Ainsley Smart
Ainsley Katharine Smart is an Irish-American singer-songwriter, actor and screenwriter. Her breakthrough single "Way Too Easy" has garnered over 10 million views and was featured on radio stations across the globe.
Early life
Ainsley Smart was born in Abington, Pennsylvania to parents Linda and Colm Smart. She is a citizen of Ireland, the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland due to her father being born in Belfast and her mother's side of the family being Swiss. Her parents are divorced, she split her time growing up between The United States, and Switzerland with stints in Belfast, Ireland. Smart was a talented athlete, and played competitive soccer and trained for 11 years from ages 5-16 in Tae Kwon Do and speaks fluent Korean. As of 2025, she holds a Kukkiwon certified fourth degree black belt ranking. Smart also participated in local theatre productions, and took acting lessons with the intention of becoming an actor.Music career
2012–2019: Songwriting Ventures
At age 16, she was discovered by talent manager and producer Jay Levine, and flown out to Los Angeles California. Though she has the intention of becoming a singer, together with her manager they decided to pursue a songwriting path instead. She signed a seven year deal with ATV Publishing where she co-wrote pop music for other young pop artists such as Fifth Harmony, The Vamps, Austin Mahone, and Shawn Mendes under several aliases.2021–2022 : Way Too Easy, Blame Me
In July 2021, she began an experimental venture capital funded development project to explore alternatives to signing a standard major label record contract. She subsequently recorded several songs in Malibu, California with producer/engineer Steve Baughman and producer Mason Levy. Her debut single 'Way Too Easy' was released on August 23, 2021, and has since garnered several million views across social media platforms, and was played on radio stations across Europe, rising to number one in Switzerland. In November 2021, she became the first independent artist to cover Rollercoaster Magazine. In November 2021, she released her second single 'Blame Me'. The music video for "Blame Me" was filmed in the Langham Hotel in London with a working budget of 100,000 GBP.A European and subsequent press tour was planned, and cancelled due to her mother's diagnosis with cancer. Smart returned to America to care for her mother.
2025 – present : Make it First, Make it Good Later
In September 2025, Smart's management team announced a special release of an album that would include all of the songs recorded under the previous production, with the addition of several new songs including the upcoming single, "Ghost of You".Discography
Singles
| "Way Too Easy" | — | — | — | — | |
| "Blame Me" | — | — | — | — |