In this interview, Ryan Tedder talks about how he got started and how the music industry has changed. He says that a viral TikTok is required for a song to do well. It’s much harder for songwriters to do well because of how social media has changed the landscape of the game. The music labels have less influence in some ways because social media is still required to break out an artist in the last 3 years.
Music have been changing ever since us humans learned to whistle.