One of my favorite questions during interviews with channel executives is, “What song do you listen to or hear in your head when you need a little motivation?”
I put the question out to my team at Channel Marketing Journal and on my LinkedIn page too, and I got a lot of great suggestions!
In the spirit of the holiday, I compiled these songs into a mostly-clean Spotify playlist, which I’m calling Soundtrack of the Channel. Here are the answers I got and from whom:
- Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen (Nick Buono, CMJ)
- Fight Song, Rachel Platten (Julie Venables, CMJ)
- Winning, Santana (Lisa Alpert, CMJ)
- Rocket, Def Leppard (Jeff Mesnik, CMJ)
- I Won’t Back Down, Tom Petty (Karen Dasey, CMJ)
- Can’t Stop the Feeling, Justin Timberlake (Liz Webb Green, CMJ)
- A Little Less Conversation, Elvis Presley (Ken Grondel, CMJ)
- Happy, Pharrel Williams (Amber Shimkus, CMJ)
- Badlands, Bruce Springsteen (Marc Surplus, CMJ)
- We Are the Champions, Queen (Thimaya Subaiya, Cisco & Eve Garvey)
- Raise Your Hands, Bon Jovi (John Moses, Cisco)
- Eye of the Tiger, Survivor (Boon Lai, Cisco)
- With A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker Cover (Terry Moffatt, Channel Marketer Report)
- Till I Collapse, Eminem (Brian Helwig, Cloudberry Lab)
- Lose Yourself, Eminem (David Cope, Cisco)
- We Can Work it Out, The Beatles — Remastered 2009 (Rich Hasslacher, Slack)
- Try Everything, Shakira ( Sarah Muckler Visser, Microsoft)
- September, Earth, Wind and Fire (Luanne Tierney, LT & Assoc)
- Let’s Dance, David Bowie (Dennis Crupi, Ingram Micro)
- Three Little Birds, Bob Marley (Ken Keyes, CMJ)
- You Can’t Break Me, Glenton Davis (Glenton Davis, Microsoft)
- Sunflower, Post Malone and Swae Lee (Cydney Hoffnagle, Microsoft)
- Right Now, Van Halen (Melissa Nacerino, Palo Alto Networks)
- Nothin’ but a Good Time, Poison (Melissa Nacerino, Palo Alto Networks)
- Feel It Still, Portugal (Sandra Glaser Cheek, Ciena)
- Wind of Change, Scorpions (Diana Ishak, Microsoft)
- Adios Black M + Abou Debeing (Diana Ishak, Microsoft)
