Nashville-Set Country Music Drama ‘East Nasty’ From Jamie Rosengard & Karin Gist In Works At Freeform

BMI has named Clay Bradley vice president of creative in Nashville. The veteran Music Row executive succeeds Jody Williams, who announced last year that he was stepping down from the position he held since 2006.The announcement marks Bradley’s return to BMI.

Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, CeCe Winans, Rascal Flatts, Wade Hayes, Michael Ray and Carly Pearce were on hand to celebrate some of T.J. Martell Foundation’s biggest supporters on Monday evening (Feb.

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.

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.  

“2020 needs to be the year of the female artist” at country radio declared David Corey, country brand manager for the Beasley Media Group and program director at WKLB Boston at the launch of the Country Radio Seminar panel All the Singles, Ladies: Breaking Female Artists on Thursday (Feb. 20) in Nashville.

"Oh, oh, thank God that we don't have to be alone / Closer I get the more that my heart knows / You're like that last turn home / That last turn home."

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.

A live rarity by David Bowie is to be released on Record Store Day 2020.

Country singer-songwriters Doug Stone and Terry McBride have signed with APA Nashville, the agency’s partner and co-head of worldwide concerts Steve Lassiter announced Feb. 6.

There's no future in the past, Vince Gill warned in a 1993 hit.

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.

Members of the country music industry gathered at WME in Nashville on Tuesday evening (Feb. 18), to further discuss a recent study that proved that country fans want to hear more women on radio.

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.

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.

Country superstar Garth Brooks has taken to making a radically different appearance each year at Country Radio Seminar, the annual Nashville gathering of country music’s radio and industry pros. Two Februarys ago, he played a bar gig for an invited audience of fewer than 200 at Layla’s on Broadway. Last year, Brooks went the opposite approach and performed for all conference attendees at the Bridgestone Arena.

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.