Jamsphere Indie Music Magazine November 2021 – FEATURED THIS MONTH – Purple Activist, Alpha55, Steve Sperandeo, 4LeafComposer, James Bene, Anita Traci, Jefe Slime, Tonic The Rapper, Wes Dean, Monsters Are Real, SUBNR, Pockets & Tex, Keishh – Jamsphere covers all news, reviews, interviews and events of the world’s top independent music artists from all genres. Every month we choose the cream of the crop for our magazine, ready for digital download or to be delivered as a physical printed copy right to your door. Copies are also distributed to industry professionals and music’s top tastemakers, as we continue our quest to make indie irresistible!
Jamsphere Indie Music Magazine November 2021
By Rick Jamm in JAMSPHERE Indie Music Magazine
32 pages, published 11/29/2021
Jamsphere Indie Music Magazine November 2021 – FEATURED THIS MONTH – Purple Activist, Alpha55, Steve Sperandeo, 4LeafComposer, James Bene, Anita Traci, Jefe Slime, Tonic The Rapper, Wes Dean, Monsters Are Real, SUBNR, Pockets & Tex, Keishh – Jamsphere covers all news, reviews, interviews and events of the world’s top independent music artists from all genres. Every month we choose the cream of the crop for our magazine, ready for digital…
This article is written by Morganne Stephenson and is part of the SMG Impact Fellows Mix Tape Series, a collection of first-person essays written by the inaugural cohort of Sony Music Group Impact Fellows. Read more about the SMG Impact Fellows Program here.
What is your favorite aspect of interning at Sony Music? Interning at Sony Music—where should I even begin?! Sony gave me my first “big girl” internship as a Public Relations intern. There were so many things I absolutely loved about interning here, however, my favorite aspect of interning with the company is definitely the way my SMG team interacted with me and took a genuine interested in my growth and development.
For one, I appreciated working with people who have significant projects and responsibilities (such as the worship leader summer project) so I could learn and work alongside them.
My Sony Music team didn’t treat me like an intern; I was consistently viewed as an equal by all the teammates I worked with. My Public Relations team integrated me into every project and made it apparent my effort and contributions were part of something bigger. Throughout my internship experience, I felt seen, valued, and appreciated.
Tell us about intern workshops and events held throughout the summer. What did you enjoy most about it? I loved that the Talent Development and Talent Acquisition team ensured a standard of balance. They provided our intern class with well-organized and much needed workshops that supported our professional development, in addition to leisure opportunities to meet and greet other interns. We were able to share our internship experiences with one another, motivate each other, and bring out the best in one another. Our internship program leaders showed that they truly care about us as professionals and individuals, and they did excellent job in ensuring that we get the best out of our internship experience. That level of care, in and of itself, has left an impact on me!
What is one of your main/personal takeaways from your Sony Music internship experience? #LifeatSonyMusic exceeded all of my expectations. The tremendous personal and professional growth I’ve experienced during since the start of the internship is beautiful. I joined Sony Music as a timid over-thinker and am departing as a strong-minded and confident young professional. All in all, I just want to say to Sony Music Entertainment.
Last but not least, what’s songs are currently in your rotation and on repeat?
“Run Run” – Shenseea
“Hazy” – Chloe x Halle
“My Power” – Beyoncé, Tierra Whack
“I Wanna Be Down” – Brandy
“Wait A Minute” – Willow Smith
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Sony Music Group’s commitment to corporate giving is at the heart of our philanthropic programs and activities across the globe – from the programs led by our businesses to the partnerships we forge with artists, songwriters, and other creators.
We’ve taken action and provided funding to support communities that need it most, inside and outside the music industry. Now, the Sony Music Group Global Social Justice Fund is on track to connect with nearly 400 community partners around the world. Together with these groups, we aim to help advance bipartisan solutions in the areas of civic engagement, criminal justice reform, and education. You can see our full list of partners here.
And that list is about to grow—because today, we’re excited to share the news that we’ve started outreach to organizations for the fourth round of funding from the Sony Music Group Global Social Justice Fund. Our global task force leaders and their teams are hard at work determining the next pool of community partners to receive support.
We are eager to work in collaboration with more nonpartisan groups whose efforts align with our three giving pillars. Whether we’re supporting new community organizations or recommitting to existing nonprofits, our goal is the same: to empower our employees to make change happen—locally and abroad.
You’ll hear more from us about the new round of funding in the coming months.
In the meantime, we’re excited to separately kick off this year’s Season of Giving campaign, which begins next week on Giving Tuesday.
Thank you for all that you do to serve our communities in need around the world.
Related: Latest Round of Funding from Sony Music UK Social Justice Fund Focuses On Mental Health and Racism Seven New Beneficiaries Announced for Sony Music UK’s Social Justice Fund A Conversation With Towalame Austin, Sony Music Group’s Executive Vice President of Philanthropy and Social Impact
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Artist’s Perennial Masterpiece Earns RIAA Diamond Award and
Returns to Billboard Hot 100 while Securing #1 Spot on
Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs
“Mariah’s Christmas: The Magic Continues” Premiering Globally Today on Apple TV+
New York, NY – December 3, 2021 – Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” continues to make pop music history this year as the artist’s perennial yuletide standard (cowritten and coproduced by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff in 1994) keeps breaking new records while lighting up the 2021 holiday season.
