John Ryan, born John Henry Ryan II on August 19, 1987, is an American songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist from the Rochester, New York area, whose catalog runs from One Direction's biggest singles through Maroon 5's Red Pill Blues to Sabrina Carpenter's Grammy-winning Short n' Sweet and Man's Best Friend. A Berklee College of Music graduate who moved to Los Angeles the week after commencement, Ryan built his career inside a single family-run production company, formed a decade-long partnership with fellow songwriter-producer Julian Bunetta, and also records his own material as John the Blind. As of 2026 he is signed to Warner Chappell Music for publishing and co-owns the Big Family Music venture with the Bunetta family.
"John Ryan" is among the most common name combinations in the English-speaking world, and search results for it are cluttered with unrelated people who share no connection to this songwriter: professional footballers, an Irish rugby international, an Irish comedian and mental-health campaigner, politicians in Ireland and Australia, and an early-20th-century American Catholic priest and social-justice theologian. None of these figures have any tie to the music industry career documented here. The John Ryan profiled on this page is identified specifically by his career signature: co-writer and co-producer of One Direction's "Story of My Life" and "Best Song Ever," a longtime Maroon 5 collaborator, co-writer of Niall Horan's "Slow Hands," and, in the most recent chapter of his career, a primary architect of Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet and Man's Best Friend, work for which he holds a Grammy Award. He also records under the artist name John the Blind, and earlier in his career used the moniker JRY as a featured vocalist.
Ryan grew up in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, New York, the youngest of three children with an older brother, Joe, and older sister, Julie. He reportedly wrote his first song in third grade and, by eighth grade, had assembled a homemade album that he sold out of his school locker. One of his closest childhood friends and earliest musical collaborators in Rochester was Teddy Geiger, who introduced him to Pro Tools when the two were 14. Ryan attended McQuaid Jesuit High School, a Catholic college-preparatory school in Rochester, graduating in 2006, and sent only one college application: to Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he studied contemporary writing and production, fronted two bands, studied guitar under Professor Lauren Passarelli, and graduated in 2010.
The pivotal relationship of Ryan's early career began during his junior year at Berklee, when he visited friends in Los Angeles and met Damon Bunetta at a party. Damon, along with his brother Julian Bunetta and their father Peter Bunetta, a veteran drummer-producer who had worked with Smokey Robinson and The Temptations between 1980 and 1994, was expanding a family production and songwriting company called Family Affair Productions, founded in 2001. One week after graduating Berklee in 2010, Ryan moved to Los Angeles and joined Family Affair as its first signed songwriter, effectively interning and living rent-free in exchange for studio access while the company built its roster. Julian Bunetta later described the arrangement: "We had an influx of work, and we needed someone to help manage it. That's when we brought John on board, offering him a place to stay and access to the studio. We did that for a year before formalizing anything."
Ryan's first professional placements were modest: a co-write on JLS's "Do You Feel What I Feel?" (2011) and a cut with Australian teen-pop artist Cody Simpson, "Got Me Good." The true breakthrough came through a connection forged on the American X Factor: A&R representative Tyler Brown, working at Simon Cowell's Syco Music, invited Julian Bunetta to write for One Direction, and Bunetta in turn brought in Ryan and British songwriter Jamie Scott for a scheduled two-day session. Over those two days in 2012 the trio wrote "C'mon, C'mon" and "She's Not Afraid," both of which landed on One Direction's second album, Take Me Home (2012). Ryan has recalled: "My first big cut with One Direction was 'C'mon, C'mon.' It was huge being part of that project. I had three songs on their second album, and that was the start."
Ryan went on to co-write and/or co-produce 27 songs across four consecutive One Direction albums: Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014) and Made in the A.M. (2015). The run included the singles "Best Song Ever," "Story of My Life," "Midnight Memories," "You & I," "Steal My Girl," "Night Changes," "Drag Me Down" and "Perfect." "Story of My Life" has streamed nearly 2 billion times on Spotify and "Night Changes" more than 2.6 billion. "Best Song Ever" was written by Wayne Hector, Ryan, Ed Drewett and Julian Bunetta, and produced by Bunetta, Ryan and Matt Rad; "You & I" was written by Bunetta, Ryan and Jamie Scott, with Bunetta and Ryan producing.
