Here is a a full list of songs written by Sia for other people.

2008

“YOU DON’T KNOW” – WILL YOUNG

This beautiful song could have been on “colour the small one”. Co-written by Sam Dixon. Will Young’s beautiful voice. A little-known treasure.





2010

“YOU LOST ME” - XTINA

“ALL I NEED” - XTINA



“STRONGER THAN EVER” - XTINA



“I AM” - XTINA

The songs that started it all. Xtina was the first one to give Sia a shot as a pop songwriter when she was still an indie artist. Those amazing songs came out of it. At that time, Sia was actually sitting down with the artist she was working for, and it shows in those songs. They were written with Sam Dixon, her main collaborator on her first records. “You lost me” was a single. Nobody released ballads then, and the melody was probably too sophisticated for radio, and the “sad” lyrics didn’t help (maybe that’s why she now only writes positive anthems, even when talking about sad things). It was a huge flop and if “titanium” hadn’t been there, it’s hard to imagine she could have recovered from this.

“NEVER SO BIG” - DAVID BYRNE & FATBOY SLIM



"SWEET ONE” - KATIE NOONAN



“UTOPIA” - BELINDA



This song is the spanish version of The Corner, an unreleased track from We Are Born, co-written with Greg Kurstin.





2011

“WILD ONES” – FLO RIDA

Sia told how this came to be during her Howard Stern interview. She just wrote the chorus from a track she was sent, writing it for another singer to sing. But the success of “titanium” made the label want to include Sia’s vocals. She didn’t want to because “I write this shit for other people but I would never want my fans to hear it from my mouth”. But then, “I like money” she said, so she agreed but only if they didn’t credit her. They did. And this mind-blowing, sophisticated masterpiece is now part of her musical legacy.

“GET OVER U” – NEON HITCH

Released during the slow post-bionic era. This was a time where she just sent tracks to people, begged popstars on twitter to work with her, and nothing ever happened. This happened, though. And it’s cool it did because it’s a fantastic little pop song. It flopped, but it didn’t deserve it so please heal its karma by hearing it and loving it now. The funny thing is that, at the time, she said that record labels and artist only wanted “sia ballads” but her true desire was to compose uplifting song. That’s one of them.

“I WILL GET OVER YOU” - PRISCILLA AHN

Yeah, the title is the same. But it’s a different song, from the soft indie pop category, a very nice little song, although I can’t really her sia’s signature except in the middle 8. A great soundtrack for a diner party.

“I LOVE IT” - HILLTOP HOODS

You gotta have a little something for everyone, you know?





2012

“DRAGGING YOU AROUND” – GREG LASWELL

“KILL, FUCK, MARRY” – NIKKI WILLIAMS

Another song from the slow days. It must be a track she sent to bigger people but was only picked by thsi very nice but still z-list artist. It’s a fantastic though pop song that could be on anyone’s album now.

“I AM ME” – WILLOW SMITH

There’s an old French movie called “le jouet” (“the toy”) about a rich spoiled kid. His father buys him whatever he wants. One day, the kid falls in love with a new toy: one of his father’s employee. So the employee’s new job is just to be the kid’s toy, do whatever the kids wants or says. Seems crazy, but then there’s this video. You can see a brilliant artist and songwriter being rented for the day (this was before “diamonds”, people gotta eat) to make compliments to a child writing such life-affirming statements as: “People Don’t Like The Way I Dress / So right now / I’ve Been Looking / I’ve done my hair / And It’s Not Just vanity” Please think about it the next time you critize Willow Smith’s clothes.

“VAGUE A L’AME” - JULIETTE KATZ

WTF?

“BREAK THE WALLS” - FRITZ AND THE TANTUM



“LET ME LOVE YOU” – NE-YO

As you can hear from this video , they just took the chorus from a different song, took the ballad out of it, and made a whole new song around it. A fascinating look into the songwriting process for a big commercial song, and the fact is this chorus has more soul than many pop songs, and the chorus sung by her is amazing, I would die to hear the full original version.

“BLANK PAGE” - XTINA

Released at the same time that « diamonds », this didn’t get any attention. It’s a fantastic song anyway. At that time, you could see Sia’s method had changed: the songs feels very less personal to Christina than the “bionic” song, and indeed it was a demo that sia did on her own and it was recorded by Leona Lewis before going to Xtina. The sia demo leaked, and the funny sing is that the chorus is exactly the same, but the verses changed. They were kind of weak on the demo and very good on the final track. Xtina is listed as a co songwriter, so it’s hard to know if she re-worked the verses herself, but it’s still nice to hear the changes made on this song.

