Febuary 2025
“Feeling U” (Haller, Korn) gets a fantastic placement (spread over 5 scenes) in Season 8 Ep 7 of the hit Netflix show, “Love Is Blind.” The song got over 600 Shazam’s within days after the episode aired and was released to all streaming platforms just prior to the airing.
“Sure Feels Right” (Haller) gets a Featured Placement in CBS “The Young And The Restless.” The song has gotten thousands of Shazams and streams since it aired.
“Dive Even Deeper” and “Lose Myself In You” both make repeat appearances on CBS “The Young And The Restless.”
“Baptized By Your Love,” (Sereda, Kokol, Haller) recorded by Canadian Country artist Jerry Sereda climbs to #4 on the Indigenous Music Countdown.
January 2025
New Release: Baptized By Your Love (Sereda, Kokol, Haller) released last year by prominent Canadian country artist Jerry Sereda is airing on SiriusXM and terrestrial radio in Canada and climbing up Canadian charts. Thrilled to see this beautiful and professionally-made video!
Happy to kick off the new year with three more placements on CBS’s The Young And The Restless: one for “Two One-Sided” (Jan 2) and two for “Dive Even Deeper” (Jan 10 and 14).
December 2024
New Christmas song, “Meet Beneath The Mistletoe” was released and got its first placement on CBS’s “The Young And The Restless.”
November 2024
Loved hearing how my song, "Sure Feels Right," was used -- a full 2 min and 30 seconds of it -- to support the vibe of this budding romance scene in CBS's The Young And The Restless.
Released three versions of “Dive Even Deeper” – male, female and duet versions -- in conjunction with a first placement on CBS’s “The Young And The Restless.”
October 2024
“Rodeo” (ft TY Avery) gets its first sync placement: on the premiere episode of the new, Yellowstone-inspired docuseries, “The Wranglers” on The CW Network.
Two back-to-back song placements in one episode of CBS’s The Young And The Restless: “Lose Myself In You” (ft Delmoore) and “Curious Minds” (ft Colleen Noel).
More repeat placements on Y&R for ““Lose Myself In You” and “Two One-Sided”
September 2024
Nashville Christian Country artist Joshua Clark releases “Plantin’ Seeds” , a song I wrote in Nashville with Victoria Banks and Bill Small. The song starts getting radio play, and Clark releases the official video.
First airing of the female version of “Too One-Sided” (ft Halli Lane) on CBS’s The Young And The Restless.
August 2024
Alexa Valentino releases her sophomore EP, You Have The Right To Remain Silent, Five of the eight songs were written by Alexa and me.
First placement on CBS’s The Young And The Restless for the female version of “Lose Myself In You” (ft Colleen Noel) .
July 2024
“Sure Feels Right” released and gets its first placement on CBS’s “The Young And The Restless.”
Both male and female versions of “Too One-Sided” get placements on CBS’s “The Young And The Restless.”
“God I Hope So” in rotation on Sirius XM Channels 171 (Top of Country) and 165.
June 2024
I was honored to be a guest speaker (via Zoom) for two terrific songwriting organizations: the Minnesota Association of Songwriters (MAS) and Global Songwriters Connection (GSC) (pictured).
“God I Hope So,” written with Brian White (Jason Aldean, Rodney Atkins) and artist Michaela Clarke , was released by Clarke and was added into the rotation at Sirius XM “Top of the Country” (Channel 171).
“Lose Myself In You” (feat Delmoore) and “Curious Minds” (feat Colleen Noel) received nominations for Hollywood Independent Music Awards (HIMA). Both songs were featured in CBS's "The Young And The Restless" in this season.
“Two One-Sided” (ft Halli Lane) makes its premiere in CBS’s “The Young And The Restless,” one of three song placements in the S51 E168 episode that added up to about 4 ½ minutes worth of music.
May 2024
Curious Minds (Haller feat Delmoore) premieres on CBS’s The Young And The Restless with a nearly two-minute long placement. The scene features a vocal-up portion of the song that supports the storyline.
Too One-Sided (Haller feat Delmoore) featured multiple times in CBS’s The Young And The Restless.
April 2024
Too One-Sided (Haller feat Delmoore) makes its premiere in CBS’s The Young And The Restless.
