Jordan Schmidt (born February 26, 1988) is a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum songwriter and music producer. He has written & produced songs for Kane Brown, Morgan Wallen, Lainey Wilson, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, blackbear, Dan + Shay, Keith Urban, Nelly, Florida Georgia Line, The Band Camino, HARDY, Tyler Hubbard, Kid Rock, Calum Scott, Granger Smith, Chris Lane, One Ok Rock, Old Dominion, Chase Rice, Dustin Lynch, Lady A, Hunter Hayes, Mitchell Tenpenny, Ingrid Andress, Rodney Atkins, Mason Ramsey, and many others.

Biography
Schmidt was born in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Drawn to music at an early age, Jordan picked up the guitar when he was 10 years old, and began recording local artists by the time he was 16. In 2006, he moved to College Park, Maryland where he took a job assisting for Matt Squire.  After working with Squire for a little over a year, Schmidt moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota where he started producing and/or engineering for acts like Motion City Soundtrack, All Time Low, Quietdrive, Sing It Loud, You, Me, and Everyone We Know, Jamestown Story, Paradise Fears, and The Role Call, quickly becoming one of the Midwest's most sought after producers.

In 2012, Jordan moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he and his brother Dane Schmidt started their first business venture. The Schmidt brothers spent the next couple years racking up over a hundred placements on shows like NCIS: New Orleans, Nashville, Catfish, Jersey Shore, The Biggest Loser, Dr. Phil, One Tree Hill, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, NBC Sunday Night Football, The Real World, Hart of Dixie, Snooki & JWoww, Teen Mom, Chesapeake Shores, 16 and Pregnant, The Challenge, True Life, Bad Girls Club, The Fosters, Kourtney and Khloé Take The Hamptons, Total Divas, Married at First Sight, Best Ink, Fox & Friends, Ridiculousness, The Hallmark Channel, Battle Creek, Heartland, 90210, Tucker Carlson Tonight, The First Time, along with landing ad partnerships with MasterCard, CBS, Wayfair, NBC, JetBlue, Adobe and Coca-Cola. A chance encounter with Florida Georgia Line's Brian Kelley in 2014 led Jordan to shift his focus on songwriting, with Dane signing on as writer/producer manager, and soon after landed his first publishing deal.

In April 2015, Jordan signed a publishing deal with Tree Vibez Music, founded by Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line,  and celebrated his first #1 song with Jason Aldean's "Lights Come On" on July 22, 2016. He landed his second #1 with Kane Brown's 7× Platinum hit "What Ifs" in October 2017, following that with Jason Aldean’s 6× Platinum, multi-week #1 "You Make It Easy", then Mitchell Tenpenny’s 3× Platinum, "Drunk Me". In July 2019, Schmidt was awarded his fifth #1 song with Blake Shelton’s 4x Platinum "God's Country", which went on to win the category of Single of the Year for the 53rd Annual Country Music Association Awards, as well as earn a Grammy nomination for the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in the Best Country Solo Performance category. During the pandemic Schmidt wrote & produced Nelly/Florida Georgia Line's 3x Platinum "Lil Bit" along with Blake Shelton's "Come Back As A Country Boy". Schmidt recently celebrated his sixth & seventh #1's as a songwriter with Kane Brown's "Like I Love Country Music," and HARDY's "wait in the truck" featuring Lainey Wilson. Schmidt currently has songs on the charts with Tyler Hubbard, Kane Brown, Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson.

Personal life
Schmidt married female country artist Renee Blair on September 24, 2022. They currently reside in Nashville, Tennessee.

Discography

RIAA Certifications

Related Awards

External links
 
 Interview with "The Sound Alarm"
 Partial Discography on "All Music"
 Jordan Schmidt Publishing Deal Endurance Music Group
 Hitmaker Jordan Schmidt Inks Publishing Deal With Endurance Music Group
 God's Country Hitmaker Jordan Schmidt Inks Publishing Deal With Endurance Music Group
 Endurance Nashville Signs Singer Songwriter Jordan Schmidt To Exclusive Agreement

References 

Living people
1988 births
Record producers from Minnesota
Songwriters from Minnesota
People from Duluth, Minnesota
People from Nashville, Tennessee