But rising up the charts seemed, at many points in his career, highly unlikely. This is his story of failing his way to the top. Sam Hollander has spent thirty years trudging through the peaks and valleys of a songwriting career. Before he was stacking Billboard hits, he was piling up bad luck, calamitous flops, false starts, and feeling like the world was moving on and up without him while he spun in place. Now he wears his failures like a badge of honor. In 21-Hit Wonder, hes collected anecdotes from his weird waltzes around the banquet of pop to help aspiring songwriters and other creatives learn about survival, endurance, scheming, hustle, and the importance of laughing even on the worst days of the journey. Music lovers spanning generations and genres will find stories about many of their heroes and industry icons. 21-Hit Wonder is one part chronicle of a songwriters storied career and another part love letter to anyone who has been counted out from no-hit wonders and one-hit wonders to the novelties and the never-beensand just needs a bit of inspiration to persevere. Sams inspiring story is proof that setbacks are just steps on the road to success.
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Weight: 510g
Dimensions: 160 x 235mm
Publication Date: 06 Dec 2022
Publisher: BenBella Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781637741863
About Sam Hollander
As one of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the game Sam Hollander has had multi-platinum success writing and producing for the likes of Panic! At The Disco Fitz and the Tantrums Weezer Katy Perry Train One Direction Daughtry Pentatonix and Gym Class Heroes amongst many others. To date he has achieved 22 US Top 40 Hits as well as 10 Number 1's 10 top fives and 87 Top 10 chart positions globally. His songs have been streamed over 5 billion times and in 2019 he held the #1 position on the Billboard Rock Songwriters chart for nine weeks a year-end record. Sam has also been chosen to be on Variety's Hitmakers list as well as being named Rolling Stone's Hot List Producer of the Year in 2008. Hollander's career has recently hit new heights from collaborations with Fitz and the Tantrums' multi-platinum worldwide hit HandClap (one-billion-streams) and eight songs he co-penned on Panic! At The Disco's Billboard 200 No. 1 album Pray For The Wicked including the 5x platinum billion streamed record-breaking global hit High Hopes and Hey Look Ma I Made It! which replaced High Hopes at No. 1 on the Hot Rock Songs chart. Other notable recent successes include writing Banners platinum hit Someone To You Blink-182's Alternative Top 10 single Blame It On My Youth James TW's worldwide platinum hit When You Love Someone and writing and producing two songs on the legendary Ringo Starr's recent release What's My Name. He's currently writing and producing the music for NBCS fall 2021 new drama series Ordinary Joe.