Welcome to our monthly media roundup
Each month we showcase some of Songtradr’s recent music placements in TV, film, advertisements, and more and highlight artists from our amazing creative community.
Featured Placements
The end credits offer a lucrative sync placement where music can take center stage and leave a lasting impression. It's also a great time to Shazam as your mind drifts away from the action. Songtradr artist El Swing De Nicky Catarey has the prime spot on season one, episode six of FOX sitcom Call Me Kat, starring Mayim Bialik and streaming now on Hulu.
Track: Chipa y Fuego
Artist: El Swing De Nicky Catarey
Writer: Juan F Andujar
Our Song Zu team was recently tasked with designing Canva's sonic brand identity, whose social essence was defined as 'human, inspiring, and empowering.' The end result? A modern version of gospel music that features human voices. Now you can listen out for the very cool 'Canva Choir' in all their spots.
Track: Custom Composition
Composer: Nathan Cavaleri
This year, the personal care brand reimagined a campaign from 2006 called 'Dove Evolution' and titled it 'Reverse Selfie.' Big Sync Music's London team created a custom piece to augment the ad's theme of the digital era’s pressure to uphold impossible beauty standards and encourages honest conversations around body image.
Track: Custom Composition
Composer: Big Sync Creative
As far as brands leveraging TikTok go, Suave Beauty sets a high bar, effectively showcasing its products in the wild – in this case, the aisles at Target. Influencer Ashley Nocera dances through the store and washes her hair with products from the new clean, certified haircare line to a lively guitar jingle from Songtradr artist Real Fiction.
Track: Live It 2 The Limit
Artist: Real Fiction
Writers: T. Mathieu and M. A. Allyn
Artist Spotlight
David Davis
LA-based pop-soul singer David Davis brings a fresh perspective to one of America's most beloved music genres. He recently won NBC's coveted songwriting competition Songland, and legendary producer Quincy Jones described him as having "electric energy on stage.
Gatlin
Nashville alt-indie artist Gatlin crafts musical moments of meaning and melody. Her songs brim with confessional lyricism and raw storytelling, blending a vast internal world of feelings and thoughts with a rich external sphere of people and places.
Boreal
Reims-based beatmaker Boreal delivers ambient and upbeat dance tracks that traverse electronic music's vast universe. The French musician slides between radiant chillwave and slinky remixes effortlessly to offer a sound that's equally at home in nature and on the dancefloor.
Mounika
In a small corner of Northwest France, producer Mounika assembles dreamlike soundscapes inspired by Moby, Bonobo, and Wax Tailor. Leaning into the chill vibes that have come to define bedroom pop in the digital age, his whimsical, wind-swept productions entice with delicate guitars and tender hip-hop beats.
Featured Playlists
Distribution Artist of the Month
Johnny Zirkel's The Wildfires Projekt delivers heart-on-sleeve alternative/post-hardcore anthems with a ton of heat. The California musician co-founded Reverse The Trend, a nonprofit that has helped bring anti-bullying and suicide prevention programs to over 400 schools nationwide, and developed an alt-rock TV series on CBS.
Songtradr Selects | May Edition
This month's Songtradr Selects playlist features high-energy pop songs from Foxxi and Nicoh Davis, sentimental alt-rock jams from Caleb Hawley and Jane's Party, plus groovy upbeat tunes from Bamtone, and more.