March 2024
“Lose Myself In You” (Haller) featured twice in CBS’s “The Young and the Restless” and released on all streaming networks.
“You Above All” official video nominated for Music Video of the Year for the upcoming Inspirational Country Music (ICM) Awards. Kathryn Shipley’s album, “If These Boots Could Talk,” featuring the song, “Rise Above” was nominated for ICM Inspiration Album of the Year.”
Febuary 2024
Rapper TY Avery releases his first country/hip-hop song, “Rodeo,” ) (Avery, De Lucia, Haller). The Official “Rodeo” video , shot and edited in Los Angeles, was also released, and was featured on CMT.com.
January 2024
“I Would If You Will” (Haller, Ernst) featured in “Hollywood Houselift.”
December 2023
“burn book” (Valentino, Haller) released by artist Alexa Valentino.
If These Boots Could Talk wins “Album of the year” in the Gospel/Christian/Inspirational category at the 2023 Josie Awards in Nashville, TN.
October 2023
Kathryn Shipley's album “If These Boots Could Talk” wins "Album of the Year" in the Gospel/Christian/Inspirational category at the 2023 Josie Awards, held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. My co-written songs, “Rise Above” and “You Above All” are two of the seven songs on this this album.
Alexa Valentino releases our song “ghostface,” on on Friday the 13th. It became her most successful debut to date, garnering almost 20K streams and appearing on over 1500 Spotify playlists in the first week.
September 2023
Enjoyed learning, re-connecting and making new connections at the Music Program of the 2023 Nashville Film Festival!
August 2023
"I Would If You Will” (Haller, Ernst) featured in Season 5, Episodes 10 and 12 of Temptation Island.
Country artist Jenny Tolman releases the "stripped down" session recording of her 2020 Billboard Top-25 song, "There Goes the Neighborhood” (Tolman, Brainard, Haller).
July 2023
Alexa Valentino releases her album “The Meaning of Forever”. She and I wrote 6 of the 13 songs on the album. “punchline” ) is among the songs that is already getting rave reviews like this one in Pop Passion.
“Sure” (Haller, DeFors, Clarke) by Sarah DeFors featured in the closing montage of Season 2, Episode 117 of of “Teen Mom: The Next Chapter”. Canadian artist/songwriter Michaela Clarke releases “The Babysitter” (Clarke, Cronin, Haller) to all streaming platforms and SiriusXM-Canada.
May 2023
Participated in the What Up Pitches “ WUP It Up” Chicago conference. A wonderful weekend of learning, networking and creating a new song now signed exclusively with WUP.
April 2023
Alexa Valentino releases our song “paranoid”.
Official Lyric Video released for Michaela Clarke’s “The Babysitter” (Clarke, Cronin, Haller).
December 2022
“Neighbor’s Christmas Lights” (Haller) was featured in the Tanya Tucker Christmas movie, “A Nashville Country Christmas,” airing on Paramount Network and CMT. The song was released on all platforms in conjunction with this movie placement.
“Fight With You” (Lind, Haller, Topel) appeared 6 times in 2022 on the French reality show, “Recherche Appartement ou Maison.”
September 2022
“Red Rover” (Kimmer, Hydro, Haller) released by Top 50 artist Cody Purvis. This is the first song that Purvis has released to radio since his 2019 Top 50 Billboard hit, "Drinking Terms." Rave review in Today’s Country Music.
June 2022
“Water In The Well” (Banks, Haller, Hammer) released by Canadian country artist Jade Naraine. The song is airing on SiriusXM’s CBC Country Channel.
“Drawbridge – REMIX-featuring Rab” released by country artist Kevin Herchen featuring rap artist, Rab.
April/May 2022
“Rise Above” released by Cavalla Records recording artist Kathryn Shipley on her album, “If These Boots Could Talk” with an inspirational music video.
The video aired on the TCN Network in Nashville and received press attention in various publications including Music Crowns .
Soon after its release, “Rise Above” was nominated for “Song of the Year” and “Single of the Year” in the 2022 Josie Awards.
Additionally, Shipley’s video for the song received Josie nominations for “Best Performance Video of the Year” as well as “Social Impact Video of the Year.”
January 2022
I’m super stoked to have two new songs signed exclusively by For Goodness Sync for film and TV representation.
