Code.org® is an inspirational and highly successful nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities. Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science, just like biology, chemistry or algebra. Code.org provides the leading curriculum for K-12 computer science in the largest school districts in the United States and Code.org also organizes the annual Hour of Code campaign which has engaged 10% of all students in the world. Code.org is supported by generous donors including Amazon, Facebook, Google, the Infosys Foundation, Microsoft, and many more.
CALIO MUSIC was hired in July 2018 with the ambitious goal of licensing and promoting music for the 2018 Hour of Code Dance Party program launching in November of the same year. With the support of artists and their representatives, from Katy Perry to J Balvin and Bruno Mars, the result was gratifying. The tutorial being the most popular with students K-12, participation by over 200,000 classrooms worldwide, and more than 200 million streams of licensed songs. The program continues to be a favorite of students worldwide, now in it’s 6th year and going strong.
Katy Perry, J Balvin, Madonna, Sia, Ciara , Keith Urban and more are in Dance Party.
“I stopped to chat with one of my female students and she said, ‘I can’t believe it! I don’t like video games at all and I thought this was going to be awful. BUT I LOVE IT! Coding is so much fun!!’”
in 2023, Calio Music was engaged to license music for a second program for the Code.org curriculum involving challenging and new rights. In May of 2024, the new program, Music Lab, was launched with an incredible roster including The Chainsmokers and Aloe Blaac among others, and with the support of all 3 majors and the major publishers. In the fall, 4 songs were added from Shakira, who personally has endorsed the program with a focus on Hispanic students. New artists contributing songs also include Sabrina Carpenter, Benson Boone, Lady Gaga and more. We continue to add new songs and features for this non-profit doing so much to bring coding to students around the world.
“El Subliminoso” from Dada
Dada was signed to IRS Records in 1991 and released their first album {Puzzle, produced by Ken Scott (Beatles, David Bowie, Elton John, many more), in 1992. Their third album and their last for IRS is “El Subliminoso” and through the intricacies of music rights, the album was stuck in limbo and had never been released to the streaming services - until now. Calio Music worked with Universal Music Group to bring this fan-favorite to digital stores worldwide in November 2024, after the band toured nationally all through 2024 to sold out venues and rave reviews. There is more coming from Dada - stay tuned!
Dada 1992
Popins
Popins is a music-tech company blending digital and the physical world. Partnering with BPI and the Georgia Minority Coaches Association, among others, Popins is leading the way in how to apply these new groundbreaking technologies to music today, to satisfy fans, support artists, and build new businesses. Learn more at popins.io.
London Symphony Orchestra’s Maxine placed as a hologram on the streets of Berlin. Scan the QR code to try it. Now available: Hologram Wristbands at wholesale.
Formed in 2011, 7Horse blazed their own trail with their raw, swaggerin’ catalog of “dark, sexual rock’n’roll” now streamed over 100 million times and with features across TV shows (Amazon’s The Grand Tour, the NFL playoffs on Fox), video games (Far Cry 5) and one very, very big movie — The Wolf of Wall Street, which showcased the band’s left-of-center hit “Meth Lab Zoso Sticker.”
CALIO MUSIC provided artist management and services for 7Horse, to include the articulation of goals and strategies to achieve them. The band’s album “Superfecta” was recorded in early 2018 and to prepare for launch Calio Music built and led a best-in-class team to release and promote the album which included A&R, distribution, sales and marketing, touring, creative, web, social and paid advertising, PR, sync, and radio. Spotify plays increased over 60% in 2018 alone and today 7Horse has 300,000 monthly listeners.
“Their name is 7Horse. Some call them the Two-Man Rolling Stones, and they make dangerous rock’n’roll for dangerous times.”
7Horse Tour Poster, fall 2018
Gianna
Gianna and her genre-bending approach to music is set to make waves as she makes her first 3 songs available via Distrokid starting on November 3rd, 2023. There is much more to come from this young Los Angeles-based artist. Find solo songs “Falling for It” and “Miss You” on your favorite streaming service now, and “Mistake” from her band Last Sad Day.
