Before Joe Nichols got into country, he got fired playing country music. The singer recently opened up about his days as a radio DJ. It didn’t last long, and it ended with a touch of irony. The “Good Day for Living” singer was on a small Top 40 country radioRead More →
Country Radio Hall of Fame recipients for the Class of 2022 Country Radio Broadcasters include four on-air personalities and two off-air broadcasters. The induction ceremony will take place on June 30 at the Virgin Hotel in Nashville. Whitney Allen started her career in 1979 which included stops at KCBQ, KIISRead More →
In the week leading up to the country radio seminar, I took a break from my radio listening and started shuffling country songs on my phone. I know you are wondering what these songs are. In the first hour of music, these are just a few of the songs IRead More →
Congratulations are in order for Chris Stapleton, who just landed his third career #1 on country radio: “You Should Probably Leave” by @Chris Stapleton is officially the #1 song on the Mediabase country chart this week. Stapleton’s third career No. 1 on country radio and a No. 1 hit forRead More →
This year’s Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, scheduled for February 23-25 at the Omni Hotel Nashville, will continue to move forward as an in-person event, according to the Country Radio Broadcasters Board. Council leadership revealed the COVID-19 protocols it will follow in order to help create a safe environment forRead More →
CUMULUS MEDIA announces the return of popular country radio personality Amy Paige to Nashville Country Radio as the live host, Middays, on 103.3 Country/WKDF-FM. Paige debuts today on 103.3. Country and will be heard live Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It marks a homecoming on theRead More →
The temperature may be dropping, but Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson are certainly heating things up with their brand new duo, “Never Say Neverâ€. The collaboration was scrapped late last week and officially aired on country radio on Monday. As of the close of business on the East Coast, theRead More →
Adele is officially heading to the country this week with her new ‘Easy on Me’ collaboration, starring Chris Stapleton. The song, a duet version of his current Billboard Hot 100 chart, will land on country radio early Friday, Billboard has learned. Stapleton rendering is on the deluxe version of Adele’sRead More →
Brandy Clark’s “Your Life Is a Record†was released in March 2020, as the world was engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic. Clark was scheduled to play in Boston shortly after his release, but of course that date was canceled. Eighteen months later, she is on tour which brings her toRead More →
The NBC Live Rounds The voice kicked off Monday night (November 8), with the Top 20 performing for their shot at the Top 13 in front of a live audience at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Wearing a pink dress and hat, 28-year-old country singer Lana Scott hadRead More →
NBC’s live rounds The voice kicked off Monday night (November 8), with the Top 20 performing for their chance to advance to the Top 13. Each of the contestants performed in front of a live audience at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California. Wearing a floral dress and hat,Read More →
Cumulus Media launched WNSH in New York in 2013, ending a decade of country radio programming there after WYNY-FM switched to contemporary Spanish in 2002. Audacy (formerly Entercom) took over WNSH in 2019. In September, WNSH ranked 21st in New York City marketing, capturing a 1.9% share of the localRead More →
Audacy sent reverberations through the country music industry on Friday (October 22) when it unexpectedly switched New York’s WNSH-FM (94.7) to classic hip-hop, leaving the biggest media market of the country without a terrestrial country radio station and industry watchers wondering if country radio has a future there. “I hateRead More →
Beverlee Brannigan, recipient of the 2021 CRB President’s Award, and Kurt Johnson, Chairman of the CRB/CRS Board of Directors. (Andrea Schollnick) The Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc. inducted the Country Radio Hall of Fame Class of 2021 during an in-person ceremony in NashvilleRead More →
Country Radio HoF induction ceremony to be broadcast live Country Radio Hall of Fame CRB announced that the 2021 Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction Dinner is sold out. In light of the request to attend the event, organizers have arranged for the induction presentations to be broadcast live viaRead More →
Over the years, various country superstars have recorded songs by David Lee Murphy, including Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Thomas Rhett and many more. This yielded massive successes and led to over a dozen songwriting awards for Murphy. But did you know that fame and recognition don’tRead More →
Morgan Wallen’s music was taken off country radio earlier this year after it was seen on video using a racial slur. But, his song “Sand in My Boots” has been played on radio stations across the country lately, by Billboard. So it looks like Wallen’s ban on country radio hasRead More →
