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“Dethroned” from David Elise

October 13, 2022 by admin
Artists, David Elise, News
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David Elise’s third single, “Dethroned,” is set to release on October 21st, 2022 from Triple Pop. The track was produced by Indie/Dad Pop musician Adam James aka Studies Show.  Elise previously released “Letters From The Postman” and “Video Games” earlier this year.

Elise discovered the musician Studies Show while scrolling through social media. “I was swiping through TikTok, looking for a good laugh, when I stumbled upon Adam live streaming himself producing a track. It was absolutely stunning! The sounds he was using and the artistry of the song were out of this world! I knew right there, and then I had to work with him.” states Elise.

“Dethroned is about ditching that toxic relationship, taking back your crown, and becoming the King/ Queen of your own life once again!”
-David Elise

“It’s been incredible working with David to bring this song together. I think we’re making music that we’re both proud of. Dethroned is a 10/10 Certified Bop!”
-Studies Show

David briefly touches on the possibility of the two artists working together again in the future “We may or may not have a couple of songs in the works.”

 

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“Letters From The Postman” from David Elise

March 19, 2022 by admin
Artists, David Elise
debut single

David Elise’s debut single “Letters From The Postman” is set for release by Triple Pop to be released April 30, 2022.  Single was produced by Caden Jester.

Singer/ Songwriter David Elise is a synth pop artist based in Warsaw, Indiana. Telling stories through songs created in his bedroom, you will often hear him playing away on a small key board he purchased with his first paycheck. It was his job at the US Post Office that inspired his first single.  “Letters From The Postman” is an autobiographical song the tells story of David as he experiences the effects of Covid-19 on his community, while he delivers the mail.

David continues to create music while working. He uses stories from his life, and those around him to inspire the words to which he writes.

Donald Gould’s Walk on Water

June 19, 2021 by admin
Artists, Donald Gould, News
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Donald Gould’s debut album Walk on Water continues to sell CDs and stream online.  Racking up millions of views across music services, Donald’s story of hope and redemption continues to this day and be a source of inspiration for fans around the world. 

Walk on Water is available exclusively from Triple Pop on Bandcamp and all other digital services: iTunes, Apple Music, and Spotify.

The viral YouTube video of Mr. Gould and his life story continues to resonate with people worldwide.  We’re hoping for new music from Mr. Gould in 2022.

Dawn Dupree

New IVA DAWN project Dawn & Dupree

June 28, 2019 by admin
Artists, Iva Dawn
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Duo PicIva Dawn, who just released a new studio EP, True Voodoo, also has a great new duet gig called Dawn & Dupree, with singer-songwriter Alex Dupree.

Their first EP features the single “California Worryin’” available online everywhere like Spotify and Bandcamp.

The cool single video is on Youtube.

 

Kacey Musgraves & Triple Pop

February 18, 2019 by admin
Artists, Kacey Musgraves, News
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Last week, Kacey Musgraves won a total of four (4) GRAMMYs for Album of the Year for her latest album, Golden Hour, which she can add to her growing list of accomplishments.

In addition, Kacey won awards for Best Country Song, Best Country Performance and Best Country Album.  Kacey Musgraves has reached the pinnacle of success and crossed over into the mainstream.

As before, I’ve been getting questions from people about my producing involvement with Kacey before she became famous.  My close friends and family know some of the story, but not certain crazy details, like how my label, Triple Pop, produced one of her biggest streaming hits.

The first thing to know is despite whatever is written in her official biography, Kacey had a long history of recordings before she moved to Nashville.

After Kacey signed to Universal Records in 2012, her management company wanted to make it appear as if Kacey was a brand new artist – with no past.

They removed from distribution and omitted most references to all of her prior recordings out of her biography, including the three (3) albums she released while in high school — except they couldn’t do that for the recordings she made with Triple Pop.

The recordings I produced with Kacey were during her time in Austin in 2008, right after she graduated from high school, when she was just 19 years old and are owned by my label.

At that time, YouTube was still a new platform. The digital revolution had just started.  The first iPhone hadn’t even been released. The music business was in decline. Producers who were experimenting with artists doing cover songs on YouTube was a new phenomena.

I had no idea that I would make any money with my new digital label, Triple Pop.  With limited resources, I scoured MySpace and Craigslist for up-and-coming singers.  I also had a full-time job. My record label was just a side hustle I operated out of my spare bedroom for fun in my spare time.

Social media was still on the old clunky Myspace and that’s where I first discovered Kacey Musgraves.

I immediately knew she had the talent; she was a diamond in the rough.

I listened to songs Kacey had posted on MySpace from her three (3) self-produced albums: Movin’ On (2002), Wanted: One Good Cowboy (2003) and Kacey Musgraves (2007).

