Author Archive: David M Ross
David M. Ross has been covering Nashville's music industry for over 25 years. dross@musicrow.com
Consumers Finding Extra TV Content Online
NPD says, TV-service providers would be in a better competitive position if they could expand their content offerings [...]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
Nashville For Sale: Albums, Labels and Publishers
Country albums aren’t the only thing selling out of Nashville. Labels and publishers are also placing the For Sale sign in the front yard [...]
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
Word Entertainment Turns 60
The Christian music division of Warner Music Group recently celebrated its 60th anniversary with a special celebration in Waco, Texas, where the label was founded [...]
Google Plus Pages Arrive
Social networking circles have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of brand pages for Google Plus, and now the wait is over. [...]
Blackburn Introduces Bill To Help Songwriters/Publishers
A bill to reinstate the "five year amortization" for publishers and songwriters will be introduced [...][Subscriber-only] Login/Subscribe
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Financial/Legal, Publishing, Weekend
Sallie Mayne Exits NaFF
Nashville Film Festival Executive Director Sallie Mayne has announced she will be stepping down from the position she has held for the past eight years. [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations
Sales Report: Blame It On Taylor And Sugarland
Whooooa! Are you feeling dizzy from the slide this week? As a quick look at our graph shows, [...][Subscriber-only] Login/Subscribe
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
Tuesday Tips: Hunter Hayes, Jimmy Wayne and Thompson Entertainment
New book for Jimmy Wayne; Hunter Hayes joins a milk campaign; and Thompson Entertainment Grp moves to new offices…
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Google Reader Update Dumps BossRoss WebRead In Pumpkin Patch
Perhaps it was fitting that Google updated its Reader RSS tool on Halloween Eve, because the results have been positively ghoulish. (…)
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Bogard To Ride With Magic Mustang
Grammy-nominated songwriter veteran Steve Bogard has signed a publishing deal with Magic Mustang Music…(…)
Category: Featured, Publishing
Making Connections Online
Guerrilla Music Marketing Online author Bob Baker offers some informative advice on how to [...][Subscriber-only] Login/Subscribe
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Visiting With Paul Brandt
“Nashville definitely had a huge role in shaping where I am today,” Paul Brandt told MusicRow… “Pete Fisher managed me before he started managing the Opry. The biz was changing then so much, but his great management style set a lot of firm foundations to build the successes that we have accomplished.” (…}
McCreery’s Big Grin Lifts Country Sales
Sales updates from Idol alums, Lady A, Montgomery Gentry and more [...][Subscriber-only] Login/Subscribe
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
SoundExchange Distributions Continue Growing
SoundExchange, reports it has distributed almost $88 million to more than 18,300 payees during the Q3 2011 (…)
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Organizations
Lambert Readies Album Launch
For Miranda Lambert fans, the two year wait since her last solo outing is almost over. The feisty CMA Female Vocalist of the Year (…)
Terrestrial Radio Reacts To Growing Online Audience
Arbitron has released new data showing that the online radio audience has doubled every five years [...]