“Sand in My Boots” marks the first country radio release for Wallen since his music was temporarily banned from country radio stations, after TMZ released a video on February 2 of Wallen uttering a racial slur outside his home in Nashville . Country radio station conglomerates including iHeartMedia, Cumulus, CoxRead More →
Big Loud posted Morgan Wallen‘s first official single on country radio after a seven-month ban from most stations following its use of a racial slur in February. The label is looking for additions for “Sand in My Boots”, the opening song of Wallen’s blockbuster Dangerous: The Double Album, who spentRead More →
Morgan wallen officially returns to country radio! The country superstar’s new single, “Sand In My Boots,” is expected to make an impact on country radio stations across the United States on August 23. controversy earlier this year in February. Co-written by Wallen alongside Ashley Gorley, Josh Osborne and Michael Hardy,Read More →
How would you describe your station’s relationship with the labels? Labels still crave radio stations – and now they have DSPs [digital service providers] to help them – to help break new artists. You want us to take risks on those, we will. But you can’t turn it around andRead More →
Morgan Wallen’s music began returning to country radio stations in the United States after a four-month ban, it has been learned. The musician was barred from being broadcast by major radio networks after a video of him was posted online using a racial slur. Today, nearly four months after theRead More →
After being banned from the airwaves by major radio stations for nearly four months, Morgan Wallen has quietly returned to the airwaves of most country stations in recent weeks, although he remains persona non grata during the rebates of awards and other high-profile events. “There was no fanfare when peopleRead More →
Country Radio Hall of Fame announces 2021 inductees Country broadcasters have announced the 2021 Country Radio Hall of Fame inductees. This year’s roster includes four live broadcasters and four live radio personalities. The off-air laureates are Bob Call, RJ Curtis, Bill Hagy and Norm Schrutt. On-air award winners are HeatherRead More →
With six singles underway on country radio and two more underway, Hunter Phelps has become a sought-after songwriter in the city of music. The Niceville, Fla. Native got his first No. 1 with Chris Lane’s ‘I Don’t Know About You’ in 2018 and has grown steadily ever since, working underRead More →
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Updated at 11:33 am on April 27: Revised to include details of an arrest warrant affidavit. A former North Texas country radio host arrested last month for aggravated sexual assault has been charged with another sex crime. Justin barrett frazell(Denton County Sheriff’s Office) Justin Barrett Frazell, 47, of Mansfield wasRead More →
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Chris Stapleton‘S “Starting Over” is # 1 on Country Radio’s Mediabase Chart this week. The title track to his acclaimed new album, “Starting Over†was written by Stapleton and Mike Henderson and is only his second chart-topping single as an artist after 2018’s “Broken Halos†(also written by Stapleton andRead More →
The nomination deadline for the 2021 Class of Country Radio Hall of Fame is fast approaching. The deadline is March 31st. “We look forward to finding the next class of professionals for the Country Radio Hall of Fame for 2021,†said Joel Raab, CRB Country Radio Hall of Fame committeeRead More →
A new study by SongData lead researcher Dr Jada Watson shows that Black country artists remain under-represented in country music. In the study, Redlining In Country Music: representation in the country music industry (2000-2020), Watson examines the past 20 years of country music broadcasting, noting that only 2.7% of countryRead More →
The Country Radio seminar may have been experienced by participants in the isolation of their own home or office – thank you, COVID-19 – but there were a lot of elephants cluttering the room. The pandemic, for its part, made its appearance in just about every panel or introductory conversationRead More →
A study published at this week’s Virtual Country Radio Seminar focused on how DSPs encroached – and in some ways overtaken – traditional radio during the pandemic, while also stopping to press the panic button for terrestrial FM radio. “Pandemic times have been good for DSPs,” read the header ofRead More →
Indeed, it is likely that most companies – and perhaps even CRS – will continue to use the Internet for at least some conferences after the offices reopen. Panelists across the spectrum at the summit referred to many ways the industry should anticipate post-pandemic change. Artists will continue to signRead More →
(Mike McVay) Country, as a radio format, has been eroding for several years. We can point the finger at the erosion of the radio audience, but the distribution of the media remains more important than any other audio medium. Country is seeing a greater audience decline than other mass musicRead More →
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The EP “Real to Me” explores the scruples of youth on a classic country-pop soundtrack. Courtesy of Big Machine Records “Blue is always blue when you’re green on the vine, real tears in your eyes / And the rain is still rain, even if you haven’t felt it a thousandRead More →
