Discography
As a singer, songwriter and artist, Ron Haryanto's discography spans 25 years and more than 360 writing credits. It boasts not only an impressive list of collaborators, but an even more impressive run of accolades: international number ones as an artist with Tear Us Apart in Malaysia and Alright on the UK Upfront Club Breakers chart, a number one on iTunes in Ireland as a writer on Vogue Williams' Good Girls, three ARIA Club Chart number ones and a whopping 22 ARIA Club charting hits, ten of them Top 10.
He has written and recorded with Marcia Hines, Russell Crowe, Dannii Minogue, Lil Jon, Shannon Noll, Justice Crew, Vogue Williams, Titanium, Joe Moore and Prinnie Stevens, and released house records on Defected, Ministry of Sound and Vicious. He co-wrote every track on Marcia Hines' Top 30 album Amazing, opened her Amazing tour and still sings in her band.
As Ron E Jones he won Best Pop Song at Malaysia's VIMAs with Nadhira for Tear Us Apart, topped Indonesian radio with Cintai Aku Lagi, picked up MTV Asia rotation and featured on Spit Syndicate's ARIA Award-nominated debut. Published by 120 Publishing, he has performed from Sydney to Ibiza and has had various artist projects and aliases, most notably house music feature artist Boswell and hip hop group St. Christoph & Shaade, whose EPs Big Mood and No Pressure earned back-to-back AIR Awards nominations for Best Independent Hip Hop Album or EP. It started in Newcastle, where he won three 1233 ABC Newcastle Music Awards: RnB in 2005 for All I Got and Pop in 2006 for U Could Have Been My Girl as Ron_E, plus Urban in 2006 with Domestiques for Rude Girl.
Three ARIA Club Chart number ones
Firefly, I Am Sam & Archie (co-writer, 3 weeks at #1, 2014). I Know A Place, Miguel Campbell & Colour Castle (uncredited vocal and co-writer, 4 weeks at #1, 2017). On Fire, Colour Castle & Supermini (vocals, 2 weeks at #1, 2020).
#1 UK Upfront Club Breakers
Alright, Fear of Dawn feat. Boswell (2015). Feature vocal and co-writer. Also #2 on the ARIA Club Chart.
Number ones across South East Asia
Tear Us Apart, Nadhira feat. Ron E Jones (2011), #1 on Malaysian radio and VIMA Best Pop Song 2012. Chikaro, #1 on FLY FM in 2012. Time Machine, his 2012 single as Ron E Jones, and its Indonesian-language version Cintai Aku Lagi with Cindy Bernadette, which topped Indonesian radio in 2013.
ARIA Award-nominated album
Blue Sky High (feat. Rone) on Spit Syndicate's debut Towards the Light (2008), nominated for Best Urban Release at the 2008 ARIA Awards.
Marcia Hines, Amazing
Co-writer on all 14 tracks of her 2014 album, #27 on the ARIA Albums Chart, including the singles Amazing, Remedy (with Russell Crowe) and Heartache.
22 ARIA Club Chart hits, 10 in the Top 10
Beyond the three number ones: Alright (#2), I Beg to Differ with Death Ray Shake (#3, one of the Top 50 club tracks of 2017), What You Came For with Sgt Slick (#4), If You Only Knew (#7), Crazy with Friendless (#7), Chubby with Chumpion (#7) and Call My Name with Friendless & Vanilla Ace (#8). Plus Think of Me, Feel the Love, Celebrate, Actin' Up, Lost in You, To the Top, Flashing Lights, If They Could See Us Now, Feel It, Chase That Feeling, Can You Feel It with Shiralee Coleman, and Nympho with Mobin Master (6 weeks in 2010).
Three 1233 ABC Newcastle Music Awards
All I Got as Ron_E, winner of RnB in 2005. U Could Have Been My Girl as Ron_e, winner of Pop in 2006. Rude Girl with Domestiques, winner of Urban (Hip Hop, Electronica and RnB) in 2006.
Defected, Ministry of Sound, SOLOTOKO
Be Somebody on Defected, Death Ray Shake on Ministry of Sound, Call My Name on SOLOTOKO, plus Dannii Minogue and AIR Awards nominations for Big Mood (2021) and No Pressure (2022).
Every song is one tile above. These are all the official mixes, edits and remixes released under each one.
The newsletter
Honest takes on creativity, reinvention and community from inside the music industry. Free, on Substack.