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Pandora thumbs up ‘Show Ya What’

By #rockStarDiary, Airplay, Music, News, Radio, Winners

Pandora sent me a Love Letter: Dear Leanne, We are excited to let you know that your submission for “Show Ya What” has been approved. We’ll reach out to you again when it has been added to the Music Genome Project and begins playing on Pandora. Thanks, The Pandora Curation Team. It’s not easy for an independent artist to get their music accepted by and added to this internet giant. Pandora has some serious gate keeping and quality control in place to maintain their position as the biggest and best internet radio service in the world. Their website states: “while we feel a great affection and respect for everyone who makes the choice to create, the reality is that the majority of the music or comedy we receive does not get selected.” ‘Choking On Halos’ is already on Pandora Radio and it will be interesting to see what “genes” their team of professorial musicologists assign to the debut solo album ‘Show Ya What’. Website:   https://leannekingwell.com/ iTunes:      http://itunes.apple.com/album/id898805049 Amazon:   http://tinyurl.com/nlhb3yu Pandora: ‪  http://pdora.co/1fDWzXn Spotify:     http://open.spotify.com/album/3DYS30pmGQ7fbFQvC9AZv5 ‬

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Hope inside Pandora’s Box.

By Airplay, Music, News, Radio

According to the myth, after Pandora opened the box, she closed it again, leaving only hope inside. According to fact, Leanne Kingwell’s entire “Choking On Halos” album has been added to Pandora Radio. In April 2013 Pandora Radio announced that their radio streaming service had passed 200 million users. At the time of writing, Wikipedia states that Pandora has “about a 70% share of the internet radio market in the U.S.”  You probably already know what a revolutionary, internationally renowned music discovery platform Pandora Radio has created. But you may not be aware of how difficult it is for an independent artist to get their music accepted by and added to this internet giant. Naturally, they have some serious gate keeping and quality control in place to maintain their position as the biggest and best internet radio service in the world. Pandora’s own website states: “while we feel a great affection and respect for everyone who makes the choice to create, the reality is that the majority of the music or comedy we receive does not get selected.” Having the whole “Choking On Halos” album accepted into Pandora’s “Music Genome Project” is a huge win and an exciting endorsement for an independent Australian artist who’s dedicated her life to, and spent just about every penny she’s ever earned, on making music. The Music Genome Project is described on Pandora’s website as being “the most sophisticated taxonomy of musical information ever collected” which “represents over ten years of analysis by our trained team of musicologists”. Unlike less choosy competitor Spotify, (who accept all music regardless of quality), Pandora Radio “does not use machine-listening or other forms of automated data extraction… each song in the Music Genome Project is analyzed using up to 450 distinct musical characteristics by a trained music analyst.” By manually assigning “genes” to every piece of music on file, Pandora Radio applies both science and heart, to calculate compatible music to play alongside the songs or artists a listener nominates as “station seeds”. Thanks for unleashing my DNA on the world, Pandora. And for leaving me filled with hope. Listen to Leanne Kingwell Radio on PANDORA here: http://pdora.co/1fDWzXn  WEBSITE:  https://leannekingwell.com/ iTUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id898805049

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Finally… NEWS.

By #rockStarDiary, Music, News

There’s been plenty of news, but not a magical news typing pixie in sight. Let me catch you up on the past year or so… Songs were written and frequent flyer points earned with one foot in Melbourne and the other in Los Angeles. There was recording in the Hollywood Hills. Mastering at Capitol Records. More mastering at Abbey Road. I got added to Pandora Radio. Received some smashing reviews. There was radio airplay and interviews… minor earthquakes… and lots of margaritas. A photo shoot in L.A. with Dean Karr. Video shoots in Melbourne with Forrest Redlich. I studied quantum physics by night and drove on the wrong side of the road by day. And all the while my cat bravely waited for my return. I checked in at the Furry Love Factory (aka Gunyah Animal Healing Sanctuary) as often as possible to kiss pigs and alpacas, feed baby goats and chase every fuzz face in sight yelling “Furry Cuddles!” I got my tonsils out… Jumped out of a plane… with a parachute. And now… Now I’m gearing up to launch my album in America. So let’s see how I go keeping this new NEWS thing updated with interesting stuff. As it happens. WEBSITE:  https://leannekingwell.com/ iTUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id898805049

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