JUNO win a heart-warming tribute to the late ole/tanjola artist Haydain Neale

It was like he never left us as the late ole/tanjola artist Haydain Neale of jacksoul had his single "Lonesome Highway" pay him the posthumous honour of a third JUNO Award in the category of R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at this year's 39th Annual JUNO Awards in St. John's, Newfoundland/Labrador. Neale had previously taken home the 2001 and 2007 awards in that same category. Neale's widow, Michaela, and jacksoul band member, Ron Lopata, were in attendance to accept the award on his behalf.

ole Singer/Songwriter Tebey: Around the World in 80 Songs...and Counting

ole singer/songwriter Tebey, Canadian-born but currently a Nashville resident, considers himself a "global writer." Now, don't get him wrong, this is no Travels with My Aunt tourist thing. This is more like Around the World in 80 Songs...and counting.

ole continues to build its presence on Music Row with the acquisition of the approximately 4000-song strong music publishing catalog of Blacktop Music Group, Inc. along with its names, brands and trademarks. Founded in 2001 by multi-platinum recording artist Clint Black, noted business manager Charles Sussman and veteran music publisher Mike Sebastian, the company has been home to some of Nashville's finest and most prolific hit songwriters.

As part of a continuing endeavour to improve efficiencies in-house and in dealing with clients, ole has launched adminow, a site commonly defined as a "transparency module" which gives clients the ability to see their royalty accounts and song registration data, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. adminow complements ole's expert, global customer service, and delivers the immediate transparency you've come to expect from mainstream financial institutions.

As part of ole's reciprocal arrangement with BMG Rights Management (BMG-RM) in the pan-European territory, ole has acquired the rights to Leona Lewis' songwriting for Canada and will sub-publish the Crosstown Songs catalog in this country.

ole/tanjola writers Shiloh and Justin Forsley have a number of co-writes in the German film Hanni und Nanni, which is set for a June 17th release in Germany. Their musical contribution includes "Wild Side", cut by The Black Sheep (Roadrunner Germany), and "Here with You". The film was inspired by The Twins at St. Clare's, one in a series of six books about a boarding school of that name by British children's author Enid Blyton; and the songs were written as part of ole/BMG Rights Management's co-presented Euro songcamp held in Berlin.

One of Last Gang's most recent signings is Montréal's Mark Sultan, whose second album under his given name, identified simply as $ (pronounced Status) has been released on the Last Gang Records label. It follows up his 2007 opus, Sultanic Verses. The Montreal Mirror newspaper's Johnson Cummins named Sultan's $ CD "Disc of the Week" in giving it 9-out-of-10. He notes that Sultan is "…showcasing his immense knowledge of '50s doo-wop, '60s soul and '70s punk on his most sonically adventurous moment yet. Things are rough and raw as ever, but as raucous and cacophonous as he can get here, it's still his serious, soul-encrusted croon and expert songwriting talent, with nods to the early years of rock 'n' roll, that really make this undeniably unique and rewarding."

ole's Majorly Indie Show at The Rutledge Live Music Venue in Nashville on the night of March 30th was the kick off for the 18th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival, four days of great music from the source – the songwriters – as they set about "igniting Music City with song."

Taylor Swift continues to hold a Top 10 spot on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the ole song "Fearless" (Liz Rose and Taylor Swift), from her smash album of the same name which continues to enjoy a lengthy stay in the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart, Top 5 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and number one on Billboard's Top Country Catalog Albums chart.

Kenny Chesney will perform his number one ole single "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" (co-written by Jim Collins and Marty Dodson) on The Oprah Winfrey Show airing on May 14th. The song was released as Chesney's first single from his 2008 Lucky Old Sun album and went on to become his thirty-eighth Top 40 country hit and his fifteenth number one. ole recently acquired the song through the purchase of the Blacktop Music Group Publishing catalog.

Country singer and American Idol alum Bucky Covington unveils his new ole single, "A Father's Love (The Only Way He Knew How)," (written by Liz Hengber, Thom Shepherd and Steve Williams), which has just entered the Billboard Top 40. The song is featured on his upcoming sophomore album I'm Alright, due out this fall.

Kenny Chesney's number one ole single "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" can be heard in movie theaters nationwide this month for a limited engagement as part of his live concert feature, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D. The footage was captured from his live Sun City Carnival tour and is being released via Sony Pictures special programming division The Hot Ticket.

The Canadian Tenors' self-titled album, featuring the ole song "Watching Over Me" (written by J. Lenz, C. Dickens), has spent more than seven weeks at number one on Billboard's Top Classical and Classical/Crossover Albums in Canada, and has just this month broken the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart.

ole/Roots Three Music's Steven Lee Olsen enjoys a Top 15 spot on Billboard's Top Emerging Canadian Artists chart for his album Make Hay While The Sun Shines, which features a song by the same name co-written by Olsen and ole's Bruce Wallace. The song is also enjoying activity on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 Airplay chart.

One More Girl holds a spot on Billboard's Top Emerging Canadian Artists chart at #22 for their album Big Sky, which features the ole song "Tumblin' Tears," co-written by ole's Bruce Wallace.

Jacksoul's JUNO Award winning song "Lonesome Highway" (2010 R&B/Soul Recording of the Year) from the album SOULmate continues to hold a Top 25 position on Billboard's Canadian A/C Airplay charts.

ole/Last Gang Publishing artists featured on upcoming episodes of E1’s Shattered include Silver Starling (“Blue Light”), Mother Mother (“Sleep Awake”) and Magneta Lane (“Lady Bones.”)

ole/tanjola writers Shiloh and Justin Forsley have a number two songs in the German film Hanni und Nanni, set for a June 17th release in Germany. The featured songs "Wild Side" and "Here with You" were written as part of ole/BMG Rights Management's co-presented Euro songcamp held in Berlin last fall.

The ole classic hit, "Black Velvet" will be featured in an upcoming episode of Fast Track to Fame, a one-hour talent show with amateur vocalists, dancers and variety acts airing on Speed. The song was also featured in the promo airing during NASCAR's April 18th race.

When Angela Fex arrived at ole from the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) in October of 2009, she was immediately struck by the company's penchant for growth in tough times and the scope of their day-to-day business. "I know it raised my game quite a bit because we deal with a wide range of rights and get income from around the world," notes Angela, whose focus is on ole's catalog and futures, including song registrations, royalties, variances and sub-publishing relationships. "My work at CMRRA was limited to the Canadian territory, even though we dealt with some U.S. publishers. Working at ole has broadened my horizons and put me on a world-scale map."

Michael Greaves, Account Manager, Film and Television, arrived at ole in November 2009 shortly after the company's publishing co-ownership and worldwide administration deal with his former employer Cookie Jar Entertainment and their growing music catalogue. ole is one of the largest publishers of children's TV music in the world. Michael's hiring was timely in the light of the Cookie Jar deal and the recent signing of a co-ownership deal with Random House Children's Entertainment for all the compositions in the children's TV series The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That.

ole continues its support as a proud sponsor of ASCAP's 2010 I Create Music Expo, held April 22nd through 24th in Hollywood.

ole will once again sponsor ASCAP's 15th Annual Key West Songwriters Festival, held April 28th through May 1st in Florida.

David Weitzman, ole's Director of Business Development, recently attended MIPTV in Cannes, France—narrowly escaping the airline groundings in Europe, resulting from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano.

Each month we feature the top ten songs in the ole catalogue as selected by one of the staff in our creative group. Here are the Top 10 pics from Arthur Buenahora.