Sonia Leigh Joins Church and Kracker Tours

Southern Ground Artists’ Sonia Leigh has been praised by some of country’s biggest names, and will soon be reaching new audiences in 2012 […]

Video News (1/19/12)

Eli Young Band • Alan Jackson • Josh Kelley • The Roys

Artist Photos (1/18/12)

Wade Bowen and Vince Gill • Rodney Carrington gets a surprise • The McClymonts visit “Border Crossings”

Taylor Swift Covers Vogue

The three-time Grammy nominee reveals how her ‘awkward’ years influenced her inner reliance and shares the moment she came to embrace her uniqueness […]

Bobby Karl Works The Nashville Grammy Nominee Party

When the Nashville Grammy Nominee Party calls, you always rsvp […]

“Idol” Time—Eleventh Season Debuts Tonight

Idol returns tonight for its 11th season with an episode centered around auditions held in Savannah […]

Haggard Hospitalized In Georgia

The Hag cancels dates through the end of the month […]

New Artists Jessie James and Dustin Lynch Debut Singles

Find out the latest on these artists from Broken Bow Records and Show Dog-Universal/Mercury IDJ […]

Randy Travis Aligns With New Team Members

2011 marked the 25th year of Randy Travis’ storied career, and he’s beginning 2012 with new management and publicity teams […]

Artist Growth Debuts Offering Mobile Toolbox For Musicians

Artist Growth, a Nashville based company offering a sophisticated set of cloud-based artist management tools, officially launches today […]

Debate Over Piracy Acts Continues With Wikipedia Blackout

Internet and tech companies are in an uprising against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) […]

DISClaimer Single Reviews (1/18/12)

It’s Ballad Week, with Phil Vassar, Laura Bell Bundy, Georgette Jones and Mark Wayne Glasmire all offering slower tempo offerings […]

MusicRow Promotes Jon Freeman

Freeman adds editorial duties to continuing role as CountryBreakout Chart Director […]

Dates Announced For CMA Songwriters Series In U.K. And Ireland

The Country Music Association’s popular CMA Songwriters Series is coming to the U.K. and Ireland for the first time and dates have recently been announced for […]

SoundExchange Royalty Distribution Nearing $1 Billion

SoundExchange distributed more royalties in 2011 than any year to date […]

Photo: Keb Mo Joins Forces With Second Harvest

Grammy winning artist Keb Mo hosted a special volunteer shift at Second Harvest Food Bank in Nashville last Thursday […]

Jake Owen Reschedules Concerts

Jake Owen has been forced to cancel the rest of his January tour dates following surgery today […]

Avenue Bank Expands Team

Avenue Bank Chairman and CEO Ronald L. Samuels has announced a round of hirings, as well as a promotion in the company’s Nashville offices […]

Country Stars Tape “Little House On The Prairie” Project

The show celebrating the music of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House On The Prairie” books was taped for a PBS special […]

Gretchen Wilson Sells Estate

Gretchen Wilson hit No. 1 on the list of Nashville area homes sold during December 2011 […]

Heavy Metal: Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum will have to clear some space on their already full award shelves, as their No. 1 single “Just A Kiss” has earned […]

Paisley’s Plays Sold-Out Weekend Tour Dates

Brad Paisley’s Virtual Reality World Tour 2012 completed its first weekend by playing three sold-out shows before a total of over […]

Recording Academy News: Grammy Foundation, MusiCares

14th Annual Grammy Foundation Music Preservation Project • MusiCares 2012 Person of the Year

Marlee Scott – Train Wreck

Country artist Marlee Scott is releasing her new single, “Train Wreck,” to Country radio on Jan. 23 and to iTunes on Jan. 24. “Train Wreck” is the second single from Scott’s forthcoming U.S. debut, due out in spring 2012 through Big Ride Records. The Canadian-born artist has been recording the album in Nashville with engineer/producer […]

