Big Loud Records has added Shari Roth to its awarded radio promotions staff. She joins as VP, Multi-Format Radio, effective immediately.

Specializing in formats including but not limited to Americana, AC, AAA and more, Roth adds expertise to the label’s promotion efforts amidst the continued expansion of Big Loud’s endeavors adjacent to country music.

Roth most recently served as National Director of Radio Accounts at Warner Music Nashville for eight years. She also spent time at Big Machine Label Group, and as Associate Program Director/Music Director at WYNY/NY. The George Washington University graduate and New Jersey native is based out of Chicago.

“After beginning our radio promotion careers almost 20 years ago together, I can’t express how full circle this reunion feels,” shares SVP, Radio Promotion Stacy Blythe. “We’ve grown up in this business together, and Shari has always been a trusted and respected friend and colleague. She is a relationship expert, ready to super serve our partners across radio formats nationwide and relentlessly champion our artists, which makes her the perfect person for this critical position. I’m honored to have her on our team.”

Presented by CMT Next Women of Country, singer-songwriter Carter Faith will bring her musical talents to MusicRow‘s Rising Women on the Row breakfast on Tuesday, March 19 at 8:30 a.m. at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

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.

As previously announced, music industry veteran Kerri Edwards will be the featured speaker 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.

Carter Faith has quickly made a name for herself in Music City. Whiskey Jam founder Ward Guenther has claimed that Faith is the “future of the next 10 years of Nashville” and Billboard named her Rookie of the Month. In addition to these accolades, Spotify included her on their annual Hot Country Artist To Watch list while also including her in their Fresh Finds program—marking the up-and-comer as the first country artist to ever be a part of this prestigious program.

Originally from Davidson, North Carolina, Faith taught herself how to play guitar and piano, and soon after began crafting lyrics as a way to make sense of the world around her. Faith has performed at numerous venues, including closing out a sold-out show at the legendary Ryman Auditorium as well as the historic Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville. She’s toured nationwide alongside artists like Cole Swindell, Carly Pearce, Luke Grimes, Keith Urban, Old Dominion, Chris Young, Kip Moore, Little Big Town, Maren Morris and Willie Nelson, with many more tour looks expected this year.

The songstress recently signed with Universal Music Publishing Group and over the last two years, she’s garnered more than 60 million streams with her releases “Wild,” “Already Crazy,” “Greener Pasture,” “Cowboys & Dreamers,” “Joyride” and “Easy Pill,” as well as her debut EP Let Be Love. Faith is currently working on her debut album that is expected to be released in 2024.

To end Country Radio Seminar (CRS) 2024, five breakout artists added their names to the history of the New Faces of Country Music showcase.

The annual showcase features five emerging artists who have achieved notable country radio success during the qualification period, which spanned from Nov. 1, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2023, for the 2024 show. The event has served as a pivotal moment in the careers of established country hitmakers since its inception in 1970. On Friday (March 1), Corey Kent, George Birge, Conner Smith, Dillon Carmichael and Megan Moroney added their names to the list.

RCA Nashville’s Kent was the first artist to take the stage. Before he performed, an introductory video played detailing his journey from Oklahoma to Music City to chase his musical dreams, but it also showed the detour that led him and his young family to Texas, where Kent took a job pouring concrete for a while.

Now, a few years after his music took off and he and his family moved back to Nashville, Kent has celebrated a Platinum-certified No. 1 hit with “Wild As Her,” which he gratefully played to the country radio industry members in the audience. Kent’s set also included his 2020 single “Gold.”

“I believe that tomorrow isn’t guaranteed and what you’re doing today matters,” Kent said when introducing his Gold-certified hit “Something’s Gonna Kill Me.” “You’re either getting busy living or getting busy dying.” Before he left the stage, Kent played his brand new radio single “This Heart,” and the radio tastemakers in the room ate it up.

Next up was RECORDS Nashville’s Birge. His introductory video also shared a bit about his journey working as a songwriter until breaking through as an artist in recent years. He also took the opportunity to share his gratitude for country radio, thanking them for changing his life and sharing photos with programmers.

Birge kicked off his set with a new song, “Hard on the Bottle.” The Texan also played a few more new songs, including “Damn Right I Do” and his next radio single, “Cowboy Songs.”

“I’ve been dreaming about this day for a long time and damn, it’s good to be here tonight,” Birge said before launching into his first No. 1, “Mind On You,” which topped country radio charts as 2024 began, while also cracking the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.

The Valory Music Co.’s Smith was the next artist to take the stage. His video included footage of the Nashville native singing country covers while growing up, using a broom as a mic stand and yelling out the words to Montgomery Gentry and Kenny Chesney songs.

Smith kicked off his set with the title track of his recently released new album, “Smoky Mountains,” as well as two new songs “Heatin’ Up” and “Roulette On The Heart,” a duet with Hailey Whitters that is set to be his next single.

“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be on this stage. It means more than y’all know,” Smith said before playing his top-10-and-rising single “Creek Will Rise,” which brought radio tastemakers to their feet.

Riser House Records’ Carmichael was next up. His video was the best, showcasing the humor he’s become known for. In an episode of “CRS Cribs,” Carmichael took the audience on a tour of his bus—but come to find out, it was actually his tour-mate Justin Moore‘s bus. The video ends with Carmichael welcoming viewers to “CRS Cribs” of his truck.

He kicked off his set with “Raised Up Wrong,” before making everyone laugh again with “Tiny Little Fiddle.” After performing his top 25 single “Son Of A,” Carmichael brought some radio programmers to their feet with “Drinkin’ Problems.”

“What an opportunity this is,” Carmichael said. “Thank y’all so much for giving us a chance. I do understand the gravity of this.”

Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records’ Moroney was the last artist to perform, but it didn’t matter—everyone was eagerly awaiting the breakout star’s time in the spotlight. After a video of her reading mean Tweets about herself, Moroney hit the stage singing the title track of her 2023 album “Lucky.”

She lured audience members in with her climbing radio single “I’m Not Pretty,” and impressed them with her well written new release “No Caller ID.”

“Thank y’all so much for the support of me and my songs,” Moroney said before playing “Girl In The Mirror.” She ended her set and the 2024 CRS New Faces showcase with her two-times Platinum No. 1 breakout hit “Tennessee Orange,” leaving the crowd on their feet.

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.