Michael James Ryan (June 18, 1976 – September 29, 2019), known professionally as busbee, was an American songwriter, record producer, publisher, record label executive and multi-instrumentalist.

Biography
Busbee was born in Walnut Creek, California and began playing music when he was seven years old, living in Los Angeles with his family. He later wrote and produced music, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Busbee marched with the World Class Drum Corps, Blue Devils

Busbee worked with a broad range of artists including Gwen Stefani, P!nk, Maren Morris, Timbaland featuring Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Jon Bellion, Kelly Clarkson, and Lady Antebellum. 

Busbee died of brain cancer on September 29, 2019, in San Francisco, California, at age 43.

Discography

Songs written
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!colspan="5"|Discography 
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! style="width:150px;"| Album
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! style="width:250px;"| Co-written with
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!rowspan="2"|5 Seconds of Summer
|rowspan="2"|5 Seconds of Summer (2014)
|"Don't Stop”
|Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Steve Robson
|Single
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|"The Only Reason”
|Steve Robson, Michael Clifford
|rowspan="6" 
|-
!Christina Aguilera
|Lotus (2012)
|"Empty Words"
|Christina Aguilera, Nikki Flores, Ali Tamposi
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!rowspan="2"|Lauren Alaina
|rowspan="2"|Road Less Traveled (2016)
|"Doin' Fine"  	
|rowspan="2"|Lauren Alaina, Emily Shackleton 
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|"My Kinda People"  	
|-
!rowspan="2"|Jason Aldean
|My Kinda Party (2010)
|"Days Like These"
|rowspan="2"|Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley
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|Night Train (2012)
|"This Nothing Town"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Allstar Weekend
|rowspan="2"|All the Way (2011)
|"Not Your Birthday" (feat. Anth)
|Anthony Melo, JP Clark, Jayce Levi
|Single
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|"Do It 2 Me"
|Zachary Porter, JP Clark, Jayce Levi
|rowspan="14" 
|-
!Backstreet Boys
|This Is Us (2009)
|"Masquerade"
|Brian Kennedy, Alex James, Antwoine Collins
|-
! rowspan="2" |Jon Bellion
| rowspan="2" |The Human Condition (2016)
|"80's Films"
| rowspan="2" |Jon Bellion
|-
|"Maybe IDK"
|-
!rowspan="5"|Better Than Ezra
|rowspan="5"|Paper Empire (2009)
|"Black Light"
|Kevin Griffin
|-
|"Turn Up The Bright Lights"
|Kevin Griffin, Michelle Lewis
|-
|"In Between The Moments"
|rowspan="2"|Kevin Griffin
|-
|"Wounded"
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|"All in"
|Kevin Griffin, James Bourne
|-
!Boyzone
|Brother (2010)
|"Nothing Without You”
|Catt Gravitt, Tom Shapiro
|-
! rowspan="2"|Danielle Bradbery
|rowspan="2"|Danielle Bradbery (2013)
|"Yellin' From The Rooftop"
|Sarah Buxton
|-
|"Endless Summer”
|Sarah Buxton, Jedd Hughes
|-
!Toni Braxton
|Pulse (2010)
|"If I Have to Wait"
|Toni Braxton, Jud Friesman, Allan Rich
|-
!Garth Brooks
|Man Against Machine (2014)
|"People Loving People"
|Lee Thomas Miller, Chris Wallin
|-
!Alexandra Burke 
|Overcome (2009)
|"Bad Boys" (feat. Flo Rida)
|Melvin K. Watson Jr., Larry Summerville Jr., Alex James, Lauren Evans Tramar Dillard
|Single (#1 UK Singles Chart, Brit Award Nomination)
|-
!Kelly Clarkson
|Stronger (2011)
|"Dark Side"
|Alexander Geringas
| Single (#1 Billboard Dance Chart)
|-
!rowspan="5"|Daughtry
