Erik Belz Signs With Spirit/Fluid

Spirit/Fluid, the Nashville-based joint venture between Spirit Music Group and Frank Rogers’ […]

Industry Pics: Universal Music Group, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Z100

Universal Music Group and Carrie Underwood celebrated their new worldwide recording agreement with a […]

Cumulus Media-Nashville Names Lori Tournay Liggett As General Sales Manager

Cumulus Media-Nashville has promoted Lori Tournay Liggett to General Sales Manager of its music […]

Shannon McNally Teams With Rodney Crowell On New CD ‘Black Irish’

Shannon McNally’s new album Black Irish, due out June 9, includes several songs penned by producer […]

Elyse McKenna Joins THIEL Audio Products

Elyse McKenna has been named Director, Strategic Partnerships at THIEL Audio Products LLC. The audio […]

Country Music Hall of Fame Names New Class

The 2017 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees were announced today. Inductees in three […]

Max Lousada Elevated To CEO/Recorded Music For Warner Music Group

Max Lousada has been named CEO, Recorded Music for Warner Music Group (WMG), effective October 1. Lousada […]

Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum Recognizes E.W. “Bud” Wendell, Steve Turner

The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum announced the conclusion of its Working on a Building capital campaign […]

ASCAP Delivers Record-High Revenues For 2016

ASCAP is celebrating a record-breaking year in revenues for 2016, taking in $1.059 billion for the year […]

George Nunes Joins Muzit

Former Show Dog Nashville GM George Nunes has joined Muzit as EVP, Media Properties. Muzit’s […]

ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO Features Additional Nashville Songwriters

This year’s ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO, slated for April 13-15 at Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, has added […]

Rodney Crowell, Jake Owen, Buddy Miller Added To Merle Haggard Tribute Concert

Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Jake Owen, Aaron Lewis, Tanya Tucker and Chris Janson have been added […]

Industry Ink: Chris Janson, YEP/Music Biz Panel, Matt Rogers

Chris Janson celebrated his 31st birthday on Sunday night at the Academy of Country Music Awards with […]

Steve Dorff To Play Rare Nashville Show In May

Award-winning songwriter Steve Dorff will play a rare Nashville show on May 5 at the Franklin Theater […]

Carrie Underwood, Rob Potts Honored With CMA International Awards

The Country Music Association (CMA) has announced more International Awards recipients for […]

New Spotify And UMG Agreement Offers Flexible Release Policy

Spotify and Universal Music Group have entered into a new, multi-year global license agreement. Under […]

Chris Young To Headline Music City July 4th Celebration

Chris Young has been tapped as the headliner for Let Freedom Sing! July 4 in Music City, Music City’s […]

Artist Updates: Kelsea Ballerini, Scotty McCreery, John Prine

Kelsea Ballerini debuted the encore performance of her unreleased song “High School” on Xfinity On Demand […]

Justin Timberlake To Headline 2017 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival

Justin Timberlake will headline this year’s Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival, set for Sept. 23-24 at the Park at Harlinsdale in Franklin, Tennessee. […]

Sony Music Nashville Celebrates During 2017 ACM Awards Afterparty

Sony Music Nashville celebrated following this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards with an […]

LifeNotes: Country Radio Great Rhubarb Jones Passes

Country Disc Jockey Hall of Fame member Rhubarb Jones has died at age 65. Warren “Rhubarb” Jones was a legendary broadcasting […]

Ruston Kelly Signs With Washington Square Music

Ruston Kelly has signed a deal with Razor & Tie imprint Washington Square Music. Kelly’s debut EP with […]

Weekly Register: RaeLynn’s ‘WildHorse’ Races To No. 1

Warner Music Nashville’s RaeLynn debuted at the top of the Nielsen Soundscan country album rankings this […]

Industry Ink: BMLG, Nashville Symphony, Banner Music

Thomas Rhett kicked off the 2017 ACM Weekend with an Outnumber Hunger Launch Event at Las Vegas’ Sake […]

