Idol Headlines for 12/05/08

YOUR WEAKEND TOP 10 CHART PREVIEW: As we head into the home stretch of the sales week, ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s all about the resurgent Britney Spears, whose Circus (Jive/ZLG) has far exceeded expectations and now appears headed toward 470-490k. Just what the doctor orderedà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ a feel-good story heading into the holidays. The only other debut that will make the leader board is Akonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Freedom (SRC/Universal Motown), which should wind up at #8 with a projected 90-95. Otherwise ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll be the usual suspects: #3 Taylor Swift (Big Machine), 170-180k; #4 Beyonce (Music World/Columbia), 160-170k; #5 Kanye West (Roc-a-Fella/IDJ), 150-160k; #6 Twilight (Chop Shop/Atlantic), 120-130k; #7 Nickelback (Roadrunner), 110-120k; #9 Now 29 (UMe) 85-90k; and #10 a dust-up between David Cook (19/RCA/RMG) and High School Musical 3 (Walt Disney), both trending toward 80-85k. Speaking of trends, next weekà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Top 10 will break the recent pattern of domination by one or two labels and will instead be spread among 10 different ones.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi

So, apparently, DC is now one of the “usual suspects.” It would be great if he managed to stay in the top 10….

People were wondering where the flowershop “Crush” video came from in the last headlines thread.

It is a Pepsi on location thing through Yahoo music.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/–205683057

There’s also a DC picture on the first page of that LA Times thing. I think maybe from the AMAs?

^^ Popdirt covers the Pepsi Smash in Location

David Archuleta performed his hit single ‘Crush’ for Pepsi Smash while walking around a floral shop. The ‘American Idol’ season seven runner-up told the cashier, “I’m probably gonna pick out some flowers for someone,” before beginning to sing while picking a variety of flowers, handing them to the cashier, continuing to sing as she packaged them up. Archuleta finally stopped singing in the empty shop to say the bouquet looked great and left. Watch it below.

continued from previous headline thread…

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‹Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢sà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ Ryan Seacrest & David Archuleta Reunited!
It was somewhat of an à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“American Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  reunion as David Archuleta and Ryan Seacrest are finally back together again at the Cedarà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Sinai Annual à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Road to a Cureà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  Gala honoring Ryan Seacrest.

http: //video.ivillage.com/player/?id=805913

frogcooke – I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t see a video with Ryan & David??

HERE is a direct link to that Access Hollywood interview.

Ozarka- that was a great interview with David.

That’s really great for Jennifer. It’s great that something can bring her even just a little bit of happiness in the extremely hard time she’s going through.

Folkfan,

That is weird. I was the first to post and after 5 or 6 posts, a new post from you appeared at the top. I am going loopy?

I was just over on the AllAccess site checking mediabase spins etc. and I clicked on the Top 40 Future Releases. Archie’s new single is now showing up as going for Adds on Jan. 6th. I thought it was Dec 9th? Maybe I got the dates wrong, or did they change it? If they did change it, I wonder why?

Mac,

Someone else just saw this as well. Maybe they changed it.

Well Xmass is around the corner and I found this on Brooke Whites blog….a snip-bit about the movie “ELF” . Also a shameless way (for mwa)spread some holiday cheer..
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8985501&blogID=453333160

Heartfelt congrads to Jhud congrads for nomination ..

Thanks for the update on DC Folkfan!!

I thought it was Dec 9th? Maybe I got the dates wrong, or did they change it? If they did change it, I wonder why?

No Mac, You are right the dates were change… my guess is that they don ´t want the single spins being affected by the Xmass season, and maybe they are expecting that the Jingle Balls help promote the single after the Holidays… Maybe Kirsten or Soundscene can give us a better reason why this happened…

Good news for DC. Thanks folkfan for the info.

The Archie thing makes sense to me, December is was weird time to go for adds with all the christmas music and whatnot. He could get some spins but it wouldn’t likely be much, and there are a LOT of new releases currently jockeying for position. The market is pretty crowded right now in that regard. While Crush is dropping it’s not like its dropping all that much, so he should be fine through the holidays. Plus he’s going to be all over the year end countdowns anyway. Maybe they will release the video for his new single in December and let it build some anticipation up through the holidays? That could be a good way to go.