December 2021
Ashlie Amber's “Fight With You” (Haller, Miller, Topel) was placed eleven times over the course of 2021 with the French reality show, Les Familles Nombreuses La Vie en xxl.
November 2021
I’m excited and grateful to have new songs signed exclusively by Big Noise Music Group in Los Angeles for film and TV representation.
October 2021
“You Above All”“You Above All” (Kathryn Shipley ft Ava Paige) is on the first round ballot of the GRAMMY® Awards in two categories: - Best Contemporary Christian Performance/Song and Best Music Video “Nothing Says It Best,” written with Jeffrey East and Carrie Cunningham released by Cunningham (Sound Barn Records) with a heart-wrenching music video.
September 2021
Kathryn Shipley’s video (Feat. Ava Paige) for the song, “You Above All” wins Music Video Of The Year-Female at the 2021 Josie Music Awards.
May 2021
"You Above All" (Paige, Haller, Clarke, Bria), recorded by Kathryn Shipley (ft Ava Paige) receives 2 nominations in the Josie Music Awards: Music Event of the Year and Music Video of the Year. The awards celebrate and recognize independent artists in all genres. The full-production award show will be held in Pigeon Forge, TN on Sept. 18th and recorded for television broadcast.
April 2021
The official music video for "You Above All" (Paige, Haller, Clarke, Bria) receives an exclusive television premiere on The Country Network (TCN).
Jenny Tolman re-releases her album “There Goes the Neighborhood” with three new bonus songs. Featuring a title track written by Tolman with Haller and Dave Brainard, the album was ranked #24 on RollingStone’s list of “40 Best Country and American Albums of 2019.
Tolman also releases a video about the concept behind the re-release.
March 2021
Boston country artist Houston Bernard releases, "Without You Honey," written by Haller with Houston Bernard and Adam Steinberg.
Ashlie Amber releases a video of an acoustic performance of “Fight With You,” recorded live on Fox5 Las Vegas.
February 2021
The video for Rae Leigh’s “Find a Better Day” (Leigh, Haller) is released on Country Music Television (CMT) Australia and is running in their “New Country” Section.
Haller is honored to be a writer on the latest singles by two of the five wonderful artists, Ashlie Amber ("Fight With You") and Kathryn Shipley ("You Above All" featuring Ava Paige) featured in Rissi Palmer’s “Class of 2021: 5 Black Country Women You Need to Know.”
January 2021
Newly-signed Cavalla Records artist Katherine Shipley releases “You Above All” (Paige, Haller, Clarke, Bria) as her first single on her new label. Featuring Ava Paige, the song release was celebrated with a prominent billboard in downtown Nashville.
Promotion for artist Ashlie Amber includes a Forbes magazine article (“‘Country Vogue’ Artist Ashlie Amber Aims To Be The Beyonce Of Country”) featuring the “Fight With You” lyric video. Amber and the song were also spotlighted in interviews in Starry Constellation Magazine and Afternoon Cocktail.
December 2020
On the heels of the release of her single, “Fight With You” (Haller, Miller, Topel), Ashlie Amber named an "Artist to watch in 2021" by Sounds Like Nashville.
November 2020
Haller interviewed by Australian artist Rae Leigh as part of Leigh’s podcast, Songwriter Trysts.
“Find A Better Day” (Haller, Leigh) released by Australian artist Rae Leigh to Australian Country radio. The song received positive reviews including this one from Music is My Muse.
Leigh was also interviewed on KMFL Radio in conjunction with the released and performed at Queensland’s iconic HOTA in Surfer’s Paradise, Australia.
Reaction Video released by Dream Team Neal for “Fight With You.”
October 2020
Ashlie Amber releases her lyric video for “Fight With You.”
Michaela Clarke releases her lyric video for “Taken.”
Erica Brighthill performs a Single Release Show for “Still Small Voice” and releases a lyric video for the song.
September 2020
“Fight With You” (Haller, Miller, Topel) released as a single by Ashlie Amber. The song receives over 10,000 Spotify streams in the first 48 hours and lands a spot on Spotify's "New Music Nashville" playlist. Ashlie gives the first live acoustic performance of the song on the Don Ellis Gatlin Show.
