Blake Shelton’s career is taking a step forward as the celebrity plans to fill arenas nationwide with the “Well Lit & Amplified Tour 2012.” Shelton’s 27-city arena tour will launch in Toledo, OH this January, ending in March at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. Assisting the reigning CMA Male Vocalist and five-time CMA […]
Brett Eldredge visits Hall of Fame; Ogden Joins PLA Media and Welch Becomes MOC Co-Chair
Kellie Pickler’s personality is as big as the North Carolina mountains where she grew up, in Albermarle. In fact, her infectious sense of humor may be too huge to allow her to be branded as just a music artist. So it should be no surprise that she has become almost a regular on the Ellen […]
Heidi Newfield Paradigm Talent Agency and 343 Agency are partnering on an all-girl country genre club tour aptly titled, She’s Country. Presented by Pendleton Whisky, the first 13 dates will feature Heidi Newfield and Bridgette Tatum plus special guests. “Heidi and Bridgette both bring high-energy performances and a ‘let’s party’ attitude that are perfectly suited […]
Tune in to watch Martina McBride sing the National Anthem at the Oct. 2 NFL Football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Jets, broadcast on NBC at 8:30 PM EST. The contest also kicks off NFL Breast Cancer Awareness which will continue throughout October and be highlighted with pink ribbon decals on the […]
The largest and final sales quarter of 2011 is almost upon us and the list of planned album releases is mostly revealed (except for a few possible last minute surprises). The above graph is intended to help readers quickly grasp how album sales are trending. Last week for example (week ended 9-18-11), country hit its […]
NPD’s latest research reports one in four U.S. Internet users now use iTunes—almost 51 million people—and an increase of 3% since last year. Music remains the primary activity of iTunes users, although app downloads is also seeing growth. 54% of iTunes users downloaded or listened to music this year and 28% downloaded a free app […]
Katie Armiger finally got to stand in country music’s inner circle […]
Twitter is becoming a favored source for entertainment industry news and promotion, however the volume of tweets is reaching tsunami proportions. One way to fine tune the tweet-flow, is by using hashtags, a word preceded by the poundsign, i.e. #mynews. Hypebot.com recently wrote about some of the favorite tags its readers are using to parse […]
Lady Antebellum comes roaring out of the physical and digital bins this week to dominate the Nielsen SoundScan sales sphere. The trio’s newest, Own The Night, racked up over 347,000 units (25% digital) giving it the No. 1 position on both the country albums and Top 200 albums charts. The new collection’s performance weighs […]