Category: Radio

In last week’s column, we heard stories from country record promotion pros about some of their hard-fought chart victories. As we continue that theme this week, another crop of veteran promoters weighs in with their stories of singles they tortured up the charts, only to have their efforts pay off when the songs went on [...]

As we head toward next month’s Country Radio Seminar, where every record promotion exec in town will be working like mad to get radio’s attention focused on their artists and singles, it seems like an appropriate time for some inspiration to those in the trenches.
To that end, I reached out to a group of country [...]

The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones gives a quick run down of the “Balkanized” music business.