The Music Industry 101 with Prolific Hit-Maker Ross Golan
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Ross Golan is the songwriter of choice for Selena Gomez, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, Linkin Park and the host of And The Writer Is podcast. He shares how he started in the music industry, his process for writing music, what “Song Math” is and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and |
| 0:02.0 | gentlemen, on today's show, we have the opportunity to interview the top 40 songwriter, |
| 0:07.0 | lyricist and podcaster, Mr. Ross Golan. |
| 0:10.0 | Now, Jason, who has Ross Golan written songs for throughout his epic music career? |
| 0:15.0 | It's more like who has he not written songs for? |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, okay. He's written for Cilo Green, yep, pink, Eliza Doolittle Nicki Minage. I mean do this you said did you say Justin Bieber I did not say Justin did you say Maroon 5. Oh I was getting there did you say flow right? flow right Oh Jason who else has Ross Golan written songs for I mean he, he's written for the likes of Rixton, |
| 0:44.2 | Eliza Doolittle, Jason Darulo, Lady Antebellum. |
| 0:48.0 | My mind can't even handle it. |
| 0:50.3 | We can keep reading this list all day. |
| 0:52.2 | All day. The entire show could just be us reading the names of songs he's written but instead let's get into the rest of our intro |
| 0:58.4 | In 2016, Ross Golan was named as the BMI pop music songwriter of the year. |
| 1:04.8 | As a strong advocate for the music industry, |
| 1:06.9 | Ross Golan has pushed the initiative to add the songwriters |
| 1:10.0 | to the actual Grammy Award for Album of the Year, |
| 1:13.6 | which means because of Ross Golan, |
| 1:16.0 | as of 2017, that was the first year. |
| 1:18.8 | 2017 was the first year |
| 1:20.9 | that songwriters could actually receive a Grammy award for the album of the year. |
| 1:27.0 | And on today's show he shares about the importance of learning how to communicate effectively, |
| 1:31.0 | the role math plays in songwriting. |
| 1:33.6 | How the song my house came to be and much much more. |
| 1:37.6 | Ladies and gentlemen I can't even believe it we've got Ross Golan here with you on the Th win, and if you don't know, now you know it. |
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