Alongside the One Direction cuts, Ryan built out a broader client list during these years, co-writing or producing for Fifth Harmony ("Me & My Girls"), Emblem3 ("I Wish"), Jason Derulo's "Wiggle" featuring Snoop Dogg, Nick Jonas's "Take Over," Colbie Caillat, Walk the Moon ("Work This Body," "We Are the Kids"), Robin Schulz's "Headlights," Thomas Rhett's "Vacation," Omi's "Babylon," and Pitbull's "Fireball," on which Ryan was also the featured vocalist and appeared in the music video; the song was certified five-times platinum by the RIAA. He also contributed vocals to DJ Snake's "Sober" (as JRY) on the 2016 album Encore, and co-wrote three songs on John Legend's 2016 album Darkness and Light, including "Love Me Now" and the title track featuring Brittany Howard.
After One Direction's 2016 hiatus, Ryan followed several members into their solo careers. For Niall Horan's debut album Flicker (2017), Ryan co-wrote and co-produced the lead single "Slow Hands" alongside Horan, Julian Bunetta, Alexander Izquierdo and Tobias Jesso Jr., as well as "On the Loose," "Flicker," "Fire Away" and "The Tide." Horan has credited Bunetta and Ryan with writing the chorus of "Slow Hands" before he added his own contributions. Ryan and Bunetta are widely reported, including in Berklee's own alumni coverage, to have effectively steered Flicker as a whole, though Horan's debut single as a solo artist, "This Town," was written by Horan, Jamie Scott, Mike Needle and Daniel Bryer and produced by Greg Kurstin, not Ryan or Bunetta. Ryan separately co-wrote Harry Styles's "Two Ghosts" from his 2017 self-titled debut album.
This period also produced Ryan's most substantial run with Maroon 5, contributing to the band's 2017 album Red Pill Blues: "Best 4 U," "Wait," "Bet My Heart," "Who I Am" featuring LunchMoney Lewis, "Whiskey" featuring A$AP Rocky, "Closure," "Don't Wanna Know" featuring Kendrick Lamar, and "Cold" featuring Future. Ryan has described the genesis of "Don't Wanna Know": "it began with a marimba sound that I created in a quick 20 minutes while working with JKash [Jacob Kasher Hindlin]." Two of Maroon 5's biggest global hits, "Sugar" (2015) and "Girls Like You" (2018, featuring Cardi B), are commonly but incorrectly associated with this hit-making stretch; both were written and produced by other teams (Mike Posner, Adam Levine, Dr. Luke, Jacob Kasher Hindlin and Henry Walter for "Sugar"; Levine, Cirkut, Starrah, Jason Evigan and Gian Stone for "Girls Like You"). Ryan's genuine, verifiable Maroon 5 catalog is the Red Pill Blues cluster plus later cuts "Cigarettes" (2025) and "Heroine" (2026).
Elsewhere in this window, Ryan wrote and produced for Rudimental ("These Days," featuring Jess Glynne and Dan Caplen), DNCE, Delta Goodrem, Charlie Puth's "Done for Me" featuring Kehlani, Rita Ora (Phoenix cuts "Cashmere" and "First Time High"), Clean Bandit (What Is Love? tracks "Out at Night" and "24 Hours"), Jess Glynne, Benny Blanco, and Louis Tomlinson's "We Made It" (2019). He was the featured vocalist on the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack cut "Pray" (2017), released under the JRY moniker.
In 2019, Ryan began releasing solo material under the artist name John the Blind, signed to Atlantic Records, starting with the single "Two Months" and an eponymous debut EP. The name references John of Bohemia, the medieval king who reportedly continued to lead his army into battle despite being blind, a metaphor for pressing forward despite obstacles. A second EP, John the Blind II, followed in July 2020, and his debut full-length album, isolation, was self-released in January 2021, by which point the project had shifted from Atlantic to independent release through Big Family Music. During this stretch he also produced a full album's worth of material for the artist ASL, on SKYLOFT (2020) and EL GANZO (2021), and contributed to Katy Perry's Smile ("What Makes a Woman," 2020) and Shawn Mendes's Wonder ("Call My Friends," 2020).
