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Thursday, April 21, 2016 NEWS CHART ACTION No. 1 Challenge Coin—Cole Swindell New On The Chart —Debuting This Week ! Artist/song/label—chart pos. ! Zac Brown Band/Castaway/Dot Records— 53 ! Aaron Watson/Bluebonnets/Thirty Tigers— 60 ! Brett Young/Sleep Without You/Republic Nashville— 74 ! !Keith Walker/Friends With Boats— 76 ! Greatest Spin Increase ! Artist/song/label—Spin Increase ! Carrie Underwood/Church Bells/Arista Nashville— 481 ! Zac Brown Band/Castaway/Dot Records— 429 ! Keith Urban/Wasted Time/Capitol Nashville—385 ! Jason Aldean/Lights Come On/Broken Bow— 338 ! !Aaron Watson/Bluebonnets/Thirty Tigers— 309 MusicRow’s Troy Stephenson (L) with Cole Swindell (R) Most Added Cole Swindell is not only an accomplished artist and songwriter of his Artist/song/label—No. of Adds own hits, he’s had a hand in writing for others as well. This week, Cole Zac Brown Band/Castaway/Dot Records—28 received his Challenge Coins for co-writing Luke Bryan’s “Roller Coaster” Aaron Watson/Bluebonnets/Thirty Tigers—26 and Florida Georgia Line and Bryan’s “This Is How We Roll.” To see the Tucker Beathard/Rock On/Dot Records— 18 full list of Challenge Coin recipients, click here. Cole’s new album, You Rachael Turner/Aftershock/Rustic Records—14 Should Be here, will be available on May 6. Read more about it here. Lonestar/Never Enders/Shanachie Entertainment—13 ! Carrie Underwood/Church Bells/Arista Nashville—13 Dan + Shay To Release Sophomore Album In June Charles Kelley/Lonely Girl/Capitol Nashville—13 ! Craig Campbell/Outskirts Of Heaven/Red Bow Records—10 Duo Dan + Shay will released their sophomore album, Obsessed, on June 3 via Warner Bros. -
Keith Hill on Keith Hill
June 1, 2015, Issue 450 Addressing SaladGate Six pages of in-depth reporting on Women In Country and a post-CRS panel write-up in which Keith Hill urged slashing female- voiced songs made nary a ripple outside the business a few months back. But the consultant’s lettuce-and-tomatoes analogy last week in this space touched off a social and, eventually, major media tidal wave. Go figure. We’ll get to Hill in the next story (right), after female PDs and MDs weigh in with their thoughts on a well-known though still confounding reality. In full disclosure, some of the women we contacted declined to contribute for lack of time or lack of what they felt would be helpful feedback. Some passed because they weren’t comfortable publicly commenting in a “no-win argument.” And some came to us asking to be part of the conversation. Lost In Translation: “I don’t think he phrased what he was trying to say especially well,” says Scripps/ Spark Plug: Big Spark/Star Farm’s Olivia Lane hosts industry Tulsa OM and KVOO PD Jules Riley, whose pros at Handlebar J in Phoenix over the weekend. Pictured station has averaged 9% female current/ (front, l-r) are Big Spark’s Dennis Kurtz, Handlebar J’s Ray Herndon, Susan Pohlman (wife of KMLE/Phoenix’s Tim recurrent airplay and 14% in gold since Jan.1, Pohlman), KIIM/Tucson’s Buzz Jackson and wife Dena, KTGX/ according to Mediabase 24/7. “It did strike a Tulsa’s Kristina Carlyle, Lane, KTEX/McAllen’s JoJo Cerda little bit of a nerve. -
THE MUSICAL FEATURES of 2015'S TOP-RANKED COUNTRY SONGS
THE MUSICAL FEATURES OF 2015’s TOP-RANKED COUNTRY SONGS By Mason Taylor Allen Senior Honors Thesis Department of Music University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill April 22, 2016 Approved: Dr. Jocelyn R. Neal, Thesis Advisor Dr. Allen Anderson, Reader Dr. Andrea Bohlman, Reader © 2016 Mason Taylor Allen ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Mason Taylor Allen: The Musical Features of 2015’s Top-Ranked Country Songs Under the direction of Dr. Jocelyn R. Neal The 2015 top-ten country songs analyzed in this study are characterized by the various formats of their song form, harmonies, and lyrics. This thesis presents a comprehensive study of the structure and narratives in sixty-seven songs that summarizes the distinctive features within those domains of contemporary commercial country music. A detailed description of the norm along with identifiable trends emerges. The song form that features most prominently