BEHIND THE SCENES A LITTLE TOO NOT OVER YOU is up in his official site

Jordin is there…. JORVID FTW

The Archie thing makes sense to me, December is was weird time to go for adds with all the christmas music and whatnot.

Yeah, I sort of agree, but it seems like Top 40 stations aren’t impacted by the Christmas music, at least not the ones I listen to. They may play one or two songs here or there, but it seems more like AC that is heavily impacted.

So happy for Jennifer…

I think it’s smart for DA to delay. Hope it works out for him.

Thanks for the upbeat info on Cook, too. Fingers crossed, high sales vibes, burning incense, and all that jazz… LOL

Yeah, I sort of agree, but it seems like Top 40 stations arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t impacted by the Christmas music, at least not the ones I listen to. They may play one or two songs here or there, but it seems more like AC that is heavily impacted.

Oh I’m sure Kirsten will answer this question. She should know more. But the way I understand it while they are not as impacted as say, AC, there is an impact. With playlists already being kinda tight, that little bit adds up. Also, the year end countdowns and holiday promo stuff start elbowing in too. So while it is certainly possible to go for adds in December, it’s not optimal, which is why not many people do it. I don’t know if Archie HAS to anyway. He seems to be holding his own and we all know he is on many a tweeners (and some adults) xmas wish list, so I can’t imagine his album sales are in any trouble. He’s jungle balling like a madman right now too. I imagine he’ll get picked up like crazy in January.

^About the video is not about the shooting of ALTNOY is about the David ´s journey… it brings tears… :glurps_tb: :wub_tb:

Stage 46: American Idol Is Fixed!

While I was driving home, it dawned on me that the person who had been eliminated was the same person who had been eliminated during the closed-door rehearsals two days before.

http://chexxyspearls.blogspot.com/2008/12/stage-46-american-idol-is-fixed.html

I’m not altogether surprised at the impact date change. Jive pushed back Britney’s “Circus” as well to December 23rd (Circus and ALTNOY were originally going for adds on the same day–I’m glad they’re not anymore).

While Top 40 isn’t impacted as much by Christmas as AC (which is destroyed by the fa la la la las), it does slow down a lot. I believe Tattoo peaked around the holidays, but it peaked with a bullet of about -600. lol. Everything was pretty much dying. Top 40 stations do play Christmas music too.

I was all ready for ALTNOY to go for adds on Tuesday and say, “yay Jive!” because it’s not a bad decision, but I think this is a better decision. His album is doing just fine. It’s following a very consistent holiday-selling pattern so far for a pop album–trending very much like Pink’s album, save her AMA boost last week (and they are under the same label group; hence strategies may be similar for both). It’s not like ALTNOY going for adds this week was going to really help sales much anyway since the song couldn’t get off the ground that fast to make an impact, especially in December.

When January rolls around, all albums are going to need everything they can to boost sales–that’s when the big sales slump arrives. So pushing back ALTNOY allows it more lead-time for radio stations to test out the song and give it spins ahead of the impact date. There’s more time for it to get pre-adds, which it wasn’t able to do with the short lead-time it had before. It could ultimately allow for a much bigger boost in January because radio stations are focused on a particular impact date at that time–in other words, Jive gets them to pay attention to the song at the exact time the sales slump arrives. And it also allows Crush a better chance at going recurrent in Top 40 because radio stations aren’t pushing Crush out to move ALTNOY in. Plus, the music video might be ready to premiere by the time ALTNOY goes for adds.

:biggrin_wp: glad songs or idols put that on your face…speaking of smiles Sumidol hope you got a picture of Daivd C when way back co-workers went to taping….Also for that blogger who liked Josh Groban ———
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO6x4l29tKc
Merry X-mass —early

(man have to get off those candy canes effecting me)

Props to MJ for the shout-out in the Entertainment Weekly update above. It’s gotta be nice to know Slezak is as big a fan of the site as the rest of us!

