Very nice company and evening at the Music Publishers Prize 2019 at Berns Salonger! Here together with Sten “Stonebridge” Hallström, Anders Mören, Stefan Lindström, Kristoffer Ragnstam and Peter Sahlin.

Starlab Publishing organizes a big songwriting camp in Holland for a week in October 2019. We invite Maaza Yuzen and Susumu Kawaguchi from Nichion, Japan and 23 of our songwriters from Holland, England, USA and Sweden: Nicklas Eklund, Benny Jansson, Oliver Fernström, Viktor Strand, Jacob Andersson, Ida Pihlgren, Jonathan Bratthall-Tideman, Jan Andersson, Peter Hedén, Koos Kamerling, Jan Baars, Rajan Muse, Ronnie Icon, Frankie Day, Charlotte Wilson, Jacob Obong, Chantal Richardson, Gerson Bouman, Noerio NV, Marlou Vriens, Paulina Cerrilla, Nathalie Boone and Awry Will. 70 songs are written.

Congratulations to Starlab Publishings songwriters Jan Baars, Rajan Muse, Ronnie Icon and Marlou Vriens who wrote the song #Love for the popular Japanese act LOL which is released today!

Starlab has two songs on the American movie “High Strung – Free dance”. Congratulations to our songwriters Mark Mangold, Daniel Palm and Moa Pettersson Hammar for the song “Wonderful” and to Mark Mangold and Brett Pemberton for the song “Masterpiece”. The film has been directed by Michael Damian and in the roles we see, among others, Thomas Doherty, Harry Jarvis, Juliet Doherty and Jane Seymour.

#1 in Japan!! Congratulations to Starlab Publishings songwriter Viktor Strand who wrote the song “Mystery O” together with Timo Oiva. The song is featured on the boyband Hey! Say! JUMP’s latest single released today. The single is right now #1 in Japan and has already sold over 130,000 physical CDs.

#1 on Billboard Japan! The single “Breakthrough” with the Korean girl band TWICE! sells over 300,000 physical CDs. Congratulations to Starlab Publishing’s songwriter Jan Baars, Rajan Muse and Ronnie Icon.

Great writing session today in Como, Italy with the producer Filadelfo Castro and the artist Andrea Nocera. From Starlab: Oliver Fernström, Viktor Strand and Nicklas Eklund.

Our song “Tsunagu” is now on the world’s best selling record right now, with 1.3 million physical CDs the first week. It’s the very popular Japanese group Arashi who released a best of CD, 5×20.
Congratulations to Starlab Publishing’s songwriters Peter Nord and Kevin Borg who wrote the song.

Great songwriting week in Italy with Starlab Publishings songwriters Oliver Fernström, Viktor Strand and Nicklas Eklund!

Congratulations to Starlab Publishing songwriters Jan Baars, Rajan Muse and Ronnie Icon, who wrote the song “Breakthrough” to the very popular Korean girl band “TWICE” 5th single in Japan. The single is released on July 24, but the video was published 3 weeks ago and already has 25 million views on YouTube!