awards shared on the latter two with Winehouse. Those wins make him a first-call producer for major vocalists while he continues to release and tour his own music. ### Record Collection, Uptown Special and Uptown Funk Record Collection, issued in 2010 under the billing Mark Ronson & The Business Intl., matches Version's number two peak in the UK and widens his cast of collaborators to include Q-Tip, MNDR and Kyle Falconer. The period also carries him into film work: he scores the 2011 comedy Arthur and takes part in the documentary Re:GENERATION Music Project. The defining commercial peak arrives with Uptown Funk, his 2014 single with Bruno Mars on vocals. It gives Ronson his first number one on the UK Official Singles Chart in December 2014 and later spends fourteen weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Its parent album, Uptown Special, reaches number one in the UK and number five on the Billboard 200, and in January 2015 Ronson tops the UK singles and albums charts in the same week. At the 58th Grammy Awards he collects Record of the Year for Uptown Funk and Best Pop Vocal Album for Uptown Special, and he performs Uptown Funk with Mars during the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show in February 2016. The single had already won the BRIT Award for British Single of the Year in 2015, consolidating his position as a hitmaking producer who also commands the chart as an artist. ### Shallow, Silk City and Late Night Feelings In 2018 Ronson founds Zelig Records, a Columbia Records imprint whose first signing is the singer King Princess, and forms the duo Silk City with fellow producer Diplo; their single Electricity, featuring Dua Lipa, later wins the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. In the same period he co-writes Shallow with Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt and Anthony Rossomando for the film A Star Is Born. The song wins an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, plus a Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Ronson's fifth album, Late Night Feelings, arrives in 2019, led by the single Nothing Breaks Like a Heart featuring Miley Cyrus. Around the same stretch he executive produces Lady Gaga's album Joanne and produces Queens of the Stone Age's Villains, so the decade closes with his credits appearing across mainstream pop, rock and film projects simultaneously. He continues to balance these outside productions with his own artist releases. ### Barbie, Night People and the 2026 BRIT Award In 2023 Ronson is announced as executive producer of Barbie the Album for Greta Gerwig's film. He co-writes and co-produces songs including Dance the Night and I'm Just Ken with his regular partner Andrew Wyatt, and the two co-write the film's score. The soundtrack wins Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 66th Grammy Awards and collects further nominations across song and score categories. His memoir, Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City, is published by Grand Central Publishing on 16 September 2025 and recounts his formative years in the city's club scene. On 28 February 2026, at the BRIT Awards' Manchester home of Co-op Live, Ronson receives the Outstanding Contribution to Music award and performs a career-spanning medley that brings back collaborators including Dua Lipa and Ghostface Killah alongside Amy Winehouse's band. Selected moments ## Career highlights 1. 2003 **Debut album Here Comes the Fuzz** Ronson's first album for Elektra features guests including Mos Def, Jack White and Sean Paul, and its lead single Ooh Wee reaches number 15 on the UK Singles Chart. 2. 2004 **Launches Allido Records** After parting ways with Elektra, Ronson co-founds Allido Records as an imprint of J Records with his manager Rich Kleiman, later using the label to develop artists such as Wale. 3. 2008 **First Grammy and BRIT Award wins** At the 50th Grammy Awards Ronson wins Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, plus Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album tied to his work with Amy Winehouse, and takes British Male Solo Artist at the BRITs. 4. 2014 **Uptown Funk released with Bruno Mars** The lead single from Uptown Special gives Ronson his first UK Official Singles Chart number one in December 2014 and later spends fourteen weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. 5. 2015 **Uptown Special tops the UK Albums Chart** Ronson's fourth studio album reaches number one in the United Kingdom and number five on the Billboard 200, and in January 2015 he completes a UK Official Charts singles-and-albums number one double. 6. 2016 **Grammys and a Super Bowl 50 performance** Ronson collects Record of the Year for Uptown Funk and Best Pop Vocal Album for Uptown Special at the 58th Grammy Awards and performs Uptown Funk with Bruno Mars at the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show. 7. 2018 **Founds Zelig Records and Silk City** Ronson launches Zelig Records as a Columbia Records imprint with King Princess as its first signing, and forms Silk City with Diplo, whose Dua Lipa collaboration Electricity later wins Best Dance Recording. 8. 2019 **Academy Award for Shallow** Co-written with Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt and Anthony Rossomando for A Star Is Born, Shallow wins the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media. 9. 