Girlilla Marketing Hires Emily Cohen As Account Director

Emily Cohen has joined Girlilla Marketing as an account director, building creative campaigns for the […]

Writers Spotlight: ASCAP at Sundance, Writer’s Den Music Group

ASCAP has announced its event lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. […]

iHeartMedia Expands To Mobile, Auto Dashes Across Canada

Today (Jan. 6), iHeartMedia announced an exclusive partnership with Bell Media—Canada’s […]

Songwriter Matt Warren Joins BMI

BMI has signed songwriter Matt Warren, who stopped by the Nashville office to sign as part of […]

Southern Ground CEO Rob Parker Exits

Rob Parker has stepped down from his role as Southern Ground president and CEO. As the CEO of […]

Kobalt Appoints Ron Cerrito To Lead Label Services Division

Ron Cerrito has joined Kobalt as General Manager, Kobalt Label Services, U.S. Cerrito will be […]

Taylor Lindsey Promoted at Sony Music Nashville

Taylor Lindsey has been promoted to Senior Director, A&R, at Sony Music Nashville. Most recently […]

BMLG’s Erik Powell Promoted to National Director of Radio Promotion

Big Machine Label Group has promoted Erik Powell to National Director of Radio Promotion for the […]

Exclusive: Songwriter Marc Beeson Reflects on 25 Years in Nashville

Marc Beeson remembers a different kind of traffic jam when he moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 1990. […]

The Peach Pickers Announce Annual ‘Georgia On My Mind’ Benefit Concert

The song-writing trio known as The Peach Pickers (Dallas Davidson, Ben Hayslip, Rhett Akins) will once again […]

A2IM Names New CEO

The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), has named Richard James Burgess as its […]

Country Radio Hall of Fame Class of 2016 Revealed

The 2016 class of Country Radio Hall of Fame inductees has been revealed. Among those included are […]

Coming Soon: ‘MusicRow’ Country Radio Meet & Greet and CountryBreakout Awards

MusicRow magazine has begun accepting RSVPs for its invitation-only Country Radio Meet & Greet and […]

Artist Updates: Brad Paisley, Sam Hunt, Craig Morgan

Brad Paisley made a surprise appearance on the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night (Jan. 2) in honor of […]

Industry Ink: Country Radio Seminar, Merch Cat, Crowd Surf, Vices Verses Music

Country Radio Seminar has extended the deadline to receive a $100 discount on CRS 2016 […]

Dave Cobb, Warner/Chappell Enter Publishing Agreement

Warner/Chappell Music has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with songwriter and producer […]

Nashville Songwriting Exhibit Opens in Music City Center

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (NaSHOF) has opened a new exhibit in its gallery located in […]

Juanita Copeland Named President, Partner at Sound Emporium

Juanita Copeland has been promoted to President/General Manager and named to Partner […]

Backroad Anthem Singer Craig Strickland Found Dead

According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the body of Backroad Anthem singer Craig Strickland […]

Bobby Braddock Adds Original Demos To His Website

Songwriter Bobby Braddock has posted 48 of his original demos to his website in conjunction with […]

Nashville’s Johnny Cash Museum Set To Expand

The Johnny Cash Museum is set to expand its location at 119 3rd Avenue South in Nashville, with […]

Music Health Alliance To Offer Health Insurance Seminars

Music Health Alliance, the music industry’s non-profit healthcare advocate, is offering a series of free seminars […]

Mark Your Calendar — January 2016

Radio Single Add Dates • Album Release Dates • Industry Events for Nashville and beyond […]

LifeNotes: Marion James, Nashville’s Queen Of The Blues, Passes Away

Music City has lost one of its R&B mainstays with the death of singer, songwriter and […]

Rewind: 2015 ‘MusicRow’ Events

MusicRow looks back on its events from 2015, including the MusicRow CountryBreakout Awards during […]

Rewind: 2015 ‘MusicRow’ CountryBreakout Chart No. 1s

Since 2002, the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart has crowned No. 1 songs in the country radio marketplace […]

