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Shane Whalen

A Conversation with American Songwriter Song Contest’s Shane Whalen

Songwriters – this one’s for you! Play MPE has been working with American Songwriter Song Contest for a couple of years now and we are pleased to offer you a sneak peek behind the scenes with Contest Manager Shane Whalen! Leading up to the contest deadline on January 30th, 2023, Shane spoke with our team’s […]

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Before and After Your Record Release (Part One)

A two-part Blog You made a great record. 12 songs, ready for streaming, sounds amazing. Every single person who hears it says this is your breakthrough. This is THE ONE. This is where you remember that setting up a music release is just as important as making the music. A solid pre-release can take you […]

Art of Booking Promotion – International Songwriting Competition

Attention Songwriters! Our partners at International Songwriting Competition are offering a special promo called ART OF BOOKING. From Oct 19-26, 2022 you can enter your songs and potentially win a number of fantastic prizes that will help you to book better gigs and build an audience far and wide! ISC knows that performing is an […]

It’s time to promote your Holiday music!

Ho, ho, how is it already THAT time of year? Yes, our yearly reminder to send your Holiday Music to Play MPE’s Christmas Lists has arrived!  Every year, radio programmers and music supervisors go searching high and low for the merriest and jingle-iest of music to fill their holiday playlists and spruce up their Hallmark […]

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Play MPE Partners with International Songwriting Competition 2022

Songwriters! Let us bend your ear. Play MPE is partnering once again with one of the biggest and most esteemed songwriting competitions on the planet – International Songwriting Competition 2022!   An Interview with ISC’s Jim Morgan With the Sept 21st deadline fast approaching, we took a moment to sit down with Jim Morgan, Marketing […]

A Conversation with Sally Dige

If you ask folk-pop artist Sally Dige, (pronounced Dee-ah) forging a music career path is like setting up a game of Dominos. Once you take the time to arrange the game pieces, you will hopefully get to watch a cascade of successes come your way, one after the other. The key is to have the […]

Music and NFTs – an Interview with NFTLX’s Caden Stobart

An NFT. Let’s get this out of the way: An NFT is a Non-Fungible Token … a non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain.* You need crypto currency to buy an NFT, and once it’s yours, you can sell it or trade it. It’s probably easier to understand when you’re in the thick of […]

This is Not a Love Song

(This is Not a) Love Song

Let’s all agree on one thing right now: Valentine’s Day sort of sucks. Even if you have a Valentine, it raises this weird bar, and why? Does it really prove your love if you get your significant other a gift? Your partner may be canoodling with everyone but you so what does a really nice […]