Cary Sherman To Retire From RIAA, Mitch Glazier Promoted

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today announced that Mitch Glazier […]

Mark Your Calendar—April 2017

Radio Single Add Dates • Album Release Dates • Industry Events […]

ACM Awards Showcase New Music, Surprise Victories

The 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards were packed with high-energy performances, surprise wins […]

Tin Pan South Photos: Friday And Saturday Wrap-Up

Tin Pan South concluded its silver anniversary with veteran songwriters on Friday and Saturday […]

In Pictures: ACM’s Radio Row

Country artists and several of country radio’s top stations converged on T-Mobile Arena’s Lucky Live […]

ACM Awards Ratings Dip Slightly For 2017

CBS’ airing of the Academy of Country Music Awards last night brought numerous collaborations and […]

BMLG Celebrates ACM Wins, Performances

Big Machine Label Group celebrated multiple wins and performances following the 52nd Annual Academy of Country Music […]

Universal Music Group Nashville Celebrates ACM Wins

Universal Music Group Nashville celebrated at the Skyfall Lounge at the Delano following the 52nd Annual […]

Andy Elliott Named VP, Promotion For Pearl Records

Andy Elliott has joined Pearl Records as Vice President of Promotion beginning today (April 3).

ACM Awards Winners Revealed

The stars came out last night during the 52nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, […]

Lori McKenna, Florida Georgia Line Earn Early ACM Award Wins

The Academy of Country Music was already naming early winners for the 52nd annual Academy […]

MercyMe Celebrates Release Of 15th Album, ‘Lifer’

Lifer, the title of CCM band MercyMe’s 15th album, is an apt label for a band that has been in the industry for […]

Tin Pan South Thursday Photos: Halfway To 26

The 25th annual Tin Pan South songwriter festival is more than halfway over. Thursday (March 30) […]

Industry Ink: Spin Doctors, Plowboy Records, URP Music Distributors

Angela Marpoe has been named Northeast regional for the Spin Doctors Music Group. Formerly the Promotions […]

Aaron Watson’s Big Label Records Adds Staff Members

Aaron Watson’s Big Label Records has announced the appointment of several promotion executives. Tony Morreale is […]

Alternative Returns To Nashville

iHeartMedia Nashville announced today the debut of the new ALT 97.5, Nashville’s […]

Secret Sisters Sign With New West, New Album Set For June 9

The Secret Sisters (Laura And Lydia Rogers) have signed to New West Records and are set to release their […]

Brooke Meris Joins Curb Promotion Department

Radio promoter Brooke Meris has been named Director of Southwest Promotion at Curb Records […]

ACM, Westwood One’s Radio Row Hits High Note With New Artist Performances

This year’s Academy of Country Music radio remotes, dubbed Westwood One Backstage at the ACMs, […]

Darius Rucker’s Backstage Southern Whiskey Debuts

Darius Rucker is launching his own whiskey and bourbon brands, Backstage Southern Whiskey and Forbidden […]

Weekly Chart Report (3/31/17)

Dierks Bentley takes his place in the No. 1 position this week with “Black.” It is the title track from his latest album […]

In Pictures: Tin Pan South Wednesday Shows With Kellie Pickler, Natalie Stovall, Ben Glover

Tin Pan South continued through night two of the 25th annual songwriter festival at various Nashville venues. […]

Leslie Fram, Mike McVay Named First Innovation In Music Awards Recipients

The Innovation in Music Awards has announced Mike McVay, Senior Vice-President/Content & Programming […]

Lady Antebellum Reveals Songwriters, Track Listing For ‘Heart Break’

Lady Antebellum decamped to residences in Florida and southern California to create their […]

Fort Knox Studios Plans Nashville Facility, Names Ray Amico As GM

Fort Knox Studios—including rehearsal space, production stages, co-working and […]

RIAA Report: U.S. Music Industry Reports First Double Digit Gains In Nearly Two Decades

The RIAA has released Facts & Research on 2016 in a recent report from Sr. VP, Strategic […]