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| Cher Presents Billboard Icon Award to Garth Brooks. Simply accepting an award wouldn’t be enough for Garth Brooks: He turned his moment at Wednesday’s “2020 Billboard Music Awards” into an event. Brooks performed a full-band greatest-hits medley of “The Thunder Rolls,” “Callin’ Baton Rouge,” “The River” “Standing Outside the Fire,” “Friends in Low Places” and “The Dance.” READ MORE.
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| More Chart News: “Better Together” Debuts On Shazam’s Top 200. Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope” remains the top country track on Shazam’s Top 200 United States chart over the past seven days, but she falls out of the overall Top 10 for the first time in weeks. Luke Combs’ “Better Together” is the week’s only new entry in the Top 200. READ MORE.
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| Academy of Country Music Installs ’20-‘21 Board of Directors. The Academy of Country Music retains its existing officers for 2020-2021 and also announces its new board of directors. The new board includes iHeartMedia syndicated morning show host Bobby Bones, Cumulus Media OM/VP Charlie Cook, iHeartCountry Senior VP/Programming Rod Phillips and Entercom format captain/VP of country programming Tim Roberts. READ MORE.
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| KRST/Albuquerque, WRBT/Harrisburg Rise In Latest Nielsens. In Albuquerque, Cumulus Media “92.3 KRST Country” slips 4.7-4.6 in the most recent Nielsen Audio CDMs, but the station still rises from fourth to second in the market. iHeartMedia “Big I 107.9” KBQI climbs 2.8-3.1. iHeartMedia “96.3 KHEY Country” El Paso falls more than a point, 6.7-5.6. In Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, iHeartMedia “BOB 94.9” WRBT gains a full point (4.5-5.5). RATINGS CHART.
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| Tech Startup Songfluencer Hires Four, Promotes One. Songfluencer, a Nashville-based digital marketing company specializing in data-driven TikTok influencer campaigns, elevates Bryce Johnson to GM. Additionally, the company adds four new staffers: creative manager Brooke Barry and campaign managers Mena Han-Lalime, Gabby Henson and Kathleen Schreiber. Songfluencer pairs artists with TikTok influencers who create user-generated content to spread songs’ reach and drive click-throughs to digital streaming providers. READ MORE.
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| Brad Paisley Added To Hall Of Fame’s ‘Big Night’ Show. Brad Paisley plays a 1964 Fender Telecaster that once belonged to Buck Owens’ guitarist Don Rich during “BIG NIGHT (At the Museum),” a fundraiser show premiering Wednesday, Oct 28 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s YouTube channel. Reba McEntire, Kane Brown, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde and Tim McGraw also will perform. READ MORE.
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| Universal Signs Lee Thomas Miller To Publishing Deal. Three-time GRAMMY nominee Lee Thomas Miller signs an exclusive, worldwide deal with Universal Music Publishing Nashville. Miller, who also lobbies for songwriters’ rights and serves on the Academy of Country Music board of directors, has seven No. 1 hits as a songwriter, including Trace Adkins’ “You’re Gonna Miss This” and Tim McGraw’s “Southern Girl.” READ MORE.
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| Outback Concerts Co-Founder Kathy Smardak Passes At 60. A Celebration of Life is being held today for Outback Concerts co-founder Kathy Smardak at The Stone House at Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, TN. Smardak passed away Sunday, Oct. 11, in Franklin, TN, following a brief illness. Smardak, 60, and husband Michael Smardak founded the Nashville-based independent concert production firm in 1997. READ MORE.
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| LOCASH Teams With The Gronks For “Cloud Of Dust.” Yep, that’s NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski — along with his four brothers — on the new LOCASH track, “Cloud of Dust (feat. The Gronkowski Brothers).” The duo and the Gronks — four of whom played in the NFL — wrote the song after striking up a friendship during quarantine. The Gronks have shared a video to their YouTube channel about the songwriting process. READ MORE.
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