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Lady Antebellum To Kick Off ‘Fan Fair X’ during CMA Music Festival

By on March 11, 2013 in In The Press

Fan Fair XThis year’s CMA Music Festival will feature the new AT&T U-verse® Fan Fair X (FFX), complete with autograph signings, concerts, lifestyle exhibits, marketplace, live broadcasts, demonstrations and more in the new Music City Center. CMA Music Festival will be held June 6-9 in Nashville.

Lady Antebellum will kick off the week with “Lady A Day at FFX.” The trio group will cut the ribbon when the doors officially open to the FFX on June 6. From the new Fan Fair X, Lady Antebellum will perform, sign autographs in their custom “backstage” booth @ClubLabellum, answer questions from fans in an interview segment called “CMA Close Up,” and is launching their PING PONG & SONGS event to include the thousands of fans in town for the Festival. Fanscan also register at FFX for a private meet and greet with the group at LP Field on Friday, June 7.

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Taylor Swift Is RIAA’s Top-Selling Digital Singles Artist

By on March 11, 2013 in In The Press

Set to Premier “22” Video This Wednesday, March 13!

Taylor Swift

The Recording Industry of America has named seven-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift their top-selling Digital Singles Artist, according to statistics released last week. With 39.5 million singles sales certified to date by the RIAA, Taylor is at #1 on their Top Artists list.

Taylor holds the record for the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a woman, and for the second-largest song sales week overall. She has had singles top both the country and pop radio charts around the globe, and has thus far scored 13 #1 singles across multiple radio formats.

Taylor will release the music video for “22,” the third pop single from her 5 million plus-selling album RED, this Wednesday, March 13th. ABC’s “Good Morning America” will air an exclusive 30-second preview of the video, along with a brief intro from Taylor, on Wednesday morning’s broadcast, and the full video will premiere on www.abcnews.com and http://gma.yahoo.com/ at 8:30 a.m. ET. Big Machine Records will release the video to all outlets at 11:30 a.m. ET on the 13th.

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Little Big Town Scores Second Consecutive Number-One Single This Week

By on March 11, 2013 in In The Press

Little Big Town, Tornado

Little Big Town scored their second consecutive number-one single with “Tornado,” which tops this Mediabase country chart this week. This number-one follows up their first chart-topper, “Pontoon,” which scored a two-week number-one last fall.

The video, which stars actor Jonathan Schaech (That Thing You Do), is a favorite of the fans, but not necessarily the fam. “It’s scary, and I will have to say compared to ‘Pontoon’ – our children loved watching the ‘Pontoon’ video,” says LBT’s Karen Fairchild. “This one, the fans seem to love, but our kiddies don’t like to watch this one that much.” The “Tornado” clip is nominated for the ACM Video of the Year, and the band scored three other nominations including Vocal Group of the Year, Album of the Year and Single of the Year for “Pontoon.”

Little Big Town are headed to London to perform at the O2 Arena in London this week, but they’re set to continue their Tornado Tour when they return.

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Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott Is Expecting A Baby Girl!

By on March 11, 2013 in In The Press

Hillary Scott BabyLady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott apparently confirmed with Us Weekly that she and husband Chris Tyrell are expecting a baby girl. She recently said she loves sharing the news of her pregnancy with family, friends and fans, and just can’t keep any good news to herself. “We were very comfortable with everyone sharing in our joy very, very early, and so we have faith that this baby’s gonna be healthy and beautiful and perfect, and so let’s just kind of let everybody in on our excitement,” said Hillary Scott. “We’re gonna find out what it is, and it won’t be a secret. I’m not good at keeping secrets!”

Lady A’s “Downtown” is headed uptown on the country charts. It’s the first release from their upcoming album, Golden, which is scheduled for release on May 7th.

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Watch Florida Georgia Line Perform “Cruise” at CRS… With A Surprise Guest

By on March 11, 2013 in Special Events

As you well know, Country Radio Seminar was last week, chock full of special performances. So how do you end the week of so many amazing shows? With one of the hottest new groups in country performing one of the biggest songs of 2012… then you bring out a superstar to help.

