For the second week, Toby Keith's Cryin' For Me (Wayman's Song) is the Most-Added song on radio. The Blake Shelton-Trace Adkins duet, Hillbilly Bone is right behind it. The video is now available on most outlets and it's a hoot. Then there’s Lee Ann Womack's There Is A God coming in as third most added. Read more

Lyric Street/Carolwood Records President Randy Goodman announced today (11/3) the restructuring of that Group’s imprints, which functionally will mean the shuttering of the year-old Carolwood Records while strengthening the Lyric Street promotion staff. The newly consolidated Lyric Street roster includes multi-platinum superstar group Rascal Flatts; Platinum selling sisters SHeDAISY... Read more

  Pirate Bay founders face fine… The Stockholm District Court has ruled that File-sharing site, Pirate Bay must be closed, or two of the founders must pay a fine of 500,000 Swedish Kronor ($71,500), each. Does anybody think these guys who’re aiding and abetting the selling of tons of pirated music and other copyrighted material (their name says it all) are going to be... Read more

Do you Tweet? If so you may have been duped into thinking you were hearing from a major star… or somebody you know, and then it creeps up on you. This is not who you thought. Seems the world is full of Twitter imposters. Twitter says they’re cleaning this up with “verified accounts.” We would hope so, but can they really? Now if somebody could clean up those dumb chat... Read more

10/15/09-- Garth Brooks, after almost ten years of retirement–well, semi-retirement–announced today that he's unretiring. We guess that means he'll come back at it full force again. Would that mean he would instantly become the largest selling single act in America again? Would that mean he would be drawing major stadium crowds three nights in a row again? Could he come back and beat... Read more

In Nashville you hear the acronym PRO tossed out all the time, but what does it mean? Is it someone who is a pro? Well, we guess they could be considered pros at what they do, but PRO actually stands for Performance Rights Organization. There are three major PROs here in town, all with acronyms of their own: ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), BMI (Broadcast Music... Read more

Nestled between downtown Nashville to the north and Belmont University to the south, Music Row is an integral part of the Nashville landscape and economy. Basically aligned on two streets, 16th and 17th Avenues, Music Row houses the majority of the music related business in Nashville. Some of the companies are in standard office buildings, a good portion of them are in restored 1920s homes like... Read more

If you have always wanted to enter a songwriting competition but never have, now is your opportunity. Our Fall song & Lyric competition is runs through the end of this month. This a great chance to get your best song or lyrics out there to be heard by some of the best Music Row has to offer. Not only do the winners of the competition win cash prizes, but they also get fully-produced demo... Read more

Taylor Swift’s "Tim McGraw" got a lot started for her career, now somebody's paying her back. A new guy named Tyler Dean is on Curb Records with a new song called "Taylor Swift." A new trend? Will every singer now have a song sung to him/her? We sure hope not. The airwaves could become waves of nausea. Not saying Tyler is such...fact we wish him luck. Taylor sure keeps it going. Biggest... Read more