ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC® REVEALS INDUSTRY AWARD AND STUDIO RECORDING AWARD NOMINEES.
Read more →Jason Aldean‘s Rearview Town continues to top the Nielsen Soundscan Country Albums rankings for a second week (and lands at No. 5 on the overall albums chart), following the album’s debut at the pinnacle of the Top 200 albums chart last week. The reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year’s album moved 38K (total consumption) this week.
At No. 2 is Brothers Osborne‘s Port Saint Joe, which debuts at No. 2 with 22K. Kane Brown‘s self-titled album is at No. 3 this week, with 17.9K in total consumption. Thomas Rhett‘s Life Changes is at No. 3 with 13K. Chris Stapleton‘s Traveller rounds out the Top 5 with 12.9K.
On the digital country sales rankings, the new Sugarland/Taylor Swift collaboration “Babe” debuts atop the chart, with 38K in sales. Aldean’s “You Make It Easy” follows at No. 2, with 21.8K.
Kane Brown‘s “Heaven” is at No. 3 with 18K. Kenny Chesney‘s new single “Get Along,” which he debuted at the recent Academy of Country Music Awards, is at No. 4 with 15.3K. Carrie Underwood‘s “Cry Pretty,” which she also debuted on the recent ACM Awards, is at No. 5 with 15K.
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Read more →SXSW: Moms In The Music Business – Strategies for Success – Wednesday, March 14, 2018 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
NICOLE BARSALONA Everyday Rebellion
HEATHER COOK Peermusic
SHALACY GRIFFIN Music Knox
JULIA HENRY Ivy Augusta
BRIDGET PERDOMO Universal Music Group/Women in Music
This panel will discuss the joys and challenges of parenting while maintaining a career in the music industry. Exploring the ways working moms start, sustain and grow their careers while juggling multiple roles and responsibilities. Topics that we will discuss will cover ways in which moms navigate career changes, manage time, and strategies for success. Panelists will offer insights while candidly addressing the choices and compromises they’ve made along the way.
Read more →As 2017 draws to a close, who in the Nashville community had the biggest impact on Music City so far? Variety teamed up with BuzzAngle Music to analyze the teams that support the top 20 most consumed country artists (ranked by project units, which factors album sales, song sales, on-demand audio and video streams, radio airplay and Shazam tags, from January 1 through Aug. 31, 2017), with special attention given to CMT’s Artist of the Year honorees: Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Stapleton and Keith Urban.
The 2017 Music City Impact Report recognizes the managers, agents, publishers, songwriters, producers, publicists, attorneys and label executives — like Universal Music Group’s Mike Dungan, pictured above with Kacey Musgraves — who played pivotal roles in the year’s biggest country success stories. See a gallery of the honorees hereand survey BuzzAngle’s country artist ranking below.
Artist Ranking by Project (Country)
Source: BuzzAngle Music, Total consumption by project from Jan. 1 2017 through Aug. 31 2017
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