Wayne Hector, Spotify’s Secret Genius ambassador and elite songwriter for the likes of Britney Spears, One Direction, JLS, and Westlife talks about writing Nicki Minaj’s blockbuster hit Starships…

"There’s a million things that can go wrong between a hit song and a hit record. That has so much to do with timing: by the time you’ve finished a song and put it out, is that sound something people are still listening to? It might be gone. The dance scene ...