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    17 Jan, 2019
    Songwriting crisis?
    songwriting, sopunds

    Sweden is one of the leading countries in the world on songwriting is nothing new. One of the problem over the past years is that the view of the songwriting has overshadowed the mean of developing the artist. Right now many

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    16 Jan, 2019
    Know what people do!
    mistakes, slow

    I guess this has been up before. But it was so obvious today. I got a demo submission from an artist wanting me to spread her music and get her gigs. That is two different roles in the industry. And really none is

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    15 Jan, 2019
    Right splits!
    knowledge, splits

    My friend Daniel Johansson who is a researcher on the music industry wrote something quite interesting on his facebook today: Drake’s “Nice For What” has 21 songwriters, “In My Feelings” has 16. The average amount of songwriters on top 25 songs in

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    14 Jan, 2019
    You think you look professional, but the errors shine through.
    cons, pro, small things

    This is a hard thing to escape. It’s in the details you see a lot of mistakes. The time you see this is when an artist takes steps between levels in their careers and are new to certain standards and

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    11 Jan, 2019
    Artist friendly!
    Artist, artist friendly, tipoff

    Time to time I get artists that are disappointed on the blog because they think I’m mean to artists. I usually ask them what they want me to write about? It’s almost always that I should give them practical tipoffs

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    10 Jan, 2019
    Try to keep the team togheter.
    manager, team

    I got an angry tip-off from a manager to not work with a certain band. He got to be the manager in May last year for this band and got laid off in Dec. I can understand him, he did

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    9 Jan, 2019
    Grow your fanbase.
    artist friendly, fans

    It can seem to be hard to do that. In some cases, it just happens. And in those cases, the artist has that drive to keep the fans updated. Nowadays there are so many tools that can aid you in

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    8 Jan, 2019
    What are music companies looking for?
    age, muswic industry, record labels, wish

    This one will really hurt for some artists. What do we really wish for in an artist as a music company? If we could choose what would we look like perfect to develop? Good to know is that you never

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    7 Jan, 2019
    2009 and 2019 years when it all change?
    2019, future, useless

    Yes, 2009 was really a change year. The depression was an all-time low. A new company opened its doors called Spotify. Still many organizations were laying off people. In some cases good layoffs. Many useless people got fired and old

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    4 Jan, 2019
    A good song is not enough.
    good song, one shot

    I was in negotiation with a record label around an artist contract. In the end, when everything was done I remembered that they hadn’t listened to the new demos. – The songs will be good, they have always been good with this

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