With Hits by Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae, Rose and More, Songwriter Amy Allen Has Dominated 2024’s Charts
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The common perception of a professional songwriter (if there is one) is that they’re usually working behind the scenes while a superstar artist is mobbed by adoring fans.
But in October, Amy Allen — Variety’s Hitmakers Songwriter of the Year and a nominee for the 2025 Grammy award of the same name — played Madison Square Garden. “It was a dream come true,” she gushes, before adding that the experience — opening for her friend and collaborator Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers — actually was not terrifying. “I feel way less nervous playing a show like that than I would playing in front of, like, 50 music-industry people,” she laughs. “It’s so out-of-body that it’s kind of easy to just roll through it.
And opening for Jack was the best way, because he’s become such a good friend that for every show on that tour, he was hanging out in the green room with me and my bandmates.” Antonoff is just one of many collaborators who has benefited from Allen’s distinctive but diverse songwriting style.
Her work over the past couple of years alone includes hits for Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae, Justin Timberlake, Harry Styles, Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo, Rosé and others, and she also dropped her self-titled first full-length solo album in August.
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