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Genre | Reality competition |
Created by | David A. Stewart |
Directed by | Ivan Dudynsky |
Starring | Ester Dean Shane McAnally Ryan Tedder |
Composer | Jared Gutstadt |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 21 |
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Executive producers | Audrey Morrissey Ivan Dudynsky Adam Levine Dave Stewart Chad Hines |
Running time | 43 minutes |
Production companies | Universal Television Alternative Studio 222 Productions Live Animals Productions Dave Stewart Entertainment |
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Network | NBC |
Release | May 28, 2019 June 15, 2020 | –
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Songland is an American songwriting competition series that aired on NBC from May 28, 2019, to June 15, 2020.[1] The show, produced in cooperation with the Universal Television Alternative Studio, 222 Productions, Live Animals Productions and Dave Stewart,[2] sets out to give undiscovered songwriters a chance to create a hit. It gives the viewers a look at the creative process in action.[3] Contestants are selected to work with producers and a recording artist to release a song.[4] The show tries to elevate the traditional role of the songwriter in the process of creating music from "unpleasant secret" to being the celebrated "magic ingredient".[5] Stewart, a musician and composer formerly of Eurythmics, conceived Songland.[3]
The show premiered in May 2019, with three producer-hosts: producer and songwriter Ester Dean; producer and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder; and songwriter Shane McAnally. In September 2019, the series was renewed, and the second season premiered in April 2020.[6][7]
According to Heavy.com, many of the first season's songs picked by the guest artists for release hit No. 1 on an iTunes chart.[8] Songland was the top new show of summer 2019 "in the key adults 18-49 demographic and among total viewers, according to Nielsen's "most current" metric, which counts a week's worth of delayed viewing per episode where available".[9]
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