Grant Sayler is a Los Angeles based music producer, guitarist and bassist who describes himself as a “jazz guitarist turned pop producer.” Formally trained in jazz guitar and previously active as a touring instrumentalist, he moved into production work in the late 2010s and built a reputation for guitar driven pop and alt-pop records. His most commercially significant credit is NUMB, on which he is the sole credited producer for singer Christian Gates: a RIAA Gold-certified, TikTok-driven breakout that remains, by a wide margin, the top-streaming song in that catalog.
Public biographical detail on Grant Sayler is limited to his own professional self-description. His SoundBetter profile, the most detailed first-person source available, states that he is based in Los Angeles, holds a bachelor’s degree in jazz guitar, and worked as a touring guitarist and bassist before moving into production. No university is named, and no confirmed date of birth, hometown, or extended personal history has been published. This is a notable gap for a producer whose session and credit history is otherwise fairly well documented across streaming and video metadata.
Unlike some of his collaborators in the Los Angeles pop scene, such as Elation, who performs under a mononym, Sayler operates under his given name across all located credits. There is no indication that “Grant Sayler” is a stage name or pseudonym.
Sayler’s account of his own path, as laid out on SoundBetter, follows a familiar Los Angeles arc: formal jazz-guitar training, then work as a touring instrumentalist, then a shift into production once he had built studio familiarity and playing chops. His SoundBetter profile was first indexed in March 2020 and already listed a broad range of stated collaborators, among them Esperanza Spalding, Charli XCX, John K, Christian French and Sueco the Child, suggesting his production relationships in the Los Angeles pop world were already established by that point. A peer endorsement on the same profile references a multi-year working relationship, placing the start of his production career at least in the late 2010s.
No specific debut placement has been publicly identified. Among his earliest verifiable production credits are “Boston to Barcelona” by singer-songwriter Lily Fitts, featuring Christian French as instrumentalist, and his growing body of work with Christian Gates, which began with NUMB in 2021.
Sayler has not given a public interview describing his own production philosophy, so his sonic identity has to be pieced together from his credit history and his own marketing language. His SoundBetter bio positions him as a generalist grounded in live instrumentation rather than a specialist in one lane: he cites reference points ranging from Chainsmokers or Lauv style electronic pop, to Post Malone or Travis Scott style trap-R&B, to John Mayer or Panic! at the Disco style live-band rock, and markets himself as equally capable of “radio pop” and “full live instrumental tracks.”
That positioning tracks with how his work sits alongside Elation’s inside the Christian Gates catalog. Elation is described in press as a “top EDM producer” and has been called Gates’s “long-time collaborator” who shaped the “cohesive sound” of the No Strings Attached album through shared samples and effects across tracks. Sayler’s signature credit, NUMB, is instead consistently described as built around “an infectious guitar riff,” a fingerprint that lines up with a jazz-trained guitarist’s approach rather than an electronic producer’s. Where Elation supplies the electronic backbone across that catalog, Sayler’s contributions read as guitar-driven, live-instrumentation-flavored pop and alt-pop textures layered on top.
Songwriter Jonathan Bach, credited as JBACH and a recurring writer across several of Sayler’s Christian Gates credits, has publicly called him “a modern savant of pop music,” praising a “taste level and innovative ideas” that set him apart, along with his speed and easygoing collaborative manner.
NUMB is Sayler’s most significant known credit and, by any commercial measure, the biggest song he has been involved with. Released June 4, 2021, it credits Sayler as the sole producer and composer, with Christian Gates and Jonathan Bach credited as writers.
Christian Gates has said in interviews that he wrote the song after a breakup, feeling “numb” on Valentine’s Day, and initially posted a short clip of himself singing the lyrics on TikTok with no immediate plan to release a finished song. Roughly four months later, after noticing tens of thousands of user-generated TikTok videos using the clip, largely lip-sync content, he decided to finish and release it properly, working, in his words, “with his friends.” That account matches Genius’s song annotation, which describes the track gaining traction after fan use of Gates’s own posted clip.
The song’s commercial trajectory has been extensively documented. By August 2022, when Gates signed with distribution and label-services company ONErpm, NUMB was described as having “skyrocketed” him to new heights as his biggest viral hit to that point, with more than 90 million streams across platforms. By October 2024, press coverage confirmed the single had been certified Gold by the RIAA, the single largest documented commercial milestone in the Christian Gates catalog. Gates called the certification “surreal” in an interview that month, noting he wrote the song “during a pretty tough time” and was “speechless” on hearing the news. In a late-2025 podcast appearance he cited the song at close to 156 million Spotify spins, describing it as having “stayed solid” for roughly three years. A December 2025 kworb.net snapshot placed NUMB at more than 177 million Spotify streams and over 42,000 daily streams, well ahead of every other song in the catalog.
