Archive for September, 2011
Country Singing A Pretty Sales Tune
Lady Antebellum comes roaring out of the physical and digital bins this week to dominate the Nielsen SoundScan sales sphere. The trio’s newest, Own The Night, racked up over 347,000 units (25% digital) giving it the No. 1 position on both the country albums and Top 200 albums charts. The new collection’s performance weighs [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
DISClaimer Single Reviews (9/21/11)
[Subscriber-only] Let’s take a break from the Music Row mainstream and listen to some platters that have, shall we say, a little more class?
Bobby Karl Works The ACM Honors
[Subscriber-only] One of the cool things about the ACM Honors is that it features unexpected and unpredictably wonderful performances. Or, as host Joe Nichols put it, “musical moments that you won’t see anyplace else.”Category: Artist, Awards, Exclusive, Featured, Organizations, Weekend
First CMA Awards Performers Revealed
The star-packed lineup for The 45th Annual CMA Awards launches with today’s (9/20).
NSAI Salutes No. 1 Songwriters
Despite the rain, crowds flocked to the tented parking lot of Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) yesterday (9/19) for its annual salute to songwriters who hit No. 1 in the past year.
Category: Awards, Featured, Publishing
Songwriter News From Mac McAnally and More
Heading into the CMA Awards as reigning Musician of the Year, McAnally is releasing a live album, and producing new band Mockingbird Sun.
Category: Artist, Featured, Publishing
Photo Spread: NATD Honors Gala
Honorees include Karl Dean, Alabama, Barry Trotz, Jim Gosnell, and Tony Conway.
Category: Artist, Awards, Featured, Organizations, Touring
Live Nation and UMG Announce Strategic Partnership
Live Nation Entertainment and Universal Music Group announced this week that they are forming a strategic partnership of both companies’ management assets. UMG, along with Live Nation’s Front Line Management Group, will introduce a joint venture management company with the aim of building artistic brands through sponsorships, strategic marketing, and more. Each unit will operate [...]
Neil Portnow To Keynote Americana Conference
Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow will open the Americana Music Festival and Conference with the Keynote address on Thurs., Oct. 13 at 11 a.m. His address will be followed immediately by an Artist Development panel moderated by NPR Music’s Ann Powers and featuring Joy Williams and John Paul White of The Civil Wars, and members [...]
Category: Artist, Awards, Featured, Organizations
CMA Details Staff Changes
The Country Music Association has detailed three new hires, plus a few promotions and reassignments across departments. In Communications, Amanda Eckard has been promoted to Senior Manager of Creative Services from Manager of Creative Services and former Tennessean reporter Christian Bottorff has joined the staff as Manager of Creative Services. Eckard will focus on the [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations
Industry Ink Tuesday (9/20/11)
Nashville soundtrack for film Promised Land • Jensen Arrowsmith • Sarah Trahern • ASCAP DIY-U with Latocki • SESAC/StreamLicensing • Ed Hill • Cathy Lemmon
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations, Radio
BMI Annual Revenues Continue Upward
Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®), the music rights management organization further extended its 20-year record of annually increasing revenue collections for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2011 with revenues in excess of $931 million. Revenues for 2010 totaled $917 million. According to BMI it will distribute royalties of $796 million to the over 500,000 songwriters, [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Publishing, Weekend
The Raconteurs’ Earth Shaking Show at Third Man
As The Raconteurs tore through their show at Jack White’s Third Man Records, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in the crowd not fully enthralled by the earth-shaking beats and crashing, dance-party rhythms.
Hunze To Lead Parallel Music
“We are up and running and are looking for great writers,” says Tim Hunze, who now heads up Parallel Music Publishing’s Nashville offices. “We believe being a boutique publisher is perfect for today’s ever changing environment.” Parallel Music Publishing is a partnership between Hunze, Parallel Entertainment Founder & CEO, J.P. Williams, and C.T. Wyatt, who runs [...]
Category: Featured, Publishing, Weekend
All For The Hall Los Angeles
Evening focuses on guitars and their stories, and includes a surprise announcement from Gibson about a special limited-run guitar.
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
Rodney Atkins Debuts Video, Preps Album Launch
Rodney Atkins is heading into the Oct. 4 release of his new album with a rising single and video. He’s also set to perform at the CMA Songwriters Series in NYC.
