Our Clients - News and Highlights.
NEWS FROM OUR CLIENTS -
This year alone we've received so many
stories from our clients about what they
were able to achieve with our productions,
whether it's Tv/Film placements, artist
cuts, songwriting contest grand prizes,
publishing deals, first time acceptance from
movie/tv submission companies like Taxi, or
outstanding ratings and reviews from sites
like GarageBand.com and Broadjam.
Below are just a few of the recent selected
achievements we've been notified of from our
clients.
Have you had recent success with your demo
from AWritersParadise.com?
Email us and let us know!
Your success might be the one we showcase on
the next update!! LATEST NEWS!!!
In the last 6 months alone,
AWritersParadise has produced 2 major label
cuts on Universal/Republic, multiple network
television placements including NETFLIX,
HULU, PRIME VIDEO, "NBC's THE
EVENT", MTV, CBS, SPIKE TV, and E!, produced
this year's winning Grand Prize country song
in the International John Lennon Songwriting
Contest, the Grand Prize in the Annual
Unisong International Songwriting
Competition, Grand prize in the SongDoor
International Songwriting Competition,
multiple #1 "Song Of The Month" awards at
the SongUniverse Competition, and over 80+
publishing contracts obtained from our
clients by submitting our productions!
Will YOU be next? and... what are you waiting for? :) This month, AWriter'sParadise produced two separate winning demos for both the Songwriter Universe and Singer Universe competitions!
Congrats to Randall Lee Richards for landing at #4 on the Country U.S iTunes Chart, #8 Worldwide, and over a million streams in the first 4 weeks for his song "One Drink Longer" which AWriter's Paradise produced, mixed, mastered, and promoted.
Congrats to Rudy Gunn for reaching #1 in Canada on the BILLBOARD COUNTRY CHARTS with his song "Queen of the Barstool Rodeo" which AWriter's Paradise produced, mixed, mastered, and licensed.
Congrats to Driver Williams of the Eric Church Band for his new publishing deal with "BIG DEAL MUSIC". We've done plenty of killer demo production work for the fine folks in the Eric Church band!
Congrats to star guitarist BLAZE! We
did a production for Blaze which was a song
idea he had about wanting to "jam with Brad
Paisley". He shot a video for it,
uploaded it, and within a few days Brad
Paisley saw it and accepted the jam.
Brad Paisley invited him up on stage to jam
with him in concert. Since then, Blaze
has went on to play on Blake Shelton's
studio albums and tours with The Swon
Brothers (featured on THE VOICE) and even
plays the Grand Ole Opry.
AWriter's Paradise productions have now
surpassed 300,000,000 (yes.. 300 MILLION)
streams on Spotify and Youtube alone!!
Radio-ready / Release-ready productions make
ALL the difference. Your
listeners know the difference between a
"demo" and major-label sounding polished
production that competes with the BEST of
them.. at a fraction of the budget they
spend.
Congrats to Adam Whitehead whose song we
produced "The Way Whitley Done It" entered
the top 100 Music Row Country Breakout
Charts. Also, debuting on several different
charts on U.S. Billboard including #31 on
Emerging Artists as well as #45 on Album
Sales and #75 on current album sales.
Congrats to Tre Principesse.
AWritersParadise produced their album
which reached #2 in America this week on the
Billboard Classical Charts! It was a
pleasure producing, mixing, and mastering
your hit record!
Congrats to Jeff Goffman for reaching #9 on
the Top 40 Australian Country Charts on
January 20th, 2024 with our production of
his song "Forever and Ever Boo".
Congrats to Bobby Joe Peace and David Loew
for landing a deal with SONY MUSIC with
their AWritersParadise production of "I SEE
YOU LOVE". Submitted originally to us
with lyrics only and a rough melody, Sony
loved our full production of the song.
Congrats to Jim Burnevik for having your
song "Steamin' Hot" placed on the CW hit tv
show HART OF DIXIE, not once but twice.
AWritersParadise recently worked with
grammy award winning country star Linda
Davis to produce live band tracks for her
shows. She is known best for her
hit duet with Reba McEntire "Does He Love
You (Like He Loves Me). She is also
the mother of Lady Antebellum singer,
Hillary Scot.
Congrats to David Loew
and BJ Peace for having their song chosen by
hit songwriter Sandy Ramos (Dixie
Chicks/Faith Hill) to co-write and pitch
after hearing the AWritersParadise
production of "Them Country Girls".
This was another song submitted to us as
lyrics only with a rough melody hummed into
a phone!
Congrats to Damien Hosken -
We created full productions from his
"vocal-only-melody into an iphone" worktapes
and he submitted our finished work and won
the U.K National Songwriting Contest Prize
amongst many other recent wins!
Congrats to Ken Noguera for having 5 of our
recent productions each be awarded "Top 5
Song of The Month" on Songwriter Universe
Magazine as well as multiple wins at the
2023 Dallas Songwriting Association
Competition.
AWritersParadise is
responsible for 8 of the top 10 songs on
BROADJAM's "TOP RATED MUSIC ON EARTH" charts
- Out of over 300,000 songs submitted... to
have one song is an honor, but to have 9 of
the top 10??.. wow.. that says alot!
Congrats to Clayton Saunders who just
won "Best Gospel Song of the Year" at the
Tamworth Songwriters Association Awards for
the song we produced for him "God Knows"!
Congrats to Stephen Lindsey for your song "You Love Amazing" being placed with NSAI!
Congrats to Rob Cariddi for winning #1 Song Of The Month - at SongUniverse.com and the front page feature of both your writing talents, as well as our production!
Congrats to Ryan Martinez for submitting our
production for "You Didn't Break Me" and
winning not only the Pop Category of the
highly esteemed SongDoor International
Songwriting Contest but also the overall
2010 GRAND PRIZE!
http://www.songdoor.com
Congrats to Paul Cunningham who landed a publishing deal with Pegasus Music by submitting his demo we did for his song "Counting The Days Til' Christmas"
This just in! Debra Gussin's demo we did for
"Is That You" is the grand prize winner of
the world famous International John Lennon
Songwriting Contest! http://www.jlsc.com/
Congratulations Bobby Peace for submitting
your AWritersParadise demos to Sharp Objects
Entertainment / Nashville and landing a
deal!
Congrats to Randy Bishop for
landing a pub deal with Manic Monkey
Entertainment with his AWritersParadise
production.
Congrats Marie Knutsson for landing yet
another publishing deal with a demo we did
for you! This time with Leopard Music
Publishing/ UK with the AWritersParadise
demo for your song "How Do You Fall".
Congrats to Fred Deyette for submitting your
Awriter's Paradise song demos to Crowe
Entertainment/ Nashville and then signing a
contract with them!
Congrats to Jim Burnevik for your licensing on NBC's THE VOICE, as well as NCIS!
Congratulations to Debra Gussin, for your
multiple recent successes with our demos!
Her demo was picked to be the UCLA
Graduation Song and was performed by "Jersey
Boy" star Erich Bergen!
Debra was featured on Women Of Substance
Radio and her song can be heard on their Hot
AC radio show!
Our demo for Debra's song "I'VE ALREADY WON"
also won the POP category of "SHOW ME THE
MUSIC".
Also, our demo for Debra's song "IS THAT
YOU" has just WON the COUNTRY category of
SONGDOOR INTERNATIONAL!
Plus, 4 out of the first 5 demos we've done
for her have all made it to the TOP 5 at the
international songwriting website
SongwriterUniverse.com!
Our client's demo for "Strong Enough" was
picked up by NBC for this Tom Brokaw
special:
http://www.usanetwork.com/highway50/profiles/amanda_bramble.html From
:47 remaining to the end of the segment.
Congrats Colin Bennett , a sony
published writer, for your AWritersParadise
production's feature on CMR Radio Nashville!
Congrats to Jim Burnevik for having your song "Gansta" featured on TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Congrats Rolf and Ryan on your contract with
the legendary Charlie Craig
http://www.charliecraig.com/about.html and
publisher Moe Lytle of Power Play Music.
Congrats Marie Knutsson for landing a
publishing deal with Starlab
Publishing/Hitworks with the demo we did for
your song "Four Lane Highway"
Congrats to Paul Cunningham who landed a
publishing deal in NZ by submitting his demo
we did for his song "Better Than Being
Alone"
GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the 12th annual
Unisong International Songwriter's
competition goes to our client, Ryan
Martinez! Ryan submitted the demo we
produced and composed the music to (using
our music composition service) and has won
the grand prize!! His choice of a one week
all expenses paid writing and performing
retreat to his choice of Ireland, Denmark,
Sweden, Spain, or Big Sur , $2500, plus over
a thousand dollars worth of music software
and online music memberships.
Congrats to John Witherspoon for having your
song "Hold on to the light" placed in the
FOX television series "BONES". The recording
they used was the actual AWritersParadise
demo. As we've always said, our demos don't
sound like demos... they sound like radio
and television masters.. and this only
helps prove it!
Congrats to Jerry Hayden and Patricia
Jones for submitting your 6 AWriter's
Paradise demos to Bunim/Murray and now
receiving a licensing deal from them for MTV
and VH-1! They are using our demos we
made for them in their reality shows! -
February 2009!
Congrats to Laurence E Butterfield Sr!
After writing lyrics only and having our
team compose the music using our music
composition service, we've just learned that
he submitted his demo for "The Heart Commits
Treason" and won SONGOFTHEYEAR.com FIRST
PLACE -COUNTRY CATEGORY!
Congrats to Nathan Bennett for submitting
your AWritersParadise demo and having it
chosen and released by SONY/BMG MUSIC GROUP
on the WINNER of AMERICAN IDOL's Finland
Winner. The album went PLATINUM the
first day of release. Congrats Cara Kirkum
for signing a multi-song publishing deal
with Phantom 4 Music Group after they
received your demos recorded at
AWritersParadise.com. We've also learned
that her songs we produced are now on
ClearChannel Radio!