in this repertory includes a verse-chorus-bridge form with three iterations of the chorus, an intro and outro section, and instrumental sections immediately following each chorus. The top-ten country songs have varying degrees of departure from this typical model. Primary features of the harmonies of these top songs include the frequent use of a double-tonic complex, the absence of a 5-1 authentic cadence, the same chord progression throughout the verse, chorus, and bridge, and the use of only two chords throughout the song. Lyrical analyses show that 2015 songs are continuing the traditional themes about romantic attraction, love, heartache, good times and partying, home, family, nostalgia, religion, and inspiration, within the context of small-town country life that this genre has used for years. -
Chart Action News
Thursday, February 25, 2016 NEWS CHART ACTION Sony Music Nashville Restructures New On The Chart —Debuting This Week Promotion And Marketing Teams Artist/song/label—chart pos. Sony Music Nashville has restructured its Jason Pritchett/Already A Dead Man/BDMG— 75 promotion and marketing staff and their Diana Upton-Hill/Southern Gentlemen/Third Floor Records— 77 related functions. Under the new alignment, Jordan Rager/Southern Boy/Broken Bow— 80 the following roles are announced for the Promotion team reporting to Steve Hodges, ! Greatest Spin Increase Executive Vice President, Promotion & Artist Development: Josh Easler is named VP, Artist/song/label—Spin Increase Promotion, Arista Nashville; and Lauren Eric Church/Record Year/EMI Nashville— 339 Thomas is named to the newly created Dierks Bentley/Somewhere On A Beach/Capitol Nashville— 307 position of Director, National Promotion, Chris Young/Think Of You/RCA Nashville— 268 Sony Music Nashville. Bob Foglia is named Thomas Rhett/T-Shirt/Valory Music Co.— 267 Manager, Strategic Marketing, Sony Music Dan + Shay/From The Ground Up/Warner Bros.— 223 Nashville. Lyssa Wheaton is named Manager, Marketing, Sony Music ! Nashville. For the full story, click here. Most Added ! Artist/song/label—No. of Adds ! Eric Church/Record Year/EMI Nashville—19 Martina McBride Talks “Reckless” New Single, Diana Upton-Hill/Southern Gentlemen/Third Floor Records—17 First Nash Icon Album Dan + Shay/From The Ground Up/Warner Bros.—17 Thomas Rhett/T-Shirt/Valory Music Co.—12 LoCash/I Know Somebody/Reviver Records—8 Kane Brown/Used To Love You Sober/RCA Nashville—7 Billy Currington/It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To/Mercury Nashville— 7 !Clare Dunn/Tuxedo/MCA Nashville—7 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Artist/song/label—No. -
A Thousand Horses Let the Band Play On
A Thousand Horses Let The Band Play On photo credit: Alysse Gafkjen There's no one correct way to forge a successful career in the music industry, although possessing certain qualities gives artists a head start. Ambition is a must—as is grit, a penchant for hard work and staying positive. Being committed to creative forward motion is also key, as bands that are continually challenging themselves musically often land in exciting new places. A Thousand Horses check all these boxes, as might be obvious from the title of their second full-length, Let The Band Play On. In the last half-decade, the Nashville quartet—vocalist Michael Hobby, guitarists Bill Satcher and Zach Brown, and bassist Graham DeLoach—has landed a Billboard country airplay No. 1 single (the platinum-certified "Smoke") and a debut album (2015's Southernality) that peaked in the top 20 of the Billboard Top 200. The self-assured Let The Band Play On builds on this momentum. Although the album certainly maintains familiar A Thousand Horses influences—"Carry Me" is a sonic homage to the Black Crowes, while "Livin' My Best Life" echoes John Mellencamp's hits-filled '80s heyday and "Drinking Song" is a soulful country rocker—it also boasts crisp songwriting that resists pigeonholing. "When we have songs that we think are awesome, the best thing we can do for ourselves is make a record," says Zach Brown. "The idea is always just keep moving forward, keep making music and keep pressing on." Accordingly, Let The Band Play On is a fresh, contemporary spin on gospel-tinged heartland rock, barnstorming country, bar-band anthems, and even retro classic rock—highlighted by the midtempo ballads "Startin' Fires" and "Define Me," both of which boast intricate electric guitar bursts; the twangy '90s alt-country throwback "Don't Stop"; and the bluesy hard rock stomp "My Time's Comin'." "We didn't want to put any kind of rules on the music," Brown says. -
