MusicRow Taps Kerri Edwards As Featured Speaker For 2024 Rising Women On The Row

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Music industry veteran and President of KP Entertainment, Kerri Edwards, will be the featured speaker at MusicRow‘s Rising Women on the Row breakfast on Tuesday, March 19 at 8:30 a.m. at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

Attendees will be treated to insights from Edwards during an on-stage interview with MusicRow Publisher/Owner Sherod Robertson.

The 11th annual celebration will honor the 2024 class of Rising Women on the Row honorees, which include Tiffany Kerns, Taylor Lindsey, Sloane Cavitt Logue, Halie Hampton Mosley, Melissa Spillman and Candice Watkins. Read about the honorees here.

City National Bank, CMT Next Women of Country and Loeb & Loeb are Presenting Sponsors for the 2024 Rising Women on the Row.

Presented by CMT Next Women of Country, singer-songwriter Carter Faith will be the special performer at the event.

Tickets for Rising Women on the Row are now closed. Tickets will not be sold at the door, as the event is sold out.

As the founder and president of management firm KP Entertainment, Kerri Edwards is a key figure in the careers of country stars Luke Bryan, Cole Swindell, Dylan Scott and Chayce Beckham. She’s a perennial presence on Billboard’s Country Music Power Players (2015-2023) list of the most influential executives on Music Row and its Women in Music rankings (2017-2023) of the most powerful female executives in the entire business.

A decade since she first became a manager, Edwards is the ultimate insider, involved in the touring, publishing, branding and business decisions for some of the genre’s most-sought-after performers. Bryan fills football stadiums with his high-energy shows, has sold over 21.2 billion global streams, placed 30 singles at No. 1 and has won Entertainer of the Year two times from the Country Music Association and three times from the Academy of Country Music. During his career, Luke has amassed a total of 21.2 billion global streams, 11.5 million global album sales and 55.3 million track sales worldwide.  He is the most digital single RIAA certified country artist of all time with 84 million digital single units and 15.5 million album certified units for a total of 99.5 million. This past year Bryan hosted the CMA’s for the third year in a row and returned to American Idol for his seventh season as a judge.

Swindell, a four-time ACM Award winner, has risen to become a headlining, multi-Platinum-selling superstar, racking up 12 No. singles (13 as a songwriter), winning numerous awards including most recently the 2023 iHeart Music Award for Country Song of the Year as well as the 2023 ACM Single and Song of the Year (as a songwriter and artist) for his three-time Platinum hit “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.” Swindell has won prestigious songwriting awards in addition to the 2023 ACM Song of the Year. including his massive, Grammy-nominated hit “Break Up In The End” being named the 2019 NSAI Song of the Year.

The ACM-nominated, multi-Platinum singer Scott has notched four No. 1 singles at radio (“My Girl,” “Nobody,” “New Truck” and “Can’t Have Mine”), as well as top five hit “Hooked.” Following his first career nomination for Best New Country Artist at the all-genre iHeartRadio Music Awards and a coveted spot among Country Radio Seminar’s New Faces of Country Music, his Platinum-certified ode to his wife, “Nobody,” earned him a 2021 CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year. With career streams exceeding 2.6 billion, the Louisiana native has provided tour support for Swindell, Bryan and Chris Young, among others, cementing him as an in-demand live act. Livin’ My Best Life, the latest album from Scott, features fiery, No. 1 single “New Truck,” along with viral TikTok ballad, RIAA-Certified Platinum, No. 1 radio single, “Can’t Have Mine (Find You A Girl).”

American Idol winner and Amazon Music 2024 Breakthrough Artist to Watch Beckham is a force to be reckoned with. Beckham’s debut EP Doin’ It Right skyrocketed to No. 1 on iTunes All Genre and Country charts and received critical acclaim from E! News!, Billboard, People, CMT, PopCulture, American Songwriter and more. The first to ever win the competition show with an original song, “23” instantly shot to the top of numerous viral charts. Currently top 10 at country radio, Beckham’s “23” resonated so deeply with fans that it has continuously banked over 1 million on-demand streams per week since its release, amassing over 386 million thus far. Beckham is set to release his debut record, Bad For Me, on April 5, 2024. This summer, Beckham is joining Bryan on tour for a second year in a row.

Edwards and Bryan created a publishing co- venture with Sony Music Publishing ran by Aubrey Daniels, which includes hits for Bryan, Swindell, Thomas Rhett, Florida Georgia Line and more. Additionally, Edwards oversees several other burgeoning acts including EMI Records Nashville singer-songwriter Jon Langston, Buena Vista Records’ emerging sibling duo CB30, concert spinmeister DJ Rock and independent artist Whitney Duncan.

Though Edwards had a hand in these artists’ success, you won’t detect a sense of entitlement from her. She continues to prove daily that she belongs in the position, the role of a lifetime she was unexpectedly led to master.

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