Key Contribution

Every Sunday I send out the Sunday Night Email to songwriters, producers and publishers with the latest Spotify and Radio charts along with how long each song is, the tempo and the main chord progression…and the writers and producers of each track. It’s fascinating watching the trends.

On the top of the email I write a little blurb before going to the charts. The one from a couple weeks ago is worth re-sharing here:

As songwriters the goal is to figure out what your key contribution most often is and then put yourself in a position to contribute that over and over.


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The Music Business Game

Maybe it’s not a game to be won…but rather a game to be played.

Where the reward for being good at it is simply the opportunity to keep playing.

The music business is an amazing crazy game of puzzles. And if you approach it with the goal of continually playing the game, rather than of beating the game, it’s a pretty great game.

***First Monday of the month: new Hum Love playlist up on Spotify and Apple Music.

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Hype And Gasoline

Hype is really fun when you have the stuff.

Because when you have the stuff it isn’t hype, it’s gasoline.

So it’s important to remember: you’re in the business of fire not gasoline.

Keep building it.

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Bandaids

The bandaid is at its most powerful when it’s not actually being used for what the box says to use it for. The bandaid is most powerful for kids ages two to five.

It cures a headache

It calms and upset stomach

It makes a finger stop hurting

It makes a bruise feel better

It takes care of an itchy bug bite

The kids believe in the bandaids, which make them work, which makes the parents believe in the bandaids, which makes the parents apply bandaids to the kids.

Belief in the treatment.

If it works and it makes things better for everyone, does it really matter what the box says the bandaid is suppose to be used for?


***And music has been known to cure much more.

***Important note about the bandaid…the bandaid gets all the credit, but the love and care by which the bandaid is applied makes all the difference.

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Power Of Yet

He isn’t a very good drummer…yet.

They just don’t understand…yet.

There aren’t enough people at the shows…yet.

The ‘yet’ unlocks the current situation and gives the freedom to grow. It gives the person dignity to not be bound to the same reality forever. It paints life as something in motion, something evolving rather than as-is.

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The Fairly Optimistic Voice

That fairly optimistic voice of yours that comes out when you’re getting coffee and you run into someone you know and they ask How’s it going?…Where does that voice go when that conversation is finished?

For most, once that conversation is finished and you’re alone with your thoughts once again…that voice takes a back seat to a much more pessimistic, anxious voice. And that’s the voice you talk to yourself with.

It’s not that the first voice isn’t there anymore…it’s just waiting for another turn to speak up.

Don’t wait for another chance encounter at the coffee shop. Train that fairly optimistic voice to speak up to yourself too.

***Then the next question: Which voice is true? And the answer is always both. Trying to figure out which one is true is merely a distraction from choosing which one you’re going to give credence to.


***Yes, it should have been Effects rather than Affects in the title of yesterdays post. Wow, that was a big one that slipped by me. Thanks to those who buzzed me, and to those who missed it…your odviously inn gud companie.

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