Ryan's third John the Blind release, the Indicator EP, arrived on February 6, 2026, marking his first new solo material in roughly five years. FAULT Magazine described it as a deliberate pivot away from his "sleek, dance-friendly pop production" default toward "something more solitary and self-defined," a guitar-based, indie-pop-leaning project written, produced, and mixed entirely by Ryan himself. The John the Blind project's publishing runs through Ryan's Warner Chappell deal, while the artist project itself remains managed by Big Family Music and self-released as a recording.
Ryan's most commercially dominant chapter began with Sabrina Carpenter's Emails I Can't Send (2022), on which he co-wrote and produced "Fast Times," "Because I Liked a Boy," "Already Over," and "Decode," followed by the deluxe-edition addition "Feather" (2023), which gave Carpenter her first No. 1 hit on Top 40 radio. He then co-wrote and produced eight tracks on Carpenter's blockbuster Short n' Sweet (2024), including "Taste," "Good Graces," "Coincidence," "Bed Chem," "Dumb & Poetic," "Juno," and "Don't Smile"; "Taste" was co-produced with Julian Bunetta and Ian Kirkpatrick. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the highest debut week of 2024 at the time. Ryan continued on Carpenter's Man's Best Friend (2025), co-producing the album alongside Jack Antonoff and writing roughly two-thirds of its songs, including "Tears," "My Man on Willpower," "Sugar Talking," "Nobody's Son," "Never Getting Laid," "When Did You Get Hot?," "Go Go Juice," and "House Tour."
Alongside Carpenter, Ryan became a close collaborator of country-soul singer Teddy Swims, co-writing and co-producing his No. 1 singles "Bad Dreams" and "The Door," plus "Guilty," across Swims's two-part album I've Tried Everything but Therapy (2023 and 2025). He also returned to Niall Horan's camp for The Show (2023), co-writing seven tracks including "Heaven," "If You Leave Me," "Meltdown," "Never Grow Up," "You Could Start a Cult," "Save My Life," and "On a Night Like Tonight," and worked with Thomas Rhett on "About a Woman" and related cuts.
In the most recent addition to his catalog, Ryan wrote "Gabriela" for K-pop and global girl group KATSEYE (from Beautiful Chaos, 2025), "Peach Gelato" for TWICE, "On My Mind" for Alex Warren featuring Rosé, and co-wrote Olivia Dean's breakout single "So Easy (To Fall in Love)" from The Art of Loving (2025). He returned to Maroon 5 for "Cigarettes" (2025, deluxe edition of Love Is Like) and the 2026 non-album single "Heroine." He also contributed to a 2025 Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso collaboration with Sting, "Hasta Jesús Tuvo un Mal Día," an unusual genre detour into Latin alternative music, and wrote for the group XO's Fashionably Late ("Real Friends"). In May 2026, Niall Horan released "End of an Era," co-written by Ryan, Julian Bunetta, and Steph Jones; Horan stated the song was written about his late One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, noting that he, Bunetta, and Ryan "started the original version of this song years and years ago" and rewrote it multiple times before revisiting it for the new album. Horan's June 4, 2026 single "Dinner Party" also lists Ryan among its writers.
Ryan's signature as a writer-producer is maximalist, hook-forward pop craftsmanship that fuses acoustic-band warmth, guitars, live drums, handclaps, with polished, radio-ready electronic production, a combination forged during his One Direction years and carried into every subsequent genre he has touched. Apple Music's editorial description of his catalog calls him "a pop powerhouse with a knack for anchoring a catchy beat to slow-building melodies and anthemic choruses," citing Maroon 5's "Cold" ("all escalating handclaps and soul pop falsetto") and Harry Styles's "Two Ghosts" ("pure indie rock") as evidence of his range.
Both Ryan and Julian Bunetta describe their process as chasing an instantly memorable top-line hook first; Bunetta called "Story of My Life" "one of those magic nuggets that fell out of the sky." On Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet, credits show Ryan playing bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, percussion, and programming across multiple tracks, alongside backing vocals, indicating hands-on multi-instrumental production rather than a purely topline writer role. His catalog spans teen-pop, radio-pop and EDM crossovers, country-pop, R&B-adjacent soul-pop, and, through his John the Blind solo project, indie and alternative songwriting that blends "pop, alternative, country, and experimental influences." A 2018 podcast introduction described him as "one of the few 100% writers... he can write and produce a hit alone, he doesn't need anyone, and yet he's one of the best collaborators in the business; his musical ear is impeccable and his compositional memory is virtually flawless."