“DIAMONDS” – RIHANNA

The rebirth, and a classic pop song for the ages.





2013

“ACID RAIN” - ALEXIS JORDAN

This track obviously wanted to be the new “only girl”, but it was released after “diamonds”, but “diamonds”, along with Adèle and a few other things, put an end to the big edm-pop banger-as-a-lead-single trend. The song is only 2 years old and already sounds dated, but it’s still very pleasant.

“RADIOACTIVE” - RITA ORA

Out of all the legends, A-list artists, powerful vocalists that Sia worked with, Academy-award nominee Rita Ora is obviously the most prestigious one, and this song is obviously the one that will be remembered.

"THE HANDS I HOLD” - BO BRUCE

A beautiful and unusual track which could have been on the “Dawson’s creek” soundtrack. So pretty.

“STRANGE BIRDS” - BIRDY

A beautiful and unusual track which could have been on the “Dawson’s creek” soundtrack. So pretty.

“GREEN CARD” - OH LAND







SHE’S PRETTY, SHE LIES - CHEYENNE JACKSON

DON’T LOOK AT ME - CHEYENNE JACKSON

ANY DAY NOW - CHEYENNE JACKSON

Those are 3 songs written for Cheyenne Jackson’s self released, little kown album in 2013 (it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page…). Those songs sound more like collaboration than some other things she did, so it may be from the before “diamonds” era, when she still worked directly with the artist she was writing for. Those are kind of mediocre tracks, so it’s interesting to think that although every released sia-written track is good in a way or another, she can write pretty random stuff too. She actually wrote 2 other songs for the project : “identity” and “where are you running sweetheart”, and it seems pretty insane Cheyenne Jackson would just keep for himself two Sia songs. Cheyenne, if you are reading this: PLEASE SHARE.

“DOUBLE RAINBOW” – KATY PERRY

Sia said that she didn’t get along, at first, with Katy Perry during their writing sessions. Katy Perry was much more analytical and cerebral than Sia, who writes in a very instinctive way. They worked together despite their differences and 2 songs (that we know of) came out of those sessions: “double rainbow” for “Prism”, written with Greg Kurstin, and “Passenger” which went to Britney.

“PERFUME- BRITNEY SPEARS



“PASSENGER” - BRITNEY SPEARS



“BRITGHTEST MORNING STAR” - BRITNEY SPEARS

“Perfume” was actually meant for Sia’s album and she gave it last minute to Britney. “Passenger” is a song written for Katy Perry. That makes “brightest morning star” the only real “Britney” song, and it sounds like the most “Britney” song on the album. As some people know, Britney’s vocals on this album were often mixed with, hum, other people’s vocals, and in those songs Sia’s voice is very heavy, giving a good idea of what the demos sounded like.

“UNITE” - JESSIE J



“BREATHE” - JESSIE J

Those are probably my least favorite songs. Maybe because I’m allergic to Jessie j’s voice. Maybe because of the cheap-sounding production. But there’s still a “LOVE ME! LOVE ME! LOVE ME!” followed by oooOOOOhs OOOOoooooh part, so if you need to have a sia-fix-of-the-day, it will do.

“A L’INFINI” - TAL

The way Sia writes and sells songs nowadays is fascinating. Instrumental tracks are sent to her and she creates the melody and lyrics for them, and then put her songs up for grabs. This time, it has been bought by a French artist, the local Selena Gomez if you will. French lyrics have been written, but you can still hear sia’s mark all over this.

GENTLEMEN - JESSICA SANCHEZ

This is one of Sia’s attempt to “urban” music, or at least pseudo rap, or whatever this is. This is probably a joke. I think of her explaining that “she can write all kind of shit for other people but can’t seriously say those things myself” and then I’m DYING to hear her demo version singing “hands in the air for the gentlemen’s out there!”. “you don’t gotta wear no suit to show me swaggin’”. I can hear her laughing writing that. And the “ooooh” at the beginning make me think of this. Silly sia is good sia too.

“EXPERTEASE” – J.LO

This is another “””urban”””” sia song, and another mostly silly but funny song. “my sweet spot is hitting the jackpot” is her contribution to sexy pop lyrics, and it shouldn’t go unnoticed. And if you want some proof she’s not really taking some of this stuff too seriously: she posted this on her twitter, but you can clearly hear her voice on the most difficult notes in the chorus. This is some epic trolling. Amazing.

