Category: Organizations
Reba, Blake To Co-Host ACM Awards
Blake Shelton will join Reba as co-host of the ACM Awards on Sun., April 3. The superstar redhead has hosted the country awards show for over a decade. Producers and show organizers say they got the idea to add Shelton to the mix when the pair appeared together on the CBS Early show. “Last year […]
Category: Artist, Awards, Featured, Organizations
Gamblin Named Exec. Dir. Of MS Arts Organization
Music business veteran Marty Gamblin has become the Executive Director of the Southern Arts and Entertainment Center, which was established in 2001 by the Mississippi legislature. Currently doing business as the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center (MEAC), the group is dedicated to honoring the lives and work of the state’s diverse artistic talent such as […]
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“All About Tonight” Goes No. 1
The Georgian songwriting trio of Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins and Ben Hayslip, also known as the “Peach Pickers,” celebrated their third No. 1 song in a year at a party held at BMI on January 7. Recorded by Blake Shelton, “All About Tonight” hit No. 1 in 2010 as did “All Over Me,” recorded by […]
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Boot Founder Gets CMA Media Award
The CMA has announced that its 2010 Media Achievement Award will go to Beville Darden, co-founder and editor of the Country Music news Website, TheBoot.com, which is distributed via AOL Music. Darden has also served as a music writer/reporter for both AOL.com and Spinner.com. After graduating from Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham, Ala., she […]
Category: Awards, Featured, Organizations
Grammy Nominee CD, AES Golf Tourney and New Mallory Video
19-Song Grammy Nominee CD • Yallwire releases Daisy Mallory video • Nashville’s AES Announces Audio Masters Golf Tourney >>The Recording Academy and Jive Records have pacted to release a 19-song collection to spotlight the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards nominees. The album will be released Jan. 25. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of […]
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CMA Grows Strategic Partnership Department
The Country Music Association has hired Chris Epperly as Director of Strategic Partnerships, and Angela Mendenhall as Manager of Strategic Partnerships.
Category: Featured, Organizations, Sales/Marketing
Study Compares Industry Perception With Fan Results
Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc.® and the Country Music Association have partnered to present a unique research project at CRS 2011, which tracks new media usage by country fans, as well as music executives’ perception of that usage. The study dissects the awareness, interest in and usage of new media devices, social media, smartphone applications and […]
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Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame New Board
The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation has elected John Van Mol Chairman of the Foundation, and elected songwriters Pat Alger and Steve Bogard to its 2011-12 Board of Directors.
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Recording Academy To Honor T Bone Burnett
Producer T Bone Burnett will receive a salute from the Producers & Engineers Wing of The Recording Academy during Grammy Week. Titled “Shaken Rattled & Rolled,” the special event is part of the 10th Anniversary celebration of the P&E Wing. Grammy winners Elton John and Leon Russell (whose duet album The Union was produced by […]
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ACM Reveals Newcomer Nominees
The Academy of Country Music continues to refine its hybrid voting which polls both fans and industry professionals. For the organization’s 46th Annual Country Music Awards—slated for April 3, 2011—Newcomer categories will again be opened up to fan voting through VoteACM.com and GACtv.com/ACM. This is the third year that ACM and Great American Country have […]
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Country ’10 Sales Fall Short
Nielsen SoundScan handicappers are now melancholy with the realization that country will not achieve flat sales compared with 2009. With two 2010 sales weeks remaining—one leading into the holiday and one after,
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