29. Maggie Szabo: Owning the Risk

Recording Artist Maggie Szabo and I talk about writing songs for Eurovision and TV

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Bio & Intro
Hailing from Canada but currently based in Los Angeles, Maggie Szabo is a multi platinum, two-time Billboard #1 songwriter and artist. Szabo has released a series of high-profile singles, remixes and EPs that have put her on the map as a pop artist and changemaker. Her hit single ‘My Oh My’ was named Stingray Radio’s “Trending Track” and hit the Canada Hot AC Chart at #27 (alongside Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran and Adele), taking over radio throughout Canada. Szabo has over 30 million streams on Spotify, thirteen million views on YouTube and more than 50 notable placements in film and television (E!, Disney, ABC, NBC, Netflix).

Szabo has fostered a successful songwriting career. Her song ’SloMo’ reached #1 on the Billboard charts in Spain of June 2022. The song took third in the internationally known Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Maggie also wrote for KPOP group Le Sserafim’s platinum album Anti Fragile, which hit #1 on Billboard World Albums chart. She is also a writer on the group’s first full-length album 'UNFORGIVEN' which accumulated a whopping 1 million copies sold on the first day of its release, setting a new impressive record among K-Pop female groups. The album now holds the highest-selling album in Hanteo history by a Korean girl group in first-day sales, surpassing BLACKPINK.

In October 2021, she released “Sweet Illusion” with GRAMMY-nominated DJ and producer Morgan Page (Armada Music) ‘Rebuild’ and preceding singles were premiered by Celeb Secrets, Rolling Stone, Flaunt Magazine, EDM Maniac and American Songwriter, to name a few. Other notable media include Parade, Atwood Magazine, CelebMix, The Advocate, Billboard, Popdust, Perez Hilton, Huffington Post, EARMILK and more!

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