Volume One Launch
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
The Shout-Australian Music Sampler Volume 1 was launched at Musexpo 2008 in Los Angeles on 27 April, 2008. We received a very positive response from everyone we spoke to at the conference.
In excess of 800 copies of the Shout-AMS were distributed to the attendees as part of the Musexpo official delegate bag received by all registrants.
Music industry heavyweights that received the sampler included:
Dianne Warren (the world’s most successful songwriter of modern times)
Harvey Goldsmith (Founder/President Harvey Goldsmith Presents)
Ralph Peer II (Chairman/CEO Peer Music Publishing)
Nick Gatfield (President Island Records Group)
Alex Patsavas (Founder Chop Shop Music Supervision)
Rob McDermott (President, Collective Music Group – Worldwide manager of Linkin Park)
Nick Harcourt (Music Director, Radio KCRW Los Angeles)
Sean Moriarity (Worldwide Chairman/CEO, Ticketmaster
Ali Partovi (Founder/CEO, iLike.com
Savio D’Souza (General Secretary, India’s Music Industry)
Mark Strippel (Head of Music, BBC Asian Network)
David Massey (President, Mercury Records)
Jim Mahoney ( CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi)
Steve Schnur (Worldwide Head of Music & Marketing, Electronic Arts)
Alicen Schneider (VP Music Services, NBC Universal TV)
Gary Chen (CEO, Orca Digital/Top 100 – Google’s music partner in China)
Jason Sausto (President, Onkyo Chine)
Natalie Schwartz (Chair C4 Digital DirectorChannel 4 Radio UK)
Bob Lefsetz (Author, The Lefsetz Letter)
Nick Raphael (Managing Director, Epic Records UK)
Jay Faires (President of Music & Publishing, Lionsgate Entertainment)
Martin Kierszenbaum (President Cherrytree/Snr. VP A&R and Head of International Operations Interscope Geffen A&M)
Seymour Stein (Chairman Sire Records)
Kenny MacPherson (President/Snr. Executive Chrysalis Music Publishing (Nth. America)
Terry McBride (CEO, Nettwerk Music Group)
Steve Jones (Host “Jonesy’s Juke Box Indie 103 FM Los Angeles)
Dalton Caldwell (Founder/CEO imeem)
Steve Stewart (Manager, Nokia Music Solutions)
Gary Arnold (Snr. VP Entertainment Best Guy)
Ted Cohen (Managing Partner, Tag Strategic)
Robert Reynolds (Manager, The Killers)
Kevin Lyman (President/Founder, Vans Warped Tour and 4Fini Inc USA)
Jason Magnus (President, Rock for China/Beijing Pop Festival, China)
Michael Chugg (President, Chugg Entertainment Australasia)
Folkert Koopmans (Managing Director, Scorpio Konzertproducktionen, Germany)
Frank Takeshita (General Manager, Creative Man Productions Japan)
Kenny Gates (Co-President, PIAS Entertainment Group Worldwide)
Peter Shukat (Managing Director. Shukat Arrow Hafer Weber & Herbsman, LLP)
Chris Barton (Strategic Partnership Development Manager, Google)
Max Tolkoff ( Program Director, Indie 103.1 Radio Los Angeles)
Marianne Goode ( VP Music Lifetime TV & Lifetime Entertainment)
Carter Armstrong (VP Music, Warner Bros. Pictures)
Doc McGhee (Founder, McGhee Entertainment, worldwide manager of Kiss)
Andy Gould ( President, Spectacle Entertainment Group, worldwide manager of Rob Zombie & co-manager Guns’n’Roses)
John Watson (Owner/President, Eleven Music/JW Management, (manager Silverchair, Wolfmother, Missy Higgins)
Simon Renshaw (CEO, Strategic Artist Management, worldwide manager Dixie Chicks)
Ron Stone (Co-founder/President, Gold Mountain Entertainment, worldwide manager The New York Dolls)
Daniel Glass (President/Founder, Glassnote Entertainment)
Mike Walsh (Head of Music, Xfm Radio Network UK)
Tim Prescott (CEO, Alberts Music)
Kathleen Carey (Snr. VP International, Sony/ATV Music Publishing)
Oum Pradutt (Managing Director, Phase 1 Live Events, India)
Peter Asher (Partner, Strategic Artist Management)
Dain Blair (CEO, Grooveaddicts)
Chris Price (Director of Music Programming, MTV Networks UK & Ireland)
Jimmy Steal (Emmis Vice President of Programming)
Erica Farber (Publisher, Radio & Records)
Safta Jaffrey (Owner/Managing Director, SJP/Taste Music, UK)
James P. Dunne (President, Inspire Entertainment)
Atul Churmani (VP, A&R, Publishing & New Media, Saregama, India)
Geoff Boucher (Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times)
Jackie Subeck (President, Entertainment Group, CRC Jianian, China)
Ritch Esra (Publisher, The Music Registry)
Tommy Nast (MC Musexpo 2008)
Sat Bisla (Founder/CEO, A&R Worldwide)
For a full list of Musexpo 2008’s speakers please visit the Musexpo website.
The Shout-AMS Team will announce some very exciting news about Volume 2 distribution partnerships, so visit the website regularly and stay tuned!
