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	<title>Songwriting News from Nashville&#039;s ParamountSong &#187; Music News</title>
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		<title>Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Coldplay, Foo Fighters to Perform @ MusiCares Person of the Year Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Paul McCartney is honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year during Grammy week next Friday night, hell be the biggest name in an otherwise stellar lineup of performers. In addition to a special McCartney performance to highlight the night, multiple-Grammy Award winners Tony Bennett, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Neil Young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugarland&#8217;s Jennifer Nettles Records Classic for Pepsi MAX Commercial on Super Bowl XLVI : Sugarland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Nettles has paired with Pepsi MAX for a commercial spot during this Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl XLVI! The commercial showcases Jennifer singing the Hank Williams classic &#8220;Your Cheatin Heart&#8221; while a Coke Zero driver hopes to quickly pay for a delicious Pepsi MAX without anybody noticing. Unfortunately for him, the transaction doesnt go as planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songwriters: Protecting Your Cellphone Against Hackers Could Be Crucial for Song Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songwriter News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We frequently hear from songwriters that they&#8217;re highly fearful of their music being stolen. If you fall in that category, now there&#8217;s another worry. Your smartphone. We all know about being careful about the websites we visit, the emails we open and links we click, but the dangers of  losing data to a smartphone hacker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumb Rules Eliminate Top Artists/Writers From Oscars</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/dumb-rules-eliminate-top-artistswriters-from-oscars</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brad Paisley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Cornell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elton John]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elvis Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lady Gaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary J. Blige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willie Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zooey Deschanel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s unimaginable how the artists people really want to see and hear have been eliminated from the Academy Awards this year. If a major audience is any part of the show&#8217;s goals, then this is a major shot in the foot. As the LA Times puts it,
&#8220;The consolation for Elton John, Lady Gaga, Mary J. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academy of Country Music to Announce Nominees for the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards Via First-Ever Digital Press Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ENCINO, Calif., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ &#8211;
WHAT:  The first-ever ACM digital press conference, hosted by the Academy of Country Music, CBS Television and dick clark productions via ACM social media channels, to announce the nominees for the 47th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, Country Music&#8217;s Party of the Year® to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kellie Pickler Releases New Album, ParamountSong X-Writer/Vocalist Has Cut No. One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Poythress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always nice to see talent move up in this business, and we are pleased to see Don Poythress, who used to co-write and sing on demos for ParamountSong, credited with co-writing one of the songs on Kelly Picklers upcoming album release. It&#8217;s like we always say, some of the best up and coming talent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megaupload Shut Down by U.S. Prosecutors; Kim Dotcom, Three Others Arrested</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/megaupload-shut-down-by-u-s-prosecutors-kim-dotcom-three-others-arrested</link>
		<comments>http://blog.paramountsong.com/megaupload-shut-down-by-u-s-prosecutors-kim-dotcom-three-others-arrested#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet piracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the controversy rages over SOPA and PIPA, federal prosecutors have taken down a huge piracy site. After all, folks, stealing music and movies, like stealing anything else, is illegal and should be prosecuted.
Billboard.biz reports that &#8220;MegaUpload, one of the worlds largest file-sharing sites, was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paisley Starts Tour With Sold-Out First Weekend</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/paisley-starts-tour-with-sold-out-first-weekend</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Paisley’s Virtual Reality World Tour 2012 completed its first weekend by playing three sold-out shows before a total of over 39,000 fans, with stops in Grand Rapids, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
On Saturday afternoon 1/14, Paisley performed before an intimate crowd at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul on Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country star Keith Urban schedules first performance since vocal cord surgery</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/country-star-keith-urban-making-first-performance-since-vocal-cord-surgery</link>
		<comments>http://blog.paramountsong.com/country-star-keith-urban-making-first-performance-since-vocal-cord-surgery#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missing Keith Urban? You&#8217;re not the only one. He&#8217;s been out of commission for months now with a vocal cord problem. And that&#8217;s a really tough one for such a high-energy entertainer.
Keith will return to the stage on the Feb. 3 Grand Ole Opry. It&#8217;ll be his first performance since undergoing vocal surgery. The country superstar had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotty McCreery’s Debut Album Goes Platinum</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/scotty-mccreery%e2%80%99s-debut-album-goes-platinum</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When news was released that Scotty McCreery would be recording in Nashville, we  received tons of requests from writers we work with to pitch their songs to him. Problem was, by then, he had already locked up the songs he would record. That&#8217;s the way it goes. By the time the popular press and sites start talking [...]]]></description>
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