The Beatles Catalog To Stream Starting Dec. 24

The Beatles catalog will be added to nine worldwide music streaming services as of 12:01 a.m. […]

Brantley Gilbert Teams With Toys For Tots, Bendon For $10.5M Donation

Brantley Gilbert has aligned with Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, as well as children’s […]

Charitable Giving: Lee Brice, Kenny Chesney, ACM Lifting Lives, MTSU

Lee Brice gave back to his homestate of South Carolina, via a $20,000 donation raised during three […]

30A Songwriters Festival Adds to Lineup

Ty Herndon, Leigh Nash, Lari White and Chely Wright are among the musicians […]

Americana Music Association Announces 2016 Board

The Americana Music Association has announced their annual Board of Directors, including both […]

Ryman Will Host Opry, ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Over Holidays

The Grand Ole Opry, Old Crow Medicine Show and a live presentation of Dancing With the Stars are […]

Nashville-Related Music Obituaries 2015

MusicRow’s year-end obituary roll call has never been longer. We said farewell to a record number […]

Artist Updates: John Prine, Lee Ann Womack, Willie Nelson, David Ball

Lee Ann Womack, John Prine and Joe Henry are confirmed for the 6th Annual Americana Spring Celebration […]

Sun Records Founder Sam Phillips To Get CMHoF, Music City Roots Tribute

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will join Music City Roots to present a special […]

Pandora Drops Rate Court Appeal, Signs with ASCAP, BMI

Pandora has signed separate, multi-year licensing agreements with ASCAP and BMI, which […]

Chris Stapleton, Kelsea Ballerini Bring Country to New Year’s Bash

Chris Stapleton, Kelsea Ballerini and new Arista Nashville band LANco are all part of the Jack […]

Exclusive: 45 Years of Rounder Records

For more than four decades, Rounder Records has championed and preserved the music of artists whose music […]

Lorrie Morgan Preps First Solo Project in Five Years

In 2016, Lorrie Morgan will release her first solo album in five years. Letting Go…Slow will […]

Jeff Foxworthy Joins Nashville’s Wild West Comedy Festival

Jeff Foxworthy, Trevor Noah and Joe Rogan will take part in the Wild West Comedy Festival […]

Weekly Register: Chris Stapleton, Cam Take Charge of the Chart

Chris Stapleton’s Traveller makes another trip to No. 1 on the country albums chart with 54K units […]

‘Billboard,’ Dick Clark Productions Sold

Guggenheim Partners has sold Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Dick Clark Productions […]

Pandora, SAG-AFTRA, SoundExchange React To New Webcaster Rates

After the Copyright Royalty Board set the rates last week for webcasters, several music companies […]

Downtown Music Publishing, Pandora Announce Licensing Agreement

Pandora and Downtown Music Publishing announced today (Monday, Dec. 21) a multi-year licensing agreement for […]

LifeNotes: Radio Personality Robert “Hoss” Burns Passes

Former WSIX Nashville radio disc jockey Robert “Hoss” Burns has died at age 56. According […]

Industry Ink: ASCAP, Borman Entertainment, ONErpm

Christmas tunes recorded by Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, Darius Rucker and Meghan Trainor are […]

Artist Updates: Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert, Eric Paslay, Brantley Gilbert

Chris Stapleton performed “Sometimes I Cry” on Thursday night (Dec. 17) on NBC’s The Tonight Show […]

Huskins-Harris Business Management Relocates To ‘The Row’

Business management company Huskins-Harris Management has relocated to Nashville’s Music Row area, […]

Exclusive: Bobby Braddock Shares His Life on Music Row

Songwriter Bobby Braddock has lived in Nashville for 50 years, so it’s no surprise that the city […]

Producer Dave Cobb Welcomes All-Star Cast For ‘Southern Family’ Album

Zac Brown, Miranda Lambert, and Chris Stapleton have signed on for a new concept album produced and […]