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30-Day Song Challenge [Photo Credit: Brent Faulkner]Embracing the trendiness of social media, The Musical Hype unleashes its own, month-long version of the 30-Day Song Challenge 🎶.

I’ll admit, occasionally I buy into a trend or two. I’d say more often than not, I’m behind the trends, particularly as I get older, but, sometimes I “Fall in Line”.  Anyways, born out of the COVID-19 pandemic was a new trend, the 30-Day Song Challenge 🎶. According to Bustle:

The 30-day song challenge is a trending activity that allows Instagram users to share their favorite music along with a little information about themselves. Each day on the challenge’s calendar describes what type of song someone taking part in the challenge should post for that day.

For someone who is not necessarily into trends, I found that to be quite cool. I actually happened to stumble on a musician who I’d covered on The Musical Hype doing the challenge and, well, my ‘wheels started to turn.’ I’m not a big IG guy, and The Musical Hype IG could definitely pop more, so, why not go to my ace-in-the hole – writing interesting and sometimes meaningless content? Rather than be a half-assed IG influencer, I present to you The 30-Day Song Challenge 🎶: The Playlist.

The 30-Day Song Challenge 🎶: The Playlist works much like the IG trending activity. The Musical Hype will release a song a day, at 12 PM ET, based on the prompt for that respective day, for 30 consecutive days.  At the end of 30 days, the full-fledged 30-Day Song Challenge playlist will bow, in all of its glory (and it will be glorious).  If you’ve followed the Weekly Gems 💎 column, you’ll notice there is an individual song, based on a concept, published every morning (8 ET), with a resulting, seven-song playlist featuring the songs released throughout the week.  The 30-Day Song Challenge will be patterned similarly.  So, here’s what the prompts and calendar look like:

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Each day, you’ll see the table/calendar, with the link to the songs added, leading up to the complete 30-Day Song Challenge playlist.  Yeah, it’s a lot of work, but, it’s also a really cool idea [To quote PARTYNEXTDOOR via “Savage Anthem”, “Don’t hold your breath…”]. I will admit, I cheated – the 30 songs have been pre-selected beforehand, ha-ha.  Hope you will check out the 30-Day-Challenge with The Musical Hype! The full-fledged playlist will be published on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Enjoy the ride!

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the musical hype aka Brent Faulkner has earned Bachelor and Masters degrees in music (music Education, music theory/composition respectively). A multi-instrumentalist, he plays piano, trombone, and organ among numerous other instruments. He's a certified music educator, composer, and a freelance music journalist. Faulkner cites music and writing as two of the most important parts of his life. Notably, he's blessed with a great ear, possessing perfect pitch.

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