Category: Sales/Marketing
Union Station Bassist Bows Instructional Video
Barry Bales, longtime bass player for Grammy award winners Alison Krauss & Union Station, is releasing first-ever bass instructional video through AcuTab Productions. To celebrate the release, Bales and AcuTab have teamed up for a contest involving bass players and Bales fans. The contest allows fans to get involved in a fun and entertaining way […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Jamie O’Neal Partners With Cripple Creek
Nashville based Brand N Music Partnerships has announced that Cripple Creek, a division of Sidran, and country recording artist Jamie O’Neal have entered into a long-term brand partnership and endorsement agreement. This strategic integrated marketing campaign includes product endorsements, retail appearances and digital components. “Jamie O’Neal does a tremendous job representing the face of country […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Borman Ent. Announces Staff Additions, Promotions
Los Angeles and Nashville based Borman Entertainment has added Michael Corcoran as an Associate Manager responsible for the day-to-day duties of Alison Krauss, and Doug Aitken as Manager, Tour Marketing. Additionally, after six years with the company, Randy Brown has been promoted to Associate Manager responsible for Universal Music’s Randy Montana. “We’re delighted to see Randy […]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
BigChampagne Unveils “Ultimate Chart”
BigChampagne Media Measurement has announced the release of the Ultimate Chart (www.ultimatechart.com), a ranked list of the week’s most popular artists and songs. Integrating data from categories including Song and Album Sales, Radio Airplay, Online Audio and Video Plays, and Fans/Friends/Followers, the Ultimate Chart is the first and only chart that looks at all of […]
Category: Featured, Radio, Sales/Marketing
The New Normal: Recalibrating The Sales Compass
But with prices dropping and margins shrinking how do we really determine where we are? What about revenue? To help calibrate our compass we contacted Show Dog-Universal veteran and VP Marketing Sales and New Media, Bill Kennedy.
Category: Featured, Label, Sales/Marketing
10 Billion Videos Streamed Last Month In U.S.
The latest data from the Nielsen company shows that in June 2010 more than 10.2 billion videos were streamed in the U.S. This marks a slight 1.3% increase over the number of streams last year and nearly a 4% jump over last month’s figures. Other results show that the top three sites for video streams […]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
Country Gold And Platinum Certifications
Josh Turner, Joe Nichols and Blake Shelton have all scored recent Gold single certification.
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Clif Doyal Promoted; Martha Moore Signing
Updates from indie publicists Martha Moore and Clif Doyal. Longtime industry publicist, Martha “skates” Moore, President of so much MOORE media, has signed former Gaither singer Guy Penrod. Moore will handle all aspects of public relations efforts for Penrod’s new country disc, Breathe Deep (Servant Records/Gaither Music Group). Penrod is a 14-year veteran of the […]
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
NPD Finds Interest In Cloud-Based Subscription
Recently much music industry talk and speculation has been devoted to the concept of digital retail music sales evolving into some type of cloud-based subscription model. Market researchers NPD Group conducted a study of iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPod Touch users to gauge their interest and reactions to such a plan.
Category: Featured, Sales/Marketing
Success Is In The Cards For Taylor Swift
Big Machine’s Taylor Swift is everywhere these days, and now, through the latest selections written and inspired by Swift for American Greetings Corporation, fans have been finding her in the greeting cards aisle as well. American Greetings’ latest selection of whimsical cards features 14 all new designs and classic summer imagery enhanced by Swift’s real-life […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Can Country’s 2nd Six Months Rescue Sales Slide?
It’s possible that country could sell the additional 28-30 million albums necessary to end 2010 flat. But even if unit sales do match last year, it seems highly likely that revenue will not.
Category: Featured, Financial/Legal, Sales/Marketing