David A. is popular online.

From CNN:

David Archuleta Hot, Grammys Not

“1,000,000 copies sold. 1 million and counting for a song that “won” the so-called American Idol Songwriting Contest. Regie Hamm should be proud of himself. I’m not. Neither is American Idol. Why do I say this? Because American Idol has never given him credit for writing the “rainbow song”. I thought it might be fun to go to the U.S. Copyright website and see what it said about “Time Of My Life”. According to the copyright office the only name given credit for the song is David Cook or 19 Recordings Limited. No Regie Hamm.

In fact the only thing it says about who wrote this PLATINUM MONSTER HIT is…..and I quote.

“Authorship on Application: 19 Recordings Limited, employer for hire; Domicile: United States. Authorship: sound recording.”

http://americanidolexposed.weebly.com/

^wow hehehe…made me feel really good abour David… ouch to those comments in the article about the Grammyes, specially the ones about Taller…

Regie Hamm evidently has writing credits and retained some rights by contract, given he now has recorded and plans to release his own version. (Check his website.)

I imagine the copyright info on file could reflect a number of things, Hamm conferred certain rights to 19 as part of entering the competition and/or 19 is the only one who has filed for copyright protection. Regardless, from the language itself, one thing seems pretty clear — that 19 is the “employer for hire” suggests that the creation is deemed a “work for hire” by the artists responsible for authoring the “sound recording.”

In any event, americanidolexposed did little homework and entirely missed the point, unsurprisingly.

I would also like to point out, iirc, that whenever DC is asked about TOML in an interview, he gives Regie Hamm full credit for writing the song. As a songwriter himself, I don’t believe he would EVER intentially take away credit, where credit is due.

2008 Mediabase Year-To-Date CHR Chart Top 150 (Top 40 Chart):

YTD Rank / Artist / Title / Year / Peak Mth Plays / Peak Mth / Total Plays
5 JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown 2007 40435 Apr 185412
24 JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo 2007 31208 Jan 125334
31 JORDIN SPARKS One Step At A Time 2008 33248 Sep 113353
51 DAUGHTRY Over You 2007 15052 Jan 78821
66 DAVID ARCHULETA Crush 2008 20846 Oct 56000
113 DAVID COOK Time Of My Life 2008 7870 Aug 30666
129 DAUGHTRY It’s Not Over 2006 3438 Jan 26189
131 DAUGHTRY Home 2006 4224 Jan 26072

Go Idols!

Oh, and lol at Crush getting exactly 56,000 spins in 2008 (radio calendar year, anyway). Its highest weekly spin peak was exactly 5,000 too.

A mention in EW for their Must List for this week. I’m stoked because that’s me extolling the virtues of Bar-ba-Sol. Wheee!

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20244293,00.html

I hope it is ok to put this in this thread. I apologize if there is different place this should be.

I was at the hair place this morning for 1 1/2 hours and the radio station was playing all Christmas music. As a musician, I really to music, so it drives me crazy not knowing who all of the songs were sung by. Some artists and their songs are such standards that you immediately know who they are such as Bing Crosby. Three songs I distinctly remember thinkig at different times that I wish I knew who was singing. The first voice was so distinct and beautiful and I really liked the song. After it was over, I got the attention of the lady who cuts my hair (come to find out she is a huge Christmas music person) and she told me it was Josh Groban singing “Believe” from Polar Express. I had never seen the movie. The second song was “Mary Did You Know” and she told me it was Donny Osmond. I didn’t even know he had a Christmas album, but the song was beautiful. He really has a very nice voice. The third song started playing while I was paying and leaving, and she said it was Clay Aiken. I didn’t watch AI before this year, so I am not very familiar with his music, but as soon as she told me it was him, it was easy to identify it, and I was impressed with his voice as well.

The third song started playing while I was paying and leaving, and she said it was Clay Aiken. I didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t watch AI before this year, so I am not very familiar with his music, but as soon as she told me it was him, it was easy to identify it, and I was impressed with his voice as well.

