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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, one of Republics enjoying

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Speaker 1: their biggest success in nearly a decade on the charts

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Speaker 1: with their infectious track off the Top Gun movie soundtrack.

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Speaker 1: I Ain't Worried, and while frontman Ryan tedor he's drilled

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Speaker 1: by the song's performance, he admits that he couldn't have

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Speaker 1: predicted it, because he says, that's harder than ever to do.

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Speaker 1: He explains, it used to be all about leaning into

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Speaker 1: an unforgettable chorus, but we TikTok people can choose just

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Speaker 1: about any part of any song and make a viral,

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Speaker 1: he tells Official Charts. Having written songs for as long

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Speaker 1: as I have, I can sit and listen to my

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Speaker 1: stuff or stuff that's been sent to me and identify

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Speaker 1: what the catchiest bit of it is. That was what

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Speaker 1: dictated a song being a hit. I've been doing this

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Speaker 1: for twenty years. It used to be once you have

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Speaker 1: your first hit as an artist, just keep your foot

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Speaker 1: on the gas and release consistently great song. There was

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Speaker 1: a method to the madness. You can't do that anymore.

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Speaker 1: Culture dictates what songs are hits, not the song itself.

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Speaker 1: I ain't words out now that's direct from Hollywood,