Lostboy

Peter Rycroft (born October 1993), known professionally as Lostboy, is a British songwriter and music producer. Active in the music fields since 2010s, he has written and produced music across multiple genres, working with Tiësto, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding, Lewis Capaldi, Anne-Marie, Little Mix, Zedd and Ava Max. In 2023, he co-wrote Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding's single "Miracle" which spent 8 weeks at No.1 in the UK, and produced and co-wrote Kylie Minogue's 2023 hit single "Padam Padam", for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Dance Recording.

Early life Peter Rycroft began piano lessons at age six, then took drum lessons and joined several bands during high school. Originally planning to enroll at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts to study song production, Rycroft took a gap year to tour with The Laurence Jones Band, and realised that he wanted to write songs. Inspired by Peter Pan, with whom he shares a given name, Rycroft began working under pseudonym Lostboy.

Career Fraser T. Smith got ahold of Lostboy's demo, and invited him to do additional production on songs for Anne-Marie and Gavin James. Lostboy soon began to work with an array of UK artists, writing and producing songs for Becky Hill, and producing 2019 single "Losing Me" for Gabrielle Aplin. and co-write and co-produce "Hate You" from Jung Kook's debut solo album "Golden", among others.

In 2022, Lostboy signed a global publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing UK. The single is Minogue's first to break into the UK top 10 since 2011, and her first ever to chart on the Billboard Hot Dance / Electronic Song list, peaking at Number 10.

In 2023, Lostboy won Songwriter of the Year at the 2023 Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards.

