Michael Stover

A music industry veteran of over 30 years, Michael Stover is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, with a degree specializing in the Music and Video business. Michael has used that education to gain a wealth of experience within the industry: from retail music manager and DJ, to two-time Billboard Magazine Contest winning songwriter, performer and chart-topping producer, and finally, award-winning artist manager, publicist, promoter and label president. In just 10 years, MTS Records has released 40+ Top 40 New Music Weekly country chart singles, including FIFTEEN #1s and 8 Top 85 Music Row chart singles. MTS has also promoted 60+ Top 40 itunes chart singles, including 60+ Top 5s and 40+ #1s, AND a Top 5 Billboard Magazine chart hit! Michael has written columns featured in Hypebot, Music Think Tank, and Fair Play Country Music, among others. Michael is a 2020 Hermes Creative Awards Winner and a 2020 dotComm Awards Winner for marketing and communication.Michael has managed and/or promoted artists and events from the United States, UK, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Australia and Sweden, making MTS a truly international company.
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Eddy Mann’s “We Are” Is What Happens When Worship Music Stops Playing It Safe

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Somewhere along the line, worship music became afraid of weirdness. Maybe it happened when somebody discovered that four chords, an enormous chorus and enough reverb to fill Noah’s Ark could reliably make an...

Novai — “I Won’t Let U Hurt Me”: When Enough Finally Means Enough

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The problem with empowerment songs is that everybody sounds empowered by the second chorus. Heart shattered? Fixed. Self-esteem missing? Located. Rotten boyfriend? Deleted. Three minutes later everybody's stronger, wiser, hotter, and presumably...

Dust and Grace’s “Love Doesn’t Live Here” Finds Strength in Letting Go

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Country music has never lacked for breakup songs, but the ones that stay with you tend to resist easy emotional shortcuts. They don't ask listeners to choose sides. They don't rely on...

Grace in the Gaps: Ananda Xenia Shakti’s Devotion Finds Strength in Stillness (out on July 29th)

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The contemporary spiritual music landscape is crowded with recordings that promise transcendence but settle for a pleasant atmosphere. Devotion, the latest single from Ananda Xenia Shakti and Love Power the Band, distinguishes...

DPB Levels Up on “God Mode,” Where Faith Is the Ultimate Flex

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Hip-hop has always been about power. Sometimes it's the power to survive your environment. Sometimes it's the power to overcome poverty, injustice, or personal struggle. Other times, it's about confidence—the ability to stand...

Richard Lynch’s “Wait For Me”: A Country Ballad That Hits Harder Than Any Power Chord

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There are songs that make noise, and then there are songs that make silence matter. Richard Lynch's "Wait For Me" belongs squarely in the second camp. It doesn't chase trends, flex production...

Sunlight as Resistance: Elvira Kalnik’s ‘Summer Time’ Makes Joy the Main Event

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There’s an old assumption that seriousness wears darker colors than joy. That the heavy message always arrives in a minor key while happiness is somehow lightweight, disposable, a postcard instead of a...

The Holiday Inside the Heart: Gary Pratt’s “4th of July”

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Country music has always had a peculiar relationship with American mythology. It borrows its symbols freely—small towns, highways, church pews, rivers, flags—and then quietly reshapes them into something far more personal. Gary...
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Michael Stover

A music industry veteran of over 30 years, Michael Stover is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, with a degree specializing in the Music and Video business. Michael has used that education to gain a wealth of experience within the industry: from retail music manager and DJ, to two-time Billboard Magazine Contest winning songwriter, performer and chart-topping producer, and finally, award-winning artist manager, publicist, promoter and label president. In just 10 years, MTS Records has released 40+ Top 40 New Music Weekly country chart singles, including FIFTEEN #1s and 8 Top 85 Music Row chart singles. MTS has also promoted 60+ Top 40 itunes chart singles, including 60+ Top 5s and 40+ #1s, AND a Top 5 Billboard Magazine chart hit! Michael has written columns featured in Hypebot, Music Think Tank, and Fair Play Country Music, among others. Michael is a 2020 Hermes Creative Awards Winner and a 2020 dotComm Awards Winner for marketing and communication.Michael has managed and/or promoted artists and events from the United States, UK, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Australia and Sweden, making MTS a truly international company.
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