In interviews, Ryan has emphasized constant creative output as his working philosophy: "I always say just write. Just always be creating... I'm writing kind of all the time whether my output is a lot or a little." On a 2026 podcast appearance he discussed the craft behind Sabrina Carpenter's "Feather" in detail, including co-writing sessions with Amy Allen, and framed his career arc as running from "a Berklee kid living in his manager's parents' house" to "one of the most trusted voices in pop music."
No relationship defines Ryan's career trajectory more than his long-running partnership with Julian Bunetta, a fellow Berklee alumnus (class of 2001, versus Ryan's 2010) and the son of veteran producer Peter Bunetta. The two met at a Los Angeles party while Ryan was still a Berklee student and began formally working together in 2010 when Ryan joined Family Affair Productions. Bunetta has called Ryan "the yin to my yang." Their joint catalog is enormous, together they co-wrote and/or co-produced roughly 30 One Direction songs, plus Chris Brown's single "Five More Hours." In a 2017 joint interview, Bunetta estimated the two "partner up about half the time," noting he did not contribute to several Maroon 5 tracks Ryan worked on independently, illustrating that while they are frequent collaborators, each also maintains an independent client roster. Ryan has described the early dynamic self-deprecatingly: "I graduated from Berklee, moved to LA a week later, and essentially rode Julian's coattails. We wrote 'Story Of My Life,' and now here we are."
Beyond One Direction, the pair co-wrote and/or co-produced extensively for Niall Horan's solo career, and both later worked, sometimes together, sometimes separately, on Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet and Teddy Swims's breakout singles. Bunetta co-wrote and produced Carpenter's "Espresso" and produced "Taste" alongside Ryan and Ian Kirkpatrick; by late 2024, Billboard reported Bunetta topped the Hot 100 Producers chart on the strength of his combined work with Carpenter, Teddy Swims, and others, with Ryan sitting at No. 6 on the same list. In October 2018, the two formalized their business partnership by launching Big Family Music, a joint venture with Big Deal Music Group designed to nurture emerging pop songwriters, with Julian's brother Damon Bunetta and Big Deal partner Casey Robinson serving as co-CEOs. Their career paths later diverged administratively: Bunetta signed a global publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing in October 2024, while Ryan separately signed his own global publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music in September 2024, though both remain affiliated with Big Family Music as a creative home. Ryan is managed by Damon Bunetta, who previously served as general manager of Syco Music's U.S. operations from 2014 to 2018, working with One Direction, Fifth Harmony, Camila Cabello, and PRETTYMUCH.
Ryan's publishing history runs through four distinct phases. From 2010 to 2013 he was based at Family Affair Productions in an informal development arrangement, joining as the company's first signed songwriter without a fully formalized contract of his own. In November 2013 he signed an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement under Big Deal Music Group's joint venture with BMG Chrysalis U.S., a deal that reportedly lasted roughly a decade before effectively concluding after Hipgnosis Songs acquired Big Deal Music and its songwriter catalogs. Alongside that deal, Ryan co-founded Big Family Music with Julian Bunetta and the Bunetta family in October 2018, giving him an equity and executive stake in a publishing company in addition to being a signed writer. In September 2024, Ryan signed a new global publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music, announced as Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Warner Chappell executives Katy Wolaver, Gabz Landman, and North America president Ryan Press issued statements welcoming him to the roster.
As a recording artist, the John the Blind project was originally signed to Atlantic Records for its earliest EPs from 2019 before shifting to independent, self-released output via Big Family Music for subsequent projects, including isolation (2021) and Indicator (2026). In September 2025, Big Family Music announced a "unified operations" restructuring and a strategic partnership with Stem, a music distribution and data company, signaling continued institutional growth of the venture, which Playing For Change's artist bio describes as a company through which Ryan "signs and mentors hitmakers" alongside Peter Bunetta and his sons, with a catalog reportedly including six Top 40 No. 1s, eight Top 10s, multiple Grammy nominations, and tens of billions of streams from artists including John Legend, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Caroline Polachek and David Kushner.