“Taken” (Haller, Clarke, Banks) released by Michaela Clarke with lyric video. The song is on rotation at SiriusXM CBC Country and numerous other Canadian radio stations.
“Still Small Voice” (Haller, Banks, Brasch) released by Erica Brighthill on Willow Sound Records.
February 2020
The video for “There Goes the Neighborhood” (Tolman, Brainard, Haller) is added to CMT (Country Music Television) Music’s video
rotation.
Houston Bernard releases the official music video for “Make a Wish” (Bernard, Haller, Forand).
December 2019
The album, “There Goes the Neighborhood" ranked No. 24 on Rolling Stone's list of the 40 best country and Americana albums in 2019.
November 2019
“Drawbridge” (Herchen, Haller), recorded in Nashville’s historic RCA Records Studio A, is released as a single by artist Kevin Herchen.
October 2019
Official video released for “There Goes the Neighborhood” (Tolman, Brainard, Haller).
The album, “There Goes the Neighborhood” named “Best Country Debut” by Nashville Scene’s “Best of Nashville 2019”.
“The Night Will Take Us There” (Edwinds, Haller) released by artist Anthony Edwinds.
September 2019
The vinyl release of the album, There Goes the Neighborhood celebrated with a party and live show at The Local in Nashville.
Houston Bernard releases official music video for “Never Grow Old” (Bernard, Haller).
August 2019
The album “There Goes the Neighborhood” debuts at #25 on the Country Album Sales Billboard Chart.
Houston Bernard releases “Never Grow Old” (Haller, Bernard) as a single, with a lyric video.
Houston Bernard releases the official music video for “Never Grow Old” (Haller, Bernard) and receives a terrific write-up in NYCountrySwag.com.
July 2019
Jenny Tolman was so generous in honoring me and her other co-writers at the “There Goes the Neighborhood” CD release party at City Winery-Nashville.
The album, “There Goes the Neighborhood” attracts positive reviews, previews and feature articles in numerous publications including Parade Magazine, The Tennessean, MusicRow, and Belles&Gals.
Official Music Video for “Wait For It” (White, Haller, Brasch) nominated for Music Video of the Year in the New England Music Awards.
May 2019
Rolling Stone publishes a terrific feature article on Jenny Tolman in conjunction with the release of her new video and album, “There Goes the Neighborhood,” featuring the title cut I wrote with Jenny and acclaimed producer Dave Brainard.
February 2019
Nashville artist Ava Boney gives live performance of “Busted,” a song I wrote with her and Troy Castellano, on Troy’s weekly show, Project 52: Nashville Songwriter Show.
January 2019
Release of video for the Houston Bernard Band’s new single “Wait For It,” which I co-wrote with Brian White and Joe Brasch.
September 2018
Houston Bernard in-studio performance of “Wait for It” for Country 102.5 radio, written with Brian White and Joe Brasch.
July 2018
Release of Houston Bernard Band’s album, “Lucky Man.” I co-wrote four songs on this album, including the title cut.
July 2016
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Thrilled to announce that I have signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Green Hills Music Group, Woody Bomar, President. Woody is highly-respected and accomplished as both a songwriter and publisher. As former head of Sony/ATV’s Creative department, he was instrumental in developing the early songwriting careers of Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton and others.
Pictured: Woody Bomar, me and Sheree Spoltore, through whom I first met Woody.
February 2016
Video released for Katie Dix’s recording of “Don’t Count the Stars.”
"Yoga Pants" video is a finalist for "Video of the Year" in both the
New England Music Awards and the Limelight Magazine Music Awards
January 2016
Artist Katie Dix records “Don’t Count the Stars.”
Glowing review of Houston Bernard’s album and our song, “Yoga Pants” from
Bill Copeland Music News.
December 2015
Special shout-out to our song (& video), "Yoga Pants” in this Nashville Buckle interview with Houston Bernard.
October 2015
Won 2nd place in Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival Song Contest for “Big Words;” Honorable Mention for “Don’t Count the Stars.”
August 2015
Official Video Release of "Yoga Pants," written with Houston Bernard and Patrick Dalton and featured on their new album, "Knockin' Boots"!
Click here.