"BEAUTIFUL PAIN” - EMINEM

This one was controversial at the time, because of Eminem’s famously anti-gay lyrics. Sia explained she thought the anti-gay stuff wasn’t really meant, and said she would give all of her earnings for the songs to LGBT charity. So that’s good. And the chorus is pretty nice.

“PRETTY HURTS” – BEYONCE

“GOD MADE YOU BEAUTIFUL” – BEYONCE

“RISE UP” – BEYONCE

“STANDING ON THE SUN” - BEYONCE

Beyoncé apparently hired Sia for a week or two of intense song writing. “god made you beautiful” was released as a bonus song for a live DVD, “standing on the sun” was the soundtrack to her H&M commercial, “rise up” as the soundtrack to a cartoon, and “pretty hurts” was part of the BEYONCE album. From what Sia said, “pretty hurts” was actually a song meant for Katy Perry, that Rihanna wanted, and when Beyoncé put an option on it, Sia gave “diamonds” to Rihanna as an excuse.

“LOVED ME BACK TO LIFE” – CELINE DION

That Celine Dion would release a version of a demo that was leaked months before as a lead single only goes to show Sia’s power after “diamonds”. Everybody could now hear that people singing Sia’s songs often just imitated her voice and tone and way of singing. The single flopped, but the album sold well.

CREEP – DIM THE LIGHTS





"CANNONBALL” - LEA MICHELLE

“IF YOU SAY SO” - LEA MICHELLE

“YOU’RE MINE” - LEA MICHELLE

“BATTLEFIELD” - LEA MICHELLE

Four songs on the same album, that was a treat. Great sia songs.





2014

“SEXERCIZE” - KYLIE MINOGUE

“KISS ME ONCE” – KYLIE MINOGUE

“sexercize” is one of her most unrecognizable song and I had a hard time believing it really was a Sia track. As she officially executive produced the album (although I have no idea what she did exactly to deserve this credit because it sounds like a typical 2014 Kylie Minogue album to me), my theory was that she just tweaked some lyrics. And then, the “expertease”/”sexercize” lyrical theme appeared to me. Only her could also write “put your hands to the sky if you are feeling alright” in a sex pop song. “Kiss me once” is another thing. Probably one of her masterpiece, a very underated song, that could have been an iconic Kylie song if that era wasn’t doomed. Her version must be so powerful, but this version is great too. Iconic and powerful and catchy and amazing. That chorus.

“THE GAME “ – KELLY ROWNLOAD

Another “urban” song, for the pepsi soundtrack of the Olympics (… don’t ask). It’s exactly as good as you would expect from track 7 by Kelly Rowland from a Pepsi soundtrack of the Olympic games. The video is directed by Spike Lee, which seems weird at first for such a song and then you think that it was paid by Pepsi so the shoot was basically a paid trip to brazil then you get it.

"GODZILLIONAIRE” - BROOKE CANDY

“OPULENCE” - BROOKE CANDY

“POP ROCK” - BROOKE CANDY

Her strongest foray into “urban” music. She was the executive producer of the project, and it was quite unexpected and quite good. The word “godzillionaire” is amazingly stupid like only urban-Sia can be, and you can hear her voice on the “pop rock” chorus. The songs are really quite nice, and it shows that she can really do anything.

“GUTS OVER FEAR” – EMINEM

The funny thing being, when she does a real urban hip hop song, it’s to provide a pop chorus. Probably just taken out of a real song of hers and pasted in the middle of an Eminem song.

“BATTLE CRY” – ANGEL HAZE

The funny thing being, when she does a real urban hip hop song, it’s to provide a pop chorus. Probably just taken out of a real song of hers and pasted in the middle of an Angel Haze song.

“BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE” – WIZ KHALIFA

And this is the proof that those choruses in rap songs are just taken from “real” sia songs, Here is the original version. Sia was sad when the full song leaked because she though she wouldn’t be able to sell it, but it ended up on a rap song 18 months later. Amazing.