|rowspan="3"|Break the Spell (2011)
|"We're Not Gonna Fall"
|Chris Daughtry, Zac Maloy
|rowspan="10" 
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|"Gone Too Soon"
|rowspan="4"|Chris Daughtry
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|"Losing My Mind"
|-
|rowspan="2"|Baptized (2013)
|"I'll Fight”
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|"High Above The Ground”
|-
!Gavin DeGraw
|Make a Move (2013)
|"Who's Gonna Save Us"
|Gavin DeGraw
|-
!rowspan="3"|Lee DeWyze
|rowspan="3"|Live It Up (2010)
|"A Song About Love"
|Lee DeWyze, Espen Lind, Amund Bjørklund, David Hodges
|-
|"It's Gotta Be Love"
|Lee DeWyze, Espen Lind, Amund Bjørklund, Claude Kelly
|-
|"Stay Here"
|Lee DeWyze, Espen Lind, Claude Kelly
|-
!rowspan="2"|Colton Dixon
|rowspan="2"|A Messenger (2013)
|"Noise"
|Colton Dixon
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|"You Are”
|Colton Dixon, Rhyan Shirley, Jared Martin
|Single
|-
!Sara Evans
|Slow Me Down (2014)
|"Good Love Is Hard To Find”
|Sarah Buxton, Dave Berg
|
|-
!Florida Georgia Line
|Dig Your Roots (2016)
|"H.O.L.Y"
|Nate Cyphert, William Wiik Larsen
|Single
|-
!rowspan="4"|Dia Frampton
|rowspan="4"|Red (2011)
|Don't Kick The Chair (feat. Kid Cudi)"
|Dia Frampton, Scott Mescudi, Julie Frost
|Single
|-
|"I Will" (feat. Blake Shelton)
|Dia Frampton, Tom Shapiro
|rowspan="5" 
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|"Good Boy"
|Dia Frampton, Chris Seefried
|-
|"Love Can Come From Anywhere"
|Dia Frampton
|-
!rowspan="3"|The Fray
|rowspan="3"|Helios (2014)
|"Hold My Hand”
|rowspan="3"|The Fray
|-
|"Give it Away”
|-
|"Our Last Days”
|-
!Martin Garrix 
| "Don't Look Down" (2015)
|"Don't Look Down (Ft. Usher)" feat. Usher 
|Martin Garrix, Usher Raymond, James Abrahart
|Single
|-
!Girls' Generation
|Run Devil Run (2010)
|"Run Devil Run"
|Alex James, Kalle Engström, Hong Ji-yoo, Nakamura Kanata
| Single
|-
!rowspan="2"|Giorgia 
|Dietro le apparenze (2011)
| "Hostage" (È l'amore che conta)
|Giorgia Todrani, Allan Rich, Jud Firdman
|Single
|-
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|"Did I Lose You" (feat. Olly Murs)
|colspan="2" 
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!Hunter Hayes
|Hunter Hayes (2011)
|"Storm Warning"
|Hunter Hayes, Gordie Sampson
|Single
|-
!Jana Kramer
|Thirty One (2015)
|"Said No One Ever"
|Nicolle Gaylon, Natalie Hemby
|Single
|-
!rowspan="12"|Lady Antebellum
|rowspan="2"|Need You Now (2010)
|"Our Kind of Love"  
|rowspan="5"|Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood
|Single (#1 Billboard US Country)
|-
|"Ready to Love Again"
|rowspan="4" 
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|Own the Night (2011)
|"When You Were Mine"
|-
|747 (2014)
|rowspan="2"|"Falling for You"
|-
|The Best of Me (2014)
|-
|rowspan="7"|Heart Break (2017)
|-
|"You Look Good"
|Ryan Hurd, Hillary Lindsey
|Single (#9 US Billboard Hot Country Songs)
|-
|'"Somebody Else's Heart"
|Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, Shane McAnally
|rowspan="11" 
|-
|"Army"
|Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, Nicolle Galyon
|-
|"Good Time to Be Alive"
|Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, Will Weatherly, Emily Weisband
|-
|"Stars"
|rowspan="2"|Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood
|-
|"Home"
|-
!Adam Lambert
|Trespassing (2012)
|"Take Back"
|Adam Lambert
|-
!Little Big Town
|Pain Killer (2014)
|"Quit Breaking Up With Me"
|Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally
|-
!rowspan="2"|Scotty McCreery
|rowspan="2"|See You Tonight (2013)
|"Now”
|Scotty McCreery, Frank Rogers
|-
|"Buzzin”
|Frank Rogers
|-
!Katharine McPhee
