Author Archive: David M Ross
Journalist, entrepreneur, tech-a-phile, MusicRow magazine founder, lives in
Nashville, TN. Twitter him @davidmross or read his non-music industry musings at Secrets Of The List
Hays Joins Franklin Theatre
The Board of Directors of the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County today announced a new Director for the Franklin Theatre. […]
Category: Featured, Organizations
Nashville’s Venture Capital Market Buzzing
New online sevices Populr.me and ArtistGrowth.com have two music industry names in common, Joe Galante and Mark Montgomery, who are part of the investment teams in both ventures.
Android 4.0: In Time For The Holidays
The most highly-anticipated Android phone ever has finally hit Verizon shelves. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android’s 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system […]
Category: Featured
Live Nation Uncorks BigChampagne Data
BigChampagne, the data farm that has been a pioneer in developing metrics to gauge online music use involving peer-to-peer traffic, has been acquired […]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
Nimbit Reports Spotlight Boosting Facebook Sales
Nimbit.com reports that its direct-to-fan platform has been showing strong growth in terms of Facebook sales for artists and bands. According to VP of Marketing Carl Jacobson, the trend started about 15 months ago when, “We began to see a sharp uptick in the percentage of direct sales that were coming from our artists’ Facebook […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weak Release Slate Puts Coal In Country Sales Stockings
Like turning lemons to lemonade, it’s coal dust soufflé when you receive lumps of the black rocks in your holiday stocking. And that’s exactly what country sales departments will be forced to munch as consumers shop their way through the final three weeks of 2011. […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Durante Plans Livestream; Wagar Teams With Holiday Express
Corey Wagar has teamed with non-profit Holiday Express and Margaret Durante is planning a livestream holiday event on Dec. 18. […]
Top 2012 PR Trends
…ideas about how PR firms will work with their clients in the coming year. One theme which travels throughout the article is “engagement.” […]
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Bottlenose Set to Revolutionize Social Media Admin
Bottlenose hopes to help users accomplish by offering a healthy menu of tools to organize, categorize and streamline the process of interaction and analysis. […]
CMT/GAC TV Premieres and MD Records Launch
CMT’s Artist of the Year Awards and GAC’s Martina McBride special plus news about new label MD Records. […]
Lambert “Retweets” Pistol Annies
The Pistol Annies have been causing a buzz and making registers ring. The band’s digital-only album was released in late August and debut sales were a remarkable 42,000 units. At the same time, the trio’s most famous member, fiery Miranda Lambert, has also been lighting torches. […]
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing, Touring, Weekend
