CD Baby to Receive Independent Spirit Award at the Music Biz 2020 Conference

Carlos Santana and Earth, Wind & Fire are teaming up for the first time for a North American summer outing that they're calling the Miraculous Supernatural 2020 Tour.

Some music companies’ stock prices took a hit Monday (Feb. 24) as markets around the world fell sharply on fears the coronavirus is not contained and will leave a large impact on economies around the world.

5 Seconds of Summer have announced the support for their upcoming UK arena tour.

Kobalt Music Group founder and chairman Willard Ahdritz has been tapped to receive the Music Business Association’s Innovator Award at the upcoming Music Biz Awards Dinner.

On March 3, Carrie Underwood will release her first book, Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life. To herald the milestone, the country music superstar sat down at Country Radio Seminar in Nashville Friday (Feb. 21) with veteran radio programmer Beverlee Brannigan and CRS executive director RJ Curtis to discuss the various paths she’s taken through her life.

Following his departure from Sony Music Nashville earlier this year,Tim McGraw is returning to Big Machine Records, where he had a tremendously successful run during the 2010s.

David Stouck has been named regional director, A&R at Warner Music Asia, the company was announced Friday (Feb. 21). In his new role, he will oversee A&R operations in 10 markets: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.  

Reba McEntire announced the return to her original label home, Universal Music Group Nashville, on Thursday afternoon (Feb. 20) during a surprise performance at the 11th annual Team UMG at the Ryman event at Country Radio Seminar 2020.After nearly two hours of performances from the UMG roster, Executive VP of Radio Promotion Royce Risser shared the official news of the label’s latest signing.

Country superstar Luke Combs has added new dates to his schedule. The newly-announced dates for his What You See is What You Get Tour include a headline debut at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The tour is in support of Comb’s recent album What You See Is What You Get, which was

The posthumous David Bowie bounty will continue on April 18 with the the releaese of a special Record Store Day rarity live album. I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74) pulls together previously unreleased tapes from shows in Nashville and Detroit in 1974. The new album joins another upcoming Record Store Day release, ChangesNowBowie, and, according to Parlophone Records, the live album will come in a 2LP and 2CD format.

'I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74)' features previously unheard footage of gigs in Detroit and Nashville

Miranda Lambert took a break from her Wildcard Tour to serve as a speaker during Country Radio Seminar 2020, a three-day conference in Nashville where thousands of country radio professionals meet each year to discuss the trends within the genre and celebrate new and veteran country artists.

Nashville veterans Chuck Rhodes, Mike Meade, Amy Aylward and Wayne Halper, along with Bob Frank, Ted Ellis, Tom Cross and Chuck McDowell III, have launched Fusion Entertainment Company, it was announced Wednesday (Feb. 12).

In the early 2000s when Molly Hawkins was 20, she moved to New York to pursue a career as a DJ — but ended up working in fashion and “hated it,” she says. She became a waitress instead.That spring, she and her friend, Terrible Records co-founder Ethan Silverman, drove to South by Southwest, and when she returned, a friend from Nashville who happened to be in the band Chairlift hit her up, saying, “ ‘I heard you’re in the music industry now!’ ” she recalls.

Heidi Montag and Audrina Patridge have traded in Hollywood for Music City.

Red Bull Presents is announcing its return with another full year of music programming in 2020. The program will include a series of live music events in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, Oakland and Philadelphia across the year.

Tim McGraw has parted ways with Sony Music Nashville, sources confirm to Billboard. McGraw and wife Faith Hill inked a highly touted deal with SMN’s parent Sony Music Entertainment three years ago in February 2017.

Justin Anderson may've relocated to Nashville, but that doesn't mean his A-list clients are without his hair coloring expertise.

By Denise Petski