Archive for February, 2011
Benefits: BAMS, W.O. Smith, Children’s Hospital
Clay Walker wins golf tournament • Birdhouse Thing Benefit March 10 • Music City Tennis Invitational Pre-tournament Songwriter Showcase
Category: Featured, Organizations
Grammys Score Best Ratings In A Decade
Last night’s (2/13) Grammy Awards were the show’s most viewed telecast since 2001, drawing 26.6 million total viewers and securing a win for CBS. The show’s ratings have been on a steady rise in recent years, with a 3 percent increase over last year’s broadcast which attracted 25.8 million viewers. In the key adults 18-49 [...]
Grammy Ads Feature Growing Number of Celebs
Nearly one out of four advertisements during last night’s (2/13) Grammy Awards featured a celebrity endorsement, according to a report by Greenlight, a company specializing in licensing and rights clearance. Among the other findings of the GreenLight Ad Gauge: • celeb ads were up 47% over last year, and up more than 250% from 2009 [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Bobby Karl Works The Grammy Viewing Party
[Subscriber-only] Chapter 358—The Nashville Grammy viewing party had door prizes, a dance DJ upstairs hosted by Red Bull, the Gibson Guitar tour bus parked outside and a generally merry atmosphere.
Sony Signs Bush Hawg
Sony Music Nashville has officially welcomed the band Bush Hawg as the newest act on its RCA Nashville roster. Bush Hawg’s debut album will release later this year.
Lady A Sweeps Grammys
Lady Antebellum won five Grammy awards last night, including the all-genre tropies for Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Need You Now.”
Jan ’11 RIAA Awards
The RIAA’s January 2011 report names several Nashville artists. Earning Gold certifications (500k shipped) are Keith Urban (Get Closer) and Tim McGraw (Number One Hits). Albums by Jason Aldean (My Kinda Party) and Miranda Lambert (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) joined the Platinum ranks (one million shipped). In the digital single arena, fans of Taylor Swift (“Mine”), Carrie [...]
4th Annual Jeffrey Steele & Friends Benefit Concert
The fourth annual Jeffrey Steele & Friends benefit concert is set for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 at The Loveless Barn in Nashville. Artists performing live include Jeffrey Steele and his band, Keith Anderson, Frankie Ballard, Troy Gentry, LoCash Cowboys, James Otto, and Chuck Wicks. The event will also feature live and silent auctions, [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
IODA and Alan Lomax Plan Archive Releases
The Alan Lomax Archive and IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, have partnered to make thousands of traditional and vernacular music recordings available worldwide. As part of the campaign, Lomax and IODA will disseminate Lomax’s recordings digitally to an international network of retailers. The partnership comes on the heels of the recently released biography, Alan Lomax: [...]
Artist Tidbits: AMA at SXSW, Stuart’s 10th Late Night Jam, and More
Americana Music Association • Marty Stuart • James Otto • Blake Shelton • Brett Eldredge • Zac Brown Band • Colt Ford • Margaret Durante
Darling Video Debuts
Sarah Darling has debuted a video for the first single from her latest CD, Angels & Devils. The video/single, “Something To Do With Your Hands,” features two time TNA World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, AJ Styles. The video was directed by Stephen Shepherd and produced by John Burke. Darling wrote nine of the tracks on her [...]
Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown Tour
New artists, sponsors, dates and features have been added to the 2011 Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown tour. The second-annual, outdoor amphitheater trek will feature two stages and seven headliners, including Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, Craig Campbell, and Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real. And just added, Jack Ingram will [...]
Tin Pan South Prepares 2011 Offering
The 19th annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival will take place March 29-April 2 in Nashville. The event is produced by Nashville Songwriters Association International which claims that it is the world’s largest all-songwriter festival. Last year 300 songwriters performed over 70 shows at eight Nashville venues in front of crowds estimated to exceed 9,000. [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Publishing
Weekly Chart Report (2/11/11)
SPIN ZONE Blake Shelton’s “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking” scores another week in the CountryBreakout Chart’s top spot, but loses a few spins in the process. Positions 2-4 are separated by approximately 120 spins, so the next No. 1 is likely going to be a shootout between Lady Antebellum’s “Hello World,” Taylor Swift’s [...]
Reading List: Crowell, Lomax, Louvins and Murphy’s Laws
Rodney Crowell’s new memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks, (Knopf) offers a look at his childhood and his parent’s often rocky marriage, set against the backdrop of 1950′s Houston, Texas. Crowell, the only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, shares wild anecdotes such as the time he broke up his parents’ raucous New Year’s Eve [...]
Grammy Preview: Lady A Leads Heading Into Awards
Lady Antebellum is the most-nominated country group heading into Sunday night’s (2/13) Grammy Awards. Zac Brown Band follows closely with four nods. Lady A will compete in the all-genre categories for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, all for smash single and album “Need You Now.” Also in [...]
