(By Ed Ryan) Less than a month away from the Country Radio Seminar, the halls of the Omni Hotel in downtown Nashville will once again be buzzing with the subject that programmers couldn’t shake up: the broadcast of female artists. This week Rolling stone reported that CMT institutes gender parityRead More →
Tuesday (January 21), CMT announcement that effective immediately, it will institute a 50/50 gender parity rule for video streaming on both CMT and its CMT Music network. The move, an increase from the 40% that was previously reserved for female artists, is monumental for a genre — and, truth beRead More →
To take a position. Kacey Musgraves and Kelsea Ballerini used their public platforms to draw attention to a policy of some national radio stations that prevents them from playing female artists in a row. The outrage began on Tuesday, January 14, when someone tweeted that they had heard songs byRead More →
Tuesday (January 14), a tweet from Variety editor, and a response from a Michigan radio station, made country radio’s gender inequality a hot topic on social media. Despite the ongoing conversation around the disparity in radio shows between female artists of the genre versus their male counterparts, country women continueRead More →
A few days before the arrival of his long-awaited new album, Tullahoma, Dustin Lynch celebrates his seventh chart-topping single with “Ridin ‘Roads”. The song, which marks its second No. 1 as a songwriter, tops the Billboard Country Airplay charts this week while spending its second week atop the Country AircheckRead More →