Weekly Radio Report (8/28/20)

Jon Pardi’s “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” rises to No. 1 this week on the CountryBreakout Radio Chart. […]

Tanya Tucker Sets Tour Dates For 2021

Like most artists, Tanya Tucker may not be touring at the moment due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, […]

DISClaimer: Kane Brown, Camo Brian, Sheryl Crow, And More

Black Lives Matter say the stars in this week’s edition of DISClaimer. Henry Particelli and Tony […]

Margo Price, The Milk Carton Kids, Lucinda Williams Join Americana Music’s Thriving Roots Conference

The Milk Carton Kids, Margo Price and Lucinda Williams are among the latest panelists who have been announced […]

Radio Promo Veteran Buddy King Dies at 79

Radio promotion veteran Buddy King of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, passed away Friday, Aug. 21. […]

Jeremy McComb Signs With Average Joes Entertainment

Jeremy McComb has signed with Average Joes Entertainment, and will release his new single, […]

Exile Inks With Ontourage Management, Kinkead Entertainment

Exile has signed with Ontourage Management for exclusive management representation. The band has also […]

Chris Stapleton Returns With ‘Starting Over’ Album In November

Chris Stapleton will release a new album, Starting Over, out Nov. 13 via Mercury Records Nashville. The album, […]

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer To Step Down

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has decided to leave the company, less then three months after joining TikTok […]

Brian White Extends Publishing Deal With Anthem Music Publishing

Brian White has extended his worldwide co-publishing deal with Anthem Music Publishing. Since joining […]

Nashville’s "Keep The Show Rolling" Caravan To Focus On Crisis State of Live Events Industry

Keep the Show Rolling, a caravan of branded live entertainment industry vehicles, will make its way through Nashville […]

Ashley McBryde’s "One Night Standards" Goes Gold, Tops Canadian Country Airplay Chart

Ashley McBryde’s “One Night Standards” has topped the Canadian Country Airplay Chart, and has earned […]

Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame 50th Anniversary Gala Rescheduled For 2021

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame will reschedule its 50th Anniversary Gala to fall 2021. “We had high […]

Riley Green To Release ‘If It Wasn’t For Trucks’ EP In September

Current ACM New Male Artist of the Year Riley Green will release a five-song EP, If It Wasn’t For Trucks, […]

Hosts, Performers Announced For IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards

The hosts and performers have been announced for the 31st annual IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards, set to livestream […]

For King & Country, Kirk Franklin, TobyMac Set For ‘Unite To Fight Poverty’ Streaming Concert

Compassion International, Food for the Hungry and World Vision are coming together for Unite To Fight […]

Reba To Release Second Concert Special Exclusively On YouTube

Reba McEntire fans can travel back in time this Friday (Aug. 28) with the release of another vintage […]

Luke Laird To Release Debut Album ‘Music Row’ Sept. 18

Since moving to Nashville from Hartstown, Pennsylvania, Luke Laird has penned and produced hits […]

Bobby Bare And Shel Silverstein’s Friendship Chronicled On New Eight-CD Set

Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus, a new eight-CD, LP-sized boxed set chronicling the longtime relationship […]

Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville Signs Bernie Herms

Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville has signed Grammy award-winning composer, producer, and […]

Naomi And Wynonna Judd Are First Subjects Of New Fox Series ‘Icon’

Naomi and Wynonna Judd will be the subject of the first installment of a new drama series Icon that has […]

Scotty McCreery Shifts UK/Ireland Tour To 2021

Scotty McCreery has postponed his UK/Ireland tour again, due to the ongoing global COVID-19 […]

ACM Awards Announce First Round Of Performers

The first round of performers has been announced for the upcoming Academy of Country Music Awards on Sept. 16. […]

Red Rocks Amphitheatre To Launch ‘Red Rocks Unpaused’ Shows With Sam Hunt, Brett Young

The Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado has long been a favorite outdoor performance venue […]

Wynonna Covers John Prine, Nina Simone On Upcoming EP

On her upcoming EP Recollections (out Oct. 30 via ANTI- Records), Wynonna will lend her […]

Mike Curb Music Signs Matthews Ntlele

Mike Curb Music has signed singer-songwriter Matthews Ntlele, a co-writer behind some of […]

Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum Reopens To The Public Sept. 10

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will reopen its galleries to the public at 9 a.m. Thursday, […]

Mountain Home Music Company Signs Jaelee Roberts

Mountain Home Music Company has signed Jaelee Roberts to its recording roster. Roberts is the […]

Bonfire Music Group Signs Danny Burns

Americana singer Danny Burns has inked a new deal with Bonfire Music Group for the singer/songwriter’s […]

Demolition Music Adds Landon Wall To Roster

Landon Wall has signed a worldwide publishing deal with Demolition Music. The 17-year-old singer-songwriter […]

Reservoir, One Riot Sign American Aquarium’s BJ Barham (Exclusive)

Reservoir and One Riot have signed BJ Barham, lead vocalist and guitarist of Americana country group […]

The Franklin Theatre Announces New Advisory Board

The Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, Tennessee, has appointed a new Advisory Board for The Franklin Theatre […]

Dan Wise Named ‘American Songwriter’ Chief Operating Officer

Dan Wise has joined music publication American Songwriter as Chief Operating Officer. In his new role, […]

Thomas Archer Reaches Top Five On MusicRow Top Songwriter Chart

Thomas Archer enters the top five on this week’s MusicRow Top Songwriter Chart, with co-writer […]

Weekly Register: Morgan Wallen Dominates Country Albums, Streaming Charts

Big Loud’s Morgan Wallen tops both the Country Albums chart and the Country On-Demand Audio Streaming […]

SESAC, RMLC Announce New Agreement

SESAC and the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) have announced a new license agreement that sets […]

Kane Brown Joins Elite Circle With Latest Chart Milestone

Kane Brown has earned the best country EP debut of 2020, with his Mixtape Vol. 1 project […]

Avenue Beat, Lindsay Ell, Louis York Set For Virtual Concert To Encourage Voter Registration

Avenue Beat, Lindsay Ell, Maggie Rose, Aubrie Sellers, Louis York, The Cadillac Three, […]

Fireflight’s "Unbreakable" Certified Gold

Rockers Fireflight have achieved Gold status for their 2007 chart-topping single, “Unbreakable.” With […]

Ryan Griffin Unveils Track List For New EP ‘Name On It’

Ryan Griffin has revealed the artwork and track list for his upcoming major label debut, Name On It. […]

Singer-Songwriter Justin Townes Earle Dies At 38

Americana music star Justin Townes Earle died yesterday (Aug. 23) at age 38. Earle was a singer, songwriter, […]

Industry Ink: Runaway June, Georgia Thunderbolts, Jay Clementi

The Song Suffragettes partnered with the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission for their August shows […]

Tucker Beathard Forges Ahead On New Album ‘KING’

In 2018, Tucker Beathard had recently gotten out of a record deal and was determined to make music on [..]

Round Hill Music Signs Songwriter/Publisher Collective 4 Horsemen Music

Round Hill Music has signed a global exclusive publishing deal with songwriting/publishing collective […]

Americana Music Association’s Harriette Dew Dies

Harriette Dew, the Americana Music Association’s accounting manager, passed away suddenly on Sunday, Aug. 16, […]

Tortuga Music Festival Moved To 2021 With Headliners Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw

Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival is moving to Nov. 12-14 of 2021 because of coronavirus concerns […]