News Spinzone
!NEWS! !SPIN ZONE ! !CALENDARS! !CHART DATA ! !NO. 1 SONG! VOICES OF SECONDARY RADIO! ! COVERING THE SECONDARY RADIO MARKET SINCE 2002 REPORTING ! PANEL! ! Thursday, April 30, 2015 ! SPINZONE CHART NEWS! ! MusicRow’s InCharge Magazine Top Ten— “Smoke” from A ThousanD Horses is the No. 1 Available Now song in Week 17. Eric Paslay moves one spot closer to the top with “She Don’t Love You” landing at No. 2. Tim McGraw’s The indispensable annual InCharge magazine is your guide to updated bios, “Diamond Rings And Old Barstools” is also up one to No. 3 addresses, phone, e-mail and photos of followed by Carrie UnDerwooD’s “Little Toy Guns” at No. 4. over 400 top decision makers in BraD Paisley is still working his way up with “Crushin’ It” at Nashville’s entertainment industry. On No. 5. FloriDa Georgia Line leaps three spots to No. 6 with the cover is country superstar Blake “Sippin On Fire.” Kelsea Ballerini continues her momentum Shelton. For more information, click with “Love Me Like You Mean It” moving up one spot to No. 7. HERE. Be sure to pick up your copy of Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” loses one spot and is at No. 8. the print magazine here, or receive Last week’s No. 1 song, “Wild Child” by Kenny Chesney, your free copy with a yearly drops to No. 9. Brantley Gilbert breaks the Top 10 with “One subscription. ! Hell Of An Amen” at No. 10. … ! Greatest Gainers— In their irst week being reported, Zac Gorley Receives No. 1 Challenge Coins Brown BanDs’ “Loving You Easy” had 549 spins. -
Chart Action News
Thursday, April 28, 2016 NEWS CHART ACTION MusicRow’s 2016 InCharge Directory New On The Chart —Debuting This Week ! Artist/song/label—chart pos. MusicRow proudly unveils its 2016 lagship Chris Stapleton/Parachute/Mercury Nashville— 69 print directory, InCharge. The 96-page Rachael Turner/Aftershock/Rustic Records— 70 resource serves as the de3initive collection Charles Kelley/Lonely Girl/Capitol Nashville— 72 of key industry gatekeepers and decision- Casey Donahew/Feels This Right/Almost Country Ent.— 75 making professionals within the Nashville Ashland Belle/Fastest Car/Overtone Music Group— 77 entertainment community. Each of the 410 High Valley/Make You Mine/Warner Bros— 78 entries represents many others who serve vital roles in supporting the entertainment Josh Kelley/It’s Your Move/Sugar Hill Records— 80 industry, from legal to record label, ! publisher to publicity, banking to insurance, Greatest Spin Increase and many more. To read more, click here. Artist/song/label—Spin Increase ! Zac Brown Band/Castaway/Dot Records— 349 ! Keith Urban/Wasted Time/Capitol Nashville— 337 No. 1 Challenge Coin: Chris Young’s “Think Of You” Carrie Underwood/Church Bells/Arista Nashville—310 ! Jason Aldean/Lights Come On/Broken Bow— 240 ! Luke Bryan/Huntin’, Fishin’, and Lovin’ Every Day/Capitol Nashville—219 ! ! ! Most Added ! Artist/song/label—No. of Adds ! Zac Brown Band/Castaway/Dot Records—25 ! Aaron Watson/Bluebonnets/Thirty Tigers— 20 ! Chris Stapleton/Parachute/Mercury Nashville—19 ! Alan Jackson/The One You’re Waiting On/EMI Nashville—10 ! !Alexandra Demetree/You Still Think I’m Beautiful/SSM Nashville— 10 ! On Deck—Soon To Be Charting ! Artist/song/label—No. -
Chart Action News
