The singing competition format is created by Rochford Productions and Talpa Concepts, produced by Talpa Entertainment Productions and distributed by Talpa Distribution.
UK entertainment format creator Rochford Productions and John de Mol’s Talpa have joined forces. This summer SBS6 in the Netherlands will launch I Want Your Song, a brand-new songwriting competition.
Rochford’s executive producer Chris Hopkins said: “This is a new route into the music industry for all our potential singer songwriters. Their ability to write an original hit song for someone else could change their life forever.”
Behind every hit song is a hit songwriter… and this is not always the recording artists themselves. On I Want Your Song, five unknown songwriters get their chance to pitch an original song written by themselves to some of the biggest artists in the Netherlands. Each episode features one prominent Dutch recording artist who is looking for their next big hit. While there are many great singers in the country, that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s an abundance of great songs…
Every week, five songwriters are invited to pitch their songs to the recording artist with the help of a live band. The audience is filled with 100 of the artist’s biggest fans. They’ll be extra enthusiastic but also extra critical of each song. If the artist is ever in doubt over a song, they can ask the fans for advice. After all, they know better than anyone which song has the potential to be their next big hit. But it’s the artist themselves who ultimately makes the decision.
Which song will they connect with the most? The winning song chosen at the end of the episode, is immediately available for download and streaming accompanied with a music video, as it gets an instant world premiere by the artist themselves and is ready to storm the charts. In I Want Your Song, a dream comes true for one songwriter each week!
I Want Your Song is a format created by Rochford Productions and Talpa Concepts. The show is produced by Talpa Entertainment Productions and distributed by Talpa Distribution.
Geertje Hoek, Managing Director of Talpa Concepts is excited about the creative co-operation between Talpa and Rochford Productions: “Working together with creatives from outside of our own company on creating new formats is something we focus on more than ever. Seeing ideas transform to formats and then hit the screen is what makes us all tick here at Talpa.”
