Lady A and Swift Fight Over Most Downloaded; Wynette Added To Registry

>>Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” is now the most downloaded country song of all time, beating out Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” by a little over 9,000 downloads. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the Lady track which has been battling with Swift for the title just edged out the Big Machine artist this week. In reality the two highly successful tracks are extremely close in sales and the bragging rights of being No. 1 are likely to seesaw over coming weeks as both tracks prepare to break the 5 million download mark. Swift took Entertainer of the Year honors at last week’s ACM Awards and Lady A walked to the podium to accept Album and Vocal Group trophies. Lady A will be in Australia April 8 to join Keith Urban’s Get Closer 2011 World tour.
>>Tammy Wynette’s 1968 hit “Stand By Your Man” has been selected to become part of the National Recording Registry, a collection of recorded sounds, music documentaries and radio broadcasts that captures the cultural history of America and the technical advancements in audio recording. Songs judged to be culturally, historically or aesthetically significant are selected by the librarian with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB). Nominations for next year are being accepted here.