The 2014 Country Radio Seminar (CRS) was held
February. 19 - 21, 2014, in downtown Nashville, Tenn. Registration was available for $599.
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About: CRS is an
annual convention designed to educate and promote the exchange of ideas and
business practices in the Country music industry, with specific emphasis on
issues relevant to Country radio. Like CRS on Facebook and follow CRS on Twitter (Hashtag #CRS2014).
Basically all
these Radio People come to Nashville, and artists, labels, vendors and people
who want to sell something to these people, whose job it is to sell to you, get
together and talk about how to “evolve, educate, promote and exchange ideas, and business practices which
keep the Country Format dominant and vital...More comment at cmchatlive.com
Tracy Lawrence was presented with the “Independent Artist of the
Year” award at the 2014 MusicRow CountryBreakout Awards on Tuesday,
February 18 in Nashville, TN. The annual awards event held each year at the
start of CRS (Country Radio Seminar) week recognizes artists who earned the
most airplay on the MusicRow CountryBreakout chart during the preceding year.
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| Carrie Underwood: CRS Artist Humanitarian Award 19 Feb 2014 |
Vegi ... Humani:
All around 'tarian Carrie Underwood
posed with her CRS
Artist Humanitarian Award backstage at Country on Weds morning (Feb
19). Underwood was celebrated for her many good works, from tornado relief to
supporting the Red Cross.
Carrie Underwood
accepting the 2014 Artist Humanitarian Award >> YouTube
Miranda Lambert received a plaque during CRS, celebrating all 4 of
her albums having gone platinum!
Fittingly it was announced
on Feb 20th that her fifth studio album FOUR THE RECORD has a name: 'Platinum'! "Automatic," the
lead-in to "Platinum," has already proven to be a blockbuster
success, debuting at No.26 on Billboard Country Airplay - Twitter
In November 2013 FOUR
THE RECORD migrated from the country chart to the Billboard Catalog Chart
at No.38.
Despite just eight weeks in the Top 40, this album stuck around the
Billboard 200 for an even 100 weeks. Her
previous two Catalog albums, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and
"Revolution", both hit the Catalog top ten.
In 2001 with financial help from her father Miranda showcased
her songwriting skills by releasing an independent CD, “Miranda Lambert”. Two of the album's
tracks, "Texas Pride" and "Somebody Else," entered the
Texas music charts
Her first studio album “Kerosene” (Epic Nashville) was released March
15, 2005 followed by “Crazy
Ex-Girlfriend” (Columbia Nashville) released May 1, 2007 and third set “Revolution” (Columbia
Nashville) dropped on September 29, 2009.
“Four The Record” released
Nov 1, 2011 debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Country Chart and #3 on Billboard
200 selling 133,223 copies.
Lambert's previous best sales start on the Billboard 200 was
with "Revolution's" 65,875 copies bow at No. 8 in 2009. Her highest
charting album, until then was the No. 6 arrival of "Crazy
Ex-Girlfriend" in 2007.
As of the published Billboard Country Chart in Aug
24, 2013 “Four The Record” was #24 on the chart selling 3,334 copies having
sold a total of 887,802 copies at retail.
"Four The Record" was officially certified platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) who logged the milestone on January
10, 2014 (* This could be for 1-million units shipped to retail rather than
hard retail sales) .
