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Chartbreaker: How Alex Warren Turned a Painful Past Into ‘Something That Can Help People’ — And a Breakthrough Hit

Alex Warren's 'Burning Down' — boosted by a Joe Jonas remix — has helped the content creator break through at radio and on the Billboard charts.

Prior to making music his full-time gig, from late 2019 to 2022, he and Annon were major players in Hype House, a popular group of TikTok content creators that frequently collaborated and lived together. Last May, during a set of studio sessions in Los Angeles, Warren felt particularly inspired by such memories, and began to write with collaborators Adam Yaron, Cal Shapiro and Mags Duval. “I’ve always let people walk all over me, and ‘Burning Down’ was a song I always wanted to write, but never had the balls to do it,” he says of his biggest hit to date, released on Sept. 20, one week ahead of his debut album, You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1).

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