His Christmas album is great….

A Los Angelese radio station is running a contest that gives the winner a private Xmas concert by Elliott Yamin. It’s good promo for his Xmas CD BUT you have to be a resident of Cali to enter.

All the complicated details (and some Elliott music and a very good interview here):
http://www.kost1035.com/pages/yourkindofholiday/

Gwendolyn- I will check it out.

Earlier HDD was kind of messed up and it left out a #2 position in their projection but it’s fixed now and looks like he’ll still be in the top 10 YAY!!

OUR WEAKEND TOP 10 CHART PREVIEW: As we head into the home stretch of the sales week, ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s all about the resurgent Britney Spears, whose Circus (Jive/ZLG) has far exceeded expectations and now appears headed toward 470-490k. Just what the doctor orderedà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ a feel-good story heading into the holidays. The only other debut that will make the leader board is Akonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Freedom (SRC/Universal Motown), which should wind up at #7 with a projected 90-95k. Otherwise ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll be the usual suspects: #2 Taylor Swift (Big Machine), 170-180k; #3 Beyonce (Music World/Columbia), 160-170k; #4 Kanye West (Roc-a-Fella/IDJ), 150-160k; #5 Twilight (Chop Shop/Atlantic), 120-130k; #6 Nickelback (Roadrunner), 110-120k; #8 Now 29 (UMe) 85-90k; and #9-10 dust-up between David Cook (19/RCA/RMG) and High School Musical 3 (Walt Disney), both trending toward 80-85k. Speaking of trends, next weekà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Top 10 will break the recent pattern of domination by one or two labels and will instead be spread among 10 different ones

.

^^^Thanks Trina! Am I blind or are they now omitting #7? LOL

A mention in EW for their Must List for this week. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m stoked because thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s me extolling the virtues of Bar-ba-Sol. Wheee!

This. Is. Very. Cool. Congrats hypertwink!!

^^Wow, no Axl Rose in the top 10? ouch

eta: weareallinnocent, heh, maybe that’s where GnR should be…HDD, one for each finger, not so hard…

Akon is #7 Since he’s a debut he’s mentioned further up.

Ahhh, I *see* now. Thanks Trina for coming back to point out the obvious to me~ :redface_wp:

Update:

YTD Rank / Artist / Title / Label / Year / Peak Month Plays / Peak Month / Total Plays

50 DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight RCA/RMG 2007 18319 Apr 80399
101 DAUGHTRY What About Now RCA/RMG 2007 11857 Oct 34568

Forbes has david and david listed as #2 breakout sstars of 2008

http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/05/jonas-celebrity-hollywood-biz-media-cx_lr_1205breakouts_slide.html?thisspeed=25000

1. jobros
2. the davids
3. jon hamm (mad men)
4. rachel maddow
5. rob (ed cullen)
6. demi lovato
7. selena gomez
8. shenae grimes (90210) (hey, she’s a canuck! that is cool.)
9. katy perry
10. whitney port (the hills)

I love how both boys are making these breakout stars lists!

A new DC Skechers ad/poster that simultaneously pimps the album.

David Cook’s signed xmas ornament has been listed in the Martha Stewart ebay auction!

Archie’s is still up too…proceeds go to charity.

Hey, weareallinnocent

I don’t think Americanidolexposed missed the point.
I think they were trying to show that American Idol never gave anyone credit
for winning the songwriting contest, and still haven’t as far as I can tell.
If I am wrong please let me know.
While David Cook is the American Idol right now he is not American Idol.
As far as I know A.I. has never said the name of the winning songwriter.
And something else that is interesting is if you check out the
Wiki page for T.O.M.L you will see another name credited for writing the song.

Does anyone have any idea what that’s about?

Here’s a link to the Wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_My_Life_(David_Cook_song)

http://poetry.com/publications/display.asp?ID=P6129131&BN=999&PN=2

David Cookà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s signed xmas ornament has been listed in the Martha Stewart ebay auction!

