A great ‘alternative’ to “Last Christmas” by The Boy Least Likely To:

“George & Andrew”

Fantastic new campaign “I Am The Rules” for Nike/Footlocker. Using the instrumental of Peter Fox’ brilliant track “Alles Neu”.

Music: Peter Fox – “Alles Neu (Instrumental)” (buy at iTunes)
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy
Directors: alexandliane
Clearance: musicwise@BMG

The official video to The Tunics’ single “Shine On” that has a very prominent placement in the major German feature film “Zweiohrküken” by Til Schweiger can be found here.
Band website: thetunics.co.uk

La cadena de almacenes chilena “La Polar” usa el tema “Sexy Girl” del grupo alemán “2raumwohnung” del disco “Melancholisch schön” en su nueva publicidad para su linea “Extra Lindas”.

Compra y bajate el tema (o todo el disco) en imusica.

Chile’s major department stores “La Polar” using 2raumwohnung‘s brilliant song “Sexy Girl” from the album “Melancholisch schön” for their “Extra Lindas” campaign.

Agency: Promoplan FC, Santiago de Chile
Music licensing: Patrick Jöst/musicwise @ BMG Rights Management

The blanket license agreement between GEMA (the German society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) and youtube for the use of music in videos uploaded to the service expired March 31 2009.

youtube isn’t willing to grant composers a just and individual billing (and payment) for the use of their works, and rather decided to gradually make videos containing music unavailable for German users – a step they had already taken a few days ago in the UK.

This is why some of the videos may not work anymore on musicwise – sorry for the inconvenience.

musicwise explicitly supports the music creatives and the rights societies such as PRS and GEMA in their efforts to obtain a fair remuneration for the use of their work.

Great new campaign for AXA Insurances:

The commercial “Red Line” can be found here on AXA’s German website.

Agency/Agentur: KNSK, Hamburg
Music/Musik: “Thicker” by Todd Hannigan (iTunes)

Research and clearance of the song: musicwise