{"id":22162,"date":"2023-01-09T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=22162"},"modified":"2023-01-09T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:07:29","slug":"new-music-monday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/01\/new-music-monday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me introduce you to a song you might have already heard by an artist who is doing things his way and proving that it can work.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Tom Macdonald.\u00a0 The\u00a0first independent rapper to EVER get a #1 Pop song on Billboard.\u00a0 With no record label.\u00a0 He&#8217;s done this on his own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I wrote this song for a my girlfriend Nova and released the video 2 weeks ago. We&#8217;re both Canadian. It&#8217;s got 3.5 Million views on YouTube, it was #1 on Billboard&#8217;s Digital Song Sales today (beating out Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, etc.) and got me the front page on the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Sun, Edmonton Sun, Calgary Sun etc. a couple days ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m a completely independent artist &#8211; no record labels or managers or anything, really. I wrote the song, made the instrumental and distributed independently. My girlfriend, who I wrote the song about, shot the music video. You can watch it here&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ImCq5c90hLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>What do you think of the song?\u00a0 Is it something we should add to the Fox playlist?\u00a0 Let us know. Text the A1 Security Textline &#8211; 519-464-1999<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let me introduce you to a song you might have already heard by an artist who is doing things his way and proving that it can work. Meet Tom Macdonald.\u00a0 The\u00a0first independent rapper to EVER get a #1 Pop song on Billboard.\u00a0 With no record label.\u00a0 He&#8217;s done this on his own. &#8220;I wrote this","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4220,5630,5631,990,5193,5629],"class_list":["post-22162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-canadian-artists","tag-ghost","tag-independent-artist","tag-new-music","tag-new-music-monday","tag-tom-macdonald"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 11:56:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/01\/new-music-monday-2\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22164,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions\/22164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}