Check Out Five Songwriters Who Dominate The Charts Behind The Scenes

Ryan Tedder
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Carleen Slon

Staff Writer

@Carleen1991

When writing music, you pour your heart and soul into the lyrics and that’s when your song formulates. In most cases, songwriters are simply musicians/singers whose careers just haven’t fully started yet.

There are five songwriters who, over the last decade,  have written hit songs that we have grown to love.  These five songwriters are: Ryan Tedder, Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Sia Furler, and Bonnie McKee.

Ryan Tedder:

Best known for his lead vocals in the band OneRepublic. Tedder has been quite successful writing songs for Adele, Beyonce, Maroon 5 , Demi Lovato and many more. Between October 2013 and March 2014 alone he has had four songs reach the Billboard Top 40 at the same time, which has never been achieved before.

Max Martin:

Max Martin
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Best known as frontman of the band Its Alive, Martin is known for creating the 90’s pop sounds, which includes songs like:

• Backstreet Boys-  I Want It That Way”
• Britney Spears- “Oops! I Did It Agan”
• Celine Dion- “That’s The Way It Is”

Lukasz Gottwald aka Dr. Luke:

Dr. Luke
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Gottwald is best known as the guitarist for Saturday Night Live, but when he isn’t playing guitar, he is writing some hit tracks including:

• Kelly Clarkson- “Since You’ve Been Gone”
• Kelly Clarkson- “Behind These Hazel Eyes”
• Miley Cyrus- “Party In The USA”

Sia Furler:

Sia
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This Australian singer/songwriter has done quite a lot in only the four years she has been in New York. Some hit songs she has written include:

• Rihanna – “Diamonds”
• NeYo – “Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)”
• Lea Michele – “Cannonball”, “Battlefield”

Bonnie McKee:

Bonnie McKee
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This solo artist collaborates with Max Martin and Dr Luke frequently, and is widely recognized in the music industry. Some hit songs include:

• Kelly Clarkson – “Hello”
• Katy Perry – “Part Of Me”
• Leona Lewis – “Lovebird”

So songwriters can go far if they just believe. Don’t give up and keep on writing; who knows, maybe your song will be a hit one day.

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