Author Archive: David M Ross
David M. Ross has been covering Nashville's music industry for over 25 years. dross@musicrow.com
Crested Butte Songwriters Festival Debuts
Get your skiis waxed and your poles placed to enjoy the inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival Jan. 13-13. [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations
Scott Borchetta On CNBC Power Lunch
Big Machine Label Group Chieftain Scott Borchetta does an artful two-step as they ask him right at the top of the interview if he has plans to sell to Sony and for how much? “I talk to people all the time,” Borchetta smiles. “We’ve created a winning culture here…” Borchetta appeared as a guest on [...]
Twitter Used To Rank Republican Candidates
Business Insider has research which shows that among the Republican presidential nominees, “Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have more than twice the ‘social pull’ among Twitter followers than nominee favorite Mitt Romney.” [...]
Category: Featured
Worley’s River Run Donates To Fight Cancer
The Darryl Worley Foundation recently donated $200,000 to the Cancer Treatment Center that bears the artist’s name. The funds were raised through Darryl Worley’s Tennessee River Run, [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
IBMA Seeks New Exec Dir.
The International Bluegrass Music Association is “looking for a very special person to serve as its Executive Director and chief of staff.” Expected qualifications include a Bachelor degree or equivalent preferred, plus the person must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Nashville area. Dan Hays who served as the organizatin’s Executive Director [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations
ACM Renewal Deadline; Marlee Scott Hits New Paradigm; Karen Light Exits BMLG
Today’s the last day to renew your ACM membership in order to be eligible to submit for the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.[...]
Category: Featured, Organizations
CMA Country Christmas Coming Dec. 1
Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles will host the two-hour holiday extravaganza CMA Country Christmas, airing Thurs., Dec. 1 (9:00-11:00 PM/ET) on ABC. [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations
CMAs Barely Budge Albums, But TEAs Talk
The Award show hardly influenced album sales, maybe it's time again to invite everyone to [...][Subscriber-only] Login/Subscribe
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Organizations, Weekend
Nashville Film Company Gets Kickstart
Best Part Productions, a Nashville production company, recently completed two short films using local labor and talents.[...]
Summer Signs of Success
Here’s a few banners that were waving ’round the Row around the beginning of Oct. [...]
“Used” Digital Tracks 4 Sale
At issue is the legality of this new business model which is based mostly upon the first-sale doctrine which gives consumers the right to resell a copyrighted work. However, legal scholars are not in agreement, [...]
New York No. 1 For Country Album Sales
New York City is the No. 1 market for country music albums according to new data released by Nielsen SoundScan [...]
NARM: Back Announcing Could Improve Music Discovery And Sales
NARM recently unveiled new research on how consumers discover music… [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Radio, Sales/Marketing
Universal Nabs EMI Recorded Music
[Developing Story] According to reports from the Guardian, Universal Music is set to purchase EMI’s recorded music division for around £1.2bn. The publication also names Sony as most likely to be the new owner of EMI’s music publishing division at a price estimated to be approximately £1.26bn, over $2 billion dollars. This deal will give [...]
Topical WebReads: Co-writers For Sale and Crowdfunding To Fame
“the murky part is the implicit promise that, by writing with a bona fide ‘hit writer,” [...]
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Organizations, Publishing
