Industry News Tuesday (11/11/08)
Musictoday has inked deals with three of the four major labels, according to DigitalMusicNews.com, to allow sales of MP3 DRM-free files on individual artists sites. Sony Music, Universal and EMI are currently approving the...
Artist News Tuesday (11/11/08)
CMT’s third annual fan-voted poll to predict winners of the The 42nd Annual CMA Awards predicts Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood as the night's top winners. Respondents picked Chesney as the favorite for Entertainer...
Bobby Pinson Celebrates “All I Want to Do”
11/10/2008
BMI cheered the success of songwriter Bobby Pinson on Oct. 30, whose most recent collaboration with Sugarland, “All I Want to Do,” topped the charts. Kristian Bush, also a BMI songwriter, and Jennifer Nettles, were on the road and unable to attend. Pinson has also written for Toby Keith, Trent Tomlinson, Emerson Drive and Marty Stuart.
(L-R): Universal Music Group’s Luke Lewis, BMI’s Clay Bradley, EMI Music Publishing’s Ben Vaughn, producer Byron Gallimore, Pinson, Stage Three Music’s Tim Hunze and Missy Roberts, and BMI’s Jody Williams. Photo: Erika Goldring
Trailer Choir Works on New Music
11/10/2008
Show Dog Nashville’s Trailer Choir is back in the studio working on new music. The group has a new EP entitled Trailer Choir available digitally, and the Nov. 7 People Magazine’s country edition features Trailer Choir’s song “Rockin’ the Beer Gut” as a free download via their web site. Also, the group's Big Vinny has unleashed the first installment of his Sexy Dance Machine series on the web, available on YouTube.
(L-R) back: Show Dog Nashville’s Bill Kennedy, VP Sales Marketing & New Media; Trailer Choir’s Big Vinny; Engineer Mills Logan; Trailer Choir's Shug and Show Dog Nashville GM George Nunes. Front: Trailer Choir’s Crystal Hoyt and Butter.
Carrie Underwood @ KSCS
11/10/2008
Toby Keith @ WMZQ
11/10/2008
Mark Wills @ XM
11/10/2008
Derek Sholl @ KWNR
11/10/2008
Swift Getting Major Exposure
Sarah Skates – 11/10/2008
Taylor Swift
11/10 Good Morning America
11/10 The Tonight Show with David Letterman
11/11 Fearless in stores
11/11 MySpace Homepage Takeover
11/11 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
11/12 CMA Awards
11/13 LIVE MySpace Chat
11/23 American Music Awards
11/29 CMT Insider - Totally Taylor
12/3 Grammy Nominations Concert
12/6 CMT Giants: Alan Jackson
If you still need proof she has made the big time, here it is: Under the headline “Public Panties,” the New York Post’s infamous Page Six today reported that Swift’s growing celebrity is also a hindrance to her free reign at Victoria’s Secret. Apparently on her most recent trips to the mall, other shoppers scramble for their camera phones to snap a pic of what kind of underwear she chooses. If that is all the dirt the trashy column can scrape up on Nashville’s teen queen, good for her.
CMT Radio Starts New Syndicated Program
Sarah Skates – 11/10/2008
CMT Radio Network and Westwood One will launch CMT Radio Live With Cody Alan in January 2009. The new syndicated show will open nationally in over 50 markets, including 40 Cumulus Media markets, airing weeknights from 7 PM- 12 AM/ET, live from CMT’s radio studio in downtown Nashville.
Alan is a veteran country music DJ and Program Director who will relocate to Nashville from Salt Lake City, Utah where he is currently the afternoon host and PD at KEGA/101.5 The Eagle.
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JASON MATTHEWS
“Travelin’ Light”
RAWSTIN
“The Rodeo Is Over”
MARK WILLS
“Days of Thunder”
BRANDI VALENTINE
“Burnin’ Bridges”
MOORE & MOORE WITH GEORGE “GOOBER” LINDSEY
“Fine Me a Man Like Goober”
INDIAN RODEO
“My Block”
BILLY McKNIGHT
“You’re the Ticket”
CERRITO
“Dona Carmela”
TIM WILSON
“But I Could Be Wrong”
COWBOY TROY & ANGELA HACKER
“Hick Chick”