Congratulations to Chris Valentine for being
listed within TAXI's Top 10 Songwriters and
being listed within the top 10 favorites of
the A&R Staff after submitting demos
recorded at AWritersParadise.com
Congrats to Valerie Stephens whose demo
"Made it to the top" literally did make it
to the top when she was the WINNER of the
VH-1 Christian/Gospel contest at
SONGOFTHEYEAR.com
Congrats to Gary Woods for outstanding
levels of worldwide international
radio airplay. His songs (recorded here at
AWritersParadise) are being played in high
rotation on popular radio formats
in multiple countries around the world
including sattelite radio.
Congrats to Ash Nashed / Blue Granite for
your amazing review in MUSICROW Magazine.
(The reviewer was supplied a CD of songs
recorded here at AWP)
Congrats to Laurence E. Butterfield for your
top 5 hit after submitting your demo to
SongwriterUniverse.com!
Congrats to Gene Reynolds for a top 5 hit on
GarageBand.com! Out of 3,600 songs competing
with him, the demo we produced landed him at
the top of the charts.
Congrats to Ryan Martinez who had
AWritersParadise compose the music to his
lyrics and produce his song "Waking In a
Dream" which went on to become a finalist on
the #1 hit show in America - AMERICAN IDOL -
The song became a top 20 finalist out of
over 30,000 entries!!
Also, congrats to Ryan Martinez who tells
us his demo "I'm Strong Enough" has finished
runner-up in the Folk/Country Category for
the 2006 U.K Songwriting Contest
(out of 4,200 entries!)
Congratulations to Gary Woods for landing a publishing agreement for your entire album "Between Drinks", produced by AWP!
Congratulations to Bill Ekhoff for your demo with us, "I Told A Lie" reaching the semi-finals of the (ISC)! International Songwriting Competition!
Congrats to Timothy Barrett for letting us
know that the production we did on their
song "Goodbye To The City" won them 1st
place, Country Category, in the IndieTunes
Song Contest (indietunes.com)
Congrats to Brian McCabe for landing a
recording deal with Prestige-Elite Records,
who are using 11 songs demo'd by us on
National Recording Artist Don Fardon's new
CD!
Congratulations to Keith Taggart (Liverpool,
England) who submitted the demo we did for
his song "That's Where I Call Home" and won
the GRAND PRIZE in the 5th Annual NSAI/CMT
Song Contest!! Our demo of his song is
featured on the front
page of the official NSAI site
(www.nashvillesongwriters.com) as well as
CMT.com's news section.
Within a month of having his songs demo'd with us, Dave Robbins in June 2005 has signed a SSA with Copperfield Music Group for his songs "A Rebel Son" and "Livin' That Way".
Richard Turner and Hillary Beth entered the
demo they had us do of their awesome
song,"The Spirit Of Another" and won the
VH-1's Song Of The Year (October Round)!
Congratulations! Richard and Hillary!
Geoff Crust's "Stone Cold Embers" cracks top
10 on the independent country charts.
Releasing the very demo we did for him, it
quickly became a success and news of this
success can be found all over the net!
Congratulations Geoff! Germain Brunet's
"Harbor Of Your Heart", recorded @
AWritersParadise, won 1st place in the
September round of the international "Song
of the Year" contest! Also, he is glad to
announce that Cornelius Companies
(Publishing) of Nashville have signed him to
a single-song publishing contract. Also,
"Good at Everything", another great song
demo'd by AWritersParadise, won an Honorable
Mention" in the July round of the
international "Song of the Year"contest.
Congratulations Germain!!
Mark Grayson signs publishing deal with
Walker Publishing! Mark's John
Anderson-esque "I Know It's Wrong" which was
demo'd by AWritersParadise has led him
straight to a single-song publishing
contract with Walker Publishing.
Congratulations Mark!!
Lisa Marie Brennan's "Here Again", demo'd by
AWritersParadise.com, was recorded by
Jessica Hannan, who at the time was only 14
years old and won a talent competition
through Sonic Records. The song was
released as a single to radio by Sonic
Records and received radio play in Jessica's
home town of Ohio. It was played on
one station 6-10 times per day and received
so many requests that it became a fan
favorite. It was also aired on the
songwriter Lisa Marie Brennan's local radio
station. Jessica also included this
song on her debut album a year later.
"Here Again" has also been used in
films, as well as being recently recorded by
Australian Identical Twins Nadinne & Candice
Riddell, known as "Double Vision" for
their debut album. They already have a
music video to one of the songs on their
debut album that is playing daily on CMT
(The Country Music Channel) in Australia,
and plan to do a music video to "Here Again"
in the future, which should also play on
CMT. * Here Again was also recorded by
Ashley Culler on her debut album.
Ashley did her own version of "Here Again."
"Where Were You" another song of Lisa's
demo'd by AWritersParadise.com, has also
been included in many films and movies.
Recently, recording artist David Eli
recorded "Where Were You" which will be on
his 2nd album titled, "Battle Ground."
Congratulations Lisa!!