Richard Conlon, BMI Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media, announced today (11/7) that BMI has promoted Kay Clary to Executive Director of Media Relations. Clary will continue to manage BMI’s public relations and communications efforts in Nashville and Atlanta.

In making the announcement, Conlon said, “Kay has been a key member of our communications team since 2005. She has earned the trust of Nashville’s music and songwriting community through 20 years of representing and championing some of the city’s s most legendary and significant musicians. Her creative focus, entrepreneurial spirit and exceptional execution skills all add up to a win for BMI songwriters and music publishers and the music industry at large.”

Throughout the ‘80s, Clary was a partner in Praxis International where, along with Jack Emerson and Andy McLenon, she managed the careers of Jason and the Scorchers, the Georgia Satellites, Webb Wilder, Steve Forbert, Billy Joe Shaver and others. Her recent experience includes heading up her own media company Commotion PR. The company’s roster included Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Billy Joe Shaver, Bruce Robison, the Del McCoury Band and Legacy Recordings. She also directed media campaigns for artists including Ron Sexsmith, Radney Foster, Jack Ingram and Hoodoo Gurus.

Along with Clary, Conlon also announced the promotion of David F. Bills to Executive Director of Online Communications. Bills is based in New York and was previously Senior Director of Online Communications at the music rights organization. He will continue to direct BMI’s digital and online strategic communications content and outlets, including its websites, online presence, social media and corporate video production.

Bills joined BMI in 2000 as Director of Online Communications & Webmaster, where he was responsible for a complete overhaul of the BMI website. Prior to BMI, he held various positions in technology, design and production consulting in the media, print, food and pharmaceutical industries including NBC, Apple Computer, Computer Science Corporation and Boehringer Ingelheim.

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, ABC will air an hour-long special, In The Spotlight with Robin Roberts: All Access Nashville. The special will give viewers an exclusive all-access pass into the homes and private lives of some of country music’s biggest stars.

Robin Roberts will go behind-the-scenes and on tour with Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney and Faith Hill. During his interview, Urban speaks candidly about his struggle for sobriety, being married to Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman and the joyful experience of being a new father. For the first time, Chesney invites cameras into his new home in Nashville where he opens up about love, life and battling misconceptions. “I learned a long time ago, several years ago, to quit reading what anybody writes,” he tells Roberts, “I learned not to think about what other people think, I’m just trying, I’m just doing the best I can do to be myself.” Meanwhile, Roberts joins Hill in the studio at a pivotal moment in her career, as she finishes her first new album of original songs in six years.

Roberts will then take the cameras to the classroom with American Idol winner Scotty McCreery, as she learns how he balances his new career while simultaneously finishing his senior year of high school. She’ll also spend a day with Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina, who talks about what it was like to put out a debut album while she was still learning how to drive.

Additionally, Roberts will join Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, as they go back to Indiana for the first time to visit the site of the deadly stage collapse that occurred at the state fair earlier this year. It will be the first time the country duo has spoken about the tragedy in a televised interview, during which, Nettles shares with Roberts what it was like to live through that moment and how she is forever changed.

In The Spotlight with Robin Roberts: All Access Nashville, airs on Tuesday, Nov. 8, (10:00 – 11:00 pm ET) on ABC, the night before the network’s live broadcast of the CMA Awards.

Toby Keith’s new album Clancy’s Tavern recently debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The album’s first-week success had been primarily fueled by the No. 1 hit “Made In America” and Keith’s viral music video “Red Solo Cup.”

Though still not officially a single, “Red Solo Cup” has registered more than two million YouTube views. The song and video have both topped the iTunes country sales list, while country radio stations nationwide have made the album track one of the most-added songs, breaking into the Top 40 without a concerted label promotion effort. Additionally, CMT.com has “Red Solo Cup” as its No. 1 video, joined by “Made In America” at No. 5.

While the buzz builds stateside, Keith is in the midst of the European leg of his Locked & Loaded Tour. Clancy’s Tavern is currently No. 1 on the UK’s country iTunes chart, with prior albums American Ride and Bullets In The Gun both entering the top 20 this week.