Although the songs were straight forward generic country songs with titles like “When It’s Peach Pickin’ Time in TX”, I remember hearing her voice and being mesmerized.

She had great raw talent to become superstar but she needed better songs to sing, I thought. This was a young Kacey Musgraves, before she became the country pop superstar she is today.

I got in touch with Kacey and we met up outside a yogurt shop in North Austin.  Kacey told me she just graduated high school and had moved to Austin from Golden, Texas to pursue music.  Nobody knew her name. 

She had no fans and had just struck out at her first attempt in Nashville — she appeared on the TV show, Nashville Star, a year earlier when she was 18 years old but she failed to place (she came in seventh). 

I told her my prior background in producing albums with Dee Dee Ramone, The Alarm, The Call and working at the talent agency, ICM.  I had a good sense in spotting new talent.

Many moons ago, I befriended the legendary A&R executive, Don Grierson, who told me one his biggest challenges was getting artists to record songs they didn’t write, but it can also lead to their biggest hits.

With Don’s sage advice in mind, I pitched Kacey my idea to record a couple current hit cover songs together in the studio to see how we worked together.  I produced, arranged and paid for everything, including a fee to her. If it all worked out, I told her it was my intention to produce her original songs afterwards and use “social media” to market  all of it.

In 2008, saying you’re going to use “social media” to market music (or anything else) was a crazy new idea – the next frontier that had yet to be explored.  Recording with new musicians is always risky – there are personality and timing issues and it takes time and money to rent good recording studios.

I pitched Kacey about five song choices to her including “Yellow” by Coldplay.  She was to choose two (2) of my suggestions to record in the studio – she chose “See You Again” (Hannah Montana) and “Apologize” (OneRepublic), which reflected her interest in pop music.

Kacey Musgraves, Brain Machine Recording Studio, March 2008

I remember trying to persuade Kacey to record Coldplay’s “Yellow” instead of “See You Again,” as I thought it was a better song, but she passed.

During the recording sessions, Kacey was professional and focused.  She wanted the songs to be ‘just right’ and we spent a full evening recording and mixing the recordings. 

Here’s some video I took of Kacey in the studio:

Kacey was happy with the recordings – soon afterwards, she performed “Apologize” live at a local charity event:

Kacey then invited me out to see her perform at Momo’s, a local bar in Austin. I remember showing up and it was just her grandmother, the bartender and me in the audience. I got a private concert from the future GRAMMY superstar.  She was a great live performer, too.

Then, again, Kacey invited me out to lunch (she was persistent – one the key traits of success). Although she was young, Kacey struck me as being very wise beyond her years.

Kacey asked me for advice and asked if I would manage her.  We talked about recording some original songs together in the future.

I could sense that she needed direction on what to do next. I encouraged her to keep writing songs and suggested she move to Nashville and work with other songwriters to develop her craft and come back to me with the original demos. 

At age 19, Kacey just wasn’t fully developed yet as a songwriter – she hadn’t yet developed her clever songwriting craft for which she has become famous for today.

Triple Pop released “See You Again” on iTunes in 2008.  Kacey ended up in Nashville a few years later.  We lost touch over the years.

When I heard Kacey’s first major label album was going be released in 2013, I went back into my archives and luckily found the digital CD master for “Apologize” which I had thought was lost.  I also found the videotape of the recording session.

My label, Triple Pop, released both “See You Again” and “Apologize” on a digital EP on April 9, 2013.

Her manager later made an offer to buy out the Triple Pop contract.

In 1953, Elvis Presley walked into Sun Studio Studios and recorded his first songs.  They were also acoustic guitar cover songs: “That’s When Your Heartache Begins” and “My Happiness” by The Ink Spots.  Luckily, producer Sam Phillips kept the masters and released both and they exist as a recording artifact of the evolution of a legendary artist.

We passed on the offer to sell the master rights, although there was no certainty of her success. But I believed in her talent and I had a strong conviction the recordings would be valuable one day.

Within a couple years, the snowballing of her achievements and acclaim began to gather steam. Then, in 2015, it hit — “Apologize” went on to become Kacey Musgraves’ #1 most streamed song on Spotify, racking up nearly 35 million (35,000,000+) streams by 2018. 

Between 2015 and 2018, “Apologize” was her #1 most streamed track worldwide:

In 2014, “Apologize” charted in Billboard’s Hot Singles chart at #23, marking my first Billboard chart entry as a producer.

The Official YouTube video did well, too, with over 500,000 views to date:

The combination of “Apologize” with Kacey’s voice was just magic — her fans recognized it, too, and they made it into one of her biggest streamed hits.  It had Kacey’s vocal pixie dust sprinkled all over it.

