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We’ve all watched the sad death spiral of Britain’s Sanctuary Records over the past few years, but I didn’t think it would end up like this: Universal Music Group purchased the company for about forty U.S. cents per share. On…

Mark Cuban wonders aloud whether YouTube’s announcement that popular videos will start earning royalties will spawn a videomakers’ guild or performing rights society along the lines of ASCAP or BMI. It’s an interesting concept, since statutory royalties for songwriters have…

And we’ve got song-by-song discussion on our boards. Track these topics:

If you type the words “songwriting contest” into Google, you’re going to come back with close to a million entries. And that number is growing all the time. Too many scam artists are realizing that it’s far too easy to…

The American Idol songwriting contest is probably the highest profile event of its kind for songwriters in the past ten years, if not more. For all of our talk about the importance of building an audience and playing gigs, songwriters…

They told us that voting on the American Idol songwriting contest would begin on May 2. They just didn’t tell us when. In the meantime, the speculation still abounds about whether or not all twenty finalists have actually been chosen…

It’s still going — over 2,500 posts strong on our first discussion thread, as well as dozens of songs in the song critique area. We’ve just opened up a second American Idol Songwriter discussion thread to keep the server happy…

Lest you think that this weblog has gone “All American Idol, All The Time,” here’s news on another wildly popular subject around here: Burnlounge. David Jackson from Musician’s Cooler is hosting a live podcast on Burnlounge this Sunday night, and…

At 4ish on the West Coast, fax machines are buzzing with contracts. I’ve received confirmation from two reliable sources so far that contracts are going out to songwriters who have been selected to compete in the online voting round of…

UPDATE – APRIL 27: Big, huge, fun American Idol liveblog + discussion happening on our new discussion boards. If so, we’d love to hear it! A number of songwriters commenting in a previous thread have started sharing their songs with…