Orbison Documentary to be Screened in Nashville and Los Angeles

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image003A documentary dedicated to Roy Orbison’s album Mystery Girl will screen at Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre on May 19, followed by a screening at Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum on May 20.
Mystery Girl: Unraveled was written and produced by Orbison’s sons Wesley, Alex and Roy, Jr. The film delivers a look inside the creation of the iconic album recorded by their father, Roy, 25 years after the original release. It will feature archived footage, special appearances and on-screen commentary from stars like Tom Petty, Bono, Jeff Lynne, and more. Orbison’s sons will attend the screenings in Los Angeles and Nashville for on-stage discussions of the film.
Both screenings are open to the public. For more information, visit thebelcourt.org or grammymuseum.org

'The Music of Nashville Season 2, Vol. 2' to Release May 6

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NAS_ART_ALBUM_S2V2_Cover_2014.3.21_FNL111Big Machine Records is set to release The Music of Nashville Season 2, Volume 2, which will release to all digital retailers Tuesday, May 6. While the standard version will include 11 tracks, a special deluxe version boasting 21 tracks (including four exclusive tracks) will be available exclusively at Target.
The recent airing of Nashville: On The Record boosted digital sales of previous The Music of Nashville installments, with all three previously released soundtracks climbing into the Top 15 on the iTunes Country chart. All original music is released by ABC Studios, Lionsgate and ABC Music Lounge in association with Big Machine Records.
Tracklistings:
DIGITAL STANDARD
1. He Ain’t Gonna Change/ Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere (Al Anderson, Karyn Rochelle)
2. I Ain’t Leavin’ Without Your Love/ Sam Palladio, Chaley Rose, Jonathan Jackson (Justin Davis, Sarah Zimmermann, Cary Barlowe)
3. Believing/ Charles Esten, Lennon & Maisy (Emily Shackelton, Kate York, Tami Hinesh)
4. It’s On Tonight/ Will Chase, Chris Carmack, Charles Esten (Dustin Lynch, Brett Beavers, David Lee Murphy)
5. Lately/ Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen (Sarah Siskind, Sally Barris, Ashley Monroe)
6. Joy Parade/ Lennon & Maisy (Jill Andrews, Josh Leo)
7. It All Slows Down/ Aubrey Peeples (Karyn Rochelle, Sarah Siskind)
8. Is That Who I Am/ Chris Carmack (Aaron Benward, Shaun Shankel, Steve Moakler)
9. This Time/ Connie Britton (Allison Moorer, Jeffrey Steele)
10. Black Roses/ Clare Bowen (Lucy Schwartz)
11. Don’t Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet/ Hayden Panettiere (Trent Dabbs, Caitlyn Smith)
TARGET
1. He Ain’t Gonna Change/ Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere (Al Anderson, Karyn Rochelle)
2. I Ain’t Leavin’ Without Your Love/ Sam Palladio, Chaley Rose, Jonathan Jackson (Justin Davis, Sarah Zimmermann, Cary Barlowe)
3. Believing/ Charles Esten, Lennon & Maisy (Emily Shackelton, Kate York, Tami Hinesh)
4. Hurtin’ On Me/ Chris Carmack (Josh Osborne, Greg Bates, Shane McAnally)
5. Lately/ Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen ( Sarah Siskind, Sally Barris, Ashley Monroe)
6. Wrong For The Right Reasons/ Connie Britton (Rosi Golan, Natalie Hemby, Chris DeStefano)
7. Everything I’ll Ever Need/ Hayden Panettiere, Jonathan Jackson (Kate York, Dylan Altman)
8. Joy Parade/ Lennon & Maisy (Jill Andrews, Josh Leo)
9. Come Find Me/ Clare Bowen (Sarah Buxton, John Scott Sherill)
10. It’s On Tonight/ Will Chase, Chris Carmack, Charles Esten (Dustin Lynch, Brett Beavers, David Lee Murphy)
11. Hennessee/ Sam Palladio, Jonathan Jackson, Chaley Rose (Joel King, Ricky Young, Eli Wulfmeier, Taylor Burns, Chris Hennessee)
12. It All Slows Down/ Aubrey Peeples (Karyn Rochelle, Sarah Siskind)
13. Is That Who I Am/ Chris Carmack (Aaron Benward, Shaun Shankel, Steve Moakler)
14. This Time/ Connie Britton (Allison Moorer, Jeffrey Steele)
15. Black Roses/ Clare Bowen (Lucy Schwartz)
16. Don’t Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet/ Hayden Panettiere (Trent Dabbs, Caitlyn Smith)
17. A Life That’s Good/ Connie Britton, Charles Esten, Lennon & Maisy (Sarah Siskind)
TARGET EXCLUSIVE TRACKS
18. Carry You Home/ Chaley Rose (Troy Verges, Caitlyn Smith, Gordie Sampson)
19. Then I Was Loved By You/ Chris Carmack (Kalisa Ewing, Casey Wood)
20. Falling/ Clare Bowen (Gareth Dunlop, Kim Richey)
21. Don’t Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet (Orchestral Version)/ Hayden Panettiere (Trent Dabbs, Caitlyn Smith)

