Chase Rice Announces Break From The Road

Chase Rice recently revealed to fans on social media that he’s taking a break from touring after […]

Hudson Westbrook Unveils Cover Art, Tracks For New EP ‘Exclusive’

Hudson Westbrook has revealed the cover art for his upcoming new EP, Exclusive, set […]

Matthew West Shares Testimony In New Short Film From I Am Second

Matthew West appears in a new White Chair film from the global storytelling ministry, I Am […]

Nominees Revealed For 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards

Nominees have been revealed for the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards, which are set to air live […]

Syntax Creative Adds Four New Record Labels To Roster

Syntax Creative has added Outside Voices Entertainment, Sunday Worship Records, Apex Global […]

Chris Stapleton Confirms 2026 ‘All-American Road Show’ Dates

Chris Stapleton has extended his “All-American Road Show” through the fall with over 20 newly […]

Country Songwriting Great Jim McBride Passes

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Jim McBride died Tuesday morning (Jan. 6) at age 78 […]

Pollstar Unveils Nominees For 37th Annual Awards

Pollstar has unveiled the nominees for the 37th Annual Pollstar Awards, which are slated to […]

Luke Combs Slates ‘The Way I Am,’ Due In March

Luke Combs will release his new album, The Way I Am, March 20 via Sony Music Nashville. In […]

Grand Ole Opry To Host 4th Annual ‘Opry Goes Dolly’ Birthday Show

The Grand Ole Opry will celebrate Opry member Dolly Parton with its annual “Opry Goes Dolly” […]

Kameron Marlowe Slates Headline Tour For Spring

Kameron Marlowe has announced he’ll return to the road on his new spring headline tour, […]

CRS To Offer Early Bird Rate For One Day Only

CRS will offer their early bird rate of $599 for one day only, tomorrow (Jan. 8). This will be the […]

Veteran Music Exec Bobbii Jacobs Launches New Destination Event Series ‘Backstage Access Presents’

Veteran music executive Bobbii Jacobs has launched Backstage Access Presents, a destination […]

Kelly McCartney Re-Launches Record Bin Radio

Creator, host and producer Kelly McCartney has relaunched Record Bin Radio this week as an […]

IBMA Foundation Announces The Planning Stages Scholarship For Live Music Production

The IBMA Foundation has announced a new college scholarship dedicated to live music production […]

Jelly Roll, Sarah Michelle Gellar & Chrissy Teigen To Serve As Judges On ‘Star Search’ Reboot

Jelly Roll, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Chrissy Teigen will serve as judges on the Netflix reboot […]

MusicRow’s Top 100 Songwriters Of 2025

Since 2018, MusicRow has published its weekly Top Songwriter Chart that ranks the week’s top […]

Universal Music Group Partners With NVIDIA AI

Universal Music Group has partnered with NVIDIA to undertake collaborative research and […]

Industry Ink: Molly Tuttle, Craig Morgan, Margo Price, Lani Rose

Molly Tuttle kicked off the year with an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. She performed her […]

Big & Rich To Play Bluebird Cafe Alive Hospice Benefit

Big & Rich will perform a special show at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe on Jan. 20 benefiting […]

Amy Grant Releases Contemplative New Single ‘The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm)’

Amy Grant is kicking off the New Year with a brand new single out today, the aptly titled “The […]

RECORDS Nashville Celebrates 2025 Success

RECORDS Nashville recently celebrated their 2025 success on country radio. The boutique label landed […]

Sun Records Takes Prices Back To 1952 In Honor Of Founder Sam Phillips’ 103rd Birthday

Sun Records is honoring its legendary founder Sam Phillips’ 103rd birthday (Jan. 5), by […]

Emma Lynn White Inks With Ten Ten Music

Emma Lynn White has signed a publishing deal with Ten Ten Music. White has earned cuts with […]

Vince Gill Pays Tribute To Longtime Nashville Favorite On New EP, ‘Brown’s Diner Bar’

Vince Gill has released the third EP from his year-long project on MCA, 50 Years From […]

