Originally Posted by Charlie2015

With the right producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers, anybody can put out an outstanding record.
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Recordings are they key, and if you have a great recording, with a great producer, and not just a generic recording done at an affordable demo place... you can get on radio and be successful.
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If you took every song on this forum and recorded it and produced it by the same person, or company, you'd start to hear a whole lot of common ground with all of them. Alot of times the only thing that sets a song apart is the production.


Commonly expressed opinion but I have to disagree. Keeping the scope of the discussion on people trying to have their songs recorded by the Nashville establishment---go to the websites of any of those companies that make pro demos for people and listen to the samples. Performed and sung by Nashville pros and production that is most of the way towards radio ready yet with almost all of them you can still tell that it's second rate material. And those are the ones they post trying to sell their services.

If as you say you took every song on this site and produced them all with top notch pros, most of them would still not stand up next to what is on the radio. You mention Taylor Swift. I don't know how much of her music she actually writes but of what I've heard over the years, it's good pop music. Not what I listen to, but good. There's more than just expensive production and a random hot 20 year old separating that product from what the majority of Nashville hopefuls can come up with. If there wasn't, everyone could do it. Good production doesn't cost that much anymore. You listen to the top radio hits on country and there are some very clever, experienced writers putting that stuff together. Some very talented people who know what they are doing. Once again, not what I would listen to for long but obviously not something very many people can do.