Category: Music

As mentioned earlier in this article I’m a very happy user of the music distribution service of DistroKid, which allows artists to expose their music to the huge audience of the big music services like Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer, etc. DistroKid is amazing simple to handle, has an amazing low yearly fee of $19.99 and will give the artist 100% of the royalties collected by the big stores. All in all an amazing offer for home musicians like me who want to expose their music to a big audience. Make sure to check out the 7% discount code, see below, if you’re interested to sign up with DistroKid.

One of the big success stories of DistroKid is the band Jack & Jack. Watch Philip J. Kaplan, the owner of DistroKid, unboxing the Gold Record of the Jack & Jack song “Like That”.

This is the song behind the Gold Record. Jack & Jack are very popular in Social Media, they have 2,5 million Followers just on Instagram. A Gold Record means that they have sold more than 500,000 copies of “Like That” through the music distribution service of DistroKid, keeping 100% of their royalties. Respect!

Hearing the radio today I immediately fell in love with a new song from Alecia Beth Moore alias Pink. Different to previous Pink songs “What about us” is now almost a dance song with beautiful melodic phases throughout the whole song. Co-written by Johnny McDaid (who produced e.g. for Snow Patrol, Paul van Dyk and Ed Sheeren) and Steve McCutcheon (who also produced for Ed Sheeran and e.g. Robin Schulz and Clean Bandit), this song has a wonderful build-up phase with a low-pass filtered piano and then releases its full power after the break at 2:32 min. The original video distracts too much from the music and could have been even more in a dance style but the lyrics video is just perfect, it keeps the focus on the music. Great work of Alecia, Johnny and Steve!

Seeb meets OneRepublic in a cooperation for the song “Rich Love”: It has the Seeb signature in the pitched lyric line “Hey man nice to meet you” of the refrain and of course it has the unique voice of OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder. Just wishing they would have used some photography elements of their superb @onerepublic Instagram page for the video. Great work – more please!

Coldplay has just released another song which confirms once again that they are a special band: “Miracles (Someone special)” has quite a long introduction and build-up phase but then releases a heavenly refrain melody: A little off-beat together with the guitar pad and Chris Martins voice generate a magic atmosphere in the refrain. The very expressive video clips during the refrain match perfectly to the music an lyrics (I love the baseball scene at 1:51 min and the look of the woman at 2:11 min). Brilliant work once again. I’m just wondering who accidentally pressed the mute button three times at the beginning of the song – this is probably a new type of “ear-catcher”.

The song “photograph”, released in 2015, is one of the mega-hits of Ed Sheeran.

In May 2011 the German singer/songwriter Andreas Bourani published his song “Nur in meinem Kopf” with remarkable opening chords.

In February 2012 Nickelback released his song “Lullaby” – using remarkable chords.

I’m happy to share with you my public Spotify “Zweimal Sommer” playlist, containing all the music embedded in my blog in chronological order. Enjoy and Follow to stay tuned!

If a melody is great, it sounds great in many different music genres. The song “Use Somebody” is a very good example. The original melody was published by Kings of Leon in 2008 as a pop/rock song.

The same melody also sound beautiful in this acoustic version of Laura Jansen.

Finally Armin von Buuren did a nice job converting it into an EDM/trance song.

Music is an amazing phenomenon. There are no rules, it just captures feelings, emotions and creates an atmosphere which is specific for each song.
“Slowly” (Despacito) is climbing up the charts anything else than slowly. The facts are absolutely stunning.
It is #1 in the Spotify “Global Top 50” playlist with 6.5 million streams per day! The next song following is 2 million streams behind – this distance is more than what other “Global Top 50” songs have as their total daily stream!
When the song “Gangam style” by Psy was released in 2012, it broke the view limit of Youtube in 2014, which was the 32 Bit integer maximum value of 2,147,483,647 views at this time. Youtube had to change their code and is now using a 64 Bit integer value.
However, since 2012 “Gangam style” now collected 2.8 billion views in a period of 5 years.
The song “Hello” by Adele was another phenomenon: released in October 2015 it now collected 1.9 billion views in a period of a little more than 1.5 years.
This is the unbelievable:
Despacito was released in January this year and has now collected 2.1 billion views is a period of only 5 months! Stunning!
It’s played everywhere, therefore here just a cover version which I like because of the female/male voice mix.