This December, “All I Want for Christmas is You” became the first and only holiday single to take home the RIAA’s coveted Diamond Award (in recognition of ten million sales and streaming units in the United States).
Listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” here.
“The continued love for my song never ceases to amaze me and fill my heart with a multitude of emotions,” said Mariah. “It blows my mind that ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ has endured different eras of the music industry. The RIAA DIAMOND award?! Wowww! I’m so fortunate to have the greatest fans on Earth, my Lambily, who continue to support my legacy. I love you.”
“Mariah is the Queen of Christmas,” said President of the Commercial Music Group at Sony Music Entertainment, Richard Story. “Her Sony Music family congratulates her on breaking yet another record, and continuing to make history as the first and only artist to achieve this incredible milestone.”
“Mariah Carey is one of the top Gold & Platinum awarded artists of all time, and ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ becoming the only holiday song to achieve Diamond is a remarkable milestone forever etched in music history. Congratulations and happy holidays to Mariah and her amazing Sony team,” said Mitch Glazier, Chairman and CEO, RIAA.
Carey also spotlights the global fan-favorite “All I Want for Christmas is You” in the Apple TV+ smash-hit, Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special, with a show-stopping performance of the record-breaking song, along with her twins, son Moroccan and daughter Monroe. On the heels of this exciting news, Carey debuts her all-new holiday extravaganza Mariah’s Christmas: The Magic Continues, premiering globally today and available now on Apple TV+.
On Tuesday, December 7, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) will make two Mariah Carey films, Live at the Tokyo Dome and First Vision, available for digital purchase and rental for the first time in the United States. Showcasing more than 80 minutes of music, including a stunning live version of “All I Want for Christmas is You,” Mariah Carey: Live at the Tokyo Dome captures the artist’s historic first concert in Japan, lensed during her 1996 Daydream World Tour. Mariah Carey: First Vision gives viewers an inside look at Mariah on the cusp of her meteoric rise to superstardom; this 1991 film contains early music videos, behind-the-scenes footage, an interview and songs from her very first live performance at New York’s intimate Tatou Club in 1990. Currently available in the US only, four additional Mariah Carey films–Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden, Here is Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey Around the World and Mariah Carey: MTV Unplugged +3–will be released worldwide via SPE on December 7.
Billboard recently named Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” as the #1 record on their Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs list. The song first cracked the Top 10 of the Hot 100 in December 2017 and, in December 2019, 25 years after its original release, became the second holiday single ever to hit #1 on the Hot 100, breaking the record for longest span from release date to #1. “All I Want for Christmas is You” hit #1 again in 2020, giving it a five week total in the top slot, a new milestone for a holiday recording.
Recorded in August 1994 at The Hit Factory in New York, “All I Want for Christmas is You” was originally released in October 1994 as the first single from Mariah’s Merry Christmas album, a showcase for Mariah’s interpretations of familiar holiday songs alongside the new material she’d composed with co-writer Walter Walter Afanasieff. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” went on to become one of the best-selling singles (of any genre) of all time and the best-selling holiday ringtone in the United States for several years running.
When “All I Want for Christmas is You” hit #1 on the Hot 100 in 2019, it was Mariah’s 19th claim on the top spot, a record for a solo recording artist; when her holiday single hit #1 the following year, Mariah became the first artist to have a Hot 100 # 1 in four separate decades (the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s and the 2020s).
Having charted every holiday season since its original release, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”–which The New Yorker called “one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon”–has become an essential seasonal standard that continues to bring the spirit of Christmas to the hearts of music lovers the world over.
“All I Want for Christmas is You” is Carey’s biggest international success, topping the charts in twenty-six countries including Australia, Canada, France and Germany. In 2020, the holiday classic topped the charts in the United Kingdom for the first time, spending a record 69 weeks in the UK Top 40 before reaching #1. “All I Want for Christmas is You” is the all-time best-selling Christmas single by a female artist and one of the top-selling physical singles in music history. It’s the first holiday ringtone to be certified double platinum by the RIAA.
For More Information Contact:
Sony Music / Legacy Recordings
Gabby Gibb – Gabby.Gibb@sonymusic.com
Mariah Carey Chris Chambers – chris@thechambergroup.com Edwin Tettah – edwin.tetteh@thechambergroup.com
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Sony Music Group is excited to introduce our Full Scale Fellowship Program.
This three-year fellowship aims to cultivate and foster a pipeline of aspiring multicultural recent law grads, and provide participants with a fully-immersive experience in all aspects of the Sony Music Group business.
“Through this fellowship program, our ambition is to address and ameliorate the multicultural talent gap often seen in the Business and Legal Affairs industry while continuing to deliver on Sony Music Group’s commitment to providing educational opportunities and resources for the next generation of music professionals. We’re grateful to Covington & Burling for partnering with us to mentor and train our fellows throughout this program,” said Julie Swidler, Executive Vice President, Business Affairs & General Counsel, Sony Music Entertainment.
Participants of the program will rotate through different SMG business divisions every six months, exposing them to a wide breadth of learning opportunities, projects and teammates. Those business divisions include: Global BLA, Global Digital Business, the labels (RCA, Epic, Columbia), The Orchard, CMG/Legacy and Sony Music Publishing.
Fellows will be empowered to grow as individuals, build meaningful relationships and access opportunities that will help shape their careers while gaining insight into entertainment and corporate law in the music business through hands-on work and real time guidance from our lawyers.
Read more about the program details here: sonymusic.link/fullscale
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