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| StarGate Studios |
Page 1 of 2 StarGate is a Norwegian record production and songwriting team, consisting of Tor Erik Hermansen, and Mikkel S. Eriksen (often credited as Mikkel SE) working today in the genres of pop, R&B and hip hop.StarGate started their successful career as producers and studio owners based in Trondheim, Norway in 1997. The production team were particularly successful on the British market with more than 40 Top 10 hits in the UK for artists such as Blue, Misteeq and Atomic Kitten. In 2002, they launched their own group also called StarGate, fronted by rapper D-Flux and singer Anna, but the project was abandoned shortly after the single "Easier Said Than Done" was released as it could only reach number 55 in the UK singles chart.  The team originally consisted of Hermansen, Eriksen and Hallgeir Rustan. In 2005, Mikkel S. Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen relocated to New York, and quickly established themselves as associates of the hottest Hip Hop/R&B acts on the US market. The third original member, Hallgeir Rustan, left in 2005, and remains a producer in Norway. Their breakthrough single in the United States was the Billboard Hot 100 #1 "So Sick" (released 2006) by Ne-Yo, which they produced and co-wrote with Ne-Yo. The follow-up was "Sexy Love", also a US Top 10 single. Stargate worked with Ne-Yo co-writing and producing Rihanna´s hit "Unfaithful", which reached #7 on the Hot 100, #1 in Europe, and top 5 in 22 countries. They also produced and co-wrote the US #1 single "Irreplaceable" for Beyoncé, which became the biggest single from the album B'Day, topping the Hot 100 for ten consecutive weeks. "Irreplaceable" became the second biggest radio-record measured by audience in a single week, reaching an audience of over 200 million. The single was #1 in 11 countries, and Top 10 in 30 countries. |