Justin Tranter talks about receiving a Grammy nomination for their songwriting, goes in depth about the songs they’ve written this past year that they submitted for their nomination, why they feel it’s important for the Grammys to recognize songwriters, what they wants to achieve with Facet label, and publishing and writing with artists such as Reneé Rapp, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus and more!

Justin Tranter:
Hello, hello, hello. Check check. One two, one two. This looks fantastic. Thank you for this opportunity to just speak in front of my own beauty. Hello, I am Justin Tranter, and this is Billboard News.

Katie Bain:
Hello, I’m Katie Bain for Billboard News, and I am genuinely thrilled to be here with Grammy-nominated songwriter Justin Tranter. Justin, thank you for joining us.

Justin Tranter:
Thank you for having me.

Katie Bain:
First of all, November. I want to know what you were doing what when you found out you were nominated for this Grammy.

Justin Tranter:
I will be very honest with you. Last year was the first year the category existed, and I had my hopes way the f–k up. I did not get nominated. So this year, I kept my hopes very low. Me and my amazing publicist did no campaigning. We just … I just … I just of course submitted myself and was very proud of the songs that I submitted but just intentionally did not get my hopes up. And right before the nominations came, I went to go walk my dog, was not watching, and I really, truly thought there was was not … was not gonna get nominated. So walking my dog, and then all of a sud

den, I looked down at my phone and there’s, like, 300 text messages.

Katie Bain:
Yes, that’s great. Yeah, that’s actually just got goosebumps. Did you stop in your tracks?