Charles Wesley Godwin Slates ‘The Christian Name Tour’

Charles Wesley Godwin will hit the road this spring on “The Christian Name Tour.” Godwin and […]

Parmalee Scores Its Longest Running No. 1 With ‘Cowgirl’

Parmalee has landed its sixth No. 1 at country radio with “Cowgirl,” the band’s longest […]

NSAI Reveals 34th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Details

NSAI has revealed new details for the 34th annual Tin Pan South songwriters festival, slated […]

Anzie Blue Hosts New Year’s Eve Celebration

Anzie Blue and Honda Powersports partnered to present the first “Anzie Blue New Year’s Eve Live […]

Sierra Hull, Infamous Stringdusters, More Set To Play WinterWonderGrass Steamboat

The 13th annual WinterWonderGrass Steamboat returns to Steamboat Springs, Colorado Feb. 27 […]

Steve Earle Featured In Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum’s ‘Poets & Prophets’ Series

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum hosted an in-depth interview last weekend with Steve […]

Big Machine Label Group Elevates Jay Cruze

Big Machine Label Group has promoted Jay Cruze from Director, Southeast Promotion & Marketing […]

JUST IN: CRS Reveals New Faces Of Country Music Lineup

Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) has unveiled the lineup for the New Faces of Country Music […]

Gabby Barrett & Sara Evans To Headline Country Jam Naples In April

Country Jam Naples is returning with its all-female, all-country lineup to the Paradise Coast […]

Looking For A New Job In 2026? Check Out MusicRow’s Job Board

With another year upon us, new job opportunities are opening up. MusicRow wants to encourage […]

Kimberly Holcombe Joins CTM Outlander

Kimberly Holcombe has joined CTM Outlander as Vice President, Copyright & Administration. In […]

Attorney Jake Farbman Joins Hall Booth Smith’s Nashville Office

Jake Farbman has joined Hall Booth Smith’s Nashville office as an attorney in its Entertainment […]

Josh Weathers Inks With Sea Gayle Music

Josh Weathers has inked with Sea Gayle Music. A Texas native, Weathers released his most recent […]

Industry Ink: Chris Young, Tucker Wetmore, Neal McCoy

Chris Young returned to Live With Kelly & Mark to perform “I Didn’t Come Here To Leave” […]

Lainey Wilson, Jason Aldean & Bailey Zimmerman Headline ‘New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash’

Lainey Wilson, Jason Aldean, Bailey Zimmerman, CeCe Winans and the Fisk Jubilee Singers took the […]

Blessing Offor Slates ‘Heart So Real Tour’ For February

Blessing Offor will embark on his new headline “Heart So Real Tour,” beginning Feb. 14 in […]

Your Roots Are Showing Conference Unveils 2026 Programming

Your Roots Are Showing (YRAS), Ireland’s folk and roots music conference, has revealed its […]

Callie Twisselman Makes Opry Debut During Closing Night Of Opry 100 Celebration

Singer-songwriter Callie Twisselman made her Grand Ole Opry debut on Dec. 27, performing […]

UMG & Splice To Collaborate On Next Generation Of AI-Powered Music Creation Tools

Universal Music Group and the creation platform Splice are collaborating on the next generation […]

Audio Engineering Society To Host Nashville Convention This Fall

The Audio Engineering Society is slated to host its first AES Show Nashville this year, taking […]

Terri Clark Honored With Appointment To The Order Of Canada

Terri Clark has received one of her home country’s highest honors, the Order of Canada, […]

SoundExchange Reveals 2025 Top Tracks & Breakout Creators

SoundExchange has revealed its top tracks and breakout creators of 2025. The annual lists are […]

Mark Your Calendar—January 2026

Single/Track Release Dates • Album/EP Release Dates • Industry Events • Upcoming Nashville Concerts […]

Nashville-Related Music Obituaries 2025

It has been MusicRow’s tradition for decades to salute each year’s fallen in our Nashville music […]

Rewind: MusicRow’s Top Stories Of 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, Nashville’s music industry finds itself reflecting on a year defined […]