October 30th, 2024
The Count Down to Holiday Music Is On
You missed out!
The clock is ticking, what are you waiting for? Retailers will begin flipping to Christmas day after tomorrow!!! It's time to submit your song for the 9th Annual What's In-Store Music Holiday Program. Use the buttons below to learn more about it and to submit your song today! If your release isn't quite ready yet but you plan to participate, please e-mail Scott Emerson , Scott@whatsin-storemusic.com so we can reserve a spot for you.
Say Hello To Our Holiday Spotify List
Since we're focused on the holidays this week, it's as good a time as any to introduce you to our Spotify Playlist, What's In-Store Music: holiday edition. It's full of songs from past and present participants in the Annual What's In-Store Music Holiday Program. Many of which you already know and love, like these holiday favorites.
Gwen Stefani
"You Make It Feel Like Christmas"
Eagles
"Please Come Home For Christmas"
Donny & Lalah Hathaway
"This Christmas"
Otis Redding
"Merry Christmas, Baby"
almost monday
"Jupiter"
Newly Added to The What's In-Store Music Spotify Playlist
Emilia Vaughn
"Draw On My Jeans"
DINER
"So Happy It Hurts"
What's In-Store Music Artists have been heard in these fine locations!
What's In-Store Music has added a new Spotify playlist called What's In-Store Music Hits The Gym. It features the fantastic artists and songs placed in the Planet Fitness program. Please enjoy responsibly.
Alan Walker, Joe Jonas, Julia Michaels
"Thick Of It All"
On Monstercat
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Alexander James Rodriguez
"Ride Or Die"
"The night we filmed the video, the song had just released. It was a last minute 'Hey let's make a cool visual.' Santee Alley in the Fashion District of Los Angeles was locking up, street sweepers were washing down the road and scooping up the bags of rubbish. The four of us (my mom, Brian on camera, Jordan on sax and I) rocked up with one battery powered light and one camera. There were mannequins still being pulled inside from that days trading, people were hugging and headed home. We stood on the corner and my mom pressed play on the portable speaker for the song. Her vision was super clear. A sax player practicing on the empty alley and a lonesome character kicking around the street waiting to tell his story, to anyone that would listen, of his girl who was fearlessly independent but always his ride or die. For the music video edit I was inspired by the use of cinematic split screen transitions, a technique which signals a certain stylization so as to divide the audiences attention between my character and that of the saxophone player. We were teaching ourselves how to do it as we were editing. I also taught myself how to mix the natural street sounds of Downtown LA during filming and Jordan's live tenor saxophone with that of the alto saxophone used at the beginning of the song itself. Blending the two saxophones to make the video music was so incredibly hard!"
- Alexander James Rodriguez
Submit Your High Energy Top40, Dance, EDM, Alternative, or Latin Dance Song
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Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors ft. Vince Gill
"Green Light"
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Video of the Week:
Shab
"Swerve"
Hayes Warner
"Predator"
On Glassnote
Out & About with Taylor Jules
& Maryjo Young
Wednesday, October 16th at the Hotel Café in Hollywood, CA
It's always a great night at The Hotel Café in Hollywood, but Wednesday October 16th was extra special. Not only was I able to catch up with and enjoy new tunes from What's In-Store Music artist, Taylor Jules, but I was also introduced to the talented, American Idol, season 19 contestant, and Cleveland's own Maryjo Young. Both ladies ran the gamete, performing crowd favorites, while working out brand new songs they'd just written…Like, that day. Taylor highlighted her newly released single Waterfall, out now on all platforms, and Maryjo, wowed the crowd with her latest release, Nothing To Lose. Check out the links below for more on both terrific artists.
Have a great week,
Scott Emerson