Jon Pardi dives back into his success and much appreciated Heartache medicine album today (18) as the upbeat and heartwarming track “Tequila Little Time” makes an impact on country radio in the United States. This is the third single from the feature film, following its # 1 release with theRead More →
For 25 years, country radio icon Bob Kingsley and his wife and business partner Nan have made the legendary Bluestem Ranch home, southwest of Weatherford. More than a year after Bob died aged 80 after battling bladder cancer, his widow put his 141-acre horse ranch on the market for $Read More →
For 25 years, country radio icon Bob Kingsley and his wife and business partner Nan have made the legendary Bluestem Ranch home, southwest of Weatherford. More than a year after Bob died aged 80 after battling bladder cancer, his widow put his 141-acre horse ranch on the market for $Read More →
For 25 years, country radio icon Bob Kingsley and his wife and business partner Nan have made the legendary Bluestem Ranch home, southwest of Weatherford. More than a year after Bob died aged 80 after battling bladder cancer, his widow put his 141-acre horse ranch on the market for $Read More →
For 25 years, country radio icon Bob Kingsley and his wife and business partner Nan have made the legendary Bluestem Ranch home, southwest of Weatherford. More than a year after Bob died aged 80 after battling bladder cancer, his widow put his 141-acre horse ranch on the market for $Read More →
The founders of Camas-based Outlaw Country Radio have been looking for a way in recent years to help the non-profit low-power FM station consolidate its presence in East Clark County. “We wanted to support the local community more,†said Leonard Myers, the station’s program director. “We’re a Camas station, butRead More →
Morgan Wallen has definitely captivated everyone in the industry with his recent outings. The winner of the CMA New Artist of the Year award has continued to rack up accolades one after another, and now he has his fourth single topped the Billboard and Country Aircheck / Mediabase Country RadioRead More →
“I’m not a real politician,” says the country star. “But I just felt like it was time to say something, because I felt different.” Darius Rucker has been a fixture on the country scene for a long time now that he will be one of the faces at the 54thRead More →
After placing “Got What I Got” at the top of the charts, Jason Aldean sends his next single, “Blame It On You”, to country radio. The song is on the superstar’s latest album, 9. Co-written by Aldean band members Kurt Allison and Tully Kennedy, alongside John Edwards, Michael Tyler andRead More →
*** Country Radio *** – Streaming Internet Country Radio Stations Why is country radio the best? 1. More stations YOU want to hear2. Background audio for surfing the web while you listen 3. Diverse channel selection (Bluegrass, Classic Country, Modern Country, Western, Texas, Unsigned, etc.) List of stations: *** BluegrassRead More →
Apple Music renames its flagship radio station, Beats 1, to Apple Music 1. Plus, the streaming service is launching its very first country music station, Apple Music Country, with all-new radio shows from some of the country’s biggest artists. On August 18, Apple announced that in addition to renaming itsRead More →
OMCP’s Jason Fraley spoke to black country radio DJ Mike Bryant about the evolution of the genre. Mike Bryant broadcasts behind the radio switchboard. (Courtesy of Mike Bryant) WTOP’s Jason Fraley and WFRE’s Mike Bryant trace the evolution of country music In the past month, NASCAR banned the Confederate Flag,Read More →
Luc Combs announced Monday morning (June 8) that he would send “Lovin ‘On You” to country radio as his next radio single. The song will hit the radio on June 22, Combs told a fan in an Instagram comment that the “official addition date is June 22.” “Lovin ‘On Youâ€Read More →
Just before the release of his highly anticipated debut album, Gold mine, Gabby Barrett to send a brand new single to country radio. “The Good Ones” will hit radio on June 8th. The song, which was written by Barrett alongside Emily Landis, Jim McCormick and Zach Kale, and inspired byRead More →
Westwood One launches ‘Morning Koffy’ for country radio Morning Koffy Cumulus Media’s Westwood One is launching “Morning Koffy,†a new morning country radio show that airs weekdays from 6 am to 10 am ET. Paul Koffy hosts the syndicated show with Jasmine Sadry, another veteran morning country radio personality, asRead More →
Indigo Girls, the duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray, to release their 16th album Look long May 22. This is the folk group’s first LP in five years and one that finds an easy sonic alliance with country music and its small town Southern roots. This is especially true,Read More →
Following the premiere of last week’s second season of “Songland†on NBC, multi-platinum trio Lady Antebellum is following fan enthusiasm for “Champagne Night†(BMLG Records), the winning song of the episode, in delivering it to Country Radio. Immediately looking for announcements, the “sparkling new hit” rose to number one onRead More →
After the overwhelming response to the release of the song “Champagne Night” following the NBC season two premiere Land of songs, Lady Antebellum sends the funny track to country radio. The song, which reached No. 1 on the iTunes All-Genre chart when it was released, will immediately be added toRead More →