Archieà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s is still up tooà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦proceeds go to charity.

LOL! I don’t know which is better, Cookie’s saying or Archie’s squiggly pig. haha!

Nice find:

soundscene Dec 5th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

2008 Mediabase Year-To-Date CHR Chart Top 150 (Top 40 Chart):

Any chance that you could find those for AC or HAC? I’m betting that there are a bunch of Idols on those, as well.

Re: Regie Hamm: I think that it’s pretty well-known that he wrote the song. When the songs were up for votes, his name was listed with it, and I know that I’ve seen interviews where DC has mentioned it.

^^ Folkfan, I’m just getting them off the usual websites, and they don’t have any up for HAC or AC right now.

Ah. Well, here’s hoping that they pop up soon…. And thanks….

Pictures of DA at Sacramento’s Jingle Ball. From the radio station that sponsored it–really great pics.

soundscene- David looks SO tired in those pictures. I imagine he was stressed about performing those songs in front of a big audience for the first time. Now that it went so well, I hope he can rest more.

It is funny that when talking about music, people can say “the David’s” and everyone knows who they are talking about. I guess they are destined to be linked together forever. Not necessarily a bad thing, as far as being thought of as successful.

Congratulations to David Cook and the Cookies. “Light On” took the top spot this week on the Vh1 Top 20 Countdown. “Crush” dropped down to the 3rd position. Beyonce’s new video for “Single Ladies Put a Ring On It” debuted into the 2nd place position. Jennifer Hudson’s “Spotlight” moved up from #14 to #8.

Hey, weareallinnocent

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think Americanidolexposed missed the point. I think they were trying to show that American Idol never gave anyone credit for winning the songwriting contest, and still havenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t as far as I can tell. If I am wrong please let me know.
While David Cook is the American Idol right now he is not American Idol. As far as I know A.I. has never said the name of the winning songwriter. And something else that is interesting is if you check out the Wiki page for T.O.M.L you will see another name credited for writing the song.

It’s technical but americanidolexposed did miss the point because they only quote one application in the copyright office and it appears to be the app for the sound recording only. (Hamm can file his own application for the music and lyrics, assuming he did not contract away that right.) They apparently do not know the terms of the contract between Hamm and 19. From what I’ve seen on his own website, Hamm is not only promoting his own version of TOML, he mentions making quite a bit of money, so I’m hard pressed to believe that 19 has shorted him at all. And, if 19 has, Hamm has legal recourse.

So, to me, americanidolexposed is taking limited information, making broad assumptions, sensationalizing and exploiting both for their own gain. Typical. :rolleyes_ee:

Anyway, I haven’t watched it in awhile, but I seem to recall the song announced as Hamm’s before it was performed for the first time? Regardless, I know from his blog that Hamm flew out and was honored at the finale and festivities… So, again…

Bottom line, as far as we know, neither AI nor 19 have management or promotional rights over (or obligations to) Regie Hamm. To suggest — essentially through innuendo and nothing more — that their failure to promote him amounts to a legal wrong is absurd. If they have more, know more, can show more, fine. But, until then, drop the pen. YMMV

ETA: Wiki is “the people’s” encyclopedia and anyone can edit/add info, so take it with a grain of salt always. The link you provided refers to the song from Dirty Dancing called “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life” as written by someone else, because it was. (That poetry link you provided looks bogus to me, but regardless, neither AI nor Cook have anything to do with that either.)

Remember Cardin McKinney?

She’s the lead role in Keith Urban’s new video for “Sweet Thing”

Her blog:

Hi everyone!

Just wanting to let everyone know that I just landed the Lead Role for the new Keith Urban, “Sweet Thing” video!!! I am SO excited!

It shoots Monday and Tuesday and will probably air a few weeks later. I’ll let you know as soon as I hear and can put a video up. If you see it before I do, let me know!!

