Gloriana will perform their latest hit single “Can’t Shake You” in the season finale of The CW series Hart of Dixie May 7. Fans can tune into The CW at 8 p.m. EST (check local listings).
The trio is currently on the road performing headlining shows across the country in support of their critically acclaimed second studio album, A Thousand Miles Left Behind, and will be taping their Hart of Dixie guest appearance in Los Angeles on March 18.

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Rascal Flatts will end their first visit to Australia this weekend and are already celebrating with two sold-out shows. The promotional tour began in Sydney on Monday with a round of media that included national radio and television appearances.
The band’s two special theatre shows for their Australian fans took place at the Brisbane Convention Centre on Wednesday, March 13 and The Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Friday, March 15. They will conclude their visit as part of the two-day event “CMC Rocks the Hunter 2013 Festival” this Sunday, March 17 at Hope Estate.

Florida Georgia Line got in the Spring Break spirit with a packed house of fans during their headlining show at Sharky’s in Panama City Beach. The Republic Nashville duo then joined Luke Bryan at the famous Spinnaker Beach Club to perform their double platinum, multi-week #1 smash “Cruise” and Top 15 hit “Get Your Shine On.” Both songs are featured on their debut album Here’s To The Good Times, which earned the highest debut album sales of 2012 for a new Country artist and showcases FGL’s fresh combination of eclectic beats and expressive lyrics.

Pictured (L-R): Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley get their “Shine On” before joining Luke Bryan on stage at Spinnaker’s Beach Club. Photo: Sweet Talk Publicity.

 

The Grand Ole Opry and the National Women’s Survivors Convention will celebrate women cancer survivors Aug. 24, when participants from the Nashville-based National Women’s Survivors Convention being held at Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center attend the evening’s Opry performance.

As they put the finishing touches on his upcoming No Shoes Nation tour, Kenny Chesney knows how to get his team ready for the musical gridiron.
Sports aficionado Chesney enlisted ESPN “Monday Night Football” analyst and the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl Jon Gruden to address his entire team before taking the stage for a last rehearsal at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
“Jon is easily one of the most passionate people I know,” says the man who’s played to over a million fans on each of his last ten tours. “He knows how to inspire and fire people up… and to have someone like that talk to me and the guys, well, I couldn’t think of any way better to get this year started!”
Stressing the importance of effort, enthusiasm and initiative, Gruden balanced humility – recognizing the sacrifice of leaving families for the three months invested in putting it together and the six months spent touring – and humor – tales of his own moments of miscommunication.
“This is a pretty amazing thing,” Chesney acknowledges. “I’m a kid from a small town in East Tennessee. I wanted to be a baseball player. Nobody trades that dream for thinking, ‘I’ll play music in football stadiums.’ It doesn’t work like that…And to believe you can do something like that, you have to believe there’s a way. This team, all these people out there, made me think we  could and that’s more than half of it. When you have people whose drive matches your own, who have skill sets like the folks I get to work with, anything is possible!
“Because I promise when I decided to try doing stadiums, a lot of people thought we were crazy! But not this group… Nope, they dug in and went, ‘Let’s do it!’ Now this summer, we’re gonna do it again – and we’re gonna have a lot of fun doing it. That’s the thing above all of it: it’s about having fun while you’re making it come true. Between the band, the crew and the incredible No Shoes Nation, I know we got that covered.”
 

Things move so quickly today that staying on top of things has you about two steps behind.  My favorite saying is being on time makes you 15 minutes late. The same can be said for being in the music and radio business today.
There are those leading the way. Scott Borchetta and Bob Pittman sat down together somewhere about a year ago and changed the relationship between records and radio. Both have continued to forge relationships to benefit their respective companies today and into the future. Scott found a new revenue source that came without anyone feeling that they were being pressured to hand over money under duress. Mr. Pittman, with the biggest gun in the fight, guaranteed he would have ammunition at a controlled cost going forward.
Now CBS is rolling out its guns and CEO Dan Mason has deftly tied his Top 40 radio stations into his imitative to the record industries. Naming the project Amplify ties nicely into the Amp CBS Top 40 stations. CBS has also brought to the table some new things in long form programming for both the businesses’ superstars with a promise to help emerging acts.
A lot of this is being done to put a lid on future streaming costs for the terrestrial companies. Understandable when you look at the costs being paid by Pandora, Spotify and iHeart for streaming. If you know the expenditure for streaming, you have ask yourself if the costs make it possible to believe the concept can ever financially work. But Apple is getting in the game.
The labels cut a questionable deal with Apple for iTunes and now they want to get it all back with iRadio. iTunes redesigned the music purchasing world. It replaced a business that was probably at a tipping point of failure anyhow but it certainly killed the CD concept and Apple keeps much of the money. Apple is mulling iRadio which is not really radio as we know it more like iHeart and Pandora. Apple would like to duplicate the financial advantage they have with iTunes. They proposed paying half of Pandora’s cost and less than a third of what iHeart and Spotify pays today.
Apple comes into the game as the biggest player in the world. Yeah all of the other services play on their equipment but they control the landscape and can tie everything they do into iRadio. Apple has also already proven they can move the needle. I mean whose stock would you rather own? Apple? Pandora?
Is it worth a 50-70 percent discount? Only the record companies are going to be able to determine that. They have a profitable partner in Apple, unlike the other streaming services. And this is before Apple has trained their sights on Pandora and iHeart. If you were going to bet on one, maybe two, in the next 10 years where does your money go? Pandora generated less than $400M in ad revenue last year. They say they have eight percent of US listening. Terrestrial radio did $15B. Radio sales works on a power ratio formula. If you have an 8 share in the market you should be taking eight percent of the revenue of the market for a power ratio of 1.
What should eight percent of the listening in the US mean to Pandora? Eight percent is $1.92B. Where is that going to come from? Terrestrial radio continues to grow, albeit slowly, every year.
Are there enough sales people to generate this kind of money? I estimate there are 30,000 radio sales people for Terrestrial radio. Sales people, particularly ones selling air and brands, are not under every rock. Even Apple doesn’t have enough blue shirts to go around. They do have revenue from millions of iPhones every quarter, fees from all of the cell phone companies, every non-free apple app and the majority of music downloads.
I wouldn’t want to be Pandora or Spotify staring down that barrel.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of MusicRow.)