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Honorable Mention - Peter Hernandez (Bruno Mars)

Points: 14,589

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

1091m - Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars)

1005m - That's What I Like (Bruno Mars)

801m - 24k Magic (Bruno Mars)

705m - When I Was Your Man (Bruno Mars)

695m - Just The Way You Are (Bruno Mars)

 

 

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Sia Furler

Points: 7420

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

1428m - Cheap Thrills (Sia)

936m - Chandelier (Sia)

756m - Dusk Till Dawn (Zayn feat. Sia)

718m - Titanium (David Guetta feat. Sia)

536m - Diamonds (Rihanna)

 

 

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The reveal coming later tonight (#59) has 174 Hot 100 entries as a songwriter.

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2 hours ago, Ash12345 said:

The reveal coming later tonight (#59) has 174 Hot 100 entries as a songwriter.

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Bob Dylan :clap3: Such a legend.

 

Bruno Mars also almost making it! :alexz: 

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59. Dwayne Carter Jr. (Lil Wayne)

Points: 23,679

 

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Lil Wayne started rapping when he was eight, and met Birdman, owner of Cash Money Records a year later, who began mentoring him. He got his first songwriter hit with B.G., a fellow member of hip hop group Hot Boys, as a featured artist on "Bling Bling" (#36) in 1999, and got his second songwriter hit with "Tha Block Is Hot" (#72) later that year from his debut album. After a few more minor hits, he gained wider recognition with his appearance on Destiny's Child's "Soldier" (#3) in 2004. In 2008, he released his most successful album, "Tha Carter III" with his first #1 hit, "Lollipop", turning him into one of the most popular rappers of the time. In 2009, he signed new artists Nicki Minaj and Drake to his label, Young Money Entertainment, which he founded a few years earlier, and would go on to have several hits collaborating with them. His success slowed down when issues with Birdman and Cash Money prevented him from releasing Tha Carter V in 2014 as he had planned, and he was only able to release it after getting out of his contract with Cash Money in 2018, earning him four more top 10 hits.

 

Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

952m - In My Feelings (Drake)

934m - I'm The One (DJ Khaled feat. Lil Wayne, Justin Bieber, Quavo & Chance The Rapper)

697m - Sucker For Pain (Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Imagine Dragons, Logic & Ty Dolla $ign feat X Ambassadors)

366m - No Problem (Chance The Rapper feat. 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne)

340m - Loyal (Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne & Tyga)

 

 

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Imagine not being top 50 with all those songs :dies:

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I thought Sia had way more entries as a songwriter :rip:

she's so famous for her songwriting

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So happy for Wayne. Samples aside, he really birthed a dynasty.

 

Nicki, Drake, Tyga. :cool:

 

It would've been GAME OVER for Rap if Lil Twist, Gudda Gudda, Chanel West Coast, and Shanell made it big too. Essentially a Marvel Cinematic Universe without Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, and the TV component. 

 

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Honorable Mention - William Adams (will.i.am)

Points: 16,466

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

615m - Hall of Fame (The Script feat. will.i.am)

389m - Where Is The Love? (The Black Eyed Peas)

383m - I Gotta Feeling (The Black Eyed Peas)

300m - Scream & Shout (will.i.am feat. Britney Spears)

240m - American Boy (Estelle feat. Kanye West)

 

 

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I thought Sia charted with just those songs, turns out it's just an honorable mention. :priceless:

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On 1/3/2020 at 12:27 PM, Ash12345 said:

Sia Furler

Points: 7420

 

Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

1428m - Cheap Thrills (Sia)

936m - Chandelier (Sia)

756m - Dusk Till Dawn (Zayn feat. Sia)

718m - Titanium (David Guetta feat. Sia)

536m - Diamonds (Rihanna)

 

Only 7420 points!?! Woow interesting she isnt actually as active as I thought.

 

1 hour ago, Ash12345 said:

Honorable Mention - William Adams (will.i.am)

Points: 16,466

 

Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

615m - Hall of Fame (The Script feat. will.i.am)

389m - Where Is The Love? (The Black Eyed Peas)

383m - I Gotta Feeling (The Black Eyed Peas)

300m - Scream & Shout (will.i.am feat. Britney Spears)

240m - American Boy (Estelle feat. Kanye West)

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He almost made it! For a super diverse songwriter who found success with hip-hop (late 90s), pop (00s), EDM pop (early 2010s). I'm surprised he hasn't been able to keep his name afloat in credits towards the end of the 2010s like, say, Pharrell.

 

All those hits though :clap3:

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On 1/2/2020 at 5:35 PM, Ash12345 said:

61. Mariah Carey

Points: 22,899

 

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One of the most successful artists of all time, Mariah Carey learned to master her voice from her mother, who was also a singer. She started writing songs in high school, and got more serious about that in her senior year after meeting co-writers Ben Margulies and Gavin Christopher. She struggled to get a record deal until she met singer Brenda K. Starr who showed her demos to Tommy Mottola, head Columbia Records (who she would marry a few years later). Mottola felt Mariah had great potential and invested in top producers and a major promotional campaign, and her self-titled debut album turned into a block-buster success with four #1 singles in 1990-1991. She released six more highly successful albums in the 90s, all with several major hits, with the later of those albums taking on more R&B and hip-hop influences.

