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Ryan Tedder on the Success of His Runner Music, Which Recently Scored Three Top 20 Songs and a Super Bowl Ad
OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder and colleague Amanda Hill on the success of Runner Music, their new company that recently scored three top 20 songs.
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). The company, which has a roster of 13 writers — including Alexander 23 (Renee Rapp, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo), Sam Homaee (Selena Gomez, Lucky Daye), Tyler Spry (Tate McRae, OneRepublic), singer/songwriter David J (in a partnership with Sony Nashville) — is based in Tedder’s West Hollywood studio compound, which he envisions as a sort of modern-day hit factory like Motown or the Brill Building.
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