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Kenny Chesney Leads List of 2012 ACM Awards Nominees
BMI songwriters and artists overwhelmingly dominate the list of 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards nominees, announced Thursday, January 26. BMI has historically represented the majority of country music’s leaders – from Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn and Porter Wagoner, to Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard – and a review of…
From News, posted 1.30.12
Crested Butte Songwriters Festival Brings Hit-Makers Together to Beat Breast Cancer
The inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival will feature performances by a collection of the best performing songwriters in the world. Slated for January 13-14, 2012 at the elevation-hotel-and-spa Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado, the festival will revolve around two nights of performances staged at local hot spots. Crowds will experience the faces, voices and stories behind hit songs during signature in-the-round acoustic performances and raucous, dance-inducing sets will dominate…
From News, posted 11.28.11
Brantley Gilbert: Flying High with a Georgia State of Mind
For Brantley Gilbert, who is half of the writing team behind Jason Aldean’s country-rap smash “Dirt Road Anthem,” the key to writing a hit song is still a mystery. In one breath, he advocates sticking to what you know. In the next, stretching your creative boundaries. That’s what happened with “Dirt Road Anthem,” the ubiquitous platinum-selling single, Billboard country no. 1 and top ringtone…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.16.11
BMI Songwriters Dominate 45th Annual CMA Awards
Taylor Swift led the resounding charge of BMI’s new country vanguard at the 45th annual CMA Awards, held Wednesday, November 9 in Nashville. Swift earned her second Entertainer of the Year title, just one day after taking home an armful of BMI hardware at the BMI Country Awards for penning “Back to December,” “Mine,” and “Fearless.” BMI songwriters took home more a walloping 76% of the CMA’s…
From News, posted 11.10.11
Adele Leads List of 2011 American Music Awards Nominees
Adele leads the list of 2011 American Music Awards nominees, reaffirming that pop culture supremacy and artistic achievement are best enjoyed hand in hand. The U.K. phenom earned four nods, including Artist of the Year, as well as genre-specific pop or rock and adult contemporary nominations. Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, the Band Perry, and
From News, posted 10.13.11
That’s a Rap: ‘Dirt Road Anthem’ Hits No. 1
BMI toasted Colt Ford, Brantley Gilbert, and Jason Aldean at a party honoring the no. 1 hit “Dirt Road Anthem,” held August 30 on the rooftop of the company’s Music Row offices. Both successful recording artists in their own right, Ford and Gilbert topped the charts for the first time as a songwriting duo with the hip-hop-infused hit. Aldean is no…
From News, posted 9.07.11
BMI Country Family Captures Majority of 2011 CMA Nominations
Nominees for the 45th annual CMA Awards were announced Tuesday, September 6, and the nods read like a roll call of BMI’s contemporary country vanguard. In fact, BMI songwriter/artists account for the overwhelming majority of the list. Jason Aldean, Taylor Swift, the Band Perry, Zac Brown Band and Blake Shelton lead the pack with five…
From News, posted 9.06.11
busbee Bridges LA and Nashville
Chances are, you’ve tapped your toe along to one of busbee’s creations, even if this is your first encounter with his name. Songs like Lady Antebellum’s chart-topper “Our Kind of Love,” Timbaland’s “If We Ever Meet Again,” featuring Katy Perry, and Rascal Flatts’ “Summer Nights” bear his musical fingerprints: thoughtful lyrics whose messages cut through, even after the melodies have initially…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.21.11
Miranda Lambert Leads List of 2011 ACM Nominees
BMI songwriters, artists, and producers earned 72% of the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards nominations, announced earlier this week. With seven nominations, BMI torchbearer Miranda Lambert leads the list of nominees. The reigning ACM Top Female Vocalist will vie for that title again, as well as Song and Single Record of the Year for “The House That Built Me,” co-written by Tom…
From News, posted 2.03.11
Jason Aldean Kicks Doors Wide Open
When Jason Aldean recorded “Crazy Town,” a pummeling, riff-heavy country-rock number about the dizzying, and often demoralizing, gamble of trying to make it in Nashville’s country music business, for last year’s Wide Open, he was already among the still-young country acts who can fill arenas. Even so, for him, the song was no fiction. “I moved to Nashville in 1998 and in ’99 I signed with Capitol…
From MusicWorld, posted 3.26.10
Recent Jason Aldean events
| Jan 15 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Jan 14 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Jan 13 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Jun 12 2011 | CMA Music Festival: Nashville |
| Jun 11 2011 | CMA Music Festival: Nashville |
| Jun 10 2011 | CMA Music Festival: Nashville |
| Jun 9 2011 | CMA Music Festival: Nashville |
| Jun 22 2010 | Nashville Rising benefit |
| Oct 13 2009 | “All for the Hall” Benefit Concert: Nashville |
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