Thursday, March 3, 2016 NEWS CHART ACTION MusicRow’s 5th Annual Rising Women on the Row New On The Chart —Debuting This Week MusicRow is set to honor ive deserving Artist/song/label—chart pos. businesswomen who have become Brothers Osborne/21 Summer/EMI Nashville— 56 substantial contributors and visionary Clare Dunn/Tuxedo/MCA Nashville— 73 leaders during its annual Rising Women on Smith & Wesley/Sweet Life/Garage Door Records— 77 the Row breakfast. The ifth annual event will be held Friday, April 8, at the Omni Frank Ortega/Tell Me/Villa One Records—78 Hotel Nashville. To reserve your seat for the Jake Clayton/What Not To Do/Rebel Engine— 79 8:30 a.m. breakfast, click here. Tickets will A Thousand Horses/Southernality/Republic Nashville—80 not be sold at the door, as the event ! regularly sells out. To see the list of this Greatest Spin Increase year’s honorees, click here. Artist/song/label—Spin Increase ! Brothers Osborne/21 Summer/EMI Nashville—303 ! Eric Church/Record Year/EMI Nashville— 268 Don Williams Announces Retirement Dierks Bentley/Somewhere On A Beach/Capitol Nashville— 255 Don Williams, a member of the Country Maren Morris/My Church/Columbia Nashville— 232 Music Hall of Fame, is retiring after six Cole Swindell/You Should Be Here/Warner Bros— 211 decades in the music industry. Williams ! was the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year in Most Added 1978 and “Tulsa Time” was the ACM Artist/song/label—No. of Adds Record of the Year for 1979. In 2010, Brothers Osborne/21 Summer/EMI Nashville—29 Williams received country music’s highest honor with his induction into the Eric Church/Record Year/EMI Nashville—14 Country Music Hall of Fame. -
Open Media Manager
Open Media Manager Dr. Roland Krause Director of Engineering Integrated Computer Solutions Check it out git clone --recursive \ https://github.com/githubics/MediaManager Open the project with QtCreator Configuration Add: CONFIG+=build_all QJSONRPC_LIBRARY_TYPE=staticlib to your build configuration here: Build and Run Plug in a USB Pen Drive with music files Prototype Implementation ● ICS developed an In-Vehicle-Infotainment Prototype based on automotive hardware and middleware ○ Modern UI, Plugin based architecture, easily customizable and extendable ● Features a rich Media Stack ○ BYOD Music, Bluetooth Connectivity, Navigation, Rear Seat Entertainment and much more ● Already had remote control capabilities from speech recognition module ● Ideal for fast prototyping of the Connected Car scenario Media Management ● At ICS we have designed and built many In-Vehicle-Infotainment systems (see e.g. this video) ● When asked to look into Media Management we found this to be a vexing and complex problem ● The challenge for automotive IVI implementations is that ○ People’s media -- their music, videos, audiobooks, podcasts and television -- exist in a multitude of forms and originate from many disparate sources. ○ For example, some music files may reside at home in an iTunes library, others may have been purchased from Amazon Music or Google Play. ○ Media may have then been downloaded to a computer, a USB drive or a phone, or stored on a cloud server. ○ Management of digital rights adds yet another layer of complexity to the situation -- one that can’t be ignored. Requirements ● The job of finding and making available media to the passengers of a car is that of the Media Manager ● First step: Recognizing a Device is brought into the car ● Next: Finding and Indexing Media on the Device ● Possibly: Enhancing Media Information to allow improved search, filtering, etc. -
Yonder Mountain String Band Dale Watson Larry
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND BLACK SHEEP FROG PAD RECORDS For nearly 17 years, Yonder Mountain String Band has redefined bluegrass music, expanding the traditional acoustic genre beyond its previously established boundaries by steadily pushing the envelope into the realms of rock n’ roll and improvisation. The result is music that doesn’t stand still, it’s always progressing and breaking unprecedented ground. With their latest album, Black Sheep, Yonder Mountain String Band begins a new era. The first YMSB release produced by the band itself, Black Sheep is, by any measure, a triumph—perhaps the most mesmeric of their career. Even upon first listen it becomes instantaneously apparent that Black Sheep is the work of a new YMSB, one with a strong commitment to re-exhibiting itself and broadening its parameters. DALE WATSON CALL ME INSANE RED HOUSE RECORDS Dubbed “the silver pompadoured, baritone beltin’, Lone Star beer drinkin,’ honky-tonk hellraiser” by The Austin Chronicle, Dale Watson is a consummate entertainer, on the road 300 days a year. The Alabama-born, Texas-raised Watson may be the hardest