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Alex Warren on Getting Extraordinary Results Out of ‘Ordinary,’ the Single That’s Made Him the Year’s Biggest Pop Chart Breakout So Far
Singer-songwriter Alex Warren talks about the life and career that led him to 'Ordinary,' which has turned into the biggest pop breakout hit of 2025.
Sandwiched between two very busy-sounding superstar duets (Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s’ “Luther,” and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die with a Smile”), the haunting “Ordinary” would come off as the outlier on a sparkly pop chart, even if Warren himself wasn’t an anomaly as the least known quantity in these heady climes. After additional singles dropped throughout 2024 — including “Burning Down,” his first track to hit Billboard’s Hot 100, along with a separate remix featuring Joe Jonas — Warren’s first album, “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1),” was released in September. “Ordinary,” a fresh single not from his debut album, dropped in early February, The moon-heavy imagery of its video, and Warren’s performance of the holy romantic ballad during Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” season 8 reunion, pushed his devotional track upward to where it sits today.
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