Tag: country music

“The 59th Annual CMA Awards,” is set for Wednesday, November 19, at Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville.

I always thought that everybody has this unique ability to make people happy, and it's our responsibility to use it as much as we can.

“I may have gotten in a little trouble in the beginning, but it was one of those ‘ask for forgiveness, not permission’ situations that actually turned out great,” she says.

"The audience grew another two million in streams this week to over 18 million for the week."

Making new music discoveries should be an essential part of your music strategy. Adding and playing a song seven times a week overnight isn’t music discovery.

I was recommended by their engineer, who heard me on a station in Cookeville (TN) where I was voice-tracking Classic Rock nights. We got on the phone and talked for maybe 15 minutes.”

It's tough to pick a starting point when talking to Smith, but I decided to start in 2016 when he had a number-one song and was touring the country.

No radio station is perfect. You need change in order to grow your station - with every change, ‘weeds’ will sprout. We can pull them, but like dandelions, they tend to grow back with veracity.

“Here are some of the notable items from the first day of the Country Radio Seminar.”

The constant message was the educational part; the things that we can bring to attendees that they can take back to the radio station are critical, and the planning and the preparation and strategy behind each session is such that it's useful and it's applicable almost immediately