Marie Claire magazine recently ranked “Apologize” as her #4 best song!

Oh, yeah, and Kacey finally performed an acoustic version of Coldplay’s “Yellow” live for Prince Harry in the UK in 2015:

Triple Pop celebrates Kacey Musgraves continuing success by making sure everybody hears where it all started, with these endearing and popular acoustic recordings.

Available on Spotify and Apple Music and everywhere else.

Marie Claire ranks “Apologize” as Kacey’s #4 best track

February 8, 2019 by admin
Artists, Kacey Musgraves
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Marie Claire magazine recently ranked Kacey Musgraves‘ top ten (10) recordings — and they slotted “Apologize” in at number #4. Dy-no-mite!!!

The magazine ranked her other hits “Slow Burn” (#1), “Space Cowboy” (#2) and “Merry Go ‘Round” (#3) – we’re very thankful to have been included in the top five.

Thank you Marie Claire magazine!

Whisper Suite new video!

January 25, 2019 by admin
Artists, Whisper Suite
music video, whisper suite

Whisper Suite has released their new video “Miracles” which features stop-motion animation. It’s really cool! Check it out here (click through for link) on YouTube.

The debut album “Love Notes” from Whisper Suite is available everywhere music is sold online.

Kacey nom for Album of Year (GRAMMY)

December 7, 2018 by admin
Artists, Kacey Musgraves, News
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Kacey Musgraves‘ latest album “Golden Hour” has been nominated for the GRAMMY Album of the Year, alongside Brandi Carlile‘s terrific “By The Way, I Forgive You.”

Kacey recently won the Country Music Award/CMA Album of the Year award.

Kacey’s version of “Apologize” remains as one of her most streamed tracks at thirty-six million (36,000,000) streams to date on Spotify.

Triple Pop thanks all the fans and listeners for making this a streaming hit.

The “Apologize/See You Again” EP is available exclusively from Triple Pop.  A remastered version is also now now available on iTunes.

Listen to the EP on iTunes and Spotify.

Gould hits #45 on iTunes and #3 on Amazon

October 11, 2018 by admin
Artists, Donald Gould, News
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As of October 10th, 2018, Donald Gould’s debut album Walk on Water is up again to #45 on the iTunes Pop Album Chart, next to hit albums by Bruno Mars and Adele.

Walk on Water also reached #3 on Amazon‘s New Age Chart.

Walk on Water is available exclusively from Triple Pop on Bandcamp and all other digital services: iTunes, Apple Music, and Spotify.

The viral YouTube video of Mr. Gould has now reached 40 million views and his life story continues to resonate with people worldwide.

Gould hits #56 on iTunes Pop Album Chart

October 9, 2018 by admin
Artists, Donald Gould, News
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Donald Gould’s debut album Walk on Water is up again in overnight hours to #56 on the iTunes Pop Album Chart, next to hit albums by Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake.

Walk on Water is available exclusively from Triple Pop on Bandcamp and all other digital services: iTunes, Apple Music, and Spotify.

The viral YouTube video of Mr. Gould has now reached 40 million views and his life story continues to resonate with people worldwide.

“Love Notes” #3 from Whisper Suite

August 1, 2018 by admin
Artists, Whisper Suite
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Whisper Suite’s debut album Love Notes is #3 this week on the Canadian college music scene via Earshot online.

Whisper Suite is a husband/wife duo comprised of Nathaniel Sutton and Guylaine Sutton from Canada. Together, they bring a distinct style of sound, influenced by Sigur Ros, This Beautiful Mess, and This Will Destroy You.

The debut full-length release “Love Notes” (Triple Pop) was released April 20, 2018 worldwide on all download and streaming music stores. 

The official music video for “Sun” is now on YouTube.

Kacey’s “Apologize” reaches 35M+ on Spotify

July 31, 2018 by admin
Artists, Kacey Musgraves, News
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“Apologize” remains as #1 most streamed track from Kacey Musgraves on Spotify.  It’s still out-streaming all of her other songs and is now at thirty-five million (35,000,000) streams to date.

Along with downloads, Apologize has tallied up over 275,000 copies sold per RIAA rules, which is over halfway to RIAA Gold Sales Certification.

Her Billboard hit single “Follow Your Arrow” is close behind at 34,166,000 streams on Spotify.  Her new singles are also coming up fast.

No track can stay #1 forever and “Apologize” has remained #1 for over three (3) years now, so it’s inevitable it’ll be surpassed.  It’s been an amazing run.

Triple Pop thanks all the fans and listeners for making this a streaming hit.

The “Apologize/See You Again” EP is available exclusively from Triple Pop.  A remastered version is also now now available on iTunes.

Listen to the EP on iTunes and Spotify.

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