No offense taken. I live next door to Jason Aldean's producer and he told me he usually listened to 5,000 songs or more for each record they do. I'm not an expert by any means on the ins and outs of the writing world... I've only been seriously trying to get somewhere with it for a cpl years, so what I said there is just my impression based on my experience and what other writers have told me. I certainly do hold the belief that it's possible to get cuts as an independant writer, otherwise I wouldn't be trying to make it happen! LOL