Bill Padley (born 5 March 1961) is a Scottish record producer and songwriter.
He, along with Jem Godfrey,[1] won an Ivor Novello Award on 25 May 2006, for the Christmas number 1 record and best selling single of 2005, "That's My Goal", by The X-Factor's Shayne Ward.
It became (at that time) the fourth fastest-selling UK single of all time, beaten only by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind", Will Young's "Anything Is Possible"/"Evergreen", and Gareth Gates' "Unchained Melody" which sold 685,000, 403,000 and 335,000 copies in their first days of sale respectively.
1 hit singles in the UK singles chart, including Atomic Kitten's "Whole Again" which earned him a further two Ivor Novello Award nominations in 2002 and is the biggest selling song of the 21st century in the UK by a girl band.
[2] He also produced and added additional melody and lyrics to the number one UK single "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)" for Atomic Kitten.