Last Nielsen Data published Aug 2013:
CRAZY EX GIRLFRIEND - 1,282,590
copies sold 1xp
REVOLUTION - 1,634,539 copies sold 1xp
An unconfirmed track listing for Miranda’a 5th album PLATINUM shows:
"All
The Whiskey You Can Drink" (Miranda Lambert / Lori McKenna)
"Another
Sunday In The South" (Jessi Alexander / Miranda Lambert / Ashley Monroe)
"Automatic"
(Nicolle Galyon / Natalie Hemby / Miranda Lambert)
"Babies
Making Babies” (Nicolle Galyon / Natalie Hemby / Jimmy Robbins)
"Bathroom
Sink" (Miranda Lambert)
"Girls"
(Nicolle Galyon / Natalie Hemby / Jimmy Robbins)
"Holding
On To You" (Jessi Alexander / Miranda Lambert / Ashley Monroe)
"Platinum"
(Nicolle Galyon / Natalie Hemby / Miranda Lambert)
"Something
Bad" (Chris DeStefano / Brett James / Priscilla Renea)
"Trailblazer"
(Natalie Hemby /Miranda Lambert)
"Two
Rings Shy" (Brandy Clark / Miranda Lambert / Heather Little)
CRS 2014
Research & Reports
Research: Meet
The Millennials..The annual CRS Research Study this year was Edison
Research’s “Understanding Country Radio’s Next Generation Of Listeners” / Enter The Millennials (born 1980-2000) / Opry
At CRS/ Team UMG Lunch At The Ryman/ Keynote; Opening Ceremonies/ The Road To
Here: Little Big Town’s Perseverance
Read all about
these CRS events in Issue 2 (Feb 20, 2014) of Country Aircheck:
Click here to download (PDF File)
CRS Daily Buzz: Weather Permitting: Sony Floats On (Heavy rain, wind
and tornado sirens greeted a boat full of country's top artists during a
Nashville dinner cruise for radio tastemakers last week in Nashville. "If
you're not with someone you wish to die with, you might want to switch tables
right now," emcee Gerry House implored before an unfazed Brad Paisley
opened the night), Team UMG Part 2 / Country Radio In Diary Markets (young
adults are driving that growth) / Social
Do’s & Don’ts
Read all about these
events in Issue 3 (Feb 21, 2014) of Country Aircheck:
Click here to download (PDF File)
From Little Big
Town to Luke Bryan, Universal Music Group’s lunchtime showcase at the
Ryman Auditorium gave attendees more than two hours of entertainment from 17
different acts this afternoon (Feb. 19). The event at the historic Ryman in
Nashville was part of Country Radio Seminar week. Read more at Country Weekly
Brett Eldredge,
Cassadee Pope, Thomas Rhett Offer Glimpse of Country Music's Future at CRS 2014 New Faces
Show - Billboard Report
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| Thomas Rhett, Cassadee Pope, Tyler Farr, Brett Eldredge- Charlie Worsham - CRS New Faces 2014 |
The 2014 Country
Radio Seminar/Country Aircheck Award Winners
- HERE
Photos:
CRS Photos - Select the drop down menu and CLICK
APPLY and select the pages
Photos CRS 2014 - Getty Images
CRS Video: CRS Link
Vince Gill
accepting Artist Career Achievement Award >> YouTube
CRS 2014 -
Perseverance - Little Big Town >> YouTube
11 Reasons Why
Social Media Could Save The Radio Business >> YouTube
CRS In Action: Nielsen Helps Attendees Understand 'Who Moved My Listener?'....Stephanie
Friedman of Nielsen Entertainment shared streaming data compiled by her company
that measured who streams the most, what devices are utilized the heaviest and
a comparison of airplay figures to streaming usage. The data presented featured
on-demand usage services such as SPOTIFY, YOUTUBE AND RDIO; radio station
streams were not included.
Streaming music
continues to grow rapidly, up 40% since 2012, with 18-34-year-olds the primary
suspects. 50,000 songs are streamed per week in 2013 -- and two billion streams
per week.....Read more
(Billboard Biz)
Country Radio Seminar: Strong Genre,
Challenged Medium.......Extracts: A lot of money was spent during last
week’s Country Radio Seminar by record labels that were looking to influence
decision makers at radio, which remains the top medium for exposing the genre
to country’s most loyal fans. In one of the most obvious promotions, Darius
Rucker offered an upbeat assessment of the medium’s nostalgic bliss with his
performance of his recent hit “Radio” (No.4, Country Airplay). “All we needed was a radio,” Rucker sings
in the song, which recalls terrestrial sound as a primary social connector in
the pre-digital era. But radio’s ability to maintain that position in the
not-so-distant future was called into question at several CRS panels....consumers born
between 1980 and 2000 — whose quick adaptation of the smartphone is changing
their media usage in drastic ways from older generations.
Read the FULL article (Click HERE and ZOOM)
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