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 […]

Grammy Update: New Performers and Nominees Album

See which nominees scored coveted performance slots on the show, plus the tracklisting for the Grammy Nominees album […]

Video Premieres (1/12/12)

Pam Tillis • Gloriana • Corey Wagar • Casey Donahew Band

InstiGator Hires Luke Jensen

InstiGator Entertainment has hired Luke Jensen as […]

VEVO Launches Dierks Bentley Sweepstakes

Vevo has launched a sweepstakes for two lucky fans to win a trip to see Dierks Bentley […]

Average Joe’s Builds Publicity Team

Label hires a new in-house publicist, and outsources select duties to an independent team […]

Industry Ink Thursday (1/12/12)

Ronnie Dunn taps Ebie McFarland for publicity • Ty Herndon with Cody Alan • CRS registration • Jamie Nehasil • Tiny Firefly Music launch party • Brandy Reed […]

Ben’s Studio Hosts Four Decades of Musical Genius

The impressive recording space at 30 Music Sq. W. is a historical goldmine that continues today as a successful studio […]

Draper Joins The Media Collective

A new role for former ASCAP Manager of Creative Services Jess Draper […]

Student Musicians Featured at Keep the Music Playing Concert

Several of the brightest groups from Metro Nashville Public Schools will be honored at CMA’s Third Annual Keep the Music Playing All Stars Concert […]

Artist Round Up (1/11/12)

Rodney Atkins • Mark Wayne Glasmire • Vince Gill • Chris Young • The Roys

Television Appearance, New Music From Emily West

Emily West appeared on primetime television and released an EP in December for the title track music video, I Hate You I Love You […]

Sony Names New Top Digital Exec

Sony has a new President of Global Digital Business and U.S. Sales […]

Gord Bamford’s Next Steps

The Canadian star has signed recording and publishing deals with […]

Anniversaries Help Kick-Off New Year

Congrats to Woody Bomar’s Green Hills Music Group, Brian Mayes’ Nashville Publicity Group, and the Young Entertainment Professionals […]

Upcoming Film Features New Keith Urban Song

“For You” marks Keith Urban’s first song ever written and recorded specifically for a Motion Picture […]

McCreery’s Debut Album Goes Platinum

Scotty McCreery’s debut album, Clear As Day, has been certified platinum in just three months after its Oct. 4, 2011 release […]

DISClaimer Single Reviews (1/11/12)

Clay Walker, Ira Dean, Josh Turner and Shooter Jennings are the men of the hour […]

Dunn’s Smokin’ Hot Show at Franklin Theatre

Ronnie Dunn’s benefit concert at the Franklin Theatre Saturday night (1/7) was interrupted by a blaring fire alarm […]

Galante Shares Experience With Rising Entrepreneurs

Joe Galante is taking on a new role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Nashville’s Entrepreneur Center […]

Pickler to Host Nashville Humane Association’s “Unleashed”

The Nashville Humane Association is hosting the 2nd annual “Unleashed: Dinner with Your Dog” on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 6:30pm at […]