Eric Church Turns The Tables on Ticket Scalpers

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ericchurchEric Church has turned the tables on ticket scalpers for his upcoming concert at Minneapolis’ Target Center on Sept. 16. More than 14,000 tickets have been sold since Friday, and only a small number of tickets directly behind the stage remain.
However, that will change today (April 25) at 5 p.m. CDT. 902 tickets that have been identified as having been purchased by scalpers in violation of sales limits have been canceled, and will be put back into the system for sale at that time.
“A lot of acts just want to sell as many tickets as they can and they don’t care who they sell them to,” said Church.“I want my fans to be the ones who buy tickets to my shows, and I want scalpers to back off. I can’t stop ticket scalpers completely, but I can definitely make it harder for them.”
All ticket orders for Church’s “The Outsiders World Tour” will be scrutinized to combat scalping, helping Church fans to have the opportunity to attend the concert for the originally intended price.
Opening the tour on different dates throughout the first leg will be rising country music duo Brothers Osborne, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Brandy Clark, or the hard rocking band Halestorm. For ticket dates and information, visit ericchurch.com.

Beats Becomes Top Downloaded iTunes Music App

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beatsmusic_logo_0After enabling listeners to purchase subscriptions to the service within the iOS application on Sunday (April 20), Beats Music has become the most downloaded app in the music category in iTunes, reports Billboard. As of Wednesday (April 23), Beats Music ranked higher than Pandora, Spotify, and SoundCloud.
On the Top Grossing Music apps list, Beats Music landed at No. 8, below Rhapsody, Slacker and Rdio.
Among all apps, Beats landed at No. 5 among free apps in the iTunes store.
The California-based company has partnered with AT&T to distribute 30-day and 90-day free trials of Beats Music to AT&T customers. The partnership gives listeners the ability to pay $9.99 per month, which involves a payment of 30 percent of the subscription fee to Apple.

Q1 Reports: Amazon, Pandora, SiriusXM

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siriusSiriusXM adds subscribers 
SiriusXM announced first quarter 2014 financial and operating results.
Net subscriber additions in the first quarter of 2014 were 266,799. The total paid subscriber base reached a record 25.8 million, up 6% from the prior year.
Revenue was $998 million, up 11% from the first quarter 2013 revenue of $897 million.
Adjusted net income was $121 million, a 46% increase over $83 million in last year’s first quarter.
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amazon112310Big sales, small profit for Amazon
Amazon.com’s net sales increased 23% to $19.74 billion in the first quarter, compared with $16.07 billion in first quarter 2013.
Profit increased to $108 million in the first quarter, compared with $82 million in first quarter 2013.
Amazon introduced Fire TV, a tiny box that plugs into HDTVs for access to Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, WatchESPN, Showtime Anytime, video rentals, and HBO Go by year-end. Video streams on Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year.
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pandora-logoDespite increased revenue, Pandora lands in the red
For the first quarter of 2014, Pandora’s total revenue was $194.3 million, a 69% year-over-year increase. Advertising revenue was $140.6 million, a 45% year-over-year increase, driven greatly by mobile advertising.
The company recorded a $28.9 million net loss, giving it another quarter in the red.
Total listener hours grew 12% to 4.80 billion for the first quarter of 2014, compared to 4.26 billion for the same period last year. Active listeners were 75.3 million at the end of March 2014, an increase of 8% from the same period last year.