Sonically and lyrically, NUMB is consistently framed as a rapid-fire breakup anthem, built around a guitar riff, dealing with the emotional numbness that follows the end of a relationship. It stands as the clearest example in Sayler’s known discography of a single producer receiving full, sole production credit on an artist’s most commercially significant record, and it illustrates a familiar organic-virality-to-certification pipeline: a song nearly left unreleased that became a Gold single because fans, not a label rollout, pushed it there first.
Sayler’s confirmed production credits cluster heavily in a 2021 to 2024 window of the Christian Gates catalog, alongside a small number of outside placements. The table below reflects credits cross-referenced across YouTube Content ID metadata, Apple Music, Genius and Shazam.
| Song / Artist | Year | Sayler’s Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUMB – Christian Gates | 2021 | Sole producer | Writers: Christian Gates, Jonathan Bach. RIAA Gold. Biggest song in the catalog by streams. |
| Traumatized – Christian Gates | 2022 | Co-producer | With Elation, Jason Suwito. Sayler also appears on-camera in the official video credits. |
| Golden Years – Stellar | 2023 | Sole producer | Released via Greater Boston Records, Sept. 1, 2023. |
| ARSON – Christian Gates | 2023 | Co-producer | With Elation, Matt Kahane, Taylor Bird. |
| I Won’t Beg For You – Christian Gates | 2023 | Co-producer | With Elation, BLUEYSPORT, SweetSound, kodeblooded. |
| Boston to Barcelona – Lily Fitts | 2024 | Producer | Featuring Christian French as instrumentalist; mixed/mastered by Michael Piazza. |
| TOXIC (feat. Dutch Melrose) – Christian Gates | 2024 | Co-producer | With Elation, Pinkslip. Lead single from debut album No Strings Attached. |
Notably, Sayler is absent from Gates’s earliest Elation-solo era (2019 to 2020) and from several later 2023 to 2024 tracks such as Never With You Again, SHREDS and FREAK, which suggests his involvement in that catalog has been selective and song-specific rather than a continuous production partnership. TOXIC, released November 1, 2024 and featuring Dutch Melrose, is his most recent confirmed credit in that catalog and the clearest instance of him and Elation co-producing on the same record; no new Sayler production credits, for Gates or otherwise, have been located for 2025 or 2026, which may reflect a genuine gap in output or simply lagging credit metadata on streaming platforms.
A spelling variant, “Grant Saylor,” appears in some YouTube auto-generated credit fields for the same songs where Shazam and Apple Music use “Grant Sayler.” Deezer’s metadata alternates between the two spellings across the catalog. Given identical context, same songs, same co-producer, this is treated here as a data-entry inconsistency rather than two separate people; “Grant Sayler” is used throughout as the primary form, matching his own SoundBetter profile and his LLC filing.
Beyond the Christian Gates catalog, Sayler’s confirmed placements include Stellar, an Indian-American pop singer-songwriter-producer, for whom he produced the single “Golden Years” (2023), and Lily Fitts, for whom he produced “Boston to Barcelona,” a song that also features Christian French as an instrumentalist. Stellar is separately linked to Christian Gates, who recorded an unreleased feature on Stellar’s song “Stranger” in 2021 and who received a co-write credit from Stellar on his own 2022 song “Dangerous State of Mind,” suggesting Sayler moves within a small, interconnected circle of Los Angeles alt-pop collaborators.
Sayler’s SoundBetter bio also lists a broader set of self-reported past collaborators, including Esperanza Spalding, Emily Warren, Jessie Paege, Charli XCX, Panic! at the Disco, Emblem3, John K, Christian French and Sueco the Child. These credits are self-reported and have not been independently verified against streaming-platform credit pages, so they are presented here as claimed rather than confirmed. Peer endorsements on the same profile name additional working relationships, including producer and composer Adam Boukis, songwriter Ryan Short and artist Willow Stephens, alongside Jonathan Bach, who is also a credited writer on NUMB, ARSON and TOXIC, reinforcing a recurring writer-producer pairing across multiple Sayler-Gates singles.
No label or publishing deal has been publicly confirmed for Sayler himself. What is documented is a formal business structure: Grant Sayler LLC, a music production company established in California on February 10, 2022, based at an address in Los Angeles and categorized under “Music Production.” This points to Sayler operating as an independent, self-incorporated producer rather than through a label-affiliated production deal or staff role.
