Santa Sends SoundScan Soaring

Country Reaps Sales Avalanche

Tim McGraw enjoyed a late-holiday cash register avalanche that rivaled the intensity of the blizzard which slammed the Northeast this past week. For the week ending 12/24/2000 Nashville’s No. 1 male superstar tallied an...

Gassner Suffers Fatal Heart Attack

BMG CEO Scheduled To Start 1/1/2001

Rudi Gassner died December 23 of an apparent heart attack while vacationing at the German ski resort Samerberg. The 58 year old well-respected music executive is survived by his mother, wife and four children...

Gaylord Sells MusicForce.com

Gaylord Entertainment Company has sold the Christian music e-commerce Website Musicforce.com to Christian Book Distributors Inc. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

Christian Book Distributors, based in Peabody, Mass., is the leading catalog...

Green Tunes in the Industry

Looking For A Song?

Trying to find a song about Saturdays or dreams or even monkeys? Believe it or not, you’ll find songs about these subjects and more in The Green Book of Songs by Subject. Nashville’s own Jeff...

CMT Promotions Scheduled

Hastaba, Parr and Hagewood Upped

Although still unofficial, look for CMT to announce the following promotions next week: Chris Parr will become VP Music & Talent, splitting his time between music programming and interfacing with the Music Row community. He will...

A Talk With Desmond Child

Our Newest Neighbor

For prolific songwriter Desmond Child, opening a Nashville office of his Deston Songs publishing company was more than a business decision.

“I started coming here in 1993 and loved it,” says the Miami-based writer...

Gaylord Digital, 116 Get Axe

Co. Restructures; Takes $35 Million Loss

Gaylord Entertainment Company announced Tuesday (11/5) it is “exiting operations at its centralized Internet initiative, Gaylord Digital.” Various components of the division are expected to be sold or closed by December 31. In addition, the...

Commerce & Creativity

A Marriage Made In...Nashville

To paraphrase the great bard, “The song’s the thing.” That’s the case in Nashville anyway. Songs are the lifeblood of country music and publishing is at the center of a sometimes tense marriage between commerce...

Bohler Joins MCA

Accepts VP Of Publicity Spot

After spending 12 years with Starstruck Entertainment as VP of Media Relations, Jenny Bohler has moved to MCA Records to become VP of Publicity and will begin on Nov. 27. Bohler's chief client at Starstruck...

The Word Covers Myrrh

Label Consolidation

On the heels of VP/GM Jim Chaffee's departure last week, it was announced Nov. 17 that Myrrh Records would essentially merge into Word Records over time. "Word will become the dominant brand," explained Word...