Ed Sheeran collaborator Jake Gosling leads a Music Week compiled chart of the most successful album producers in the UK of the past year.
The man behind the controls of Sheeran's Asylum/Atlantic debut + beat off producers including Paul Epworth and David Foster to top the countdown, which is based on production shares of the Official Charts Company's Top 50 atist albums between August 2011 and the end of July 2012.
The 12 months in question cover the judging period for the 2012 MPG Awards whose closing date for mominations is October 5 and which will be held at London's Cafe de Paris on Wednesday, February 13 next year. The Awards celebrate excellence in work by UK producers, engineers, mixers and re-mixers.
Paul Epworth is second on the chart following his production work for Adele, Florence + The Machine and Cee Lo Green, while veteran Canadian producer David Foster, who co-produced Michael Buble's Crazy Love and Christmas albums, is third.
Two Amy Winehouse albums help Salaam Remi to fourth place, while Steve Mac is fifth after having a presence on four of the period's Top 50 artist albums by Susan Boyle, One Direction, The Wanted and Westlife respectively.
The Top 10 is completed by Bruno Mars and his Smeezingtons colleagues, Adele producers Jim Abbiss and Rick Rubin, Michael Buble producer Bob Rock and Markus Dravs, Dan Green and Rik Simpson who co-produced Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto.
The full Top 50 chart and a full analysis of it feature in this week's Music Week magazine.
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