ole Lands Lead Single 'Why Wait' From Upcoming Rascal Flatts Album

ole has landed the lead single "Why Wait" from Rascal Flatts' upcoming album Nothing Like This for their new label, Big Machine Records. A co-write of Jimmy Yeary, Neil Thrasher and Tom Shapiro, the single was most added at country radio the first week out and currently sits at number 16 on the Mediabase chart. The album, the seventh studio release from Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, members of country music's most awarded group of the millennium, rolls out on November 16.

4th Consecutive CCMA Music Publisher of the Year Nomination Reflects ole Commitment to Country Community

ole, the 2009 Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Publishing Company of the Year, has been nominated for the fourth consecutive time in the category in which it has prevailed for the past three years. The company, which is one of the world's largest independent music publishers, was honoured as CCMA Music Publisher of the Year for 2007, the first time in 15 years that an independent music publisher had won the category; 2008 and 2009.

New Roots Three Music/ole Signing Dean Brody Calls Deal 'A Good Fit'

As rising songwriter/recording artist Dean Brody, who has enjoyed chart success on both sides of the border over the course of his first two albums, signed his recent worldwide publishing deal with ole, he characterized the arrangement as a good fit because of ole's multi-genre success and focus. He was looking forward to broadening his songwriting horizons. "I love all kinds of stuff," says Brody, who's currently in the upper echelon of the charts in Canada with his latest single, "Roll That Barrel Out." "Songwriting can get so boring if you just write in the same genre all the time. Sometimes it's just fun to dabble in other things or try and mix genres or not care what you are aiming for just to see where a song takes you. I became a songwriter by just listening."

ole Defines 'Majorly Indie' with 19 Cuts in 60 Days

ole's Nashville-based Chief Creative Officer Gilles Godard has a number of reasons to be smiling these day – 19 of them, in fact, in the wake of the recent placement of that number of cuts over a 60-day period. "Most major publishers would be happy to be in this situation," notes Godard. "ole is 'Majorly Indie,' and we're making it happen."

Ole/Roots Three's Steven Lee Olsen Cut On The Judds' New Album

As a writer, ole/Roots Three's Steven Lee Olsen is hot as a fire cracker these days. The Olsen song "I Will Stand by You," co-written with Robert Ellis Orrall and Angelo [Petraglia], producer of Kings of Leon, is seriously making the rounds. Significantly, The Judds, one of the most successful duos in history, have cut it for their next album. It was the first single release and hit for Open Road Recordings artists High Valley, who are nominated this year for CCMA Rising Star honours. It is also an Australia-only release for Peter McWhirter, who records for ABC down-under, and is currently number 17 on the CMC video countdown, Australia's main chart.

ole Legacy Writer Liz Rose's Cut 'Liar's Lie' Part of 'County Strong' Film and Soundtrack

"Liars Lie," written by ole Legacy writer Liz Rose with Sally Barris and Morgane Hayes and performed by Lee Ann Womack, will be featured as a sync in the upcoming Gwyneth Paltrow/Tim McGraw movie Country Strong that will have a limited release to theaters on December 22, expanding on January 7. "Liars Lie" is also on the soundtrack to be released by RCA Nashville on October 26.

ole CCO Gilles Godard Earns BMI Million-Air Award as Writer

There aren't many Chief Creative Officers with a BMI Million-Air Award for a song that has aired more than a million times on radio but count ole's CCO Gilles Godard as one of the rare few. "I Wanna Do It All," a song that he co-wrote with fellow ole writer Rick Giles and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Tim Nichols in 2000 and recorded in 2002 by Terri Clark currently has 1.8 million plays at radio. It was a huge single for Clark in 2004 and actually went to number one in various territories around the world.

Songwriter and Open Road Recordings artist Dean Brody, who has turned heads recently as an emerging songwriting talent and rising star in the country music world, has signed a worldwide publishing deal with ole. Brody, who had a cross-border hit with the single "Brothers" from his self-titled debut album on Broken Bow Records in the U.S., is currently riding high with the Top 20 single "Roll That Barrel Out" from his sophomore album, Trail in Life.

A host of songwriters will be swinging for the fences – or in this case, for a music publishing deal and ultimately the top of the music charts – as they participate in ole's Hitsville competition on Saturday, September 11, during the CCMA's Country Music Week celebrations in Edmonton.

As part of ole's on-going commitment to the support and development of emerging talent and the creator community as a whole, the company recently joined The ASCAP Foundation for the third year in supporting the ASCAP Television and Film Scoring Workshop, which was held recently over a 25-day period in Los Angeles.

Discovery Channel, for which ole handles publishing administration for Canada, continues to outperform most of its specialty channel competitors particularly in the key A25-54 demo where it ranks number four in the ratings with a 28 percent increase in total viewers compared to last year.

ole hitsource – Nashville 2010, a collaborative writing jam featuring SYCO, Simon Cowell's entertainment co-venture with Sony, wrapped at the end of July following the gathering of 15 world-class songwriters. The focus was the creation of a body of great songs for SYCO artists Joe McElderry, a U.K. X-Factor winner, and perennial U.K. chart toppers, Westlife.

In recent ole/Last Gang TV placement news, Senior Creative Manager Elizabeth Spear has landed a number of TV syncs for Let's Go To War including their popular track "Burn Down the Disco," which will soon be heard in the new adult animated comedy TV series The Dating Guy on Teletoon and "Pennychaser," which will be featured in an upcoming episode of the long-running, award-winning teen drama TV series, Degrassi: The Next Generation. The group's track "Push Up Ya Lighta" has been licensed into the upcoming Vision TV series, She's the Mayor.

Doc Walker, the current title holders of CCMA Group of the Year, have picked up five nominations for the upcoming CCMA Awards including Songwriter(s) of the Year for their Top 10 hit "If I Fall," which is also up for Single of the Year. The song was a co-write of group members and ole/Roots Three writers Chris Thorsteinson and Dave Wasyliw with the band's guitarist Murray Pulver. The group, which will perform live on the 2010 CCMA Awards broadcast which airs on CBC and CMT on Sept. 12, is also in the running for the Fans' Choice Award, Album of the Year (GO) and Group or Duo of the Year.

With renowned Los Angeles-based composers and production music entrepreneurs Eric Cunningham and Chris Lang on board, 25,000 tracks of music ready in the Nelvana Production Music and Attitude brands and the arrival of Ross Hardy as Manager, Production Music, ole is locked and loaded for a Fall launch of ole production music. The company's online vendor site and decision engine, productionmusicnow, will allow clients one-stop access to an elite Library offering. Intuitive search, automated licensing and features such as auto-cue sheets are designed to deliver leading-edge client service for busy creators in other media. In handing off this project to Ross Hardy, Elizabeth Spear, Senior Creative Manager notes "it's been exciting to build this project from the ground up and apply the practices and principles used in creating musicnow into the realm of production music libraries."

Ross Hardy, who recently joined ole as Manager, Production with responsibility for the company's soon to be launched productionmusicnow initiative and ole's elite music production library, is unambiguous about the job he has taken on: "This is going to be a top-line production music library that services the world. It has outstanding backing and we certainly have the personnel to make it one of the top libraries globally."

It's not often that a promotional item becomes an instant collectible but it seems that ole has created such a piece with Liz Rose's Notebook, a facsimile reproduction of a notebook used by hit songwriter Liz Rose complete with her jottings, inserts that replicate items of memorabilia from her day-to-day life and a CD showcasing the depth of the prolific songwriter's catalog.

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 Mike Sebastian.