Carrie Underwood Has A New Video And Alan Jackson Starts Work On His
- Watch Carrie Underwood’s newest video, Wasted, on YouTube. On another note, Carrie’s PR department must be on steroids, it seems like every day there’s a crop of new articles and stories about her.
- It’s sad that Sammy Kershaw had to file for bankruptcy after having so much success in the ’90s. I guess the Nashville machine chews ‘em up and spits ‘em out and if you’re not prepared for it you’ll lose it all. It’d be nice to land an interview with him to see why he feels like his career took such a drastic downturn.
- Alan Jackson has begun recording a video for “A Woman’s Love,” and according to GAC, Alan and his wife will be animated during some point in the video. It’ll be interesting to see how that turns out.
- Remember the bear that Troy Gentry illegally shot a while back? The government is still trying to decide what should be done with the bear and is considering donating “Cubby” to a museum. Towards the end of the article, a taxidermist in the area has some harsh words for Gentry:
He looks like an idiot in the hunting world to real hunters, Durushia said of Gentry. That guy could afford to go anywhere in the world and have the best black bear hunt in the world.
- It appears I may have been wrong about Tracy Lawrence not getting enough recognition for his latest album, For The Love. All About Country has some intriguing statistics from his first week:
Country music superstar Tracy Lawrence was met with an impressive response by record buyers across the United States the first week his new CD, “FOR THE LOVE”, was available in stores. With sales just shy of 17,000 units, Lawrence entered Billboard magazine’s “Top Independent Albums” chart at No. 3, the “Top Country Albums” chart at No. 6, and “The Billboard Hot 100″ albums chart at No. 53.
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Artist To Market (A2M) general manager Paul Ignasinski. notes, “One of the most impressive things about the album’s debut week is that we achieved sales of nearly 17,000 units against a very conservative national ship number of 55,000. It’s unheard of to see a 31% sell-through first week, and it’s evidence of Tracy’s die-hard fan base and the strong marketing and radio campaign behind this album.”
In a climate where digital sales continue on a post-holiday decline, Lawrence’s single has bucked that trend by consistently increasing in sales. This week, his digital downloads are up 124% against a business condition backdrop for single tracks that’s down 2%.
- Country Universe has a list of sites giving predictions for the Grammys. Head over there and let him know yours and watch the Grammys, or tune into Kevin’s live blogging, on Sunday to find out if you’re right.
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February 10, 2007 at 4:24 pm Permalink
More info on the causes of Kershaw’s bankruptcy appeared yesterday at NashvillePost.com, where the news first broke on Thursday:
http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2007/2/9/hot_chicken_burned_kershaw
February 11, 2007 at 1:16 pm Permalink
Man that sucks for Kershaw. Thanks for the follow-up info Tom. I haven’t come across Nashville Post before, but I added it to my feeds.
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