working entertainer today and is rapidly approaching legendary status. He is a country music maverick, a true outlaw who stands alongside Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and George Strait as one of the finest country singers and songwriters from the Lone Star State. Produced by Lloyd Maines (Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker) Call Me Insane is what country music should sound like with instant classics from start to finish like “Jonesin’ for Jones,” “Bug Ya for Love” and “Mamas Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Babies.” You’d have to be crazy not to want Call Me Insane. -
Promo Only Country Radiodate
COUNTRY LIST TITLE 05 01 17 OPEN this on your computer. Place your cursor in the “X” Colum. Use the down arrow to move down the cell and place an “X” infront of the song you want played. orward the file by attachment to [email protected] or F 713-661-2218 X TRK TITLE ARTIST DATE LENGTH BPM STYLE 17 17 Cross Canadian Ragweed 2-Dec 124 14 21 Hayes, Hunter 8/1/2015 3:11 80 Cha Cha 1 1994 Jason Aldean 13-May 4:01 80 19 #Winning Kevin MaC 10/1/2016 2:39 110 Cha Cha 1 (I Called Her) Tennessee Tim Dugger 12-Oct 3:36 86 Two Step 3 (I Like My) Cowboys Dirty Bridgette Tatum 10-Jan 3:21 116 West Coast (I Never Promised You A) Rose 12 Garden Martina McBride 5-Sep 3:12 131 Anita Cochran Feat. the voice of 9 (I Wanna Hear) A Cheatin' Song Conway Twitty 4-Jul 99 9 (Kissed You) Good Night Gloriana 12-Jan 3:35 119 Jen Thorpe 11 (This Aint No) Drunk Dial Thousand Horses, A 8/1/2015 3:27 79 Ballad (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, 13 Love And Understanding? The Holmes Brothers 7-Mar 4:13 106 Cha-Cha 2 (You Want To) Make A Memory Bon Jovi 7-Jun 4:05 74 Ballad 15 \'73 Jennifer Hanson 8-Apr 3:18 73 Ballad 7 \'Til Summer Comes Around Keith Urban 10-Jan 3:54 64 Ballad 6 1,000 Faces Randy Montana 11-Feb 4:01 113 Ballad 2 100 Proof Kellie Pickler 12-Jun 3:43 107 Ballad 19 100 Proof Moonshine Phoenix Stone 12-Nov 3:40 85 Two Step 10 101 Proof Colton James 13-Oct 3:34 92 17 101 Reasons McArthur, David 12/1/2016 4:09 74 Ballad 11 11:59 (Central Standard Time) Railers, The 42856 3:25 109 Cha Cha 7 15 Minutes Rodney Atkins 9-Jul 2:38 132 East/West Coast 3 15 Minutes Of Shame Kristy Lee Cook 8-Nov 3:00 118 Triple Step 7 18 Again Ray Price April 2015 3:29 83 Ballad 1 19 And Crazy Bomshel 9-Nov 3:53 138 East Coast 5 19 You + Me Dan + Shay 13-Dec 3:35 75 Ballad 1 21 Summer Brothers Osborne 7/1/2016 3:31 112 Cha Cha 19 270 Somethin' Cledus T. -
Last Band Standing
100 BIGGEST. SUMMER SONGS EVER. FIFTY SHADES OF. ‘Jessie’s Girl,’ ‘Waterfalls’. HARRY STYLES. and... ‘Light My Fire’?. How an ex-Waffle House. waitress will make millions. on.erotic 1D fan fiction. 1 LASTDURAN BAN DURAND STANDING They ruled the ’80s amid what Simon Le Bon calls. ‘the models, the boats, the booze’ but three decades later,. the group least likely to survive is still. alive, releasing its most daring album in years.. ‘Playing it safe doesn’t work for us,’ says John Taylor. July 25, 2015 | billboard.com 6 99U 88 9 2 4> From left: Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor and Simon Le Bon U 89647200 UK £5.50 CELEBRATING BILLY JOEL‘S RECORD BREAKING RUN AT THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS ARENA BILLY, THE GARDEN MOST PERFORMANCES * JOEL LIFETIME BY ANY ARTIST ENTERTAINMENT 65 SHOWS BILLYJOELMSG.COM 'q BSI POWERED BY THE TOP LEGAL TEAM IN MUSIC STUART ROSEN SENIOR VICE PRESIDE Congratulations Stu GENERALCOUNSEL, on being named as one of Billboard's Top Lawyers in Music KERRIH1h/LIANDARUSE VICE PRESIDENT, IFGAI JOE DI JOHN WO i.D VICE PRE LEGAL Af IAIRS ATTORNEY, LEGA MICHELLE ZARR ATTORNEY, LEGAL MOPE LLOYD'/ ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, LEGAL RENEE WOLFE ATTORNEY, LEGAL JOHN CO VICE PRESID INTERNATIONAL LEG & BUSINESS AFFAIRS 111,1,:1 MUSIC billboard MARK BLINCH/LANDOV/REUTERS MARK 0OO 0 LC and Nielsen Music, Inc.LC All rights reserved. 0 O OMI scores his first chart- topper on the Hot 100 with a song released three years ago. om/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2015, Prometheus Global Media, L © 2015, Prometheus om/biz for complete rules and explanations.