Ryan Tedder on the Success of His Runner Music, Which Recently Scored Three Top 20 Songs and a Super Bowl Ad
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If there’s a top jack-of-all-trades in the music industry, there’s a good chance it’s Ryan Tedder.
He’s a hugely successful recording artist (as leader of OneRepublic), one of the top songwriter-producers of the past 15 years (Beyoncé’s “Halo,” U2, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Ariana Grande and many more) and is also a more savvy music publisher than many full-time music publishers.
After15 years of it being a sort of side-hustle, early last year Tedder partnered with longtime manager Ron Laffitte, former Downtown Music Chief Business Officer Andrew Sparkler and equity partner Melody Holdings (an affiliate of the Blackstone Group), recruited Amanda Hill from Sony Music Publishing (as president of A&R and co-chief creative officer) and launched a publishing company in earnest: Runner.
And true to their name, they’ve hit the ground running and recently had three songs in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 — Tate McRae’s “Greedy” and “Exes,” and Renee Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Not My Fault” — as well as OneRepublic’s Super Bowl ad for T-Mobile (starring Bradley Cooper, Laura Dern, Common and others).
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