How Ryan Tedder turned OneRepublic's I Ain't Worried into a global hit in the age of TikTok
officialcharts.comIf there one man you want to go to to talk about pop music, it's Ryan Tedder. Not just the frontman of American pop-rock band OneRepublic but a storied hitmaker in his own right, writing UK Number 1 hits for the likes of Leona Lewis (Bleeding Love) and Ella Henderson (Ghost) as well as his own (Counting Stars), he basically knows his way around a pop song.
To celebrate OneRepublic's new single, the Top Gun: Maverick anthem I Ain't Worried, becoming the band's highest charting single in the UK in eight years, recently peaking at Number 4 on the Official Singles Chart, we jumped on the phone with Ryan to dissect the song's success.
What follows is a wide-ranging chat around what it takes to break a pop song on the global stage in 2022, as well as the exciting work of Latin artists right now, like Rosalia ("she's the Spanish Kanye) and Ryan's work with burgeoning pop icon Anitta ("a force to be reckoned with").
You know, it’s great. I figured I write enough stuff to other people, every now and then I should probably put my own sh*t in the charts!
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