Originally Posted by Bill Robinson
I don't know much about song pluggers except what a very well connected person in Nashville told me.

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I have never known of a major hit (top 40 billboard) being cut as a result of being pitched by a songplugger. If you want to get cut you need a publisher.


This statement may be factual. Maybe the fellow really has no knowledge of an instance where a songplugger got a cut. But, that does not mean it doesn't happen. I know many instances of songpluggers getting cuts. Major cuts. Hit singles.

One songwriter I know--a former ASCAP writer of the year, and author of scores of cuts--employed a songplugger full time. That plugger once told me that over a 12-month period he had made over 3000 pitches and had gotten 6 cuts. That is a very poor percentage...that resulted in lots and LOTS of big royalty checks.