 

Following her break-up with Mottola, she left Columbia and signed Virgin Records America in 2001. However, she began going through some personal struggles, which negatively affected her public image, and her first album with Virgin, the soundtrack album for the movie "Glitter" struggled to achieve commercial success, leading to her getting dropped by her new label. After "Charmbracelet" also struggled, she surprised everyone with her big come-back album "The Emancipation of Mimi" in 2005, which revived her career with several major hits, most notably "We Belong Together", and she was able to get additional hits with the albums that followed. Just as she again began to struggle to get new hits in the 2010s, streaming made it possible for her 1994 Christmas classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" to chart more easily, reaching #1 for the first time in 2019, and it should allow her to continue to have significant chart success in the fourth decade of her career.

 

Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

832m - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)

545m - Don't (Bryson Tiller)

214m - We Belong Together (Mariah Carey)

151m - Always Be My Baby (Mariah Carey)

120m - Emotionless (Drake)

 

 

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For OSD (and I guess the rest) how did you weight her share of the songwriting? Because the only people credited for the actual musical arrangement are her and Affanesieff, B2M are only included as lyrical credits in the album liner. Did you differentiate on music v. lyrics in terms of songwriting? 

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7 hours ago, LookinIn said:

 

For OSD (and I guess the rest) how did you weight her share of the songwriting? Because the only people credited for the actual musical arrangement are her and Affanesieff, B2M are only included as lyrical credits in the album liner. Did you differentiate on music v. lyrics in terms of songwriting? 

No, I didn't. A lot of other hits don't have that kind of information readily available.

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58. Daryl Hall

Points: 24,086

 

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The son of a singer father and vocal coach mother, Daryl Hall majored in music at Temple University, where he joined vocal group The Temptones. Around that time, he also began working with soul legends Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff as an artist and session musician. In 1967 he met John Oates after getting into a fight with him during a dance, which led to them playing music together and getting a record deal in 1972. Daryl Hall was the lead vocalist while John Oates played guitar and had back-up vocals, and their mix of r&b and pop-rock enjoyed a great deal of success in the mid 70s to late 80s, making them one of the top selling duos of all time.

 

Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

393m - You Made My Dreams (Hall & Oates)

202m - Maneater (Hall & Oates)

200m - Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)

56m - I Can't Go For That (Hall & Oates)

50m - Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)

 

 

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Honorable Mention - Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Points: 13,896

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

259m - Wild World (Cat Stevens)

59m - Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens)

53m - Peace Train (Cat Stevens)

52m - The Wind (Cat Stevens)

50m - First Cut Is The Deepest (Sheryl Crow)

 

 

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Ester Dean

Points: 8159

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

470m - Hey Mama (David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha, Nicki Minaj & Afrojack)

392m - Firework (Katy Perry)

277m - S&M (Rihanna)

273m - Super Bass (Nicki Minaj)

213m - Where Have You Been (Rihanna)

 

 

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57. Mick Jagger

Points: 24,258

 

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The lead singer of The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger started singing in church when he was a kid, and enjoyed singing whenever he could. In contrast to the members of The Beatles, the other super star British group of his era, he had a much more rebellious and sexual image, and mannerisms and outfits that often didn't conform to the masculine norms of the time. After failing to convince Keith Richards to agree to take the Stones in a more dance-pop direction, he ended up going that route with his solo career, releasing his first album in 1985, and fell out with Keith Richards for a few years. He got back together with the Stones in the late 80s after he failed to achieve the level of success he was hoping for with his solo career, although he still continued to release solo music. Mick Jagger also made an album as part of a group SuperHeavy in 2011, with Joss Stone, Bob Marley's son Damian, Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart, and Indian musician A.R. Rahman (most famous for Slumdog Millionaire's song "Jai Ho").

 

Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

414m - Bitter Sweet Symphony (The Verve)

384m - Paint It, Black (The Rolling Stones)

279m - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones)

256m - Sympathy For The Devil (The Rolling Stones)

245m - Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones)

 

 

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A legend! :clap3:

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A legend :alexz2:

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Honorable Mention - Nile Rodgers

Points: 12,006

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

661m - Get Lucky (Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers)

205m - Mo Money, Mo Problems (The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy & Mase)

157m - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It (Will Smith)

123m - Hotel Room Service (Pitbull)

99m - I'm Coming Out (Diana Ross)

 

 

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Narada Michael Walden

Points: 9065

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

126m - How Will I Know (Whitney Houston)

115m - Undecided (Chris Brown)

48m - Heartbreaker (Mariah Carey feat. Jay-Z)

30m - I Love Your Smile (Shanice)

17m - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off (Jermaine Stewart)

 

 

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1 hour ago, Ash12345 said:

Narada Michael Walden

Points: 8651

 

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Most streamed Hot 100 hits on Spotify

 

126m - How Will I Know (Whitney Houston)

30m - I Love Your Smile (Shanice)

17m - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off (Jermaine Stewart)

14m - Clothes Off!!! (Gym Class Heroes)

9m - Freeway of Love (Aretha Franklin)

 

 

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@trainsskyscrapers 

 

This is pretty impressive.

I always knew of him as the Producer behind "How Will I Know", "I Wanna Damce With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "So Emotional" and "Vision Of Love".......but I never knew he was a writer too.

 

His PEN is underrated. 

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Today's #56 reveal is a female songwriter who didn't have a career as a recording artist, but wrote a tremendous number of hits for other artists.

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6 hours ago, Ash12345 said:

Today's #56 reveal is a female songwriter who didn't have a career as a recording artist, but wrote a tremendous number of hits for other artists.

Just googling and guessing here, but I don't think we've had Cynthia Weil yet.

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