On Sunday I’ll be starting a new weekly email (don’t worry, this one will continue :)
This weekly email is mainly for songwriters and producers. I’ve been spending a lot of time in that world the past few months and wanted to do something specifically for them.
So here’s the deal…
Every Sunday night before the work week begins I’ll be sending out a list of the Spotify Worldwide Top 10 and the Media Base Country Top 10, and along with each song it will have the length of the track, the BPM and the main/chorus chord progression.
Even those few elements are really interesting to look at. Spoiler: the Worldwide track length averages around 3:40…so much for 3 minute pop songs (and after doing some research the average length on the Billboard top 10 hasn’t been 3 minutes since the 1960’s!!!!)
So that’ll be the top part. I’ve been messing with the email text formatting for desktop and mobile and it should be pretty easy to digest the information quickly.
Below that I’m gonna list all the songs again but this time include all the writer and producer information. True: It’s a lot of names, it’s a little more to take in. But it’s pretty interesting to see who’s writing and producing all this stuff.
The Sunday song email isn’t a means to worship at the alter of the chart…it’s simply some useful information for the week. To know what’s going on. To help you get unstuck when you feel stuck. To learn something. To make a connection.
For now the only way to get on this new list is to email me that you want to be on it. So if you reply to this email with the word ‘subscribe’, I’ll add you for this week. If you have friends who want on the list, have them email me and I’ll add them.
Write on.
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