For the first time in more than seven years, the country radio tunes chart has three female solo artists in the top 10 – another sign of hope for supporters of greater gender parity in the heavily dominated format. men. The number is true on both the Mediabase and BillboardRead More →
Country Radio Programmers Debate Slow Song Surplus for Spring Inside the WXBQ bunny costume for the past 10 years has been James gilmer, whose other duties include cleaning and maintaining the station van, doing some of the updates on the bunny’s social media pages and “a bit of everything” atRead More →
At a launch event on February 18 for the Equal game CMT initiative, representatives of Coleman Prospects split numbers reflecting what country music fans think about the lack of female voices on country radio. Data commissioned by CMT from Coleman Insights reveals that 84% of 1,000 country radio listeners surveyedRead More →
This year, the Country Radio Seminar (CRS), which took place from February 19 to 21 in Nashville Omni Hotel, ended strong Friday when the country music superstar Carrie Underwood opened up about fame, family, fitness and faith during “Find Your Way,†a question-and-answer session moderated by Beverlee Brannigan and CRBRead More →
Tim McGraw announced his return to the Big Machine in a surprise appearance at a Country Radio Seminar lunch hosted by the label group on Friday in Nashville. “Uh, Tim, I missed you! A beaming Scott Borchetta, founder, president and CEO of Big Machine, impassive, as McGraw emerged from behindRead More →
CRS Announces Country Radio Hall of Fame Inductees Country radio seminar Country music group Rascal Flatts will honor six honorable inductees who will join the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2020 during the celebration of the opening ceremonies of today’s Country Radio Seminar (CRS). 2020 Country Radio Hall ofRead More →
Los Angeles – Many of the best-selling country music artists are women, but superstars are still fighting for time on country music radio stations. Country music artist Lindsay Ell falls victim to this unspoken rule – that radio stations broadcast a limited number of songs by female artists, and certainlyRead More →
This week, Maren Morris’ “Bones” became the first single by a woman to reach No.1 on Country Airplay and enter the Top 10 on the Radio Songs charts in over a decade. The last song to do so was “You Belong With Me†by Taylor Swift in 2009. Since theRead More →
Country superstar Garth Brooks has made it a habit to make a radically different appearance each year at Country Radio Seminar, Nashville’s annual gathering of radio professionals and the country music industry. Two February ago he performed in a bar to a guest audience of under 200 at Layla’s onRead More →
(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 →
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 →
Dr. Jada E. Watson of the University of Ottawa and the SongData Project, in consultation with WOMAN Nashville, followed the research shared in april with further proof of how commercial country radio’s gender imbalance problem is only getting worse. Watson’s research shows statistics have worsened despite media coverage of similarRead More →
At KBCR Big Country Radio, the concept is simple: give people what they want. General Manager Brian Harvey says the resort’s success can be attributed to its community involvement. It sponsors a host of local events and fundraisers, including the Routt County Fair and Rotary Cornhole Classic, Barn Dance, LobsterRead More →
Bob Kingsley, longtime personality on the air and host of a subscription radio show Bob Kingsley’s Top 40 Country, died Thursday (October 17) at his home in Weatherford, Texas. He was 80 years old and undergoing treatment for bladder cancer. For over six decades Kingsley has been a mainstay ofRead More →
Country radio legend Bob Kingley, longtime host of the nationally-broadcast show Bob Kingsley’s Top 40 Country, died Thursday morning in Weatherford, Texas, following a long battle with bladder cancer. He was 80 years old. A member of the Country Radio Broadcasters Hall of Fame, inducted in 1998, he went onRead More →
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It’s downright weird to consider that in a year when Garth Brooks organized a visit to the dive bar and Trisha Bois of the Year and Reba McEntire released fantastic albums, no country star of the late 20th century made more headlines than Billy ray cyrus. Most of that attentionRead More →
Country radio DJ David Bugenske left Go Country 105 earlier this year, and for months fans on his social media accounts have been dotting him with questions about when he will return to the air. The answer came on Monday when Bugenske made his debut as co-host of the morningRead More →
The Highwomen – the collaborative project of Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby – was born out of an attempt to address the perceived under-representation of female artists in the ranks of the mainstream country, particularly on country radio. They took their name from the ’80s countryRead More →