Chesney's Blue Chair Bay Rum Launches Sampling Tour

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chesney1Blue Chair Bay Rum will be featured in a summer sampling tour. The Nowhere to Be But Here Tour will visit over 25 US cities from April through August. The tour launched April 24 in Dallas, and offers consumers of legal drinking age opportunities to experience the rums created by multi-platinum singer-songwriter Kenny Chesney.
Blue Chair Bay’s three premium rum flavors – White, Coconut and Coconut Spice – are mellowed in casks at one of the oldest, most storied distilleries in the Caribbean. Blue Chair Bay White Rum recently earned one of the industry’s highest honors: a four-star, Highly Recommended rating from leading spirits arbiter F. Paul Pacult.
“This tour is part ‘thank you’ to our great fans who made Blue Chair Bay Rum the fastest growing new company launch in the history of wine and spirits, and part ‘welcome’ to those ready to discover what made it so,” said Mark Montgomery, CEO of Fishbowl Sprits, parent company of Blue Chair Bay Rum. “With spring heating up and summer on the horizon, it’s about time to give people that toes-in-the-sand feeling our rums have a way of bringing on.”
Tour dates include (all dates and cities are subject to change):
April 24-26-Dallas/Ft Worth, TX
April 29-30-San Antonio/Austin, TX
May 1-3-Houston, TX
May 7-8-Tampa, FL
May 9-10-Orlando, FL
May 14-Destin/Panama City, FL
May 15-16-Pensacola, FL
May 16-17-Gulf Shores, FL
June 4-7-Nashville, TN
June 10-11-Champaign, IL
June 13-14-Chicago, IL
June 17-18-Angola/Ft. Wayne, IN
June 20-21-Indianapolis, IN
June 24-45-Buffalo/Rochester, NY
June 27-Syracuse, NY
June 28-Albany, NY
July 1-2-Boston, MA
July 3-5-Cape Cod, MA
July 8-9-Hoboken/Point Pleasant, NJ
July 11-12-Wildwood, NJ
July 15-16-Annapolis/Baltimore, MD
July 18-19-Ocean City, MD
August 5-7-Sacramento, CA
August 8-9-San Francisco, CA (at Outside Lands Festival)
August 12-13-Fresno, CA
August 15-17-San Diego, CA (at Tiki Fest)
And it gets better. Fans visiting sampling tour stops can enter for a chance to win a flyway trip to the first show on Chesney’s next tour along with picking up a variety of exclusive BCB swag.

Weekly Chart Report (4/25/14)

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New GM, FOH Manager for Listening Room Cafe

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Dusty Barker

Dusty Barker


The Listening Room Cafe has hired new General Manager Dusty Barker and Front of House Manager Tina Payton. Barker, a Missouri native, worked several years as a recruiter for a top U.S. university before working a digital marketing job in Nashville.
Payton worked in a management role at Atlanta’s Punchline comedy club and has worked with songwriters in the Nashville area.
Tina Payton

Tina Payton


“It’s great to have Dusty and Tina on The Listening Room team,” said owner Chris Blair. “Their passion for creating the best possible guest experience as well as their shared love for the songwriting community make them the perfect staff additions.”
The Listening Room Cafe is located at 217 Second Ave. S., and was founded in 2006 in Franklin, Tenn. The music venue relocated to Cummins Station in 2008, before opening at the Second Ave. S. location.

Writer's Den Adds Creative Director

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Sarah Feldman

Sarah Feldman


The Writer’s Den Music Group has hired Sarah Feldman as Creative Director. Feldman will work closely with The Writer’s Den staff writers to set up co-writes, evaluate songs, pitch songs to producers, artists and A&R execs and help develop new writers.
A native of Colchester, Conn., Feldman earned her Bachelors of Arts in Music Industry from the University of New Haven. She most recently worked for award winning producer and songwriter Victoria Shaw and Songalicious Music. She is an alumnus of SOLID (Society of Leaders in Development) and a member of the WMBA (Women’s Music Business Association.)

'Nashville' Concert Special Airs on ABC

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(L-R): Chip Esten, Ashley Monroe, Sarah Siskind, Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen, Chris Carmack

Nashville: On The Record, a music special featuring the cast of the television series, aired last night (April 23) instead of a new episode. The show earned a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating, attracting about 4.17 million viewers and sliding ABC into second place among the major networks (behind a rerun of CSI), according to Zap2It. MusicRow was there when the concert was previously taped at The Ryman.

Cast members of Nashville performed show favorites at The Ryman then sat down at the Bluebird Café for acoustic performances and an intimate look at the songwriting process with the songwriters, talking about how this music found its way to the show and what it means to the actors and songwriters.
Among the songwriters appearing on the special were Trent Dabbs and Caitlyn Smith, who co-wrote the anthem, “Don’t Put Dirt on My Grave Just Yet,” which Hayden Panettiere and Jonathan Jackson’s characters have performed, as well as Striking Matches (duo Sarah Zimmerman and Justin Davis) who co-wrote “I Ain’t Leaving Without Your Love” with Cary Barlowe, performed by Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio and Chaley Rose on the TV show. Also appearing is notable songwriter Ashley Monroe, solo artist and member of the Pistol Annies, who co-wrote “A Life that’s Good” with Sarah Siskind, which has been performed by Lennon and Maisy Stella and Charles Esten on the series.
Nashville: On the Record is usually a documentary web series, with Buddy Miller as Executive Music Producer and George Flanigen as executive producer and director.
New episodes return next Wednesday (April 30), with websites including MusicRow and Zap2It predicting renewal for a third season.
Actor Michiel Huisman won’t be returning to Nashville, where he plays producer “Liam McGuinnis.” He has been promoted to a regular cast member on HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Big Machine Records, ABC Studios and Lionsgate recently celebrated the success of the ABC Nashville soundtracks. To date, the collective projects have sold over 600,000 albums and 3 million individual track downloads. The Music of Nashville Season 2, Volume 2 soundtrack will be released on May 6.