Doug Walker - What a story

Often people will say to me, Dominic, how do you get a song in the charts or how do you get your song played on the radio and the truth is there isn't an easy answer to the question... If there was my book would be on the shelves. It is becoming more and more difficult to get your song played on the radio because of music testing. Have a look at songpeople.com if you want to know more about music testing. However, in a nutshell radio stations won't play a song unless a large portion of their target audience either like or love the song.

The fact is when you hear of an artist the chances are they've played naff gigs, had rejection letter after rejection letter until before they get that one bite. Take The Ting Tings for example I first started working with Katie in 1999 when she was in a band called TKO and it's not until 2008 that she's getting thecredit she deserves.

I have to say the prize for the best story is Manchester's Doug Walker. He traveled from home to be outside BBC Radio 1's studios and handed Chris Moyles one of his demo CD's. Chris played the single an hour later and is still playing it now!

Doug's Myspace went mental as a result of the airplay and he then got signed.

Danton Supple has produced Doug's new single 'The Mystery' which is on sale from 10th March. Danton has also produced stuff for Warrington's Starsailor and Coldplay.

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