That’s right, the week ended with Florida Georgia Line rocking out to their smash debut single “Cruise.” And wouldn’t you know it… label mate Taylor Swift came out to surprise everybody. What a way to end CRS!

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Charlie Worsham To Be Featured On Warner Nashville’s “Live From Music Square” March 12

By on March 9, 2013 in In The Press

Charlie Worsham

Warner Music Nashville recording artist Charlie Worsham will be the third featured artist on WMN’s new monthly interactive live concert stream, “Live from Music Square,” via StageIt on Tuesday, March 12. During the free session he will perform his current hit single, “Could It Be,” in addition to other new tracks from his debut album due out this summer. Click here for a special message from Charlie about his upcoming performance.

The live concert starts at 8pm EST / 7pm CST and will be broadcast from Studio B on Music Row in Nashville and all tips will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The stream can be accessed at www.livefrommusicsquare.com.

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Brad Paisley Honored for 21st No. 1, “Southern Comfort Zone”

By on March 8, 2013 in In The Press
Brad Paisley, Southern Comfort Zone

Pictured (L-R): ASCAP’s Michael Martin; co-writers Kelley Lovelace, Brad Paisley & Sea Gayle Music’s Chris DuBois; ASCAP’s Mike Sistad

In the middle of a busy CRS Week, ASCAP caught up with Brad Paisley at the Nashville Convention Center to congratulate him on his 21st No. 1 as an artist and 18th as a songwriter, “Southern Comfort Zone.” Longtime Paisley co-writers Chris DuBois and Kelley Lovelace, as well as publishers Sea Gayle Music and EMI Music Publishing, were also congratulated at the whirlwind celebration, which took place before Paisley hit the stage at the Grand Ole Opry at CRS on Feb. 27. “Southern Comfort Zone” reached the top of the charts in February and is the first single from Paisley’s upcoming eighth studio album, Wheelhouse, set to be released on April 9.

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Tate Stevens Debut Album Set To Be Released April 23

By on March 8, 2013 in In The Press

Tate Stevens

FOX’s The X Factor Season 2 winner and Syco Music/RCA Nashville recording artist Tate Stevens has revealed the cover and track listing for his self-titled debut album set to be released on Tuesday, April 23.

“Since winning The X Factor, we’ve listened to hundreds of songs and set a ton of writing appointments with some of Nashville’s best songwriters,” says Stevens. “The outcome is a collection of eleven songs I’m really proud of, and I can’t wait to get this record out there!”

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Thomas Rhett Makes National TV Debut On “Fox & Friends”

By on March 7, 2013 in In The Press

Thomas Rhett

Hot Country newcomer Thomas Rhett made his national television debut on “Fox & Friends” yesterday morning, performing the Top 15, poignant “Beer With Jesus.” The Georgia native also chatted about penning the tune and much of the material on his debut album, which is slated for release later this year on The Valory Music Co. Watch the video HERE.

While in New York, Thomas Rhett also opened Jason Aldean’s “Night Train Tour” at a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. He had the crowd on their feet and singing along to his catchy party anthem, “Front Porch Junkies” and his Top 15 debut “Something To Do With My Hands.” The talented singer/songwriter has also penned two Jason Aldean cuts, including the current single, “1994.”

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Ashley Monroe Releases “Like A Rose”

By on March 7, 2013 in Artists to Watch, In The Press

Ashley Monroe makes her Warner Nashville debut with her first solo album Like A Rose, available now on iTunes.

Like A Rose has been a long time coming. Monroe has been creating music for more than half of her life—attracting along the way kudos from such music world giants as Dolly Parton, Guy Clark, Vince Gill and Jack White. Her new, full-length album release serves both to fill in the back-story and impart to us who she is today. At times her songs are dead serious, at others utterly hilarious, but always Monroe is an original with a compelling story to share.

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Ashley will visit The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday, March 11th at 11:35/10:35c on NBC to perform her new single “Like A Rose”.

Download Like A Rose now: http://smarturl.it/ashleymonroe

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