Category: Label
Valory and Sony/Sea Gayle Launching New Acts
The labels are busy with their newest signees, Thomas Rhett and Wade Bowen.
Lady A “Need You…” Climbs 5X Platinum
Country fans are showing their love in the form of purchases during this hot summer season. The latest RIAA sales report for July 2011 shows Nashville music warmly represented. The magic numbers to qualify for Gold and Platinum awards are 500,000 and one million respectively. Capitol Nashville lead the Nashville labels with the equivalent of […]
Category: Artist, Awards, Label, Sales/Marketing
Sound Of Change Headed To Music City
Put your ear to the music industry railroad tracks and you’ll likely hear a faint rumbling headed toward Nashville—don’t recognize it? It’s the sound of change. Warner Music’s recent purchase by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries seemingly brought little or no change to Music City, but the upcoming sale of EMI—both publishing and records— is likely […]
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Label, Publishing, Weekend
Idols Reveal Album Releases
American Idols Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina join the ranks of major label artists planning album releases for Fall, with their debuts scheduled one week apart in October.
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
Martina McBride To Release “Eleven”
Platinum-selling recording artist Martina McBride will release her 11th studio album, aptly titled, Eleven on October 11.
Full Scope Rebrands As Average Joe’s Management
Full Scope Entertainment, the management home to Colt Ford, Ty Stone, and others, has partnered with Average Joe’s Entertainment label to form Average Joe’s Management. The management firm was established in early 2009 by CEO Ken Madson. He explains, “Since its creation, Full Scope Entertainment has worked closely with Average Joe’s Entertainment. While this will […]
Pinpointing 2011 Country Sales
Country album sales are up an astounding 4% YTD as of 8/7/2011 with 22,930,000 units scanned. That is some good news. However, before we open the second bottle of Cristal Champagne (on sale HERE for $295 ea.) it seems appropriate to survey 2010 and compare it with possible expectations and release schedules for 2011.
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
Shelton Remakes “Footloose” For Warner Soundtrack
Atlantic Records / Warner Music Nashville will release the movie soundtrack for the upcoming Paramount Pictures film, Footloose. Blake Shelton offers his take on the classic title song, while Victoria Justice and Hunter Hayes duet on the movie’s love theme, “Almost Paradise.” The other remakes of hits from the original soundtrack are “Holding Out For […]
Joey+Rory, Charlie Daniels Already Hearing Jingle Bells
It’s only August, but Joey + Rory, and Charlie Daniels are already in the holiday spirit. Joey+Rory are prepping the Oct. 11 release of A Farmhouse Christmas, featuring 10 new holiday songs, as well as the standards “Away In A Manger” and “Blue Christmas.” The Vanguard/Sugar Hill Records album also contains the Garth Brooks/Kent Blazy-penned […]
