MusicRow Releases 2024 InCharge Issue, Kelsea Ballerini Graces The Cover

MusicRow, Nashville’s leading music industry trade publication, is proud to announce the 2024 release of its flagship print directory, InCharge.

This annual guide highlights some of the most influential industry executives in the Nashville music business. This year’s edition includes 374 profiles which are accompanied by contact information, career biographies and detailed board and organizational membership affiliations.

The guide also includes a record label staff index, a company appendix and a professional categories appendix, which lists executives by their areas of expertise, including label, talent agency, management, music publishing, legal, finance, performing rights organizations and more.

“In the tightly-knit community of the Nashville music industry, those who wear various hats are deeply appreciated for their expertise and experience. With decades of collective experience and with leadership that represents and guides many other team members in the industry, these individuals have played a central role in shaping and preserving the city’s most valued export,” says MusicRow Owner/Publisher, Sherod Robertson. “Within these pages, you’ll find a celebration of our industry champions, each of whom has rightfully earned the esteemed title of InCharge.”

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini graces the cover of the 2024 InCharge issue.

Black River’s Kelsea Ballerini consistently makes history. With the release of her debut album, The First Time, she became the only female country artist to hit No. 1 with the first three consecutive singles from a debut album. Since then, she’s notched seven No. 1 singles and five back-to-back top 10 entries on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Among dozens of accolades, she’s garnered four Grammy Award nominations, won two ACM Awards, Billboard Awards and CMA Awards; an iHeartRadio Music Awards honor and received multiple career nominations from the ACM, CMA, Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards, CMT and People’s Choice Awards. Notably, she snagged her first nomination as an artist/producer for the ACM Awards’ Music Event of the Year in 2022 for “Half Of My Hometown.”

Ballerini recently returned to host the 2024 CMT Music Awards for the fourth year, this time as a solo host, and led the field in nominations. The Grand Ole Opry member was named the newest face of COVERGIRL in 2022 and later built on her multi-year partnership by launching a cosmetic collaboration with the brand. Expanding her sphere of influence, she authored her first original poetry book, Feel Your Way Through, and Dolly Parton tapped her to star in the audiobook of Run, Rose, Run.

Ballerini’s fourth album, Subject To Change, was released in 2022. Five months later, she surprised fans with Rolling Up the Welcome Mat and the accompanying short film. This led to her Saturday Night Live debut, universal acclaim from critics including The New York Times, Variety and Rolling Stone, and the honor of gracing the cover of TIME Magazine’s TIME100 Next Gen issue. With these accolades, it is no wonder NPR proclaimed, “Kelsea Ballerini is definitely one of the most influential women in country right now…she’s defining the sound of the genre.”

Single copies of MusicRow’s 2024 InCharge issue are available for purchase at musicrow.com for $115, and are included with yearly MusicRow subscriptions.