CMT Music Awards Pushed to October Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Warning: If you enter Jana Kramer and Mike Caussin's Nashville property these days, it's not exactly going to be empty.  With two growing kids running around the house, the couple is trying their best to keep their little ones occupied and entertained. From a ball pit in the living room to a full on tent in the master bedroom, there's something for the kids everywhere you look.

Concord CFO Bob Valentine announced Wednesday (April 15) that Nashville-based Hazel Malit has been promoted to CFO of the company’s recorded music business.

As the writer of such monumental country songs as “Independence Day,” “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am” and “On a Bus to St. Cloud,” Gretchen Peters certainly knows her way around a good tune.As the title of her May 15 album declares, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee is turning to another legendary songwriter for her latest effort.

Entertainment One (eOne) has named Maria Alonte to the newly-created role of senior vp, creative integration, music, the company announced Tuesday (April 7).

iHeartMedia’s morning shows are going long.On Friday (April 10), the radio conglomerate officially announced that over 65 of the company’s morning shows across 50 markets would be extending their broadcasts by an hour or more due to increased listener demand during the coronavirus pandemic.These shows, the majority of which instituted the change earlier this week, include New York’s Elvis Duran and The Morning Show and The Breakfast Club, Nashville’s The Bobby Bones Show and Los Angeles’s On Air

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He was hospitalised last month

Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler are still in the Bahamas amid the outbreak of COVID-19.

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Chrissy Metz is breaking into the music scene!

Carrie Underwood and her husband, Mike Fisher, are encouraging everyone to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Taylor Swift is helping one small record store in Nashville stay afloat amid economic struggles caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A few hours after Leslie Fram discussed how the COVID-19 outbreak might affect the entertainment industry — and talked about bringing DIY hand sanitizer to victims of the deadly March 3 tornado that devastated Middle Tennessee — the Nashville-based exec found out she had her own brush with the virus.

By Mike Fleming Jr

NASHVILLE — When the COVID-19 coronavirus forced the shutdown of the concert industry, independent Nashville artist Stevie Woodward got a double whammy.Not only did she lose the steady, six-nights-a-week bookings in the Music City club scene that kept her afloat, she also faced the stark reality that one of her roommates, a nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center, might well bring the bug home from work.Woodward decided to make lemonade out of lemons and drove to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for an unexpected

Music Biz 2020 has been postponed due to uncertainty surrounding the global health crisis.The annual industry conference was due to take place this May in downtown Nashville, but will be pushed back to August.“Thank you to our registered attendees, speakers, and sponsors for your patience and continued enthusiasm for our event in this extremely uncertain period,” comments Music Biz President Portia Sabin in a statement.