|Unbroken (2010)
|"How"
|Lucie Silvas, Alex James
|-
!Bea Miller
|Young Blood (2014)
|"Enemy Fire"
|Meghan Kabir
|-
!rowspan="4"|Maren Morris
|rowspan="4" |Hero (2016)
|"My Church"
|Maren Morris
|Single (#5 Billboard Hot Country Songs)
|-
|"80s Mercedes"
|Maren Morris
|rowspan="4" 
|-
|"How It's Done"
|Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby
|-
|"Once"
|Maren Morris
|-
!Kellie Pickler
|The Woman I Am (2013)
|"I Forgive You"
|Hillary Lindsey, Aimee Mayo
|-
!P!nk
|The Truth About Love (2012)
|"Try" 
|Ben West
|Single (#1 Billboard Adult Pop Chart, Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart)
|-
!Cassadee Pope
|Frame by Frame (2013)
|"Edge of a Thunderstorm”
|Cassadee Pope, Liz Rose
|rowspan="2" 
|-
!rowspan="4"|Rascal Flatts
|Still Feels Good (2007)
|"Better Now"
|Gregory Becker, Darrell Brown
|-
|Unstoppable (2009)
|Summer Nights"
|Gary LeVox, Brett James
|Single (#2 Billboard Country Chart)
|-
|Nothing Like This (2010)
|"Sunday Afternoon"
|Joe Don Rooney
|rowspan="2" 
|-
|Rewind (2014)
|"She Must Like Broken Hearts”
|Rascal Flatts
|-
!rowspan="3"|Haley Reinhart
|rowspan="3"|Listen Up! (2012)
|"Free"  
|Lucie Silvas
|Single
|-
|"Wasted Tears"
|Haley Reinhart, Jonthan Green
|rowspan="2" 
|-
|"What You Don't Know"
|Haley Reinhart, Sam Watters
|-
!Chris Rene
|I'm Right Here (2012)
|"Trouble"  
|Jason Bonilla, Alex Lambert 
|Single
|-
!The Rosso Sisters
|Hola Hola (2014)
|"We Don't Care About That Anyway"
|
|rowspan="3" 
|-
!Shakira
|Shakira (2014)
|"Broken Record"
|Shakira 
|-
!Blake Shelton
|If I'm Honest (2016)
|"Every Goodbye"
|Ryan Hurd, Liz Rose
|-
!Jessica Sutta
|
|"Show Me" (2011)
|Alexander Geringas, Paddy Dalton
|Single (#1 Billboard Dance Chart)
|-
!Timbaland 
|Shock Value II (2009)
|"If We Ever Meet Again" (feat. Katy Perry)
|T.Mosley, James Washington
|Single (#3 UK Singles Chart)
|-
! rowspan="4"|Keith Urban
|Get Closer (2010)
|"All For You”
|Chris Eaton
|rowspan="5" 
|-
| rowspan="3" |Ripcord (2016)
|"Sun Don't Let Me Down" (featuring Nile Rodgers and Pitbull)
|Keith Urban, Nile Rodgers, Pitbull
|-
|"The Fighter" (feat. Carrie Underwood)
| rowspan="2"|Keith Urban
|-
|"Your Body"
|-
!Vedera
|Stages (2009)
|"Goodbye My Love”
|Vedera, Simon Wilcox, James Bourne, Kasia Livingston
|-
!rowspan="8"|Carly Pearce
|rowspan="8"|Every Little Thing (2017)
|"Every Little Thing"
|Carly Pearce, Emily Shackelton
|Single
|-
|"Everybody Gonna Talk"
|Carly Pearce, Emily Weisband
|rowspan="7" 
|-
|"Catch Fire"
|Natalie Hemby
|-
|"If My Name Was Whiskey"
|Carly Pearce, Shane McNally
|-
|"Color"
|Carly Pearce, Laura Veltz
|-
|"Feel Somethin’"
|Shane McNally, Natalie Hemby
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|"You Know Where to Find Me"
|Carly Pearce, Emily Shackelton
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|"Honeysuckle"
|Barry Dean, Hillary Lindsey
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|}

Production and co-production

Other songs
Cris Cab – "The Truth", "The Sun Is Gonna Rise Again"
Eliza Doolittle – "I'm in Love With You”
Edurne – "Pretty Boy"
Mickey Guyton – "Safe"
Girls Generation – "Chain Reaction"
Danny Gokey – "I Still Believe"
Francesca Michielin – "Il più bell'abbraccio"
Ryan Star – "Stay Awhile" Single'''
Westlife – "Get Away”
Elliott Yamin -"In Love With You Forever", "The Bridge Is Burning"
Dima Bilan & Anastacia - "Safety"
Cale Dodds - "I Like Where This Is Going"

References

Other websites
The official website of Busbee 
Interview, HitQuarters 4 Apr 2011
  as Mike Busbee
  as Michael James Ryan

1976 births
2019 deaths
American musicians
American record producers
American songwriters