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Jason Blume’s songs are on Grammy-nominated albums and have sold more than 50 million copies. He is the author of 6 Steps to Songwriting Success, This Business of Songwriting, and Inside Songwriting, all published by Billboard Books and he has published more than 120 articles and lessons in MusicWorld and The Weekly magazines. One of the only writers to simultaneously have songs on Billboard’s Pop, Country and R&B charts, Jason’s songs have been recorded by artists including Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, the Gipsy Kings, Jesse McCartney, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and international stars such as Christian Ingebrigtsen, Tomohisa Yamashita (#1 J-Pop EP), Hi-5 (winners of Greek Idol, certified “platinum”), as well as country music stars including Collin Raye (6 cuts), the Oak Ridge Boys, Steve Azar, and John Berry (“Change My Mind,” a top 5 single that earned a BMI “Million-Aire” Award for garnering more than one million airplays). Jason had three top-10 singles with Dutch star BYentl—all certified “Gold” in the Netherlands— including a #1 on the iTunes R&B chart. He wrote two songs for Hawaii-based K-Pop-style band Crossing Rain’s 2022 debut album that earned the group the “Favorite Artist of the Year” award. His song “Come Back 2.0” was the band’s first single. Jason received an Emmy Award and an additional nomination for his musical contributions to episodes of PBS’ “Frontline,” and he wrote the end credit theme for the hit animated film, “Barbie of Swan Lake.” Additional TV and film credits include “Assassination Games,” “Scrubs,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Black or White,” “Dangerous Minds,” “The Guiding Light,” “The Miss America Pageant,” Disney’s “Kim Possible” and “First Kid,” MTV’s “Next Big Thing,” “Teen Mom,” and “Taking the Stage,” “MVP,” “The Dating Guy,” “Dangerous Minds,” “Kickin’ it Old Skool,” “Fame,” and “Swimming With the Fishes.” A staff songwriter for twelve years, teaching is Jason’s passion. He has been a guest lecturer at Berklee College of Music and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (co-founded by Sir Paul McCartney), and has taught masterclasses in more than a dozen countries. He developed and has been teaching the BMI Nashville Songwriters’ Workshop for thirty years and has been interviewed as a songwriting expert for CNN, NPR, the BBC, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times.
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