“LOVE IS A LEAP OF FAITH” – BALLROOM DANCING MUSICAL

This is a song Sia did for the Musical version of “ballroom dancing”. The stage version was directed by Baz Luhrmann himself, in Australia. Unfortunately, it seems the play won’t be traveling anywhere and will remain an Australia-exclusive, and the full soundtrack will never be released. Sia didn’t write this song directly for the musical, she just sent Baz Luhrmann a few tracks she thought would fit the “musical” vibe, and then he picked the 2 songs, worked on them and voilà. The second song is “heavenly pineapple”, it has been described as “silly”, and it hasn’t been posted anywhere. But who wouldn’t want to hear a “silly” sia track from an Australian musical? So you can harass the soundcloud account, until they post it. Because this “love is a leap of faith” is a funny, catchy, crazy tune.

"KNOCK YOU OUT” - BINJO PLAYERS

The Binjo Players are german DJs, and this falls in the “David Guetta” category. A VERY Sia-esque melody, sung by un unknown singer, giving her best Sia impersonation.

“CHASING SHAWDOWS” - SHAKIRA

This was a bonus track for Shakira’s self titled album released in 2014. It’s a pretty great pop song, that doesn’t sound like a typical Sia track at all. It was co-written by Fernandy Garibay. There are 4 more tracks from the “garibay sessions”: “hologram”, “life jacket”, “I keep holding on” and “blinded by love”. Snippets have been posted online, and the songs are in the hands of collectors, so they should leak at one point or another.

“MY HEART IS OPEN” – MAROON 5

During her Howard Stern interview, Sia talked about this song, saying how amazed she was by what they had “done to it”. “It’s so different”, she said. Hard to know what the original version was. The verses are typical beautiful Sia, the chorus is handicapped by the most lazy lyrics she’s ever done. The weird thing about this song is that it was made by Rodney Jerkins, who never does this kind of piano ballad. So maybe the original version was uptempo, and the chorus sounded better that way. Anyway, Sia talked recently about a song called “step by step” she wanted to give to Maroon 5 for their next album.

“WHO AM I “ - ANNIE SOUNDTRACK

“THE CITY’S YOURS” – ANNIE SOUNDTRACK

Sia worked with Greg Kurstin on the 2O14 movie, recording new versions of the original songs, creating full new songs (“opportunity” and “moonquake lake”), and then writing those two songs for the cast. Those are nice little pop songs. The “who am I” are interesting because of the way Sia sold her art when she became a songwriter, and made a lot of money from it, and wrote so many “anonymous” songs. That’s all there is to say about those 2.

“WE ARE ONE” – PITBULL

Oh, yeah… this one. *awkward silence* Well, it was the official song for the fifa world cup soundtrack, what did you expect? And Sia is only one of the 9 writers. 9 writers? That’s a bit much. But as she did for “let me love you”, I’m guessing she only wrote the “put your flag up in the sky / and wave them side to side / show the world where you’re from / show the world we are one” parts. It may not be the most celebrated way to write a song, being able to write 4 catchy sentences to make a chorus for a song that is nothing more than several different songs put together to please every country in the world must it must be really hard.

“FIRECRACKER” – CHERYL COLE

One of her best and most original 2014 song was a bonus song on a mega-flop album from England. So unfair, but so amazing.

“BANG MY HEAD” - DAVID GUETTA



“THE WHISPERER” - DAVID GUETTA



Two of undoubtly many songs she did with David Guetta. Bang My Head is what it is, but The whisperer is really special, beautiful and deep, sounds like early Sia, and i would love to know how that came to be, and the unedited version since this sounds shortened.

“TEARS FALL” – JACKIE LEE

This track for “the voice” contestant Jackie Lee is a typical Sia track, sold to whoever wants to buy it. It sounds pretty impersonal, although you can hear Sia’s style and you can clearly imagine her singing it. It would probably sound a lot better. Oh well.

“LET YOUR TEARS FALL” - KELLY CLARCKSON

“INVICIBLE” – KELLY CLARCKSON

Sia liked the “tears fall” stuff so much that she actually wrote a second song with it. This one was written with Greg Kurstin, and she said he’s the only one she actually works with directly to write a song, instead of just creating the melody over the instrumental tracks she’s sent. It still sounds pretty much like Sia on auto-pilot. “Invicible”, co written with Jesse Shatkin, of “chandelier” fame, is much better and is the 2nd single. It’s also a recycled title, as she said in an interview with npr, in july 2014, that she wrote a song around the word “invincible” but as no one was buying it, she would re-use the word in another song. It also sounds exactly like….





