Category: Label
Sales Trilogy Part 1: 2011 Country Sales Mostly Flat
Another country sales year is now in the record books and it was a sixteenth-note type finish. Not as close as this year’s Republican presidential Iowa Caucus (8 votes), but hopefully more memorable. […]
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
Cavanaugh Exits Curb; Indie Publicists Work McGraw Projects
Longtime Curb Records VP Promotion/Media Relations Liz Cavanaugh has exited her post with the label […]
One Sales Week To Go
The song we’re a’ singing has changed from “Jingle Bells” to “Auld Lang Syne” which means there is only one week left in the Nielsen SoundScan year. Yes, soon we’ll be talking about 2011 in past tense. But WAIT! We’re not there yet! First, let’s see what happened last week during country music’s biggest single sales week of 2011. […]
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Country Stars Unlikely To Mimic Comic Sales Model
Comedian Louis C.K. recently earned over $1 million selling a DRM-free comedy special, direct-to-fans from his website for $5 […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Radio, Sales/Marketing
Galante Adds Sales Perspective To 2011 Performance
Industry veteran Joe Galante checked in with some astute comments regarding this morning’s sales article which attributed lagging 2011 country album sales to a weak release schedule. […]
Category: Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
Sony Adds Assoc. Dir., Artist Development/Marketing
Sony Music Nashville VP Artist Development/ Marketing & Web Initiatives Heather McBee announced […]
Herring Exits Skyville
Skyville Records President Kevin Herring has exited his position with the label […]
RCA Promotes Easler
Josh Easler has been promoted to the post of Director […]
Industry Vets Launch Wrinkled Records
Music industry veterans Sandy Knox, Katie Gillon, and Stephen McCord have teamed for the formation […]
Skip Bishop Exits Sony
MusicRow has confirmed the exit of Sony Music Nashville Sr. VP Promotion Skip Bishop from the label group […]
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