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=45242959&blogID=454259222

Here is the correct wikipedia link for Time of My Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_My_Life_(David_Cook_song)

Note that the very first sentence credits Regie Hamm and a second songwriter (?), and credits a May 21, 2008 USA Today article as the source for the information that Hamm wrote the song. In short, AI announced that Hamm had won the songwriting competition before Magic Rainbow was performed on the finale.

You can criticize AI for all sorts of things, but this does not seem to be one of them.

Hey weareallinnocent,
As one of the many songwriters that entered both songwriting contest
and as someone that has went to that site and has read all that’s there.
I’ve got to say that as far as I can tell, not only did Americanidolexposed do
their homework, but also for every statement they make they have a link
to back it up.
You say American Idol announced Mr Hamm as the winner,
But no they did not, I watched and they never said his name.
If I’m wrong please prove it,
Did you even take the time to read the page?

http://americanidolexposed.weebly.com/

Judging by your comments, I highly doubt it,
And as far as the other links, the link to T.O.M.L. wiki page
is also listed, if you would have taken two seconds to read it,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_My_Life_(David_Cook_song)

I have nothing to gain ,but like I said before ,I was one of the suckers
that entered for both years, so I feel I have an interest in it.

And if you have inside info about this contest I would love to hear it, :smile_wp:

They never said it on air……..
As far as a new songwriter being listed.
I have no idea what that is about.
All I do know is ,that it has been that way
for a while now,
It seems to me If I had written that song.
I would do everything in my power to remove the other writers name.
Either way something is not right.
If there is only one writer of the song
than someone is trying to take credit for something they did not write.
And to FolkFan I don’t believe that U.S.A Today
is American Idol.

billsmith: Just a few quick links for your viewing pleasure.

National news article announcing Hamm as winner, complete with photo and quote from 19 Entertainment about the contest:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2008-05-20-idol-songwriter_N.htm

Regie Hamm at the AI finale, red carpet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XGtk8mFUE

Regie Hamm’s webpage collecting continuing media exposure from the win:

http://www.regiehamm.com

Regie Hamm at wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regie_Hamm

BTW, I’m not going to argue with you about this any more. We are viewing the matter from different perspectives and through very different eyes. I will admit that I am left to wonder why someone would seem so intent on fighting a battle that Regie Hamm is not, but that choice belongs to someone other than me.

Peace~ :bye_tb:

If Regie Hamm isn’t the listed song writer by copyright, which seems to be the case, then he doesn’t get paid. Woopee that his name was mentioned in early press but he still got ripped off for a lot of money even though he wrote the winning song which continues to sell and continues to line the pockets of 19R.

It really doesn’t sound like Regie Hamm is getting ripped off.
From his Thanksgiving Blog:

I wanted to write a Thanksgiving blog, this year, that would encapsulate my gratitude and thankfulness for having had such a stunning year personally as well as professionally. This has been one of those “banner” years. It’s almost mathematically impossible to write a song in March and see it at 1 in September …but that very thing happened to me this year.

“But as the year comes to a close, my family is well and happy. My mortgage is paid, my refrigerator is full and my children are well clothed, well fed giggle boxes. I’m plying my trade and making a living. I’m the happiest, luckiest, most thankful man alive.”

Well, there ya go…

OmahaCookie Dec 6th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

It really doesnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t sound like Regie Hamm is getting ripped off.

Regie Hamm has written many other songs but I won’t belabor the point.

Regie has written many songs but not a single one has sold anywhere near a million downloads. He recently talked about being in a better place financially more than he’s ever been. Where else would he suddenly be making all that money from? Even the Clay song he co-wrote I wouldn’t consider some big paycheck given that CD’s sales.

Regie Hamm is listed as the writer of “Time of My Life” on David Cook the CD and is also listed as the writer of “Time of My Life” in the database of the Performing Rights Organization he belongs to (SESAC)

http://www.sesac.com/repertory/asp/rsongsnumSQL.asp?SongNum=64814400

^^Thank you, OmahaCookie!

If Regie Hamm isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t the listed song writer by copyright, which seems to be the case, then he doesnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t get paid.

This is wrong both in law and in fact. But, as you say, I’m not going to belabor the point.