Ryan's most significant win to date is a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards (the February 2025 ceremony, covering 2024 releases) for his production and songwriting work on Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet. The album received six Grammy nominations overall, including Album of the Year, and won two: Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance, the latter for "Espresso," on which Ryan was not a credited writer. Grammy.com lists Ryan with additional recognition for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, on the same album, a credit shared with Bryce Bordone, Julian Bunetta, Serban Ghenea, Jeff Gunnell, Oli Jacobs, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jack Manning, Manny Marroquin, Laura Sisk, Nathan Dantzler, and Ruairi O'Flaherty.
At the 68th Annual Grammy Awards (the 2026 ceremony), Ryan picked up further nominations for his work as producer, engineer/mixer, and songwriter, alongside Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter, on Man's Best Friend, which was itself nominated for Album of the Year. Several of his co-writes have also earned commercial certifications: "Fireball" (Pitbull featuring John Ryan) was certified five-times platinum by the RIAA, gold by ARIA, platinum by the BPI, and gold by BVMI.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Born John Henry Ryan II in the Rochester, New York area; raised in Pittsford. |
| 2006 | Graduates McQuaid Jesuit High School; enrolls at Berklee College of Music. |
| 2010 | Graduates Berklee; moves to Los Angeles one week later and joins Family Affair Productions as its first signed songwriter. |
| 2011 | First professional placements: JLS's “Do You Feel What I Feel?” and Cody Simpson's “Got Me Good.” |
| 2012 | Two-day writing session with Julian Bunetta and Jamie Scott produces “C'mon, C'mon” and “She's Not Afraid” for One Direction's Take Me Home. |
| 2013 | Signs exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Big Deal Music Group and BMG Chrysalis U.S.; co-writes “Story of My Life,” “Best Song Ever” and “Midnight Memories.” |
| 2014–2015 | Continues on One Direction's Four and Made in the A.M., including “Steal My Girl,” “Night Changes,” “Drag Me Down” and “Perfect.” |
| 2017 | Co-writes and produces six tracks on Maroon 5's Red Pill Blues, including “Don't Wanna Know” featuring Kendrick Lamar; co-writes/produces Niall Horan's “Slow Hands” and Harry Styles's “Two Ghosts.” |
| 2018 | Launches Big Family Music with Julian Bunetta, Peter Bunetta and Damon Bunetta as a joint venture with Big Deal Music Group. |
| 2019 | Debuts solo project John the Blind on Atlantic Records with the single “Two Months.” |
| 2021 | Self-releases John the Blind debut album isolation. |
| 2022 | Co-writes/produces four tracks on Sabrina Carpenter's Emails I Can't Send. |
| 2023 | “Feather” becomes Carpenter's first Top 40 radio No. 1; co-writes Teddy Swims's “Bad Dreams” and returns to Niall Horan's camp for The Show. |
| 2024 | Signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music; co-writes/produces eight tracks on Sabrina Carpenter's chart-topping Short n' Sweet. |
| Feb 2025 | Short n' Sweet wins Best Pop Vocal Album at the 67th Grammy Awards; Ryan earns his first Grammy win. |
| 2025 | Co-produces Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend alongside Jack Antonoff; Teddy Swims's “The Door” reaches No. 1; new credits for KATSEYE, TWICE, Olivia Dean, Alex Warren, and Maroon 5's “Cigarettes.” |
| Nov 2025 | Receives 2026 Grammy nominations for Man's Best Friend, itself nominated for Album of the Year. |
| Feb 6, 2026 | Releases third John the Blind EP, Indicator, entirely self-written, self-produced and self-mixed. |
| May 2026 | Niall Horan releases “End of an Era,” co-written by Ryan and Julian Bunetta about the late Liam Payne. |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Niall Horan releases “Dinner Party,” listing Ryan among its writers. |
No. John Ryan the songwriter, born John Henry Ryan II on August 19, 1987, and raised in the Rochester, New York area, has no relation to the various athletes, politicians, comedians, or historical figures who share the name. He is identified by his career signature: Berklee College of Music, Family Affair Productions, Julian Bunetta, One Direction, and later Sabrina Carpenter and Warner Chappell Music.