June 2015
Received a nice shout-out in this piece by hit writer Marty Dodson and SongtownUSA - Click here
May 2015
“Yoga Pants” released by the Houston Bernard Band on their first full-length studio album, “Knocking Boots.”
April 2015
"This Side Of The Dirt" wins Honorable Mention in the “Country” category in the 2014 International Songwriting Competition (ISC)
March 2015
“This Side of the Dirt” named a finalist in the "Country" category of the 2015 International Songwriting Competition (ISC)
"House Divided" receives an Honorable Mention in the 15th Annual Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) Song Contest
Febuary 2015
“Holdin’ on to Summer” places 4th in the March/April 2015 American Songwriter Lyric Contest.
January 2015
“House Divided” is a finalist in the SongDoor International Songwriting Competition, wins the Country “uVote” (people’s choice) category.
"Instead of Roses" wins 2nd Place in the January/February 2015 American Songwriter Lyric Contest.
December 2014
"House Divided" is a Finalist in the 2014 UK Songwriting Contest.
September 2014
The album "Country Inside," featuring "Still Like Boys," named 2014 "Country Album of the Year" by the Austrian Country Music Federation.
July 2014
"The Night Will Take Us There" released as a single by the Anthony Edwinds Band.
May 2014
“Still Like Boys” recorded and released by the Austrian band, Rhythm 4 Boots on their debut CD, “Country Inside.”
Hear it here:
See them perform it live here at 23:24.
April 2014
"This Side of the Dirt" chosen for NSAI Top 40.
April 2014
"House Divided" is a Finalist in the 2013 Music City Songwriting Competition.
March 2014
Featured guest on The Jilly Martin Show, Danvers (MA) Community Access Television.
March 2014
“This Side of the Dirt” wins top prize at the Durango Songwriter’s Expo (Country category).
Tracks from “Six-Pack Sunset” and “Working My Way,” co-written with
Marty Dodson, are featured in the premiere episode of the new MavTV show, “GearHeads."
February 2014
"This Side of the Dirt" chosen as a TAXI "Favorite."
February 2014
“Not That Over You,” “Next Time Lie,” and “If You Give a Man A Mower” named semi-finalists in the 2013 International Songwriting Competition (ISC)
January 2014
“House Divided” named runner-up in the Songwriter’s Universe Top 5 contest
November 2013
"If You Give a Man a Mower" is a finalist in 2013 USA Songwriting Contest, Novelty category
October 2013
“This Side of the Dirt” is a runner-up in the 2013 Durango Songwriters Expo “Write With A Hit-Maker” contest, Country category.
See co-writer Lee Johnson perform it here.
May 2013
Received a member spotlight from the Global Songwriter's Connection after success at one of their on-line publisher pitch events.
April 2013
Completed and received my Masters Certificate in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music's online school, Berkleemusic!
April 2013
SongtownUSA writing workshop in Nashville with Clay Mills and Marty Dodson.
February 2013
"Next Time Lie" (female version) chosen for TAXI's "Best of 2012" compilation CD.
June 2012
Honored to represent Berkleemusic students in a meeting with the State Board of Higher Education -- all part of an accreditation process for some exciting new Berklee programs!
June 2012
Attended NSAI Advanced Song Camp, June 15-17, 2012 in Nashville.
"A Little Sign" placed in top 10 out of 150+ songs as judged by hit songwriter Marty Dodson in a contest sponsored by SongU.
September 2011
Berkleemusic the online program at Berklee College of Music, featured me in this video . Happy to help promote their terrific programs!
Attended great classes by:Jason Blume , John Braheny , Marc Alan Barnette, Barbara Cloyd and more at
NSAI Songposium in Nashville.
Many thanks to the Boston Globe and others for their coverage of my “Hitsville” win!“Coming up roses in country music debut” (The Boston Globe, April 28, 2011).
“Acton mom earns Nashville songwriting honor” (Acton Beacon Q&A, May 11, 2011).
SongU Campus News (April 17, 2011).
Song written with Rolf Schnyder premieres in Season 2 of the History Channel’s “American Pickers."
At NSAI’s annual Spring Training event in Nashville, my song, “Instead of Roses” won the 2011 “Hitsville” contest and was signed to a single-song contract with ole , one of the world’s largest independent publishers. ole did a nice write-up in therir March 2011 newsletter.
