Artist Updates: Darius Rucker, Florida Georgia Line, LOCASH, Nashville Universe Awards

Twenty years after Darius Rucker first achieved musical success as a member of group Hootie & the […]

Who’s Earned Gold And Platinum in Nashville?

The RIAA has released Digital Singles and Standard Album awards for January 2015. Among those […]

Capitol Christian Music Group Honors TobyMac For Career Milestone

Capitol Christian Music Group artist TobyMac’s album Eye On It recently earned an […]

Nashville Music Moguls Make ‘Billboard’ Power 100 List

Billboard recently released its 2015 Power 100 Index, and some of Nashville’s power players are […]

Nashville Artists Added As Presenters at 57th Annual Grammy Awards

Dierks Bentley and Keith Urban will join the cast of presenters during the upcoming 57th Annual […]

Weekly Chart Report (2/6/15)

All blue collar, hard-working Americans can rejoice now that Lee Brice’s “Drinking Class” […]

Brad Paisley’s Summer Tour To Feature Mickey Guyton, Justin Moore

Brad Paisley will welcome Mickey Guyton and Justin Moore for his 2015 Crushin’ It World […]

U.S. Copyright Office Recommends Major Reform

On Thursday (Feb. 5), the U.S. Copyright office drew to a close an extensive music […]

Clark and McAnally Salute ‘Hee Haw’ With New Musical

In addition to their day jobs as award-winning tunesmiths, Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally have […]

The First And The Worst: Really Bad Songs By Really Good Writers

The inaugural The First And The Worst songwriter event, benefitting the Music Health Alliance […]

Celebration of Life Service Set For Claudia Mize

A Celebration of Life service has been set for longtime industry executive Claudia Mize. Mize died Jan. 3 […]

Education Notes: Belmont University, The Blackbird Academy, SAE Institute

The Blackbird Academy is offering a $5,000 live sound engineering scholarship, open to all […]

Luke Bryan To End 1.1 Million Sales Enterprise

Luke Bryan will release his final Spring Break album, Spring Break…Checkin’ Out on March 10 […]

NSAI Honors Songwriters, Chart-Topping Hits

The Nashville Songwriters Association International presented No. 1 plaques to several […]

New Legislation Aims To Nip Bots In The Bud

Lawmakers are fighting bots in the name of fair ticketing practices […]

Songwriters Highlighted In New Podcast Series

“Songcraft: Spotlight on Songwriters,” a new podcast highlighting in-depth conversations with […]

DISClaimer: Sans Bro Country, Nashville’s Songwriters Shine

With no bro country in sight this week, the Nashville songwriting community is strutting its […]

Country Stars Join Kings Of Leon At ‘Sports Illustrated’ Nashville Bash

Kings of Leon will headline an evening concert for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Music and […]

Starstruck Entertainment Promotes Two To VP Roles

Starstruck Entertainment has named two staffers to VP roles. The company has promoted Justin […]

Coming Soon: Affordable Digs For Artists

The Housing Fund has received a $200,000 grant to support the development of […]

James Otto Preps For New EP With Acoustic Preview

Soulful vocalist and ace songwriter James Otto recently previewed new music during a brief […]

UMG Nashville Reveals Artist Lineup For CRS 2015 Luncheon

The lineup for “Team UMG At The Ryman” luncheon, scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 during […]

Warner/Chappell Production Features Frampton In Artist Series

Warner/Chappell Production Music, Warner Music Group’s production music arm, has launched a new […]

Black River Publishing Adds Catalog Manager

Black River Entertainment’s Vice President of Publishing Celia Froehlig has announced the hiring […]

Industry Signings: SESAC, Silvercreek Records

Singer/songwriter Niko Moon has signed with SESAC for representation. Moon, a Texas native […]

Weekly Register: Sam Hunt Hangs At No. 1

It’s slow in sales land this time of year. In this post-holiday draught […]

Martina McBride Keeps ‘Everlasting Tour 2015’ Rolling

Martina McBride is set to continue her Everlasting Tour 2015, bringing more of her soulful […]

Industry Pics: Leadership Music, Row Entertainment, Sony Music Nashville

At the recent Leadership Music board meeting, Jaynee Day, President and CEO of Second Harvest […]

iHeartRadio Music Awards Reveals Nominees

The second annual iHeartRadio Music Awards will return to NBC […]

Fourteen Songwriters Honored With CMA Triple Play Awards

Fourteen of Nashville’s top tunesmiths were honored Tuesday (Feb. 3) with the CMA Triple Play […]

MusicRowPics: James Carothers

Independent artist James Carothers displays a whiskey-soaked brand of country music and […]

Soak Up The Sun At The Key West Songwriters Festival

BMI is bringing back two of its popular events for 2015: the Key West Songwriters Festival […]

Nashville Says “Bottoms Up” For Brantley Gilbert Chart-Topper

The Pour House in Nashville was an industry hotspot yesterday, as BMI and ASCAP co-hosted […]

Industry Ink: Arista Nashville, Music Services, Brenda Lee, YEP, AMA

Arista Nashville’s newest artist, Cam, recently stopped by SiriusXM to discuss her new single […]

Lady Antebellum, Lee Brice, Mo Pitney, More Set For Opry’s CRS Performance

The Grand Ole Opry is set to return to Country Radio Seminar for the kick-off night of CRS 2015 on […]

Shania’s Vegas Show Takes Over TV

The ABC television network will air an exclusive concert event, Shania: Still the One Live […]

Music Biz Conference Announces Nashville Schedule

The Music Business Association (Music Biz) announced the preliminary schedule for its […]

Vince Gill And Matthew West Added To T.J. Martell Honors Gala

The T.J. Martell Foundation has announced the addition of Vince Gill and Matthew West to the […]

CRS 2015 To Spotlight Tech, Social Media

Country Radio Seminar has revealed details surrounding four tech and social media panels scheduled […]

Bandsintown Connects With Fans Via Touring Management App

Artists and artist managers who use Bandsintown now have a new way of tracking behavioral analytics […]

Industry Pics: BMLG’s Cassadee Pope and Allison Jones, WMBA

Accessories brand Red Earth celebrated the pre-release of their private label collection with […]

Lady Antebellum Adds Hometown Show To Their ‘Wheels Up Tour 2015’

Lady Antebellum announced this morning (Feb. 2) that Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena […]

Black River Rages On With New Signing

VP of Black River Publishing Celia Froehlig today (Feb. 2) announced the signing of […]

Music Industry Coalition To Absorb Save Music Row

Jeannette Porrazzo, the president of organization Save Music Row, announced today that she is merging […]

Artists Set To Become “Human Checkers Pieces” For ACMs

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® and the Academy of Country Music announced today “The […]

Nashville-based Pop Up Music Adds to Roster

Nashville-based Pop Up Music has signed a new singer-songwriter to its roster for publishing […]

Music Video Releases: Carrie Underwood, RaeLynn, Brantley Gilbert

RaeLynn is revealing more of her unique musical journey through a new video profile. From […]

Mark Your Calendar – February 2015

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

AXS TV Zooms In On Colt Ford, Lucy Angel

AXS TV’s latest country music programming includes the recently launched series […]

Unstoppable Chief: Eric Church Saves Show Despite Sick Band

After a stomach bug knocked out most of his band and crew in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday […]