With Valentine's Day coming up, SMA has been preparing something special for you. Feel the love with our Special Events Channel where you can listen to a handpicked selection of the greatest love songs. Tune into Special Events from Tuesday 7th February 2017!
Get out your esky and thongs! It's Australia Day tomorrow!
All month we have been celebrating our great country on Special Events. We are playing all your favourite Aussie tunes of the past 60 years to get you pumped for a day of football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars!
Here at SMA, we love Christmas. Not for the Christmas trees. Not for the presents. Not for the family celebrations or the huge Christmas feasts. We love Christmas for the Christmas music! This year John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John have collaborated for a brand new album Friends for Christmas.
“I have always loved working with Olivia. To record a Christmas album seemed like the right, almost inevitable thing to do. I hope everyone enjoys listening to it as much as we loved recording it together” – John Farnham
“It was such a joy singing these beautiful holiday songs with my favourite singer and good mate John Farnham. The holidays are about family and friends and having this chance to sing these classics with John was pure fun from beginning to end!” – Olivia Newton-John
The album includes some of our all-time favourites such as Let it Snow, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Little Drummer Boy and White Christmas.
If you want to hear more of our favourite Christmas music, tune in to one of five channels SMA is playing Christmas music on. Tune into Special Events (Channel 6), Christmas (Channel 21), Christmas Pop (Channel 23), Christmas Smooth (Channel 24) or Christmas Traditional (Channel 25) to hear all your favourites!
Did you know that many of our clients have their own channels? SMA is proud of our bespoke channel service, offering a carefully curated selection of music to match your brand identity and improve customer experience.
Collaboration
Meet with our content team to discuss your brand identity and marketing goals. Tell us what you want from your music service and they will shape a channel unique to your business. Our content team are experts in matching the perfect music to a given atmosphere, mood, brand or image. You can be included in the process from beginning to end, ensuring your service is exactly what you want.
Curation
Using the same science that our managed channels are created with, SMA’s content team will carefully curate a range of music that fits in with your brief. Our channel creation system ensures that there is a steady flow of music, without any peaks and drops in tempo or mood. Selecting from a music library that spans more than 6 decades and every genre you can imagine, you will find on your custom channel a mix of old and new, major labels and indie labels, and a number of genres.
Maintenance
All of our channels, standard and bespoke, are regularly updated, taking out less relevant songs to make way for new releases. We are always here to help you with whatever you need. If you would like to request a song or if you hear a song you don’t like, call us and we will make the necessary changes.
Added Content
SMA offers the option to add recorded content into your channel to enhance your marketing and branding goals. With our state of the art recording facilities, we can create a series of grabs to brand your channel and audio advertisements to drive sales and communicate with your customers.
Call us on 1300 366 099 or email sales@sma.net.au today to find out more about our bespoke channel service.
It’s finally December and SMA is getting excited for Christmas! This year we are kicking off the festive season with a gift for you. We have created 3 brand new Christmas channels. Each channel has a unique feel to it, giving you the option between pop, smooth or traditional Christmas music.
All three channels were made available from December 1st and will be available all the way up to Christmas.
If you would like to know more about our Christmas channel selection, call us on 1300 366 099, email us at sales@sma.net.au or visit our website at www.sma.net.au.
On Wednesday this week, the Australian music industry gathered at The Star in Pyrmont, Sydney for the 30th Anniversary ARIA Awards. Between the awards, were performances by some of the industry greats including ARIA Hall of Fame inductees John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes and Crowded House as well as Bernard Fanning, Flume, Missy Higgins, Troye Sivan, Violent Soho, The Veronicas, Jessica Mauboy, Illy, Vera Blue and Sivan.
The stand out award winner of the night was Flume, who walked away with awards for Telstra Album of the Year, Best Male Artist, Best Dance Release, Best Pop Release and Best Independent Release.
Iconic Australian group Crowded House were inducted into the hall of fame by Bret MacKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords. As a tribute to the band, Missy Higgins and Bernard Fanning performed Fall at Your Feet and Better Be Home Soon before Crowded House performed their own Distant Sun.
The other awards winners this year were: Sia (Best Female Artist), Violent Soho (Best Group & Best Rock Album), Montaigne (Breakthrough Artist), Drapht (Best Urban Album), Bernard Fanning (Best Adult Contemporary Album), Sarah Blasko (Best Adult Alternative Album), Sara Storer (Best Country Album), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album), Russel Morris (Best Blues & Roots Album), The Wiggles (Best Children’s Album), Troye Sivan (Best Video & Apple Music Song of the Year), Hilltop Hoods (Best Australian Live Act) and One Direction (Best International Act).
Here at SMA Entertainment, we are huge supporters of Australia artists. Our solid relationships with all independent and major record labels in Australia ensure that we have all the latest Australian music and video releases, incorporating them into our channels, along with all the Australian favourites from the last 60 years.
Did you know that SMA can create sound and vision content for you? Our advertising and digital signage services are the perfect way to compliment your marketing and branding strategy.
Sound
If you would like to communicate with your customers about sales, charity or community programs or anything else, it is time for you to look into getting some audio advertising created.
· Send us a script or we can write one for you
· In-house voice artists
· State of the art recording studios
· In-house editing
· Extensive library of royalty free backing tracks
· Tell us your preferred scheduling or our experts will find the best option for you
You can use your ads to play on your SMA in-store music service or free-to-air radio.
Vision
Add a visual element to your service with our digital signage solutions.
· Send us your signage or we can write a message for you
· In-house graphic designer
· Tell us your preferred scheduling or our experts will find the best option for you
· Option for back to back signage or add Vision channel to play between messages
Our sound and vision content creation services are perfect to compliment your existing marketing and branding strategy. We will work with you to find the best solution and ensure that you get the most out of your SMA Entertainment service.
To learn more about what we can do for you, call us on 1300 366 099 or email us at sales@sma.net.au
SMA is proud to announce that we have created a brand new channel. The content team has been working hard to carefully develop this selection of easy listening all-time favourite hits.
Perfect for cafes and office settings, this easy listening channel features artists from the 60s until the present so there’s something there for everyone.
The new channel 22, Smooth Hits, will be available from 21/11/2016.
Call us on 1300 366 099 or email sales@sma.net.au if you want to know more!
Robbie Williams today release his brand new studio album, The Heavy Entertainment Show on Columbia Records though Sony Music Entertainment Australia.
This is the first album Williams has released through Sony. The album is expected to follow in the footsteps of his previous 11 UK chart topping albums, a success rate not seen since Elvis Presley.
Robbie has said about his album,
“I was musing over the phrase ‘light entertainment’ - all the huge TV shows from when I was a kid, 30 million people watching them, this huge shared experience of these moments called light entertainment. Sometimes it can be levelled at people in a bad way, but for me that’s heavy entertainment. That’s what I’m hoping to do with this album – to have a shared experience with millions of people through the medium of light entertainment…but on steroids”
Today Williams also announced that he is heading to Australia later this month. He will be performing on X Factor but has not announced any more plans for his trip down under.
It has also been announced recently that Robbie Williams will be receiving the BRITs Icon Award this month. The award is given only to those who have made a lasting impact on British culture and set themselves apart from their peers through their writing, recording and performing. The prestigious award has previously been received by Sir Elton John and David Bowie.
SMA is very excited about all of this great Robbie Williams news. We have listened to his new album and have included some of our favourite songs into our channels. Tune into Hits, Pop or Drive to hear some of his new music plus some old classics.
