Archive for December, 2011
Rodney Atkins Files For Divorce
Rodney Atkins has filed for divorce from his wife Tammy Jo Atkins [...]
Artist Updates (12/15/11)
Big Vinny • Woody Paul • Darryl Worley and Wynn Varble • Hunter Hayes
Musical Chairs (12/15/11)
Job and contact updates for Katy Brown Epley, Jess Draper, and Janice Bane [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Publishing
Industry Vets Launch Wrinkled Records
Music industry veterans Sandy Knox, Katie Gillon, and Stephen McCord have teamed for the formation [...]
Android 4.0: In Time For The Holidays
The most highly-anticipated Android phone ever has finally hit Verizon shelves. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android’s 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system [...]
Category: Featured
Emmylou Harris To Celebrate Opry Anniversary
Emmylou Harris will be honored by the Grand Ole Opry on her [...]
Live Nation Uncorks BigChampagne Data
BigChampagne, the data farm that has been a pioneer in developing metrics to gauge online music use involving peer-to-peer traffic, has been acquired [...]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
Guy Clark Tribute Released
Houston’s Icehouse Music recently released the double-CD set, This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark, to celebrate Clark’s 70th birthday. Clark was born in Monahans, Texas on November 6, 1941. The collection was co-produced by Tamara Saviano (Grammy winner for Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster) and frequent Clark co-writer Shawn Camp (“Sis [...]
Skip Bishop Exits Sony
MusicRow has confirmed the exit of Sony Music Nashville Sr. VP Promotion Skip Bishop from the label group [...]
Martina’s “Hits and More” Due In January
RCA Records Nashville will release Hits and More, a twenty-song collection from Martina McBride [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Messina, Warren Play St. Jude Country Music Marathon Party
The St. Jude Country Music Marathon & 1/2 Marathon, presented by Nissan will host a holiday party tomorrow [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
Faith Hill To Perform On People’s Choice Awards
Faith Hill is one of the first performers announced for the 2012 People’s Choice Awards [...]
Good Works: Rodney Atkins
Rodney Atkins performs for Texas volunteer firefighters and at the American Giving Awards [...]
Billie Jo Spears Passes
Billie Jo Spears, one of the most consistent female country hit-makers of the 1970s, has died in Texas at age 74. [...]
Burrell And Houghton to Host BMI’s Trailblazers of Gospel Music
Kim Burrell and Israel Houghton will host the 13th Annual BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards Luncheon on [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
Nimbit Reports Spotlight Boosting Facebook Sales
Nimbit.com reports that its direct-to-fan platform has been showing strong growth in terms of Facebook sales for artists and bands. According to VP of Marketing Carl Jacobson, the trend started about 15 months ago when, “We began to see a sharp uptick in the percentage of direct sales that were coming from our artists’ Facebook [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