Year Title Artist Album Songwriter Producer 2016 "Liability" Kloe 2017 "Becoming" Jones Acoustic "Call Me Out" Sarah Close Caught Up "Caught Up" "When the Time's Right" L Devine Growing Pains "Ultra Love" Marlon Roudette "Waking Up Slow" Gabrielle Aplin Avalon 2018 "Daughter" L Devine Peer Pressure "Drink 2 U" Jack Vallier Anyway "Frozen Frames" Hannah Jane Lewis "Revival" (featuring Cheat Codes and Max) Sigala Brighter Days "Sunrise in the East" Becky Hill Get to Know "Used to Love You" Anne-Marie Speak Your Mind "Why Does It Hurt" JHart "Wonderland" (featuring Jimi Tents) Maad Technicolor 2019 "Empire" Nina Nesbitt The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change "Chloe" "Things I Say When You Sleep" "Last December" "The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change" "Critical" Sam Tompkins From My Sleeve to the World "Deep Sea Diving" (featuring Emir Taha) Aboutagirl "Every Time You're High" Billy Lockett "First Time" (featuring Robinson) Grey "Good Thing" Zedd and Kehlani "If Looks Could Kill" Lauren Aquilina "Look No Further" Flawes Highlights "No Good for My Soul" "When We Were Young" "Here to Stay" "Still Not Ready" "Would You Mind If" (featuring Sad Alex) "Outro" "Number One" "Turn Back Around" "I'm Letting Go" "Moonwalking" Good Scott Fka Fyko "Woozy" "Not Yours Never Was" Hannah James Lewis Hannah James Lewis "Rivers" King Calaway Rivers "Unbelievable" Why Don't We 2020 "10 Months" Enhypen Border: Day One "Bad People" Lauren Aquilina "Better" The Vamps Cherry Blossom "Married in Vegas" "Chemicals" "Part of Me" "Nothing But You" "B-List" Aboutagirl "Gloves Up" Little Mix Confetti "How to Be Lonely" Rita Ora "Until the Sun Comes Up" Gabrielle Aplin Dear Happy "Strange" "Like You Say You Do" "Losing Me" (featuring JP Cooper) "So Far So Good" "Nothing Really Matters" "Mayday" Victon Mayday "New Me" Ella Eyre Quarter Life Crisis "Staying in Love" Kasbo The Making of a Paracosm "You Take The Fun Out of Everything" Love Fame Tragedy Wherever I Go, I Want to Leave 2021 "LMLY" Jackson Wang LMLY "100 Ways" "Begging" Billy Lockett Reflections "Better Mistakes" Bebe Rexha Better Mistakes "Sacrifice" "Black Hole" Griff One Foot in Front of the Other "C'est La Vie" Claudia Valentina "Cut You Off" Little Mix Between Us "Eleven" Ive Eleven "Last Time" Becky Hill Only Honest on the Weekend "Let It Ring" Reiley "You" BRB, Having an Identity Crisis "Something Better" Tom Grennan Evering Road "Little Bit of Love" "Lonely In Love" Mimi Webb Seven Shades of Heartbreak "Postcard" JLS 2.0 "Psycho" Lauren Aquilina Ghost World "Tobacco in My Sheets" "Something Stupid" Jonas Blue and Awa Together "Starlight" Westlife Wild Dreams "Start Walking" Tove Styrke Hard "Testosterone" Grace Davies I Wonder If You Wonder "x2" Anne-Marie Therapy 2022 "10:35" (featuring Tate McRae) Tiësto Drive "Follow Me" Rina Sawayama & Pabllo Vittar "Friends with My Exes" (featuring Joel Adams) Sam DeRosa The Good Parts "Hate Being Human" Chris Brown Breezy "Hello"(featuring Chlöe and KayCyy) Fivio Foreign B.I.B.L.E. "Love Phobia" Onew Dice "One Heart" Twinnie Welcome to the Club "Questions" Lost Frequencies and James Arthur All Stand Together "Say Something" James TW Heartbeat Changes "Sweat" Claudia Valentina 2023 "Back Home for Christmas" Mimi Webb "Both of Us"Amelia "Remind You" "Remind Me"Tom GrennanWhat Ifs & Maybes "Here" "Before You" "Bla Bla Bla" Måneskin Rush! "Dancing In a Hurricane" Freya Ridings Blood Orange "Rise" Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken "Million Dollar Baby" Ava Max Diamonds & Dancefloors "Dancing's Done" "Hallelujah" Rosa Linn Lay Your Hands Upon My Heart "Hate You" Jung Kook Golden "Holy Moly" Ive I've Mine "I'm My Only Friend" Dillon Francis and Arden Jones This Mixtape is Fire Too "Leave Me for Dead" Gayle Hello This Is the Setlist for My Tour "Let It Die" Ellie Goulding Higher Than Heaven "Messy" Reneé Rapp Snow Angel "Miracle" Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding 96 Months "My Bad" The Chainsmokers and Shenseea Summertime Friends "My Stupid Heart" Walk off the Earth Stand By You "Opposite" Sabrina Carpenter Emails I Can't Send "Padam Padam" Kylie Minogue Tension "Personal Pornstar" Bludnymph Drool "Secondhand Happiness" Sam Fischer I Love You, Please Don't Hate Me "Self-Portrait" Talia Mar "That Kind of Woman" The Scarlet Opera "The Motto" (featuring Ava Max) Tiësto Drive "Wallflower" Twice Ready to Be "Won't Forget You" (featuring Ina Worldsen) Jax Jones and D.O.D. 2024 "15 Minutes" Madison Beer "Miss Me Too" Griff Vertigo "Into the Walls" "19th Hour" "Hole in My Pocket" "So Fast" "Where Did You Go" "One Night" "Colder" St. Paul "Freaking Out" Billy Lockett Abington Grove "Heartbreak in Heaven" (featuring Peniel of BtoB) Tzuyu Aboutzu "Same Road" Arlissa "Trash" BGYO BGYO "2 Hands" Tate McRae So Close to What 2025 "Signs" "No I'm Not in Love" "Ash" Le Sserafim Hot "FUFN (Fuck You for Now)" Jade That's Showbiz Baby "It Girl" "Natural Disaster" "Glitch" "Paradise" Maymay Entrata "Someone for Me" Kylie Minogue Tension II "Who's Making You Feel It" Cian Ducrot Little Dreaming "Messy" Rosé F1 the Album "All At Once" Madison Beer "Yes Baby" Locket "Ponytail" XO Fashionably Late "This Is What We Dance For" Jade That's Showbiz Baby The Encore 2026 "Odd" (Gaeul solo) Ive Revive+

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