You can’t turn on country radio without hearing songs about heartbreaking girls or girls kicking boots. But you might hear 10 songs (or more) in a row about women before hearing one from a woman. The tense conversation around this reality – women do not have an equal game withRead More →
Basking in the August sun in a t-shirt that read “Mama Wants To Change That Nashville Sound,” Professor Jada Watson swings to the sound of all-female country trio Runaway June at the annual Boots & Hearts music festival . Watson, who drove five hours from Ottawa that day, is moreRead More →
Different tastes between male and female Waco country radio listeners shaped the fall Nielsen Audio review book, strengthening the country KRMX-FM (92.9, Shooter FM) over its rival WACO- FM (99.9, WACO 100) in a key adult demographic, although WACO regained its Number 1 among listeners ages 12 and older, onRead More →
Sheryl Crow loves that Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road escaped the competitive world of country music. In March, the genre country trap song was banned from the Billboard country charts, due to the song “not encompassing enough elements of today’s country music in its current version.” The decision sparkedRead More →
Scott Ward landed at K-FROG / 95.1-FM in 1995, and for the next 24 years he served as morning host, music director and, most recently, programming director and post-DJ. Noon from the Inland Empire-based country radio station. This week, however, he left his longtime home. “The rumors are true IRead More →
“R&B and country have such a correlation when it comes to chord structure and storytelling,†he says. “We are more similar than different. “ The resort is not as unexpected as it sounds. Jones and Kane Brown worked together over four years ago, and Jones is credited as an executiveRead More →
If you’re worried that Denver’s Western flair was drowned in yoga pants and groomed beards, you should have attended the Eric Church May 10 concert at the Pepsi Center – the first of two nights of his Double Down tour – and you bask in the glory of the self-proclaimedRead More →
When it comes to the lack of gender parity on country radio, there are many forces at play and many ways to analyze the data, from a casual glance at festival programming to the recent report by Dr. Stacy L. Smith and USC Annenberg. Inclusion initiative that looked at theRead More →
For the first time in many years, we have seen significant turnover on our list of PD countries. As a result of the Entercom / CBS merger, Shelly Easton, who was number two on our list in 2018, is no longer in Country format. Bruce Logan, who spent five yearsRead More →
There is some poetic justice in the fact that Kacey Musgraves won Album of the Year at Sunday’s Grammy Awards – seven years ago this month, the then-unknown artist from Texas made her debut at the Country Radio Seminar (CRS) as part of the Universal Music Group Annual Luncheon atRead More →
Country station Buz’n 102.9 has listeners, well, buzzing with a change coming to its airwaves at 7 a.m. Monday. Over Thanksgiving weekend, the station took to social media to announce, “For the past seven years, we’ve brought great country music to the Twin Cities. But, on December 3, we areRead More →
The voice of Milwaukee Hall of Fame country radio is ready to rock. Karen Dalessandro, who lost her gig to WKTI-FM (94.5) when the station switched to a sports talk format, said on Facebook that she joined the radio team at classic rock station WKLH -FM (96.5). According to hisRead More →
A year after the 98.9 FM country makeover – and the name change that followed – we take a look at how Seattle-Tacoma’s dual country radio stations stack up against each other. Election season is over, but western Washington is still a battleground. Another showdown – which cannot be wonRead More →
Bobby bones Bobby Bones, one of iHeartMedia’s biggest morning stars underwritten, arrives on WEBG 95.5-FM, the country music station known as Big 95.5. Live from Nashville, “The Bobby Bones Show†will air from 5 am to 9 am, Monday through Friday, starting August 13. Amber “Alabama” Cole, who now hostsRead More →
Country music star Lari White passed away on January 23, 2018, at the age of 52, after revealing last November that she had been diagnosed with cancer. Before her death, the “Now I Know” singer said that female country artists always had to fight harder for radio airtime than theirRead More →
In 1993, Mary Chapin Carpenter performed her hit “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” as part of the CBS Special Country Women. Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, Trisha Yearwood, Suzy Bogguss, Emmylou Harris and Kathy Mattea joined Carpenter on stage. It was a special event meant to showcase women in country music,Read More →
WBZI in Xenia is a classic country radio station with a large and loyal listening base so large that it broadcasts 3AM and 2FM signals in Southwest Ohio. They play old school bluegrass, country and gospel. They also keep their listeners up to date with on-farm news, inventory and reports.Read More →
NASHVILLE, Tennessee., February 13, 2017 / PRNewswire / – Marty brown released his first single on country radio in 25 years, Country Girls. The warm and groovy country classic, Country girls, was written by a successful songwriter Jimmy yeary (I drive your truck) and Marty brown (I come from theRead More →