Archive for November, 2010

Critics Pick CMA Award Winners

MusicRow’s editorial staffers Sarah Skates and Jon Freeman square off in a spirited debate about tonight’s top CMA Award categories. Tune into ABC at 7 PM to see all the action. See all the categories and nominees here. Entertainer of the Year JF: Brad Paisley—He is long overdue for an Entertainer of the Year honor, […]

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Grammy Nominations Special Set For Dec. 1

Nominations for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards will be announced live on the hour long special “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night,” airing Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 9 pm CT on CBS. The show will take place at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, with rapper/actor LL Cool J reprising his […]

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Swift, Aldean And Sugarland Sell the Sound Of Nashville

[Please sing using melody from “Sound Of Music”] Album sales are alive With the Sound of Nashville, With Swift and Aldean, Numbers one and two, The register rings, With the sound of Nashville Sugarland, Paisley, Kings Of Leon, too…. Yes, as we prepare to enjoy tonight’s CMA Awards (11/10) one can’t help but notice that […]

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Bobby Karl Works the BMI Country Awards

Chapter 354 Photos by Rick Diamond and Andrew H. Walker The 58th annual BMI Country Awards – the first of all the country accolades – mixed young with old like never before. Taylor Swift, 20, became the youngest person ever to be named the organization’s Songwriter of the Year. Nineteen tunesmiths won their first BMI […]

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Taylor Swift Big Winner at BMI Country Music Awards

Songwriter of the Year: Taylor Swift Publisher of the Year: Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville Song of the Year: “You Belong With Me,” written by Liz Rose and Taylor Swift, published by Sony/ATV Tree, Taylor Swift Music, Wagnerville Music BMI Icon: Billy Sherrill •••••• Taylor Swift became the youngest person ever to be named BMI Country […]

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DISClaimer Single Reviews (11/10/10)

The top award this week is a toughie. Both Taylor Swift and Sugarland are absolutely at the tops of their games, and Darius Rucker isn’t far behind.

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Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith Reunite For Tour

Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith are teaming up for a 20-city tour. It will be their first non-holiday outing together in more than two decades. The 2 Friends tour is slated to kick off in early February. They are hitting the road in support of their new releases: Grant’s Somewhere Down The Road, and […]

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Rascal Flatts Release First Big Machine Album

Rascal Flatts will be making various media appearances to promote the Nov. 16 release of Nothing Like This, their first album for Big Machine Records. The group will kick off their album launch week with an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman and the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, Nov. 15.  On Tuesday, […]

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Josh Kelley Hosts Listening Party For “Georgia Clay”

Josh Kelley shared new music from his debut for MCA Nashville at a lunch and listening party today (11/9). Media and guests gathered at Ben Folds’ studio on Music Row for a first listen of his Georgia Clay project. The country outing is due in the spring, but in the meantime, UMG is planning the […]

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Photos: Belmont’s Michael Jackson Panel, Louvin Benefit, Radio Remotes

••Jett Williams and Blake Shelton were among the many artists participating in the Music Live! radio remote. Williams is making the media rounds for Hank Williams: The Complete Mother’s Best Recordings….Plus! Shelton is promoting his latest Six-Pak for Reprise Records. ••On Wed., Nov. 3 Belmont University, in partnership with BMI, hosted a special edition of […]

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BMI Awards Tonight, CMA Awards Tomorrow

CMA Awards week continues for Music Row revelers. It’s only Tuesday and Bobby Karl has already put in a week’s worth of party-going, check out his column about last night’s SESAC Awards, and other events. ••Many members of the industry are gearing up for tonight’s (11/9) BMI Country Awards. Billy Sherrill will be honored as […]

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