ELIAS Opens Nashville Studio

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Creative agency ELIAS has opened a Nashville office led by Executive Creative Director Vincenzo LoRusso. The newly-launched location serves as a central hub between all ELIAS’ studios, allowing LoRusso greater flexibility to collaborate with his entire national team and growing roster of diverse musical talent in the Nashville area.

Relocating from ELIAS’ headquarters in Santa Monica, LoRusso will continue to oversee the music company’s entire slate of work out of its Santa Monica, New York and recently opened Chicago and Nashville offices. He re-joined ELIAS in 2010 and has been instrumental in growing its creative team to include talent with diverse backgrounds in composing, producing, engineering and sound design.

LoRusso boasts over two decades of experience as a Grammy nominated producer and mixer working with artists such as Debbi Harry, Perry Farrell, Alex Ebert, Johnny Cash, Joan Osborne, members of Cypress Hill and Guns & Roses, and others. As the former creative director and lead composer, he helped launch Massive Music’s West Coast office and led the production team that developed and launched the successful Elias Music Library. For over 30 years ELIAS has remained one of the world’s most esteemed custom music, audio branding and library production studios.

Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Bentley To Lead Country LakeShake

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Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line and Blake Shelton are set to lead the 2018 Country LakeShake festival in Chicago, slated for June 22-24.

Also on the bill are Lee Brice, Billy Currington, Russell Dickerson, Jillian Jacqueline, Tracy Lawrence, Chris Lane, Jackie Lee, LOCASH, RaeLynn, Runaway June, Dylan Scott and Cole Swindell.

The three-day festival, which takes place at Huntington Bank Pavilion on Northerly Island, also features a second “Next From Nashville” stage highlighting up and coming artists whose lineup will be announced in the coming weeks.

Three-day and single-day passes for the Windy City festival will go on sale Friday, Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. CT at lakeshakefestival.com.

Mark Your Calendar—December 2017

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Album Releases

December 1
Chris Stapleton/From A Room: Volume 2/Mercury Records Nashville
Danielle Bradbery/I Don’t Believe We’ve Met/BMLG Records

December 8
Luke Bryan/What Makes You Country/Capitol Records Nashville
Walker Hayes/boom/Monument Records

Single Releases

December 4
Cam/Diane/Arista
Carly Pearce/Hide The Wine/Big Machine
CJ Solar/Airplane/Sea Gayle Records
Remington w/ Amy Jack/Dallas Until I Die/Amy Jack Music
Terry McBride/Boots Off/MV2 Production
Michael Tyler/Hey Mama/ Reviver Records
Brown & Gray/Top Down/NHMM

December 11
Chris Janson/Drunk Girl/Warner Bros. Records/Warner Music Nashville/WAR Radio & Streaming
Lindsay Ell/Criminal/Stoney Creek
Jerrod Niemann/I Got This/Curb

Industry Events

December 6
Final voting for the 2017 CMA Touring Awards closes

December 21
Grammy final ballot due

December 31
New Year’s Eve In Nashville: Keith Urban, Maren Morris, Cheap Trick, Carly Pearce

Weekly Chart Report 12/1/17

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Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’ Released To Streaming Platforms

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Taylor Swift‘s latest album reputation is finally up on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal, Amazon Music Unlimited, Pandora Premium and the other streaming platforms.

The project, her sixth studio album, racked up big numbers in early sales upon its Nov. 10 release, pulling in 1.238 million units in its first week alone in U.S. sales. The title debuted at No. 1 on Nielsen Soundscan’s all-genre albums chart, and echoes Swift’s first-week sales numbers for 2014’s 1989, which did 1.287 million in sales during its first week. Her album Red sold 1.208 million in its first week, while Speak Now pulled in 1.047 million.