2015

“FLASHLIGHT” – JESSIE J

“you’re my flashlight / you’re getting me through the night”. Dramatic, iconic and kind of stupid sentence based on a metaphor: SIA LYRICS. This sounds like a parody of a Sia song, and yet, it is good. Another song where you can just imagine her singing it. (I would love to know how Sam Smith came to co-write this).

“START A WAR” – GWEN STEFANI

This is a yet unreleased song from Gwen Stefani’s next album. Their second collaboration after “my heart is open”, with Maroon 5. Sia also said she co-wrote a song with Pharrell for No Doubt’s next album, if it ever sees the light of day. “Start a war” is a beautiful little song, and I can’t wait to have the full official version.

“THROW DOWN THE ROSES” - KATE PIERSON



“MISTER SISTER” - KATE PIERSON



“CRUSH ME” - KATE PIERSON



“BOTTOMS UP “ - KATE PIERSON



“BRING YOUR ARMS” - KATE PIERSON



“TIME WAVE ZERO” - KATE PIERSON



“PULLS YOU UNDER” - KATE PIERSON



GUITARS & MICROPHONES - KATE PIERSON

“WOLVES” - KATE PIERSON

For the first solo record of her friend Kate Pierson, the b 52’s singer, Sia wrote 9 songs out of 10, and was the executive producer. It’s a fantastic album, and only “crush me with your love” sound like a big ballad that could have been sold to anyone. The other ones sound like the “we are born” era, some fun, pop rock, alternative, catchy songs. “Bring your ams” is about helping animals, “mister sister” is about the trans community, so the lyrics are more personal than usually. A great album, and a particular energy and a great vibe. Very very nice. (“round your little finger” is an unreleased songs from these sessions)

“BLACK BUTTERFLY” - DIONNE BROMFIELD

This song was written in 2013, with Chris Braide. It is a tribute song to Amy Winehouse, sung by her niece. It is a nice Sia song, like low-key version of Lea Michelle’s “if you say so”.

“DEJA VU” - GIORGIO MORODER



This. Is. Such. A. Smash. Didn’t have the success it deserved but it did in my heart.

“GOLDEN” TRAVIS MCCOY

Another chorus on a hip-hop song. Released as a single, because everything featuring Sia gets some kind of big release now.

MAKING THE MOST OF THE NIGHT - CARLY RAE JEPSEN

BOY PROBLEMS - CARLY RAE JEPSEN

Two great little pop songs. “Making the most of the night” is also the name of a song co-written with HAIM, but I don’t know if is is the same one, as this one had a Carly credit on it. The demo, sung by Sia, is in the hands of collectors, so my theory is she did her version alone, gave it to HAIM who made a few changes, then gave it to Carly who made other changes.

“OASIS” -KYGO

An unreleased song, we only have this bootleg recording. It sounds amazing, it’s likely the official version will have another singer’s vocals.

“FREEZE YOU OUT” - MARINA KAYE



This is another song sold to a french singer. Snippets of the demo leaked ages ago under the name “cold love”, and the full demo is in the hands of traders. It’s a fantastic song.

"WOLF” - KANYE WEST

Still unreleased, it’s just a feature, doesn’t sound like one of her melodies, but it’s still nice to hear her.

“JE TE PARDONNE” - MAITRE GIMS

Another rap collab, another french collab. The weird thing here is that Maitre Gims is known to be 100 times worse than Eminem. He did a song where he said “all fags should have their dicks cut off, and be left for dead on the highway”. Asked about it in a interview, he said: “i am 100% homophobic and i am proud of it. It’s a deviancy that can not be accepted.”. He since “apalogized” but why Sia would sell a song to him is a mystery. He his very popular in France and sells a lot. He said that he sent the instrumental track with bits of melody to Sia, and was sent the next day a track with Sia’s vocals and finished melody. He also said Sia asked for permission to include her full version on This Is Acting. Oh Well.

“ROUND THE LITTLE FINGER” - KATHARINE MCPHEE



Nothing is ever really lost in the Sia universe. That was a song planned for Kate Pierson’s album, and now Katharine McPhee has a credit on it.

“HEAD HIGH” - MAJOR LAZER



This will be on Major Lazer’s next album, released sometimes next year. A full fanmade version was made from a snippet posted online.

“TRY EVERYTHING” - SHAKIRA



This is the second song she wrote for a cartoon, and both are quite similar, with simple and empowering lyrics. I love this song.

MARCO MENGONI - ROCK BOTTOM

Sia already sold a few songs for french singers, and now this song co-written with Christopher Braide is on this italian’s singer record.