As a student Falk attended the
Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. He then joined "The Location" in 2002, a new production and publishing-company formed by former
Cheiron-members
Kristian Lundin,
Andreas Carlsson and Jake Schulz, leasing the former Cheiron Studios. Falk left "The Location" in 2007 and re-located to Los Angeles in April 2010 to team up with
Rami Yacoub and
Steve Angello (
Swedish House Mafia). Back in Sweden Carl and Rami started their production company and studio – Kinglet Studios. Since 2010 he has co-written and co-produced hits like "
What Makes You Beautiful", "One Thing", "Live While We're Young", "Kiss You" by One Direction and "
Starships" and "
Pound The Alarm" by
Nicki Minaj. In 2012 Carl was listed as No. 4 on Music Week Top 100 Songwriters of the year based on the UK's 100 biggest selling singles of the year. The same year "Starships" also made US Billboard history, by both debuting in and spending a total of 21 consecutive weeks in the US Top Ten, passing
The Black Eyed Peas's single "
I Gotta Feeling". As of February 2013, it has sold 7.2 million digital downloads worldwide. Subsequently, he received two
ASCAP awards for most performed songs of 2012: "Starships" and "What Makes You Beautiful". Falk worked with
Demi Lovato writing "
Shouldn't Come Back" and "
Really Don't Care" for her 2013 album "
Demi". He also worked on "Rest Of Our Life" for
Jason Derulo and "
Red Lights" for
Tiesto. Falk reached further success in 2014 when he worked with
David Guetta on the hit single "
One Last Time" for
Ariana Grande, reaching no.13 on the Billboard's Hot 100 chart. In 2015 Falk wrote songs like "
Broken Arrows" and "
Sunset Jesus" for
Avicii, "
Rest Your Love" for
The Vamps, "
Your Type" for
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Lost & Found" for
Ellie Goulding and "
Devil Pray" For
Madonna. His favourite instrument is the guitar as he tries to "always have guitar on my songs, almost like a trademark". Carl can also play multiple other instruments like bass, piano, violin and drums, which he started to learn from an early age on during his childhood. In 2013 Falk won the STIM Platinum guitar prize. ==Discography==