2023 **Executive produces Barbie the Album** For Greta Gerwig's Barbie, Ronson serves as lead and executive producer of the soundtrack and co-composes the score with Andrew Wyatt; the album wins Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. 10. 2025 **Memoir Night People published** Grand Central Publishing releases Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City on 16 September 2025, drawing on Ronson's formative years in New York City's club scene. 11. 2026 **BRIT Outstanding Contribution to Music** At the 2026 BRIT Awards at Co-op Live in Manchester, Ronson receives the Outstanding Contribution to Music award and closes the show with a career-spanning medley featuring Dua Lipa and Ghostface Killah. Recognition ## Awards and honours Mark Ronson's awards span record production, songwriting and film music. His Recording Academy artist page lists nine career Grammy wins and eighteen nominations, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Record of the Year honours for Rehab and Uptown Funk, and visual-media prizes for Shallow and Barbie The Album. He has also been honoured at the BRIT Awards, beginning with British Male Solo Artist in 2008 and British Single of the Year for Uptown Funk in 2015, and received the academy's Outstanding Contribution to Music trophy in 2026. His co-writing of Shallow earned an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. - **Grammy Awards won:** 9 - **Grammy Award nominations:** 18 - **BRIT Awards won:** 3 - **Academy Awards won:** 1 - **Golden Globe Awards won:** 1 | Year | Award | Category | Work | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2008 | Grammy Awards | Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Winner | | | 2008 | Grammy Awards | Record of the Year Winner | Rehab | | 2008 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Vocal Album Winner | Back to Black | | 2008 | BRIT Awards | British Male Solo Artist Winner | | | 2015 | BRIT Awards | British Single of the Year Winner | Uptown Funk | | 2016 | Grammy Awards | Record of the Year Winner | Uptown Funk | | 2016 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Vocal Album Winner | Uptown Special | | 2019 | Academy Awards | Best Original Song Winner | Shallow | | 2019 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Original Song Winner | Shallow | | 2019 | Grammy Awards | Best Song Written for Visual Media Winner | Shallow | | 2019 | Grammy Awards | Best Dance Recording Winner | Electricity | | 2019 | Grammy Awards | Song of the Year Nominee | Shallow | | 2024 | Grammy Awards | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Winner | Barbie The Album | | 2024 | Grammy Awards | Song of the Year Nominee | Dance the Night | | 2025 | Grammy Awards | Best Remixed Recording Winner | Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix) | | 2026 | BRIT Awards | Outstanding Contribution to Music Winner | | Sources - [Wikipedia — Mark Ronson ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ronson) - [Wikipedia — Mark Ronson discography ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ronson_discography) - [Recording Academy — Mark Ronson awards and bio ↗](https://www.grammy.com/artists/mark-ronson/17323/) - [Recording Academy — 2024 Grammy winners and nominees list ↗](https://www.grammy.com/news/2024-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list/) - [Recording Academy — Road To Barbie The Album ↗](https://www.grammy.com/news/creating-barbie-the-album-videos-behind-the-scenes-mark-ronson-dua-lipa-nicki-minaj/) - [Recording Academy — Best Compilation Soundtrack 2024 winners ↗](https://www.grammy.com/awards/categories/best-compilation-soundtrack-for-visual-media/2024/) - [Mark Ronson — Official website ↗](https://www.markronson.co.uk/) - [Sony Music UK — Mark Ronson ↗](https://www.sonymusic.co.uk/artist/mark-ronson/) - [AllMusic — Mark Ronson biography and credits ↗](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mark-ronson-mn0000237773) - [BRIT Awards — Mark Ronson to be honoured with Outstanding Contribution To Music ↗](https://www.brits.co.uk/news/2026/mark-ronson-to-be-honoured-with-outstanding-contribution-to-music/) - [BRIT Awards — The BRIT Awards 2026 Winners ↗](https://www.brits.co.uk/news/2026/the-brit-awards-2026-winners/) - [NME — BRIT Awards 2026: Mark Ronson to be honoured for Outstanding Contribution to Music ↗](https://www.nme.com/news/music/brit-awards-2026-mark-ronson-to-be-honoured-for-outstanding-contribution-to-music-3927309) - [Official Charts — Uptown Funk chart history ↗](https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/mark-ronson-ft-bruno-mars-uptown-funk/) - [Official Charts — Uptown Funk gives Mark Ronson his first Number 1 single ↗](https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/uptown-funk-gives-mark-ronson-his-first-number-1-single__7689/) - [Official Charts — Uptown Funk sets new weekly streaming record ↗](https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/uptown-funk-scores-third-week-at-number-1-and-sets-new-streaming-record__7584/) - [Official Charts — Mark Ronson scores Official Charts Number 1 double ↗](https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/mark-ronson-scores-official-charts-number-1-double-i-really-can-t-believe-it-__7872/) - [Hachette Book Group — Night People by Mark Ronson ↗](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mark-ronson/night-people/9781538741115/) - [Billboard — 2024 Grammy nominees for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2024-grammy-nominees-best-compilation-soundtrack-visual-media-1235516015/)