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> ole NEWS
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> ole Wins Two SESAC Awards For Liz Rose/Taylor Swift Hits
ole is proud to be the recipient of two SESAC Nashville Music Awards last week for the chart-topping Taylor Swift hits “Picture To Burn” and “Teardrops On My Guitar.”
Co-written with Swift by 2007 SESAC Songwriter of the Year Liz Rose, ole was awarded a Country Performance Activity Award for “Picture To Burn and a Recurrent Country Performance Activity Award for “Teardrops On My Guitar.”
The Liz Rose publishing share of both Swift hits ...
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> Taylor Swift's Fearless Puts ole At The Top Of The Charts
Easily one of the most anticipated albums of the year, Taylor Swift’s Fearless sailed to the top of North American retail charts this week on sales of 592,000 units - 129,000 of which were digital downloads.
And we’re right there with three Liz Rose songs – “Fearless,” “Tell Me Why,” and “White Horse” – all published by ole.
This is the largest opening U.S. sales week in 2008 by a female artist ...
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> How Liz Rose and Taylor Swift Wrote the Hits
Liz Rose, co-author of such ole-published Taylor Swift chart-toppers as “Tim McGraw,” “Picture To Burn” and 2008 BMI Country Song of the Year “Teardrops On My Guitar,” said she fell into the career of songwriter by accident.
“I actually started out as a song plugger and a publisher myself,” says the 2007 SESAC Songwriter of the Year. “I had a publishing company called King Lizard Music.
“And I was a Mom with three kids. I had just written a little bit.”
She sold the publishing company to music executive ...
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> Ron Kitchener Delivers 'Taylor Swift' to Canada On Open Road
ole/Roots Three Music’s Ron Kitchener plays a predominant role in the domestic country music scene and through his agreement with Nashville-based Big Machine Records, Kitchener’s label also represents one of the biggest country artist of the moment, Taylor Swift.
Open Road Recordings shipped over 50,000 copies – Canadian gold – of Swift’s Fearless to retail outlets this week. Kitchener said he was hoping that the ducks would align so that the country phenomenon’s sophomore album would eventually surpass Taylor Swift’s multi-platinum ...
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> Taylor Swift/ole Songs In Synch With Grey's Anatomy and CMT Crossroads
Three ole-published songs co-written by Liz Rose and recorded by teenage sensation Taylor Swift have been seen and heard by millions of people, thanks to recent placements in top-rated TV programs.
On September 25, “White Horse,” from her No. 1 album Fearless, was placed in the season premiere episode of Grey’s Anatomy by special request of the show’s creator and executive producer, Shonda Rhimes.
Over 18 million viewers heard the song a full six weeks before it was released via Fearless on Big Machine ...
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> The Story Behind The Taylor Swift ole Songs
In just two short years, country and pop singer and songwriter Taylor Swift has sold 5 million albums – and we’re just at the start of the cycle for Fearless.
Songs co-written by Liz Rose that were acquired by ole through its purchase of the Jody William Music catalogue have played a prominent role in that tally.
“I love writing with Liz,” Taylor Swift has said. “When we write, I usually come in with a melody and some lyric content, and then we’ll work on creating the rest of the song. She’s a really good song editor.”
Rose has contributed seven ole-published songs to the 3.7 million selling Taylor Swift; two ole-published songs ...
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> NEW RELEASES
Taylor Swift
Fearless
(Big Machine)
"Fearless"
"Tell Me Why"
"White Horse"
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Tohoshinki
Mirotic
(Avex)
"Flower Lady"
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Peter Fox
Stadtaffe
(Warner)
"Schittel Deinen Speck"
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Craig Morgan
That’s Why
(SonyBMG)
"Ordinary Angels"
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Mother Mother
O My Heart
(Last Gang Records)
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Kristy Lee Cook
Why Wait
(19/Arista)
"15 Minutes Of Shame""Like My Mother Does"
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O’Luge
Movements
(Last Gang Records)
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Gretchen Wilson
(SonyBMG)
"Don't Do Me No Good"
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Anne Murray
Anne Murray’s Christmas Album
(EMI)
"Another Pot O’ Tea"
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Dru
The One
(Fontana North)
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Tara Oram
Chasing The Sun
(Open Road / Universal)
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Jordan Pruitt
Permission To Fly
(Hollywood)
"Unconditional"
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Kreesha Turner
Passion
(EMI)
"Dear John"
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Justin Nozuka
Holly
(Coalition Ent.)
"After Tonight"
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Aaron Pritchett
Thankful
(OPM/604/Universal)
"How Do I Get There"
"Thankful"
"Simple"
"Nothing But Us"
"Undeniable"
"Unraveling"
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Lighthouse
One Fine Morning
(now available digitally)
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Lighthouse
Sunny Days
(now available digitally)
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Lighthouse
Thoughts Of Moving On
(now available digitally)
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Lighthouse
Can You Feel It
(now available digitally)
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Lighthouse
Good Day
(now available digitally)
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