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
Ben Vaughn Exits EMI Music Publishing
It remains unofficial, but MusicRow has learned that EMI Music Publishing Nashville Executive VP/GM Ben Vaughn has exited the company […]
Category: Featured, Publishing
Weekly Register: Chesney, Luke and The Search For A Solution
Luttrell, TN’s most famous native son, Kenny Chesney, rides atop the country sales chart this week with the debut of Welcome To The Fishbowl which scanned over 193k copies (38% digital) […]
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: TEAs Troubling For Physical/Digital Transactions
As our colorful graph (and the purple bars) show, country’s TEA has been sliding slowly all year—until now. All genre TEA (golden bars) started edging up slowly last month, and continues to expand this month as well. So what does that tell us? To sum it up it says, the sales relationship between albums and digital singles is remaining constant, but let’s look a bit deeper.
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: Are Faster Radio Charts Speeding Country Sales?
Country YTD album sales are up 5.8% this year, which compares nicely with the industry overall which is sporting a not-so-pretty deficit of -2.9%. Could country’s energetic showing be connected with a change in the speed which songs travel up and down the format’s radio charts?
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: The Crystal Ball Didn’t See That One!
The country music pulse is beating rapidly this week. CMA’s MusicFest, the CMT Awards and a city swarming with press and visitors from all over the world have turned up the heat…and the fun!
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: Sales Departments Are A Worrisome Lot
Sales departments are a worrisome lot, always measuring what lies around the corner and how it might compare with the previous year’s offerings […]
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: Country TEA Continues Downward Trend
Why is country’s TEA index shrinking while the format’s album and track sales both show YTD gains? And is that a bad omen? […]
Category: Artist, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: A Softer Rate of Descent
Last year, and for the past few years, country albums were very likely to drop from 60-65% in the second week of release. This year’s recent chart behavior shows that a new trend might be developing, lowering that second week drop to somewhere in the range of 50-55%. […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: Underwood Sales Cover The Charts
Carrie Underwood has Blown Away everyone on the charts […]
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Weekly Register: Discounters Create Sales Iceberg
This week’s quick take away is—the sky is not falling (any faster than it was last week) […]
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Part 2: Houchins Busts Average Joes Out Of The Box
“But the majors only have Plan A, a full blown radio campaign, there is no Plan B. We rarely start with Plan A.”
