- published: 23 Jan 2010
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Steve Kipner is a multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer with hits spanning over a 40 year history, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John's "Physical", Chicago's Grammy-nominated "Hard Habit to Break", "Genie in a Bottle" by Christina Aguilera, for which he won an Ivor Novello Award for International Hit of the Year, Natasha Bedingfield's "These Words", "The Hardest Thing" by 98 Degrees, "He Loves U Not" by Dream, "Stole" by Destiny Child's Kelly Rowland, The Script's "Breakeven" and "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", and most recently, American Idol Season 8 Winner Kris Allen's first single debut "Live Like We're Dying," and "Fight for This Love" by Great Britain's Cheryl Cole.
"Fight for This Love" reached #1 on the UK singles chart and became the fastest-selling single of 2009 with 292,846 sales in its first week.
"Physical" was ranked by Billboard in 2008 as the No. 6 song among all songs that charted in the 50-year history of the Hot 100. Steve is also a director and shareholder in Phonogenic Records, a UK-based joint-venture record label with Sony Music, featuring artists such as Natasha Bedingfield and The Script.