There’s nothing ordinary about Alex Warren ’s life right now. Well, except for the name of his chart-topping single, which has given him his first No. 1 hit . Despite the career peak, Warren isn’t concerned by any pressure to follow up on the success. “If I’m a one-hit wonder, f*ck yeah, I’d love it, because I never thought I’d get even one,” Warren says. “If I didn’t have another hit and it just stayed exactly like this, I’d be so OK.”

The 24-year-old singer’s enthusiasm underscores just how difficult it is to create that one perfect song. Right when he wrote “Ordinary,” he knew it was special... although not everyone agreed with him. “I was begging my label to let me put it out, and they were like, ‘No, you have stronger songs,’” Warren recalls. “I really had to be like, ‘Trust me,

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