On the client side, Christian Gates is signed to ONErpm for distribution and label services, a deal announced in August 2022, and has separately described holding a publishing deal while stating he “owns everything” on the artist side. Gates’s visual team on releases like Traumatized has included artist manager Brad Cohen and director Danny Farber. Sayler’s recurring pairing with songwriter Jonathan Bach, and his consistent co-billing alongside Elation on Gates’s multi-producer tracks, points to a stable, informal creative circle around those releases rather than a named production team bearing Sayler’s own shingle.
SoundBetter reviewer Jonathan Bach, in an endorsement of Sayler, jokingly refers to him as “Grant Slayer” and notes he is “commonly seen in a (stolen) Dominic Fike hoodie,” calling him an “extremely easygoing collaborator who resonates chill vibes.” IMDb’s credit page for the 2022 “Traumatized” music video lists Sayler in a dual capacity as both dancer and music producer, suggesting a brief on-screen cameo alongside his audio production role.
The name “Grant Sayler” and its variant spelling “Grant Saylor” are shared by several unrelated public figures, none of whom should be conflated with the producer profiled here: a Furman University football quarterback named Grant Walter Saylor, a Southern Utah cornerback named Grant Salter, a Milwaukee-based corporate professional and a brewery owner both found on LinkedIn under similar spellings, an unrelated recording artist styled “Grant.” releasing singles in 2025 and 2026, a Swedish artist also going by “Grant,” a veteran dance-music producer profiled by Electronic Groove in 2025 who previously headed Union Jack Records, and a Des Moines solo artist trading as “SAYLER.” None of these individuals have any documented connection to the Los Angeles producer covered on this page.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| Late 2010s | Working relationships referenced in later peer endorsements suggest production career already underway. |
| March 2020 | SoundBetter profile first indexed, already listing collaborators including Esperanza Spalding and Charli XCX. |
| June 4, 2021 | NUMB released, Sayler credited as sole producer for Christian Gates. |
| Feb. 10, 2022 | Grant Sayler LLC incorporated in California as a music production entity. |
| Sept. 30, 2022 | Traumatized released, co-produced with Elation and Jason Suwito; Sayler also appears on camera in the video. |
| Jan. 20, 2023 | ARSON released, co-produced with Elation, Matt Kahane and Taylor Bird. |
| May 12, 2023 | I Won’t Beg For You released, multi-producer credit including Elation. |
| Sept. 1, 2023 | “Golden Years” by Stellar released, Sayler sole producer. |
| Oct. 2024 | NUMB confirmed RIAA Gold certified. |
| Nov. 1, 2024 | TOXIC, featuring Dutch Melrose, released as lead single from Christian Gates’s debut album No Strings Attached; most recent confirmed Sayler production credit. |
| Dec. 2025 | kworb.net snapshot shows NUMB past 177 million Spotify streams, still the top-streaming song in the Gates catalog. |
The variant spelling “Grant Saylor” appears in some auto-generated YouTube credit fields for the same songs where Apple Music and Shazam use “Grant Sayler.” Given identical songs and identical co-producers across both spellings, this is treated as a metadata inconsistency rather than two different people. “Grant Sayler” is used as the primary spelling because it matches his own SoundBetter profile and LLC filing.
NUMB, released in 2021 for Christian Gates, on which Sayler is the sole credited producer. It was certified RIAA Gold and has passed 177 million Spotify streams as of a December 2025 snapshot, making it by far the largest song he is known to have produced.
No. His confirmed outside credits include Stellar’s single “Golden Years” (2023) and Lily Fitts’s “Boston to Barcelona.” His self-reported client list on SoundBetter names a wider range of artists, though those additional credits have not been independently verified against streaming-platform credit pages.
No public label or publishing deal has been confirmed for Sayler as a producer. He operates through Grant Sayler LLC, a California music production company he incorporated in February 2022.
This has not been publicly documented. His formal training in jazz guitar and background on bass suggest a setup built around live-instrument recording layered with in-the-box production, consistent with his self-described range from “radio pop” to “full live instrumental tracks,” but no interview or feature detailing his specific hardware, plugins or DAW preference has been located.
Grant Sayler’s sole-producer credit on NUMB sits alongside Elation’s broader, more continuous production footprint across the Christian Gates catalog, and his TOXIC credit connects him, at one remove, to Dutch Melrose, the song’s featured artist. Readers interested in the wider producer ecosystem around that catalog may also want to see the entries on Elation and Christian Gates himself, as well as coverage of NUMB’s certification and streaming history.