Mike McCready

I’ll just say it. Music Xray is hands down, far-and-away, no contest the best early stage song and talent discovery platform for music industry professionals. It’s not even close. If you are an industry professionals genuinely seeking to discover new, high-potential songs and talent and you aren’t using Music Xray to help you do it, [...]

That’s right. I don’t think you should spend any more than it absolutely takes to achieve your goals (land the sort of deals you’re pursing). The shorter we can make the path and the more we can reduce costs, the more invaluable Music Xray will be to our community of musicians. Ultimately, we care most [...]

I’m very excited that today we (Music Xray) have launched a new feature. The feature itself is just a small change to how Music Xray has always worked but it changes the game for musicians and songwriters everywhere because it provides you feedback as you execute your submission strategy. It’s like a GPS system to [...]

For a long time, it has been getting harder to achieve the American dream. While average income for a full-time working male, adjusted for inflation, has remained pretty constant since 1973, the top 1% of US earners has gained ground decade after decade. The objective economic data supporting those facts is solid and has been [...]

You can download the A&R Position Paper by clicking here. You can watch the video transcript of it by clicking the video below. I look forward to your comments and feedback at the bottom of the page.

Music Xray provides a series of tools to industry professionals to help them identify high potential songs and acts. Each tool works a bit differently and highlights different types of success potential. Today, we thought we’d tell you about one of them… Collective A&R Statistics You probably didn’t know that every time an industry professional [...]

What if you could be a fly on the wall in an A&R office? What if you could be a fly on the wall in hundreds of A&R offices and hear which songs repeatedly get passed over after a few bars or see which songs tend to grab the attention of music professionals? That’d be [...]

Cue sad trombone (wah wah waaaaaaah). Still at 210 today. Not 209 like I intended. OK. It’s going to be a rough day because I’m so frickin’ hungry. I have a lot to do and a lot of people to talk to today so I need to hold it together. A beer sounds really good [...]

I had lunch with Jeff Blue a few weeks ago and we talked about how he helps independent artists launch their careers. He doesn’t do it for free. But it’s affordable and he delivers. His client roster were no-namers pre-Jeff and are household names today. Blue has launched the careers of artists from Linkin Park [...]

Weight – 210 lbs. OK. One day and one pound down. I know these first pounds are the easiest so I’m not planning on getting cocky. Yesterday, I did polish off a few carbs that were laying around the house so I wasn’t as strict as I will be from here on out. For protein [...]