AFTRA, SAG Reach Merger Agreement

Entertainer unions the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have reached a merger agreement […]

Snapshots (1/16/12)

New Board members visit CMA • Thomas Rhett shows his hands to KXBG

Apple Debuting Mini-Shops in Target

Apple is partnering with Target to open mini-shops within select stores of the retail giant […]

RESCHEDULED: We’re All For The Hall Benefit Concert

The event was originally scheduled for January, but was postponed due to Urban’s vocal chord surgery and rest at the end of 2011 […]

McGraw Release Streaming In Entirety

Curb Records is promoting next week’s release of Emotional Traffic with a new digital single, and streaming music […]

Fred Eaglesmith Releases Album, Plans Bluebird Show

Singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith has released his 19th album, 6 Volts, a one mic/one track album […]

“ACM Showcase” Highlights New Artist Of The Year Nominees

Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes, JT Hodges, Scotty McCreery, Justin Moore, David Nail, Jerrod Niemann and duo Thompson Square are each each competing for […]

Scenes From Country Cares for St. Jude Seminar

More than 25 country artists descended on Memphis over the weekend for the annual Country Cares for St. Jude Kids Seminar […]

The Opry’s Charlie Collins Passes

Grand Ole Opry member and world-class flat-top guitarist Charlie Collins has died at the age of 78 […]

BMI Celebrates Kirk Franklin, Hezekiah Walker

BMI honored gospel giants at its 13th annual Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards Luncheon on Friday, Jan. 13 […]

SOPA Separates Technology and Content Factions

For songwriters, publishers and intellectual property owners, piracy and theft is an issue of paramount importance. This week’s discussion of the pending legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) […]

Vince Gill Headlines 14th Jammin’ to Beat The Blues

The Annual benefit raises funds for mental health education and programming and will be hosted for the fourth consecutive year by Gill […]

Nashville Musicians Competing Abroad

Nashvillians Jasper Hollis and Josh Doyle competing for big prizes in upcoming contests […]

Photo Friday (1/13/12)

Brad Paisley’s Virtual Reality Tour • ASCAP’s GPS Project

Friday Artist Updates (1/13/12)

Taylor Swift • Hillary Scott • Kenny Foster • David Nail • Jo Dee Messina • 1010 Records

ACM Reveals New Artist of the Year Semifinalists

The Academy of Country Music and Great American Country have revealed semifinalists for the New Artist of the Year Award […]

The Producer’s Chair: Byron Hill

Q & A with hit songwriter and producer Byron Hill, who will sit for an interview with The Producer’s Chair series on Thurs., Jan. 26 […]

CountryBreakout No. 1 Song

Things are often more memorable in groups of three […]

SOLID Kicks Off 15th Year With Mayor Dean

SOLID (Society of Leaders in Development) held the first General Assembly meeting of the year for members on Tuesday night (1/10) and welcomed […]

Weekly Chart Report (1/13/12)

It’s good to be on top, but also tough work to defend your territory week after week […]

NOW That’s What I Call Releases Country Ballads

NOW That’s What I Call Music! will release a collection of popular country music ballads to all major retail outlets […]

Charlie Cook On Air: Predictions

Last month I wrote about Taylor Swift leading a Country Music charge and opening the door for the format going into 2012. I think that we all agree that this would be great for everyone involved […]

Nashville Singers Featured In New ABC Series

Two Nashville singer/songwriters will be featured in the premiere episode of Bud United presents: The Big Time […]

Urban Plans Return To Stage Following Vocal Chord Surgery

Keith Urban’s first live engagement following vocal chord surgery will be at the Grand Ole Opry […]

KCRS Live! Showcase Talent Revealed

KCRS Live! has announced Jim Collins, Andy Gibson, Aaron Lewis and […]

Performers Added to 2012 CMA Music Festival

A host of artists joins previously announced performers Jason Aldean, The Band Perry and Carrie Underwood […]