He came in and brought in Johnny [McDaid] with him.Ed played me what he thought was the first single from [Divide], which sounded amazing. We’d better go to Steve.’Just because you had a hit doesn’t mean you have all the answers.Enjoy it, but realize that once the hit has gone, everything resets.Do you know what? I understand, but I’ll never forget my dad wasn’t around that often when I was young.I run two studios in London. Weekenders is a DJ mix album mixed by Steve Lamacq and released by London Records in 1996. I went to LA four times last year. That was a pivotal moment, and I owe him a big thank you.I followed it up with Glad You Came by The Wanted – which was a big hit in the US.I will say that I don’t like indecision – that’s one side of A&R that troubles me. And evidently, it loves what it hears.In the past two years alone, Mac has written or co-written worldwide hits for the likes of Little Mix, Clean Bandit, Demi Lovato, Matt Simons and Anne-Marie – whose Alarm has now been streamed 195m times on Spotify.Clean Bandit’s Rockabye, meanwhile, has 440m Spotify streams to date. Demi Lovato. That [process] still happens but now, I take it as the biggest compliment.It means they’re thinking: ‘Nope – we still haven’t got it. It recently became a firm US Top 5 radio hit, and is currently wedged at No.9 on the Hot 100.And then… there’s the small matter of a certain song by Ed Sheeran.Shape Of You, co-penned by Mac with Sheeran and Johnny McDaid, has obliterated records and topped charts the world over.It now boasts a whopping 11.7m total worldwide sales (and 760m+ streams on Spotify), having just secured its 12th week at No.1 in the US.The track also recently broke the all-time Top 40 airplay record in the States for the highest play-count ever recorded in a single week.This is one of those stats that sounds a bit wrong. But I’ve been doing it long enough now not to get carried away. As a body of work, of pop music – melodic, production, performance – it’s a game-changer and one of the reasons I wanted to make pop music.How Jam & Lewis went from that to Janet Jackson… just brilliant.Another name that comes to mind is Max Martin. Steve Mac Fans Also Viewed . I make music with machines and humans Without a song, you’ve got nothing to sell.”Maybe I’m blinkered, but surely this whole business starts with the songs? Simon and Sonny [Takhar at Syco] taught me so much.I always wanted to be credible as a young musician. I’ve got two guys – Chris and Dan – I work with every day. Over 25 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular culture. I forgot all other plans. It’s a big thing for me to leave this.But the main thing is, it works. 48 Year Old Producer #18. We promise you, it’s not.Across Rockabye (by Clean Bandit ft. Anne-Marie) and Shape Of You, compositions by Steve Mac – both released via Atlantic Records UK – have just held the Official British No.1 single slot for 22 weeks in a row.As he explains in our exclusive interview below, ASCAP Award-winner Mac got his big break in the music business back in the early ’90s.An admirer of the emerging British house scene, one of the first tracks he ever co-wrote was (I Wanna Give You) Devotion by NOMAD – a massive 1990 chart hit, reaching No.2 in the UK and No.1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.From there, Mac (real name Steve McCutcheon) became a member of a dance act, Undercover, which specialized in reworking hits from the past (their version of Baker Street, a Gerry Rafferty cover, was a Top 5 hit in the UK and Germany in 1992).Then, in the mid-nineties, Mac met Wayne Hector, and the duo established themselves as the UK’s slickest pop ballad writers.These days, you’ll find press-shy Mac working Monday-Friday in his own Rokstone Studios in London’s Parsons Green – where MBW recently sat down with him to ask all about the changing face of pop, his new deal with UMPG – and his views on the modern music business…It was all down to Anne-Marie.
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