Weekly Register: The TEA Wave
Isn’t it fun to watch the “human wave” seemingly glide around the perimeter of a stadium as excited fans toss their arms up creating an energy that moves across the crowd with such ease and grace? […]
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Isn’t it fun to watch the “human wave” seemingly glide around the perimeter of a stadium as excited fans toss their arms up creating an energy that moves across the crowd with such ease and grace? […]
As the sweltering summer heat swirls, rising like laser beams on a major country stadium tour stage, the temperature isn’t the only thing that’s hot […]
Country music’s marketing and sales universe is rapidly evolving. Fast-moving digital influences are sending shock waves across tried and true methods—sometimes causing surprises, and sometimes confirming ultimate truths. […]
Sales from January to June are behind us, so it’s time to study. Six months does not make a year, and so we’re looking here for trends and big picture results […]
Happy 4th of July sales fans and welcome to this week’s half-year 2012 edition of the Weekly Register. Yes, we have passed the halfway mark for 2012 which makes the moment ripe for comparison and prognostication […]
It remains unofficial, but MusicRow has learned that EMI Music Publishing Nashville Executive VP/GM Ben Vaughn has exited the company […]
Luttrell, TN’s most famous native son, Kenny Chesney, rides atop the country sales chart this week with the debut of Welcome To The Fishbowl which scanned over 193k copies (38% digital) […]
As our colorful graph (and the purple bars) show, country’s TEA has been sliding slowly all year—until now. All genre TEA (golden bars) started edging up slowly last month, and continues to expand this month as well. So what does that tell us? To sum it up it says, the sales relationship between albums and digital singles is remaining constant, but let’s look a bit deeper.
Country YTD album sales are up 5.8% this year, which compares nicely with the industry overall which is sporting a not-so-pretty deficit of -2.9%. Could country’s energetic showing be connected with a change in the speed which songs travel up and down the format’s radio charts?
The country music pulse is beating rapidly this week. CMA’s MusicFest, the CMT Awards and a city swarming with press and visitors from all over the world have turned up the heat…and the fun!