The Chainsmokers
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13 statements about The Chainsmokers, every show
Grinberg: The Chainsmokers are surprisingly great investors
“They're also incredibly good investors. Incredibly good investors, which sometimes people are surprised by.”
Pall: Spotify Friday song uploads grew from 10k to 190k
“Now, like, on Spotify, when we, like, started, there was, like,
10,000 songs uploaded every Friday.
Now there's like a 190,000 or something like that.”
Taggart: There is no formula for writing pop or dance hits
“You'd think that we'd have a formula now on how to, like, write a dance song at least, or write a pop song. Forget about trying to write, like, the truest song for you at that moment, but, like, it's still, it can come from anywhere, and it's so difficult, and…”
Pall: Creators must constrain their choices in an era of abundance
“There's so much fucking tool, so many tools out there right now, so many, you know, so much software, so many ideas, so many genres, so much stuff happening every day that, like, you almost have to, like, constrain yourself a little bit to, like, have success.”
Pall: I still audit every Chainsmokers credit card statement line by line
“I mean, there is not a credit card statement that I have not gone through line by line still to this day, you know, week by week. There's not, you know, a production budget that I haven't seen for a single show”
Taggart: We only used outside writers for top lines on 5% of songs
“Jungle actually is one of the only songs recently that we did not write. I don't think I wrote anything on that, on the top line of that song. Which is like, that's maybe like, full five percent of Chainsmokers songs.”
Taggart had $150,000 in debt when starting The Chainsmokers
“Like, I was like, a 150,000 dollars in debt.”
Taggart: We hit 30 number ones on Hype Machine in our first year
“And I think within the first year of our career, you know, we went from zero to 30 number ones on Hype Machine.”
The Chainsmokers launch $35M Mantis VC fund with Conway, Cuban, and Raboy
“Now, Mantis is their first thirty-five million dollar venture fund, and so if you haven't guessed it already, I'm thrilled to welcome Alex Poole and Drew Taggart, founders of the Chainsmokers, and now Mantis, with the new vehicle they have backing from some of…”
Alex Pall: Ember was one of The Chainsmokers' first startup investments
“Ember was one of the first companies we actually invested in, if not the first, and they're actually doing terrific”
Alex Pall: None of The Chainsmokers' angel investments have gone to zero
“None of our investments have gone to zero yet, but it's just because we haven't been around long enough.”