The best music producer in the world that nobody has ever heard of
13.04.2022 - 21:41
/ msn.com
Grammy Award for Producer of the Year – classical music aside. It was his first win and third consecutive nomination in the category.
Given the importance the US music industry attaches to big hits at these awards, it couldn’t logically have gone to anyone else. Antonoff produced the songs Gold Rush in 2021 for Taylor Swift, Chemtrails Over the Country Club by Lana Del Rey, Daddy’s Home by St.
Vincent, Solar Power by Lorde, Sling by Clairo and Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night by his own group, Bleachers. In fact, the award confirmed what an algorithm had already spelled out: “Jack Antonoff is the world’s top music producer,” according to the 100 Most Successful Producers in the Business list by Jaxsta, a new website that describes itself as the world’s largest music database.
According Jaxsta, their algorithm used the following criteria to put Antonoff in the number one spot: chart position, Grammy wins and nominations, Spotify streams, and physical sales – the same criteria that put more famous producers such as Kanye West, Max Martin and Diplo at the top of the list. When Antonoff’s name was called at the 64th Grammy Awards ceremony, he emerged from the audience nervous but elegant in a Chanel suit and, in accordance with his shy and modest image, he dedicated the gong to his team, his agent and his girlfriend, Margaret Qualley, the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell.
In fact, his acceptance speech ended with the words: “This is for all the people who sit at home, make shit that they think is really cool and just keep making it and just keep making it. ”He might have been a millionaire for some time now, but Antonoff continues to speak like the music nerd he was when composing in a room of his parents’ home,
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