No. Both songs are commonly but incorrectly associated with Ryan's hit-making run with the band. "Sugar" was written by Mike Posner, Adam Levine, Dr. Luke, Jacob Kasher Hindlin and Henry Walter and produced by Ammo and Cirkut; "Girls Like You" was written by Levine, Cirkut, Starrah, Jason Evigan and Gian Stone and produced by Cirkut and Evigan. Ryan's verified Maroon 5 catalog centers on Red Pill Blues (2017) plus "Cigarettes" (2025) and "Heroine" (2026).
The two met at a Los Angeles party while Ryan was a Berklee student and began formally working together in 2010 at Family Affair Productions, the company founded by Julian's father Peter Bunetta. They co-wrote roughly 30 One Direction songs together, later collaborated across Niall Horan's solo catalog and Sabrina Carpenter's records, and in 2018 co-founded the publishing venture Big Family Music.
John the Blind is Ryan's own recording-artist project, launched in 2019 on Atlantic Records and later continued independently through Big Family Music. Releases include two EPs (2019, 2020), the album isolation (2021), and the EP Indicator (2026), which FAULT Magazine described as a deliberate move toward guitar-based, self-produced indie pop.
Ryan signed a global publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music in September 2024, timed with Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He remains affiliated with Big Family Music, the venture he co-founded with the Bunetta family, as a creative home.
| Year | Artist | Song(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2012–2015 | One Direction | “Best Song Ever,” “Story of My Life,” “Midnight Memories,” “You & I,” “Steal My Girl,” “Night Changes,” “Drag Me Down,” “Perfect” (27 songs total across 4 albums) |
| 2014 | Pitbull feat. John Ryan | “Fireball” (5× Platinum, RIAA) |
| 2016 | John Legend | “Love Me Now,” “Darkness and Light” feat. Brittany Howard |
| 2017 | Maroon 5 | “Don't Wanna Know” feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Cold” feat. Future, “Wait,” “Bet My Heart,” “Who I Am,” “Whiskey,” “Closure,” “Best 4 U” |
| 2017 | Niall Horan | “Slow Hands,” “On the Loose,” “Flicker,” “Fire Away,” “The Tide” |
| 2017 | Harry Styles | “Two Ghosts” |
| 2019–2026 | John the Blind (solo) | EPs (2019, 2020, 2026 “Indicator”); album isolation (2021) |
| 2020 | Katy Perry / Shawn Mendes | “What Makes a Woman,” “Call My Friends” |
| 2022–2023 | Sabrina Carpenter | “Fast Times,” “Because I Liked a Boy,” “Already Over,” “Decode,” “Feather” |
| 2023 | Niall Horan / Teddy Swims | Seven tracks on The Show; “Bad Dreams” |
| 2024 | Sabrina Carpenter | “Taste,” “Good Graces,” “Coincidence,” “Bed Chem,” “Dumb & Poetic,” “Juno,” “Don't Smile” (Short n' Sweet) |
| 2025 | Sabrina Carpenter | “Tears,” “My Man on Willpower,” “Sugar Talking,” “Nobody's Son,” “Never Getting Laid,” “When Did You Get Hot?,” “Go Go Juice,” “House Tour” (Man's Best Friend) |
| 2025 | Teddy Swims / KATSEYE / TWICE / Olivia Dean / Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso feat. Sting | “The Door,” “Guilty,” “Gabriela,” “Peach Gelato,” “So Easy (To Fall in Love),” “Hasta Jesús Tuvo un Mal Día” |
| 2025–2026 | Maroon 5 | “Cigarettes,” “Heroine” |
| 2026 | Niall Horan | “End of an Era,” “Dinner Party” |
Further reading on collaborators cited in this profile: Ian Kirkpatrick, who shared production and Grammy-nomination credit with Ryan on Sabrina Carpenter's “Taste” and Short n' Sweet's engineering nomination, and Amy Allen, a co-writing partner Ryan has discussed in interviews about the making of “Feather.” Readers interested in the broader pop-songwriting ecosystem Ryan operates in may also wish to consult entries on other producers and songwriters active in the same Los Angeles studio circuit documented elsewhere on this wiki.