Netflix’s ‘Hitmakers’ Pulls Back The Curtain On The High-Stakes World Of Songwriting Camps

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Hitmakers. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

A new docu-series premiering Thursday (July 24) on Netflix goes behind the scenes of the songwriting camps where today’s biggest hits are made. Hitmakers follows 12 top-tier songwriters and producers as they team up in high-pressure writing sessions for major artists like John Legend, Shaboozey and Lisa of Blackpink.

Across six episodes, viewers follow hitmakers including Jenna Andrews, Tommy Brown, Trey Campbell, Ferras, Harv, Ben Johnson, Stephen Kirk, JHart, Whitney Phillips, Sevyn Streeter and Nova Wav as they travel to songwriting camps in the Bahamas, Nashville and Cabo. Split into writing rooms, the creatives are tasked with crafting standout songs—offering a rare, inside look at both the technical craft and emotional grit of hit songwriting.

The series highlights not only the creative process but also the personal dynamics of working in a collaborative, high-pressure environment.

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Phillips, a pop songwriter who often works out of Nashville, told MusicRow that the series felt like an overdue celebration of the songwriting community.

“I’ve been part of this community for 13 years. I’ve seen myself and my friends wait tables, drive Ubers and crash on couches, all to keep making music. We’ve given our blood, sweat and tears to an industry that doesn’t always give songwriters their due,” she says. “Hitmakers is a celebration of that grit, that dedication. With streaming and AI reshaping the landscape, this was our chance to show the humans behind the songs. We had a blast, wrote some incredible records, and captured the chaos, the magic and the heart of it all. And I think that’s exactly what the world is going to see.”

Nashville-based songwriter Johnson adds, “I’m excited for more people to discover that the songwriting community exists and hopefully raise some awareness. I love new experiences and challenges, and this was both of those. It was an interesting process integrating reality TV with music creation—I hope I represented Nashville well and that everyone’s entertained!”

JHart shares, “Filming Hitmakers was a terrifying yet exciting experience. Terrifying in the sense that I had to put my talent, my story, and my reputation in the hands of people who I didn’t know, and exciting in the sense that I could be a part of introducing the average viewer to an underrepresented ecosystem they didn’t know existed, and in a format that felt familiar and digestible to them.”

Hitmakers is produced by Done and Done Productions and Harvey Mason Media, with executive producers Adam DiVello, Harvey Mason Jr., Britt Burton, Kimberly Goodman, Kristofer Lindquist, Megan Roger and Skyler Wakil.

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